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Ken Blanchard quotes

Ocupation: Author

Life: b. May 6, 1939

Birthday: May 6

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We are not just our behavior. We are the person managing our behavior.

Topics: Behavior, Persons

quote there s a difference between interest and commitment when you re interested in doing ken blanchard Quotes

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.

Topics: Use, Action, Behavior

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There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results.

Topics: Success, Work, Commitment, Committed Relationship, Inspirational Commitment

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

Topics: Mean, Humility, Thinking, Self Empowering

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Topics: Inspirational, Successful, Keys, Top Management, Influencing People

If you don't seek perfection, you can never reach excellence.

Topics: Perfection, Excellence

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

Topics: Leadership, People, Vision, Leadership And Vision, Leadership By Great Leaders

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

Topics: Motivational, Leadership, Ambition

Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.

Topics: Success, Letting Go, Empowerment

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

Topics: Business, Learning, Science, Breakfast Of Champions, Teachability

The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement.

Topics: Leadership, Jobs, Commitment, Personal Improvement

Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.

Topics: Honesty, Integrity, Telling The Truth

People don't mind being challenged to do better if they know the request is coming from a caring heart

Topics: Leadership, Heart, Caring

People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.

Topics: Humility, Thinking, People

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.

Topics: Discipline, Firsts, Habit

No one can make you serve customers well. That's because great service is a choice.

Topics: Choices, Great Service, Wells

People who feel good about themselves produce good results.

Topics: Inspirational, Morning, People

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

Topics: Leadership, Power, Past, Leadership By Famous Leaders, Servant Leadership

Trying is just a noisy way of not doing something.

Topics: Trying, Way

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

Topics: Humility, Two, Ears

To ensure that your work is also a play, I recommend that you develop a personal mission statement. This will help you find what it is to enjoy so much that you lose track of time when you're doing it.

Topics: Learning, Play, Track, Mission Statement, Personal Mission

A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.

Topics: Differences, Desire, Problem

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.

Topics: Organization, Goal, Groups

We can't control everything in life, that's for sure, but we can reach out to the people we love to tell them we love and care about them.

Topics: People, Care, Love And Care

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

Topics: Inspiring, Leadership, Negative

All good performance starts with clear goals.

source: - Ken Blanchard, Garry Ridge (2013). “Improve Your Career Performance (Collection)”, p.390, FT Press

Topics: Goal, Clear, Performances, Clear Goals

Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn't good enough anymore. If you really want a booming business, you have to create Raving Fans.

Topics: Expectations, Fans, Want, Satisfied Customers

Leadership is not something you do to people. It's something you do with people.

source: - Twitter post from Sep 27, 2013

Topics: People

Your game is only as good as your practice.

Topics: Practice, Games

Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.

source: - Ken Blanchard (2010). “The Heart of a Leader”, p.13, David C Cook

Topics: Learning, People, Leader, Teachers Day

Too many leaders act as if the sheep.. their people.. are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.

Topics: Responsibility, Sheep, People

If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.

Topics: Smart, Mirrors, People, Performing Well

None of us is as smart as all of us.

source: - Twitter post from Dec 13, 2012

Topics: Inspirational, Smart

Catch someone doing something right.

Topics: Management

The best minute you spend is the one you invest in people

Topics: People, Minutes

As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.

source: - Robert Holden (2011). “Happiness Now!: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast”, p.72, Hay House, Inc

Topics: Leader, Important, Our Relationship

When you touch - don't take. Touch people only when you are giving something - reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever

Topics: Encouragement, People, Giving, Reassurance

Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit, and I try my best to motivate him, too.

Topics: Husband, Trying, Spirit

Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job.

Topics: Jobs, Organization, People, Employee Engagement, Employee Inspirational

Catching people doing things right is a powerful management concept.

Topics: Motivational, Powerful, People

Customer service should not be a department, customer service is everyone's job.

Topics: Jobs, Should

Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person.

Topics: Purpose, Calling, Persons

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." Ray Kroc "If some of today's leaders don't relearn the value of a smile, they'll be unable to fire up others' ability to find real enjoyment in their work.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Leadership, Real, Fire, Qualities Of A Leader

Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them.

Topics: Winning, People, Goal, Servant Leader

You have the power to help people become winners.

Topics: Motivational, People, Helping

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... It is the picture you have of yourself - the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

Topics: Principles, Purpose, Want

Have I done what is really important today?

Topics: Important, Done, Today

The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves - meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk - before they go for it in the real world do best.

Topics: Prayer, Real, Reading, Inspirational Prayer, Inspirational Reading

Unexpressed good thoughts aren't worth squat!

Topics: Squat, Good Thoughts

I grew up in New England. I think I was brought up with the Puritan ethic: that if you worked really hard in life, then good would come to you. The harder you work, the luckier you get. I've come to believe that it's the smarter you work, the better.

Topics: Success, Believe, Thinking, New England

If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.

Topics: Leadership, Organization, Becoming

Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.

Topics: Inspiring, Leadership, Thinking

Vision comes alive when everyone sees where his or her contribution makes a difference.

source: - Ken Blanchard, John P. Carlos, Alan Randolph (2001). “Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute”, p.48, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Topics: Differences, Vision, Making A Difference

Good thoughts not delivered mean squat.

Topics: Mean, Squat, Good Thoughts

Purpose can never be about achievement; it is much bigger.

Topics: Achievement, Purpose, Bigger

Take yourself seriously but take yourself lightly.

Topics: Humility

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.

Topics: Believe, Greatness, Blessing, Belive, Tithing

Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.

Topics: Motivational, Running, Kindness, Different Races

It never hurts to toot your own horn once in a while.

Topics: Hurt, Horns

Customer service is not a department, it's everyone's job.

Topics: Jobs, Customer Experience, Inspirational Customer Service, Inspiring Customer Service, Motivate Employees

As a servant leader the way you serve the vision is by developing people so that they can work on that vision even when you're not around. The ultimate sin of an effective servant leader is what happens when you are not there. That was the power of Jesus' leadership-the leaders He trained went on to change the world when He was no longer with them in bodily form.

Topics: Jesus, People, Leader, Servant Leader

Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.

source: - Ken Blanchard (2010). “The Heart of a Leader”, p.182, David C Cook

Topics: Knowing, Firsts, Steps, Where You Are Going

How many of you would put in front of your house a sign that says gun-free zone?

Topics: Gun, House, Zone

I never use notes, they interfere with me.

Topics: Use, Notes, Presentation Skills

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

Topics: Business, Important, Management

What we give our attention to, grows.

Topics: Giving, Attention, Grows

Things not worth doing are not worth doing well.

Topics: Wells

When you stop learning you stop growing.

source: - Ken Blanchard (2010). “The Heart of a Leader”, p.29, David C Cook

Topics: Growing

Positive thinkers get positive results because they are not afraid of problems.

Topics: Problem, Results, Not Afraid, Positive Results, Positive Thinker

Consistency isn't behaving the same way all the time.

Topics: Consistency, Way

Perpetual prosperity comes to those who help others.

Topics: Helping Others, Helping, Prosperity

A river without banks is a large puddle.

Topics: Rivers, Puddles

Vision is a lot more than putting a plaque on the wall. A real vision is lived, not framed.

Topics: Wall, Real, Vision

Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.

source: - Ken Blanchard, Colleen Barrett (2013). “Learn How to Lead and Succeed (Collection)”, p.164, FT Press

Topics: Journey, Knowing Who You Are, Vision

The cure for too much to do is solitude and silence.

Topics: Silence, Solitude, Too Much

Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.

Topics: Change, World, Advantage, Change Is Good

Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.

Topics: Goal, Looks, Behavior

Anything worth doing does not have to be done perfectly - at first.

Topics: Doe, Done, Firsts, Anything Worth Doing

Real communication happens when people feel safe.

Topics: Real, Communication, People

Help People Reach Their Full Potential Catch Them Doing Something Right

Topics: People, Full Potential, Helping

In fact, .. Jesus is mentioned 75 times in the Koran.

Topics: Jesus, Facts

One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you.

Topics: Principles

Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly

If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs.

Topics: People, Needs, Want

When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

Topics: No Excuses, Accepting, Results

Present thinking people kill the future.

Topics: Thinking, People

Business is like tennis. Those who serve well win.

Topics: Winning, Tennis, Wells

Congratulations offer more potential than cash. The amount of available cash is limited, but managers have an unlimited supply of congratulations. It's important to pay people fairly, but managers also should heap on congratulations and feed people's souls.

Topics: Congratulations, People, Soul

Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It's not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.

source: - Twitter post from Jul 14, 2015

Topics: Attitude, Matter, Good Intentions, Good Attitude

Many people measure their success by wealth, recognition, power and status. There's nothing wrong with those, but if that's all you're focused on, you're missing the boat...if you focus on significance -using your time and talent to serve others -that's when truly meaningful success can come your way.

Topics: Meaningful, People, Focus

The best way to develop responsibility in people is to give them responsibility.

Topics: Responsibility, People, Giving

Don't wait until people do things exactly right before you praise them.

source: - Ken Blanchard, Paul Meyer, Dick Ruhe (2007). “Know Can Do!: Put Your Know-How Into Action”, p.72, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Topics: People, Waiting, Praise

Empowering means helping teams develop their skills and knowledge and supporting them to use their talents.

Topics: Team, Mean, Skills, Skills And Knowledge

Effective team leaders adjust their style to provide what the group can't provide for itself.

Topics: Team, Leader, Style, Team Leader

[Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.

Topics: Wisdom, Knowledge, Knowing

Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers.

Topics: Successful, Organization, Focus, Successful Organizations

Beware of putting all your focus into results. While results are important, your people should be your number one area of focus.

source: - Twitter post from Jan 15, 2015

Topics: Numbers, People, Focus

Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don’t know where you are going, your leadership doesn’t matter.

source: - Ken Blanchard, Colleen Barrett (2013). “Learn How to Lead and Succeed (Collection)”, p.36, FT Press

Topics: People, Matter, Where You Are, Where You Are Going

Whether you like it or not, you will leave a leadership legacy.

source: - Ken Blanchard, Phil Hodges (2008). “Lead Like Jesus”, p.202, Thomas Nelson Inc

Topics: Legacy, You Like It

Asking for other's guidance helps you see what you may not be able to see. It's always important to check your ego and ask for help.

source: - Twitter post from Jan 30, 2015

Topics: Ego, Important, Asking

Catch people in the act of doing something right.

Topics: People

Do your best to succeed and push the limits without violating them.

source: - Twitter post from Jan 29, 2015

Topics: Limits, Succeed

Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their managers.

Topics: Littles, Taught, Management

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.

Topics: Differences, Mind, Common

Your business should be defined, not in terms of the product or service you offer, but in terms of what customer need your product or service fulfills. While products come and go, basic needs and customer groups stay around, i.e., the need for communication, the need for transportation, etc. What market need do you supply?

source: - Ken Blanchard, Terry Waghorn (1999). “Mission Possible: Becoming a World Class Organization While There's Still Time”, McGraw-Hill Companies

Topics: Communication, Groups, Needs, Basic Needs

A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.

source: - Twitter post from Mar 04, 2015

Topics: People, Giving, Feel Good

As a leader you provide for people only what they can't provide for themselves.

Topics: People, Leader

Life is special when you reach out beyond yourself to be a true servant leader for others.

source: - Twitter post from Mar 26, 2015

Topics: Leader, Special, Life Is, Servant Leader

Everyday do something in relation to everything that's important to you.

Topics: Everyday, Important, Relation

If we want people on the front lines of companies to be responsible for making good business decisions, they must have the same information that managers use to make good business decisions.

source: - Ken Blanchard, John P. Carlos, Alan Randolph (1999). “The 3 Keys to Empowerment: Release the Power Within People for Astonishing Results”, p.47, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Topics: People, Decision, Use, Business Decisions

The Hoffman Process brings forth spiritual leadership in a person. It made my spirituality come alive. Through the Hoffman Process I actually brought my faith into my daily actions.

Topics: Spiritual, Alive, Action, Spiritual Leadership

All leaders are permanent learners.

Topics: Leader, Learners, Permanent

If you don't toot your own horn, someone else will use it as a spittoon.

Topics: Use, Horns, Ifs

It's really hard to be a servant leader because we come into this world as a baby in a self-survival mode. Life is a journey toward service.

source: - Twitter post from Mar 17, 2015

Topics: Baby, Journey, Self, Survival Mode, Servant Leader

I cannot say Who Art in Heaven-If all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things.

Topics: Art, Heaven, Pursuit, Earthly Things

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