Ken Blanchard Quotes
Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.
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.
Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.
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.
Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.
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.
If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.
Effective team leaders adjust their style to provide what the group can't provide for itself.
As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there
Vision comes alive when everyone sees where his or her contribution makes a difference.
The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement.
Beware of putting all your focus into results. While results are important, your people should be your number one area of focus.
If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.
People don't mind being challenged to do better if they know the request is coming from a caring heart
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.
If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.
Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don’t know where you are going, your leadership doesn’t matter.
Empowering means helping teams develop their skills and knowledge and supporting them to use their talents.
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.
When you touch - don't take. Touch people only when you are giving something - reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever
Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.
For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.
People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.
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.
A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.
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.
