Ken Blanchard Quotes

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Ken Blanchard

Profession : Businessman

Birth : May 6, 1939

Managing by values - not by profits - is a powerful process that will set your business on the path to becoming what I call a 'Fortunate 500' company.

Ken Blanchard

'Lead with LUV' is the first book I've ever done that's just a pure conversation between my coauthor and me.

Ken Blanchard

If your employees are disengaged, and they don't take care of your customers, it doesn't matter how good your strategy is - your customers will still go somewhere else.

Ken Blanchard

Growing, for leaders, is like oxygen to a deep sea diver. Without learning and growing, leaders die in terms of their effectiveness.

Ken Blanchard

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Ken Blanchard

If people aren't clear on what business you're in, what you're trying to accomplish, your values, your goals, then shame on you. It doesn't mean you shouldn't involve them. It's just your responsibility to make sure that that's clear.

Ken Blanchard

I never use notes, they interfere with me.

Ken Blanchard

Some people are really good at the visionary role. They're like third grade teachers who tell people the vision and values over and over and over until they get it right, right, right. But they're not implementers. If they're good leaders, they gather people around them who can take the implementation role and move it forward.

Ken Blanchard

Too often in business, only financial data is gathered - and then it is distributed only to management. Other key indicators that relate to performance areas also need to be tracked. Information on performance has to be made available to those people who can best use it - those doing the work.

Ken Blanchard

Values-based business behavior is no longer simply an interesting option - it's crucial to your survival. Once you understand your mission and values, you have a strong basis for evaluating your practices and aligning them accordingly.

Ken Blanchard

Many companies claim they have core values, but typically what they're referring to are generic beliefs: having integrity, making a profit, responding to customers and so on. These values only have meaning when they're defined in terms of how people behave and are ranked to set priorities.

Ken Blanchard

At my company, we have 300 employees spread across offices all over the world, and I send them all a voicemail each morning with a message from me about why our work is important and a reminder about one of our values. I call myself our company's 'chief spiritual officer.'

Ken Blanchard

A good business book teaches simple truths.

Ken Blanchard

Patrick Lencioni, Spencer Johnson, and Stephen Covey are great communicators.

Ken Blanchard