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The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do

Lead Change Blog

When Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller collaborated on The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do , they created a story line based on simple insights that had the potential to make a major impact on those who read—and applied—the principles.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for the Servant Leader

Lead Change Blog

My historical method, and the process I’ve started for 2014, has been to create a plan – complete with goals, strategies and tactics. He teamed up with Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager to write The Secret : What Great Leaders Know and Do. She said, “If [.] She said, “If [.] Mark began writing about a decade ago.

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The Books That Impacted My Life In 2014

Joseph Lalonde

In 2014, I read a lot. Let’s start off with the physical books I read in 2014. Cavetime: God’s Plan For Man’s Escape From Life’s Assaults by Jeff Voth – Another area I wanted to improve upon in 2014 was my spiritual life. Blanchard and Miller have a unique way to deliver leadership lessons.

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Apologia: Can You Speak in Defense of Yourself?

First Friday Book Synopsis

Battistella entitled Sorry About That (Oxford University Press, 2014), followed by a bonus program designed to help us do that better, Who is Edwin Battistella? At the August 1 First Friday Business Book Synopsis in Dallas, I will present the hot best-seller by Edwin L. Karl''s blog entries Uncategorized apologia apologies Ashland B.L.

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Why Compassion Is Key To Succeeding At Leadership

Tanveer Naseer

It’s a situation that reflects the findings of a recent Ken Blanchard Company study that found that more than 80% of employees criticized their bosses for not listening to them and how more than 70% of employees want to have these conversations about their career goals and ambitions.

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Get Your Passion Project Moving Without Quitting Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

Kate Blanchard had a great job at PerkinElmer, the Massachusetts-based multinational, but she was eager to build something of her own. ” Kate left her job at PerkinElmer in February 2014; the next month, she and her business partner started ORIGƷN, a Boston-based biotechnology company. “I made the right decision.