As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.
—Ken Blanchard
Topics: Management
For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
—Ken Blanchard
Topics: Management
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
—Ken Blanchard
Topics: Leadership, Authority
HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose
—Ken Blanchard
Topics: Help, Aid, Assistance
The first principle of ethical power is purpose. By purpose, I don’t mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. 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.
—Ken Blanchard
Topics: Purpose
People are okay, it is their behavior that’s a problem sometimes.
—Ken Blanchard
People who produce good results feel good about themselves.
—Ken Blanchard
Topics: Excellence
Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
—Ken Blanchard
Topics: Feedback, Business
There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.
—Ken Blanchard
Topics: Commitment, Results, Rest
None of us is as smart as all of us.
—Ken Blanchard
Topics: Teamwork
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.
—Ken Blanchard
Topics: Challenges
I never use notes, they interfere with me.
—Ken Blanchard
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