Top 95 Ken Blanchard Quotes
#1. Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.
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#2. Real communication happens when people feel safe.
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#3. As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.
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#4. Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their managers.
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#5. The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.
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#6. Beware of putting all your focus into results. While results are important, your people should be your number one area of focus.
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#7. In fact, .. Jesus is mentioned 75 times in the Koran.
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#8. Too many leaders act as if the sheep ... their people ... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
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#9. No one can make you serve customers well. That's because great service is a choice.
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#10. If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.
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#11. People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.
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#12. Customer service is not a department, it's everyone's job.
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#13. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
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#14. The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement.
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#15. Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit, and I try my best to motivate him, too.
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#16. Purpose can never be about achievement; it is much bigger.
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#17. The Hoffman Process brings forth spiritual leadership in a person. It made my spirituality come alive. Through the Hoffman Process I actually brought my faith into my daily actions.
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#18. Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.
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#19. Effective team leaders adjust their style to provide what the group can't provide for itself.
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#20. Anything worth doing does not have to be done perfectly - at first.
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#21. Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It's not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.
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#22. Asking for other's guidance helps you see what you may not be able to see. It's always important to check your ego and ask for help.
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#25. Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them.
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#26. [Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.
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#27. If you don't seek perfection, you can never reach excellence.
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#28. Catch people in the act of doing something right.
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#30. When you touch - don't take. Touch people only when you are giving something - reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever
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#31. Trying is just a noisy way of not doing something.
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#32. Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.
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#34. Leadership is not something you do to people. It's something you do with people.
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#35. 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.
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#36. Whether you like it or not, you will leave a leadership legacy.
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#37. Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.
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#38. Take yourself seriously but take yourself lightly.
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#39. Things not worth doing are not worth doing well.
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#41. If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.
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#42. Consistency isn't behaving the same way all the time.
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#43. Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job.
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#44. We can't control everything in life, that's for sure, but we can reach out to the people we love to tell them we love and care about them.
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#45. Congratulations offer more potential than cash. The amount of available cash is limited, but managers have an unlimited supply of congratulations. It's important to pay people fairly, but managers also should heap on congratulations and feed people's souls.
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#46. Empowering means helping teams develop their skills and knowledge and supporting them to use their talents.
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#47. As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there
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#48. Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly
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#49. Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.
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#50. Vision comes alive when everyone sees where his or her contribution makes a difference.
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#51. Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.
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#52. Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers.
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#53. Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don't know where you are going, your leadership doesn't matter.
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#54. Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth ... and what you tell it.
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#55. I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.
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#56. It's really hard to be a servant leader because we come into this world as a baby in a self-survival mode. Life is a journey toward service.
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#58. People who produce good results feel good about themselves.
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#59. I grew up in New England. I think I was brought up with the Puritan ethic: that if you worked really hard in life, then good would come to you. The harder you work, the luckier you get. I've come to believe that it's the smarter you work, the better.
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#60. Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person.
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#61. As a leader you provide for people only what they can't provide for themselves.
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#62. People don't mind being challenged to do better if they
know the request is coming from a caring heart
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#63. One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you.
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#64. I cannot say Who Art in Heaven-If all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things.
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#65. Perpetual prosperity comes to those who help others.
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#66. The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.
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#67. The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves - meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk - before they go for it in the real world do best.
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#68. Vision is a lot more than putting a plaque on the wall. A real vision is lived, not framed.
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#69. How many of you would put in front of your house a sign that says gun-free zone?
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#70. A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.
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#71. Customer service should not be a department, customer service is everyone's job.
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#72. Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.
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#73. The cure for too much to do is solitude and silence.
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#74. Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn't good enough anymore. If you really want a booming business, you have to create Raving Fans.
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#75. Business is like tennis. Those who serve well win.
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#76. For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
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#77. Don't wait until people do things exactly right before you praise them.
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#79. If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.
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#80. You have the power to help people become winners.
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#81. We are not just our behavior. We are the person managing our behavior.
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#82. It never hurts to toot your own horn once in a while.
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#84. If we want people on the front lines of companies to be responsible for making good business decisions, they must have the same information that managers use to make good business decisions.
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#86. If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs.
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#88. Everyday do something in relation to everything that's important to you.
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#89. The best way to develop responsibility in people is to give them responsibility.
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#90. Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.
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#91. Life is special when you reach out beyond yourself to be a true servant leader for others.
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#92. To ensure that your work is also a play, I recommend that you develop a personal mission statement. This will help you find what it is to enjoy so much that you lose track of time when you're doing it.
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#93. Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.
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#95. Do your best to succeed and push the limits without violating them.
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