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Leadership is not something you do to people. It's something you do with people.

Ken Blanchard

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Ken Blanchard
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: May 6
Author
Consultant
Entrepreneur
Motivational Speaker
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Orange
New Jersey
Kenneth H. Blanchard
Kenneth Blanchard
Kenneth Hartley Blanchard
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Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.
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Perpetual prosperity comes to those who help others.
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Good thoughts not delivered mean squat.
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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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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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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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Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers.
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A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.
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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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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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The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
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Empowering means helping teams develop their skills and knowledge and supporting them to use their talents.
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If you don't toot your own horn, someone else will use it as a spittoon.
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Positive thinkers get positive results because they are not afraid of problems.
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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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Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.
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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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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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Anything worth doing does not have to be done perfectly - at first.
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