Ken Blanchard

Effective teams are increasingly recognized as crucial to business success, but few people really understand how to build a team that taps and blends the skills of each member for a winning whole. In clear, simple language, Go Team! shows how to create that powerhouse team. Authored by the bestselling author Ken Blanchard, whose various leadership books have sold over 13 million copies, Go Team! outlines a three-step process that can benefit work teams, project teams, problem solving teams, leadership teams, and more. The book begins by defining what constitutes a great team, using examples from real life. It details elements critical to using conflict effectively, making and implementing decisions, sharing leadership among members, and being accountable for results. The book then explores the three stages of a change process to achieve greatness: sowing seeds for change, dealing with discouragement, and preparing for takeoff.

More than 1.5 million soldFuel your life with positive energy with this bestselling fable It's Monday morning and George walks out of the front door to his car and a flat tire. This is the least of his problems. His home life is in shambles and his team at work is in disarray. With a big product launch coming in two weeks, he has to find a way to get it together or risk losing his marriage and job. Forced to take the bus to work, George meets a unique bus driver and an interesting cast of characters who, over the course of two weeks, share the ten rules for the ride of his life. In the process, they help him turn around his work and life, saving his job and marriage from destruction. The Energy Bus, an international bestseller, takes readers on an enlightening and inspiring ride that reveals ten secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment—at work and at home. Build positive energy with vision, trust, optimism, enthusiasm, purpose, and spiritLearn how to turn negative energy into positive achievementOvercome obstacles and bring out the best in yourself and your team For managers and team leaders or anyone looking to turn negative situations into positive outcomes, The Energy Bus provides a powerful plan for overcoming common life and work obstacles and bringing out the best in yourself and your team. When you get on The Energy Bus, you'll enjoy the ride of your life.

Based on his extensive experience as coach and mentor to many thousands of Christian leaders across a broad spectrum of ministry settings, Reggie McNeal helps spiritual leaders understand that they will self-select into or out of greatness. In this important book, McNeal shows how great spiritual leaders are committed consciously and intentionally to seven spiritual disciplines, habits of heart and mind that shape both their character and competence: The discipline of self-awareness—the single most important body of information a leader possesses The discipline of self-management—handling difficult emotions, expectations, temptations, mental vibrancy, and physical well-being The discipline of self-development—a life-long commitment to learning and growing and building on one's strengths The discipline of mission—enjoying the permissions of maintaining the sense of God's purpose for your life and leadership The discipline of decision-making—knowing the elements of good decisions and learning from failure The discipline of belonging—the determination to nurture relationships and to live in community with others, including family, followers, mentors, and friends The discipline of aloneness—the intentional practice of soul-making solitude and contemplation

The ultimate lesson for the successful One Minute Manager: teaching how a healthy lifestyle is the key to success.

The One Minute Manager meets Yum!,the world's largest restaurant company, in this practical guide to making superlative customer service drive your business to success. Customer Mania! tells the story of a company Chairman and how his quest for superlative customer service has become the driving force for empowering his staff and growing his business. By embracing David's philosophy and projecting the vision themselves, the whole workforce helps the company become a leading worldwide success. Written in the parable style of all his previous books, this is actually the first to be based on a true story. Ken Blanchard is a consultant to David C. Novak, the chairman of Yum! Brands (formerly Tricon Global Restaurants), which owns three of the world's best known fast food franchises: Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell. Yum!'s combined force gives it an impressive portfolio of 33,000 restaurants in over 120 countries, making it the #1 restaurant chain worldwide by outlets, although McDonalds outperforms it by sales.

In 1999, this best-selling title won both the Benjamin Franklin and ForeWord Magazine Business Book of the Year awards. Packed with time-tested techniques and real-life case studies, this work and life field guide is based on the famous training program of the same name that has helped 500,000 participants in hundreds of major corporations learn how to succeed in today's lough business environment.

The first step towards becoming an outstanding leader: know yourself. This book will help you understand yourself as a leader... so you can change, grow, and become powerfully more effective. Authored by four world-renowned leadership experts, including the legendary Ken Blanchard, it draws on an extraordinary seven-year research study on how successful corporate executives exert influence. The authors begin by presenting self-change as your must urgent leadership challenge, and showing how your values and personality govern your actions, even when you don't realize it. You'll examine the inner self you're currently bringing to your "moments of influence," discovering how your disposition, values, beliefs, and persona are contributing right now to your success -- or failure. Throughout, the authors present proven, values-based approaches to leadership in both group settings and one-to-one contexts.

This text teaches readers how to accept responsibility for their errors - a powerful action for improving company and employee morale.

In this companion to the revised trade book, author, speaker and leadership expert Ken Blanchard guides readers through the process of discovering how to lead like Jesus. Effective leadership-in all realms of your life-starts on the inside. Before you can hope to lead anyone else, you have to know who you are. In 6 lessons, Lead Like Jesus Workbook will take you through the process of aligning two internal domains, the heart and the head, and two external domains, the hands and the habits, so that you can put the love of Jesus into action.

Suggests that a company's success is measured more by quality service and job satisfaction than it is by placement on the Fortune 500 list, outlining a plan for use by organizations, groups, and individuals on how to design and implement a set of ethical guiding values. Reprint.

Durante mas de diez anos, miles de managers de alto nivel y companias de la lista de Fortune 500 en todo el pais, han seguido la metodologia de este libro logrando asi aumentar la productividad, la satisfaccion laboral y la prosperidad personal. Estos resultados concretos se lograron mediante el aprendizaje de metodos directivos que se traducen en ganancias para la organizacion y sus empleados, razon por la cual se considera que son la respuesta a la Teoria Z del Japon. El Manager al Minuto es una historia concisa y facil de leer que demuestra tres metodos directivos muy practicos. El desenlace de la historia revela estudios llevados a cabo en el campo de la medicina y de las ciencias del comportamiento humano. Explican claramente por que estos metodos, aparentemente sencillos, funcionan de forma tan eficaz para tantas personas. Al terminar de leer libro usted sabra como aplicarlos a su propia situacion. Es por eso que El Manager al Minuto se ha convertido en uno de los libros sobre metodos directivos de mas venta en Estados Unidos y ha causado sensacion a nivel nacional. La revista People, the Today show, The Merv Griffin Show, y otros programas de television han presentado segmentos informativos sobre este libro. Miles de personas en cientos de organizaciones en Estados Unidos se estan beneficiando de El Manager al Minuto, entre ellos, hombres y mujeres en: Chase Manhattan Bank, el gobierno de la ciudad de Pittsburgh, Holiday Inn, American Can, Harvard University, Cornell University, Monsanto, Georgia Pacific, Johnson & Johnson, 20th Century-Fox Video, Kentucky Fried Chicken, ARA Services, Hewlett-Packard, Pepsi-Cola Bottling, Apple Computers, Texaco, Lockheed, Hickory Frams, AT&T y muchas otras organizaciones menores.

Outlines a model of servant leadership based on the author's study of Jesus Christ, explaining how business leaders can become more effective through a realization that their teams are more powerful than the sum of their individuals.

Set in the high-stakes world of global business, The System is a fast-paced thriller that takes readers on a roller-coaster ride of cutting-edge business developments, corporate espionage, and ruthless takeovers, where the last man standing may just be the one to get away with murder. Tim Hunt and David Atkinson are on the brink of a business breakthrough that promises to save David's lumbering old-economy behemoth, Quenetics-and put the company way ahead of its competitors by applying Tim's revolutionary (and top-secret) intelligent agent technology. But as rumors of their "killer app" begin to spread, they become the target of a cunning rival, who will stop at nothing to thwart their plans. As the pressure mounts to fend off an impending shareholder mutiny, Tim and David wonder who is behind the sinister plot that threatens much more than the business. As entertaining as it is informative, this page-turner delivers a powerful new approach to achieving-and sustaining-market domination in a world full of surprise, threat, and mystery.

This text illustrates three simple keys that organizations can use to effectively tap into the knowledge, experience and motivation power that people already possess. The authors focus on a manager whose attempts to turn his troubled company around using traditional methods is failing. They show how he reluctantly contacts an expert in empowerment, who then, step-by-step helps him to understand why his previous efforts have failed. The expert then shows the managers what he needs to do to cretate an empowered workforce.

High Five combines the spellbinding charm of a timeless parable with cutting-edge information about why teams are important and what individuals and organizations can do to build successful ones. Through the story of Alan Foster, a workplace one-man band, High Five identifies the four key ingredients of winning teams. Although Alan is an effective producer, he is unwilling to share the spotlight by partnering on projects and is fired because, as his boss puts it, "Alan, we need good producers who are good team players, too." It is a bitter pill for him to swallow. While mulling over his disappointment, he takes his son to his grade-five hockey practice, where it is clear that his son's team, the Riverbend Warriors, knows nothing about teamwork, either. When the team's two overworked coaches learn of Alan's plight, they persuade him to join their ranks, and he finds himself charged with teaching himself and the players the meaning of teamwork. With the help of a woman friend-a former girls' basketball coach who has "won more high school basketball championships than anyone"-Alan and the Warriors learn the magic of teamwork and that "none of us is as smart as all of us." With its simple style and easy-to-follow techniques, High Five is a must-read for anyone seeking to learn the value and power of teamwork.

Here are the highly successful training techniques used at one of the top golfing schools in America--the Golf University in San Diego. It was founded by Ken Blanchard, coauthor of the bestselling books The One Minute Manager, Raving Fans, and Gung Ho In this brilliant book, Blanchard applies his management wisdom to the game of golf. He explains how you can take the same methods that are highly effective in business and adapt them with astonishing success to your golf game. Using training techniques that have been tested with pupils from beginners to low handicappers, The One Minute Golfer offers a long-overdue program for playing and enjoying golf, while improving your game.

Alternating sections, a six-time Super Bowl coach and a recognized management writer discuss the former's successful leadership principles and the latter's strategies for implementing these principles in the business world. Reprint. $35,000 ad/promo.

Written in the parable style of The One Minute Manager, Raving Fans uses a brilliantly simple and charming story to teach how to define a vision, learn what a customer really wants, institute effective systems, and make Raving Fan Service a constant feature--not just another program of the month. America is in the midst of a service crisis that has left a wake of disillusioned customers from coast to coast. Raving Fans includes startling new tips and innovative techniques that can help anyone create a revolution in any workplace--and turn their customers into raving, spending fans. 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. This, in a nutshell, is the advice given to a new Area Manager on his first day--in an extraordinary business book that will help everyone, in every kind of organization or business, deliver stunning customer service and achieve miraculous bottom-line results.

One simple idea can set you free: Don't take on a problem if it isn't yours One of the most liberating books in the extraordinary One Minute Manager Library teaches managers an unforgettable lesson: how to have time to do what they want and need to do. The authors tell why managers who accept every problem given them by their staffs become hopeless bottlenecks. With a vivid, humorous, and too familiar scenario they show a manager loaded down by all the monkeys that have jumped from their rightful owners onto his back. Then step by step they show how managers can free themselves from doing everyone else's job and ensure that every problem is handled by the proper staff person. By using Oncken's Four Rules of Monkey Management managers will learn to become effective supervisors of time, energy, and talent -- especially their own. If you have ever wondered why you are in the office on the weekends and your staff is on the golf course, The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey is for you. It's priceless