Ken Blanchard Quotes

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results.

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

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.

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.

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.

Many people measure their success by wealth, recognition, power and status. There's nothing wrong with those, but if that's all you're focused on, you're missing the boat...if you focus on significance -using your time and talent to serve others -that's when truly meaningful success can come your way.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

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

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job.

Vision comes alive when everyone sees where his or her contribution makes a difference.

Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.

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.

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.

The best minute you spend is the one you invest in people

People don't mind being challenged to do better if they know the request is coming from a caring heart

Catching people doing things right is a powerful management concept.

When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.

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.

One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you.

When you stop learning you stop growing.

If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.

If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs.

People who feel good about themselves produce good results.

Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.

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.

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.

When you touch - don't take. Touch people only when you are giving something - reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever

If you don't seek perfection, you can never reach excellence.

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.

Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.

All good performance starts with clear goals.

Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.

What we give our attention to, grows.

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

As a servant leader the way you serve the vision is by developing people so that they can work on that vision even when you're not around. The ultimate sin of an effective servant leader is what happens when you are not there. That was the power of Jesus' leadership-the leaders He trained went on to change the world when He was no longer with them in bodily form.

The best way to develop responsibility in people is to give them responsibility.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.