Leading with Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

Ken Blanchard and I address this topic in our book, Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust. Our friend, Garry Ridge, former CEO of WD-40, modeled this principle during his career. But when you ask them about the fear-based sentiments they feel throughout the day (e.g., It’s safety grounded in trust.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

“Retired in position” refers to an unengaged employee, a term which I first heard used by Ken Blanchard. Together, they would need to put the right measures in place, in a development plan, to ensure the current duties do not deteriorate due to the additional responsibilities. Does this sound familiar? Well, it should.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The beliefs and principles we hold dear guide our individual plans, decisions, and actions. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 2, 2017

Top leadership expert Ken Blanchard calls the book “a wake-up call for leaders at every level.” Benefiting from the concepts first introduced in Bill’s bestselling books, participants come away with stronger leadership skills, improved team performance, and more career backbone.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 11, 2018

Align all plans, decisions, and actions to your valued behaviors. Aligning all plans, decisions, and actions to your valued behaviors becomes a never-ending project. After a 15-year executive career leading high performing teams, Chris began his consulting company in 1990. for the rest of their lives (!). Chris is one of Inc.

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Nathan Magnuson

MARCH 13, 2017

More than 10 years ago, I had the privilege to co-author The Secret with Ken Blanchard, a book about Chick-fil-A’s point of view on leadership. Did they want to know my career plans or what time my flight was going to leave? In the beginning, I wasn’t really sure what people wanted to know.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 30, 2015

Plan ahead, be of service, and dive in. After a 15-year career leading and managing teams, Chris began his consulting company in 1990. Since 1995, Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies. Since 1995, Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2015

Do they willingly engage with their team peers in strategic discussions and plan how to inspire aligned behavior across the company’s leaders and associates? After a 15-year career leading and managing teams, Chris began his consulting company in 1990. He’s the CEO of The Purposeful Culture Group.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Once defined, leaders must align all plans, decisions, and actions to that constitution. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 5, 2015

Today we congratulate Instigator Ken Blanchard and his co-author, Spencer Johnson, on the launch of their book, The New One Minute Manager. This section made me recall times in my career when I had difficulty seeing past defensiveness and fear of how my choices would be perceived rather than the root cause of a problem.

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Tim Milburn

JANUARY 19, 2012

He plans to grow before next year. What’s your plan to grow this year? During his career he has served in corporate communications, restaurant operations, quality and customer satisfaction, and numerous other leadership positions. He began his Chick-fil-A career in 1977 working as an hourly team member.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

I recently spoke with Olivier Blanchard, one of the co-authors. ” -Olivier Blanchard. If we manage the growth of smart automation properly, and plan for it adequately, it can be relatively painless. ” What ways can aspiring leaders prepare and futureproof their career?

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

Focus on the short term and you’ll cripple any ability for your people to plan confidently for the future, for both your business and their family. You will be helping your talent destroy their careers while you destroy their faith in your company. Continue Reading… The post Are You an Accidental Soul-Sucking CEO?

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

An organization’s plans, decisions, and actions provide very clear indicators of their core interests and drivers. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 9, 2015

From his roles in Zulu, Deathrap, and Harry Brown, Caine has had a career of over five decades as an actor. 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. We can’t let those setbacks derail the plans.

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Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 12, 2010

Share this: This entry was posted in Leadership , Motivation , Communication and tagged Ken Blanchard , demotivation , One Minute Manager , setting expectations. Setting clear expectations and then rewarding them consistently is a crucial tool for leaders. So… who are you going to catch doing something right today? Happy leading!

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Martin Luther King didn’t give “I have a plan&# speech, but “I have a dream&#. Overall though, this event was a vast improvement over the recycled ideas of Covey, Blanchard, Peters et al. Others will just work for your money.” People don’t buy what you do… they buy why you do it.” See you all again next year!

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2009

Likewise, to achieve their own ambitions and receive appropriate recognition for their contribution, people need a method of summarizing their accomplishments; identifying their learning needs and; planning their next steps. Here’s a video of Mr Blanchard explaining his philosophy. So, what to do? I think he’s right.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Anne Perschel scores with Dear Leader: What's Your 400 Year Business Plan? Dr. Anne Perschel takes us on a tour of French Forests and the Cognac industry, to learn why leaders need to create a 400 year business plan and how to get started. Blanchard's culture guru S. New England Patriots. from her Germane Insights blog.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Your timeline, she says, should include clearly defined savings targets for each month or quarter and — if necessary — a plan for raising money from investors. How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career. “But if you’ve planned your transition well, you’re not taking a heedless risk.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Last year at BIF-7, Angela Blanchard 's phrase, " You can't build on broken " became our rallying cry. I'm a passionate attendee of the Business Innovation Factory 's annual conferences. Two years ago, at BIF-6, my friend Carmen Medina 's phrase, " Optimism is the greatest act of rebellion " became the mantra. They succeeded. Yeah, right.

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Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

Brock is a Channel Partner with The Ken Blanchard Companies, an executive leadership coach, servant leader, and a man of integrity. I have discovered throughout my career that one’s character is rarely tested by making the right choice but more by what you do when someone points out that you’ve made the wrong choice and everyone is watching.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

I know that that was one of the ways that I came into learning about servant-leadership though the characteristics of servant-leadership, which you extracted from Robert Greenleaf’s writings and, and that’s helped me grow, personally, in my career. Like you said, we’re all servant-leaders in training.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

I know that that was one of the ways that I came into learning about servant-leadership though the characteristics of servant-leadership, which you extracted from Robert Greenleaf’s writings and, and that’s helped me grow, personally, in my career. Like you said, we’re all servant-leaders in training.

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