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The Three Main Organizational Drivers

Great Leadership By Dan

seeks to make profits, but their primary actions are designed to increase their influence, their market share, their breadth. ? analyzes potential products, services, and markets carefully to identify the most profitable avenues, then pursues those avenues for as long as the profits meet expectations. ?

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To be the Best, Invest in Relationships AND Results

Great Leadership By Dan

Speaker, author, and business expert Tamara McCleary is ranked as the number one woman in Marketing Technology. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995. To be ranked in that rarefied air means one has invested and IS investing time, energy, and passion into that avenue.

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Don’t Leave Workplace Civility to Chance

Leading Blog

Simply defining these valued behaviors - and marketing them like crazy with, for example, posters throughout your workspace - does nothing more than increase awareness. Some new valued behaviors might need to be added to address new temptations, new generations, new customer or market demands, etc. Chris is one of Inc.

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Looking for Vision? She’s Out Walking the Streets in Stilettos

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

By mission statements that are no more than meaningless marketing messages – We have covered her in gaudy makeup and dressed her in stilettos …. An organization without a clear vision or goals is like a river without banks—it stagnates and goes nowhere,” says Ken Blanchard. Ken Blanchard. Did she get worn out? Shilpa Jain.

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Collaboration is the Key to Providing Consistent Brand Value

Leading Blog

This is a post by Libby Gill, author of Capture the Mindshare and the Market Share Will Follow. Marketing' As much as people love to over-complicate the topic of branding, simply put, a brand is a promise of value.

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What do Blue Lobsters Have to do With Innovation? Everything!

Mills Scofield

They think they’re innovative because they make something in green instead of just red, but they stick with their industries, markets, customers, and (usually dying) business models. Adult” Blue Lobsters at # BIF2017 ( Phil Komarny , me, Matt Fritz, Dany De Grave , Angela Blanchard , Christopher Rice , Jon Follet , Nick Barendt , Vala Afshar.

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View from the 40th Floor: Change at the Top and Bottom

Decker Communication

Ken Blanchard is a friend of mine (and the very successful author of The One Minute Manager ) who knows well the changes in leadership over the last 40 years. And to succeed in today’s ever-changing, tech-enabled, global business climate, all leaders need to know how to influence.