Best Selling Books by Kenneth H. Blanchard

Never before in the history of the workplace has the concept of teamwork been more important to the functioning of successful organizations. Ken Blanchard bestselling coauthor of Raving Fans, The One Minute Manager, and Gung Ho! teams up with Donald Carew and Eunice Parisi-Carew to explain how all groups move through four stages of development on their way to becoming high performance teams -- orientation, dissatisfaction, integration, and production. The authors then show how a manager can help any group to become fully effective quickly and with hardly any stress. The valuable addition to The One Minute Manager® Library is essential for anyone who works with groups and wants to build a high performing team. Never before in the history of the workplace has the concept of teamwork been more important to the functioning of successful organizations. Bestselling author Ken Blanchard and his two collaborators explain how all groups move through four stages of development on their way to becoming a high performing team-Orientation, Dissatisfaction, Integration, and Production. They then show how a manager can help any group become fully effective sooner and with much less stress. This valuable addition to The One Minute Manager. Library is essential for anyone who works with groups and wants to build a high performing team.

Through a beautifully written and engaging story about two people struggling to create visions—both for the company where they work and for their own lives—Ken Blanchard and Jesse Lyn Stoner detail the essential elements of creating a successful vision. In Full Steam Ahead! you’ll learn: • How to use the power of vision to get focused, get energized, and get great results • How to create a vision that touches the hearts and spirits of everyone in your organization • How to create a vision for your own life that provides meaning and direction This new edition is thoroughly revised, with a new chapter on sustaining your vision, updated examples, more information on creating vision for teams, and a new section that includes a vision assessment and a game plan for creating a shared vision.

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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.\" 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. 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.

Ken Blanchard''s phenomenal bestselling classic The One Minute Manager explores the skills needed to become an effective self leader. Now, Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager clearly and thoroughly reveals how power, freedom, and autonomy come from having the right mind-set and the skills needed to take personal responsibility for success. In this captivating business parable, number one New York Times bestselling author Ken Blanchard, with coauthors Susan Fowler and Laurence Hawkins, tells the story of Steve, a young advertising executive who is about to lose his job. During a series of talks with a gifted magician named Cayla, Steve comes to realize the power of taking responsibility for his situation and not playing the victim. Passing along the knowledge she has learned from the One Minute Manager, Cayla teaches Steve the three skills of self leadership. These three techniques not only empower him to keep his job but show him what he needs to know in order to keep growing, learning, and achieving. For twenty-five years, millions of managers in Fortune 500 companies and small businesses nationwide have followed Ken Blanchard''s management method, thus increasing their productivity, job satisfaction, and personal prosperity. Now, discover Ken Blanchard''s newest techniques in Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager and experience the profitability that has been achieved by applying his management lessons.

As Ken Blanchard, John Carlos, and Alan Randolph clearly demonstrated in their previous bestseller, Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute, empowerment is not a goal that can be achieved in a minute. Empowerment is a process that requires ongoing effort, awareness, and commitment to transforming the hierarchy. This essential guide offers managers detailed, hands-on answers to their real-life questions about how, exactly, they can navigate the journey to empowerment. Written in an easily accessible Q&A format, the book closely examines and expands on the three keys to empowerment originally presented in Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute-sharing information, creating autonomy through boundaries, and replacing the hierarchy with teams. It clearly outlines the promises and challenges of each stage of the journey, providing managers with thought-provoking questions, clear advice, effective activities, and action tools that will help them create a culture of empowerment. Wherever they are in the journey, managers will find a clear roadmap in this user-friendly action guide.

Target Higher Performance and Achieve It! In the bestselling tradition of The One Minute ManagerR, Zap the Gaps combines a fast–moving business parable with step–by–step instructions for implementing the GAPS approach to problem solving.

Twenty years after creating the phenomenal bestselling classic The One Minute Manager, Ken Blanchard returns to its roots with the most powerful and essential title in the series as he explores the skills needed to empower yourself to success. In this captivating business parable, bestselling author Ken Blanchard tells the story of Steve, a young advertising executive who is about to lose his job. During a series of talks with a gifted magician named Cayla, Steve comes to realize the power of taking responsibility for his situation and not playing the victim. Passing along the knowledge she has learned from The One Minute Manager, Cayla teaches Steve the three tricks of self leadership. These three techniques not only empower him to keep his job, but give him the skills he needs to keep growing, learning, and achieving. The primary message of SELF-LEADERSHIP AND THE ONE MINUTE MANAGER is that power, freedom, and autonomy come from having the right mindset and the skills needed to take personal responsibility for success.

Customer service is the single most pressing problem for business managers and people in any service or sales operation, especially at the retail level. In fact, many experts believe that you build a business from the customer up. In Customer Mania!, Ken Blanchard, one of America''s biggest bestselling authors and inspiring business leaders, writes of the key to customer service -- creating a people-oriented, performance-driven, customer-first organization. Along with coauthors Jim Ballard and Fred Finch, Blanchard explains why the customer is the right starting place from which to build a successful business. By drawing on examples from the world''s largest restaurant company, Yum! -- owner of KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Long John Silver''s, and A & W Restaurants -- the authors explain how any company, large or small, can develop a unified, people-first, customer-oriented culture.

In the bestselling tradition of \"Whale Done!,\" Ken Blanchard offers a new parable about the competition of two leaders with totally different management styles--and reveals the ingredients of truly effective leadership.

Told in the parable format of The One Minute Manager, this work draws on the model and messages of Jesus as a source of practical lessons in effective leadership. Recounting the story of a teacher, a minister and a marketplace leader who support one another in their leadership challenges, this book offers unexpected and exceptional answers to tough leadership issues. The authors offer simple strategies for bringing vision - and values - to the workplace by examining messages and examples from the Bible.

This title reveals how a ''Last-Minute'' manager conquered procrastination.

Bestselling author Ken Blanchard brings you the tie-in guide to accompany his TrustWorks! training program.

One of the most popular and bestselling works ever on management.

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Used by more than a million people throughout the world, this highly readable book provides a comprehensive examination of the applied behavioral sciences, and focuses on fundamental ideas which have stood the test of years of application in academic, business, not-for-profit and administrative environments. Complete coverage of motivation and behavior, situational leadership, building effective relationships, planning and implementing change, leadership strategies, the organizational cone and integrating situational leadership with the Classics. For individuals interested in expanding their knowledge of, and proficiency in leadership strategies.

The inspirational fable of young entrepreneur Jud McCarley as he struggles to make a success of his business while balancing his work and personal life shares the secrets of developing and making a success of a small business, in a volume that incorporates the hard-won wisdom of noted entrepreneurs and business leaders. 200,000 first printing.

Bogen giver en omfattende gennemgang af anvendte ledelsesformer og ideer om ledelse, der har været anvendt i erhvervslivet samt i akademiske - og administrative miljøer. Bl.a. behandles situationsbestemt ledelse, motivation og adfærd, relationer mellem ledelse og medarbejdere, planlægning og gennemførelse af nødvendige ændringer samt ledelsesstrategier.

You''ve heard of the Power of Positive Thinking. There''s no doubt about it...the human mind is an amazingly powerful computer, capable of transforming our lives. But achieving what you want in life isn''t accomplished by sitting in your comfy chair and visualizing all day long. Far too many people neglect to ACT on their own behalf in order to bring their dreams to life. As cosmetics company founder and CEO Estee Lauder put it so well, \"I didn''t get here by dreaming about it or thinking about it - I got here by doing it.\" In The Power of Positive Doing, BJ Gallagher has captured the \"secret\" no one is talking about - you can actually change your thoughts and attitudes by taking positive ACTION, no matter what you''re thinking or feeling! She calls it the \"The Power of Positive DOING\" - the title of her latest book. B.J. is no stranger to Simple Truths'' readers. The author of more than 20 books, including Friends, Oil for Your Lamp, and The Best Way Out is Through, her engaging stories and original poetry have put her on our best-seller list.

Ken Blanchard & Stephen Covey et. al. present an exceptional compilation of resourceful people who will tell you how they learned how to be successful. They will share with you their secrets and reveal some remarkable insights on how to set goals in life and how to accomplish those goals.

In the now classic business fable, The Secret, Debbie, a struggling leader finds herself about to lose her job due to poor performance. In a desperate attempt to save her career, she enrolls in a new mentoring program offered by her company. Much to her surprise, Debbie finds her mentor is the president of the company (Jeff Brown). Debbie decides that all she needs is the answer to one question, ''What is the secret of great leaders?'' Over the next 18 months Jeff explains to Debbie that the secret is rooted in an attitude. He tells her that she must be willing to become a serving leader rather than a self-serving leader. The secret is that all great leaders Serve. The story unfolds as Debbie learns and applies each of these imperatives with her team. As a result, Debbie''s team goes from worst to first. They become the highest performing team within the company. In the end, Debbie understood that all the changes and improvements were the result of the choices she made as a leader. She realized that to Serve is a choice. Debbie decided once and for all, she would no longer be a self-serving leader, she would be a serving leader!

The ultimate lesson for the successful One Minute Manager: teaching how a healthy lifestyle is the key to success. The One Minute Manager has become the world''s most popular management method. Unfortunately, it is easy to forget one important thing: to look after number one. This book tells the story of a One Minute Manager who is so much in demand that he eats on the run, doesn''t take time to exercise, and never puts himself, his family or his well-being top of his list of priorities. He soon discovers that his life is out of balance and that success in business is endangering his health. For all those busy, achieving people with overcrowded schedules, this useful blueprint shows how to manage stress and keep healthy. By following four important strategies for balancing a complicated life, everyone can get their lives into proper perspective. For the millions of readers of Ken Blanchard''s bestselling books, The One Minute Manager Balances Work and Life offers a way to achieve not only a new, healthier style of living but increased productivity as well.

Based on five key points, a winning coach and renowned management consultant offer a guide to success for any organization.

The author explains how all workplace groups move through four stages of development, on their way to becoming high performing teams. These stages are orientation, dissatisfaction, integration and production. He then shows how a manager can help any group become effective quickly, and with a minimum of stress.

The eagerly awaited paperback of the BusinessWeek bestseller that has sold 100,000+ copies and been translated into 20 languages. With combined sales of more than 14 million copies, the books of Ken Blanchard are a phenomenal source of business wisdom. In thisinternational bestseller - Blanchard''s first big-picture management book - he and business strategist Terry Waghorn show how to lead any organization by simultaneously focusing on the present and the future.Written in Blanchard''s signature style - concise, inspiring,emotionally gripping, and always down to earth - Mission Possible reveals how to make any organizational change program a success.