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Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person.
Ken Blanchard
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Ken Blanchard
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: May 6
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Orange
New Jersey
Kenneth H. Blanchard
Kenneth Blanchard
Kenneth Hartley Blanchard
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The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... It is the picture you have of yourself - the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.
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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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Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers.
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Anything worth doing does not have to be done perfectly - at first.
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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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Present thinking people kill the future.
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The best minute you spend is the one you invest in people
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Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.
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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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Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.
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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 want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.
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Good thoughts not delivered mean squat.
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As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.
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Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly
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Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.
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Leadership is not something you do to people. It's something you do with people.
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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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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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It never hurts to toot your own horn once in a while.
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