Ken Blanchard Quotes

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

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Catching people doing things right is a powerful management concept.

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Whether you like it or not, you will leave a leadership legacy.

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Your business should be defined, not in terms of the product or service you offer, but in terms of what customer need your product or service fulfills. While products come and go, basic needs and customer groups stay around, i.e., the need for communication, the need for transportation, etc. What market need do you supply?

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If we want people on the front lines of companies to be responsible for making good business decisions, they must have the same information that managers use to make good business decisions.

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Don't wait until people do things exactly right before you praise them.

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As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.

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Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don't know where you are going, your leadership doesn't matter.

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

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

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

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

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

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Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.

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Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person.

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

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

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If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

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Positive thinkers get positive results because they are not afraid of problems.

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People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.

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Anything worth doing does not have to be done perfectly - at first.

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

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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.

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Vision is a lot more than putting a plaque on the wall. A real vision is lived, not framed.

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