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As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there

Ken Blanchard

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Ken Blanchard
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: May 6
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Consultant
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Orange
New Jersey
Kenneth H. Blanchard
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Kenneth Hartley Blanchard
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Your business should be defined, not in terms of the product or service you offer, but in terms of what customer need your product or service fulfills. While products come and go, basic needs and customer groups stay around, i.e., the need for communication, the need for transportation, etc. What market need do you supply?
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It never hurts to toot your own horn once in a while.
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All good performance starts with clear goals.
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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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Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.
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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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The best minute you spend is the one you invest in people
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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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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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Your game is only as good as your practice.
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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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Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.
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Anything worth doing does not have to be done perfectly - at first.
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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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Empowering means helping teams develop their skills and knowledge and supporting them to use their talents.
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Catch people in the act of doing something right.
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People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.
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Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.
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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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How many of you would put in front of your house a sign that says gun-free zone?
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