Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

On Monday, February 26, Ken Blanchard's and Mark Miller's book, Great Leaders Grow , hits the brick and mortar and online bookstores. In honor of the book release I welcome guest blogger Ken Blanchard. They have first-hand experience with your leadership style and operate on their own perceptions about it.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 25, 2019

That personal focus and practice were defined beautifully in the seminal book by Ken Blanchard and Jesse Lyn Stoner , entitled Full Steam Ahead: Unleashing the Power of Vision in Your Work and Your Life. I particularly liked this part of the book, and I strongly visualised what Ken and Jesse meant by ‘squeaky wheels’!

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 31, 2018

Mayo and his team focused on two groups – a control group which operated in an unchanging work environment, and a test group which endured the changes to their working conditions, including lighting, such as working hours, rest breaks, food offered during breaks, etc. Get free resources plus weekly updates from Chris by subscribing here.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

Mark Miller began writing over decade ago when he teamed up with Ken Blanchard on The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do. In his latest book, Win the Heart , Miller uses a clever and entertaining business fable that continues the story of Blake, a young CEO, who sets out on a journey to discover the key to engaging leadership.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 6, 2016

He or she is operating on values--they may be different than yours or mine, but they are values nonetheless. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995. But values are defined as “a person’s principles or standards of behavior; one’s judgment of what is important in life.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 2, 2012

The Secret , a book I co-authored with Ken Blanchard, outlines what we believe great leaders do -- the skills part of the picture. During his career he has served in corporate communications, restaurant operations, quality and customer satisfaction, and numerous other leadership positions.

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Engaging Leader

OCTOBER 2, 2014

First, they identified the skills that set apart great leaders; this became the topic of the internationally best-selling book The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do, which Mark co-wrote with Ken Blanchard and has just been released in a new 10th anniversary edition.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

These connection and observation activities enabled our great bosses to get reliable, valid, accurate information about how the team was operating and how the team was performing, every day. We could see our great bosses’ efforts to ensure they were seeing things “as they were” as opposed to how they assumed things were operating.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2015

Do they act as committed, responsive members of the executive team to present a united voice on how the organization operates, not just how it performs? Since 1995, Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies. His blog posts, podcasts, assessments, research, and videos can be found at [link].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 9, 2015

In his own words… I began writing over decade ago when I was fortunate to team up with Ken Blanchard on my first book, The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do. Since then I’ve co-authored a second book with Ken, Great Leaders Grow.

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Leading with Trust

MAY 22, 2022

As Ken Blanchard and I point out in our new book, Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust , distrust is not the opposite of trust. So, I’m calling B.S. The Opposite of Trust is not Distrust—it’s Control. I think the root factor driving most of these decisions is control.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Ken Blanchard , author of, Great Leaders Grow , shares today's guest post: How to Evaluate Your Leadership Style By Ken Blanchard, Co-author of Great Leaders Grow: Becoming a Leader for Life Today, I'm going to give a short, one-question quiz. Here's the question: How do you rate as a leader? I don't ask this question flippantly.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 10, 2015

In honor of Ken Blanchard 's and Mark Miller 's book, Great Leaders Grow , I welcome guest blogger Ken Blanchard. How to Evaluate Your Leadership Style By Ken Blanchard, Co-author of Great Leaders Grow: Becoming a Leader for Life Today, I'm going to give a short, one-question quiz. I don't ask this question flippantly.

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Nathan Magnuson

MARCH 7, 2016

The positive effects of smiling are so poignant that Dale Carnegie devoted an entire chapter to it in his classic book How to Win Friends and Influence People. Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller detail this point in depth in their bestseller The Secret. Tom Peters coined this concept in his book In Search of Excellence.

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Tim Milburn

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

//NOTE: This is a guest post by Ken Blanchard, author of Great Leaders Grow: Becoming a Leader for Life. They have first-hand experience with your leadership style and operate on their own perceptions about it. Connect with Ken Blanchard on Facebook and follow him on Twitter here and here. Author Bio . No related posts.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

One new book that thoughtfully approaches these topics of how we will work symbiotically with machines and how we can all evolve to benefit together is HUMAN/MACHINE: The Future Of Our Partnership with Machines. I recently spoke with Olivier Blanchard, one of the co-authors. ” -Olivier Blanchard. .

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Tim Milburn

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

//NOTE: This is a guest post by Ken Blanchard, author of Great Leaders Grow: Becoming a Leader for Life. They have first-hand experience with your leadership style and operate on their own perceptions about it. Connect with Ken Blanchard on Facebook and follow him on Twitter here and here. Author Bio . No related posts.

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Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Jon’s written a number of best-selling books including The Energy Bus , The Carpenter , and One Word , co-written with Dan Britton and Jimmy Page. I’m shifting away from my operational and senior executive responsibilities to spend more time writing, researching, speaking, and training. The concept is simple yet powerful.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 16, 2012

Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2011) How and why leadership is about the growth and positive change that almost anyone can bring about while working with others All organizations need effective leadership at all levels and in all areas of their operations. [.].

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 17, 2016

What are the barriers to responsible freedom in your operation? Dan Pink in his best-selling book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us cited “purpose” as a top catalyst for commitment and motivation, not the carrot-stick approach of yesteryear. The job of the leader is to release power.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

We’ve bought books, retained consultants, rolled out surveys, looked deep into the hearts and minds of the people who work for us. It will lose the license to operate from key stakeholders. We know how crucial it is to having talent who love working for us and who will offer discretionary effort and innovation.

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Tim Milburn

JANUARY 19, 2012

During his career he has served in corporate communications, restaurant operations, quality and customer satisfaction, and numerous other leadership positions. He is the author of The Secret of Teams and the coauthor of The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do with Ken Blanchard.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

She’s an expert in motivation, a bestselling author, and a senior consulting partner for The Ken Blanchard Companies. Her latest book is Master Your Motivation. Creating connection is the second truth in your book. 3 Needs of Motivation. Susan Fowler is a thought leader on discipline and self-leadership. ” -Susan Fowler.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry's Leadership Books Books 36:08. Larry has written a ton of books and knows a great deal about Greenleaf’s views on servant-leadership. Larry : Greenleaf went on to write thirteen or fourteen essays and a couple of books during his lifetime. Bad Boss to Servant-Leader Bad Boss 6:12 24:18. Full Interview Transcript.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 19, 2013

Lead by example and let people know that you don''t operate in silos. But if you want to create a more collaborative culture in your organization, decide what’s fair and what’s off-limits and communicate it clearly. Instead, you pitch in when needed and you share your wins - and losses - as a team. Share information appropriately.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Larry's Leadership Books Books 36:08. Larry has written a ton of books and knows a great deal about Greenleaf’s views on servant-leadership. Larry : Greenleaf went on to write thirteen or fourteen essays and a couple of books during his lifetime. Bad Boss to Servant-Leader Bad Boss 6:12 24:18. Full Interview Transcript.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

This article will provide an overview of the primary research that forms the foundation of the Situational Leadership ® framework, as well as a brief synopsis of the collaboration that took place between Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard in its development. Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard. CLS) and moved to Escondido, California.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2015

As Jim Collins wrote in his book Good to Great , leaders start by getting the right people on the bus and in the right seats. As Ken Blanchard remarked in my book, “Assistants give you the capacity to do so much more.” Leaders know how to choose the right person for the job.

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