Ken Blanchard Quotes About Leadership

Quotes about: Leadership

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

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

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

  Ken Blanchard

  Leadership, Helping Others, People

  Ken Blanchard, Garry Ridge (2013). “Improve Your Career Performance (Collection)”, p.53, FT Press

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

  Ken Blanchard

  Motivational, Leadership, Ambition

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

  Ken Blanchard

  Leadership, Heart, Caring

• The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement.

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  Leadership, Jobs, Commitment

  Ken Blanchard (2010). “The Heart of a Leader”, p.142, David C Cook

• None of us is as smart as all of us.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

  Twitter post from Dec 13, 2012

• 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.

  Ken Blanchard

  Leadership, Power, Past

• Too many leaders act as if the sheep.. their people.. are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspiring, Leadership, Humility

• The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." Ray Kroc "If some of today's leaders don't relearn the value of a smile, they'll be unable to fire up others' ability to find real enjoyment in their work.

  Ken Blanchard

  Leadership, Real, Fire

• If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.

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  Leadership, Organization, Becoming

  Ken Blanchard (2009). “Leading at a Higher Level, Revised and Expanded Edition: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations”, p.13, FT Press

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

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspiring, Leadership, Negative

• The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspiring, Leadership, Organization

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

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspiring, Leadership, Discipline

  Ken Blanchard (2003). “Servant Leader”, p.85, Thomas Nelson Inc

• Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspiring, Leadership, Thinking

• 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.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspiring, Leadership, Jesus

• I never use notes, they interfere with me.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspiring, Leadership, Use

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