My good friend, Garry Ridge, has a new book out called Any Dumb-Ass Can Do It: Learning Moments from an Everyday CEO of a Multibillion-Dollar Company. I’m not surprised that it’s already a bestseller, because the book is as fun to read as it is informative. You can tell from chapters like “Even the Queen Sits… Read More
Margie—The Woman Beside Me
In honor of Women’s History Month, I’ve updated this blog post I wrote two years ago about my favorite woman. She is my best friend, my true love, and my brilliant, beautiful wife of nearly 64 years—Margie Blanchard. The old saying “Behind every successful man is a woman” isn’t true in our case. Margie was never behind… Read More
Remembering Don Carew
On January 28, 2025, I lost one of my dearest friends and colleagues, Don Carew. Not only was Don one of the original founding associates of our company, but he was also a very special human being. More than anyone I have ever met, Don Carew embodied kindness. I first met Don at the University… Read More
Four Tools to Stay on Track with Your Goals
It’s January, a time when individuals and organizations set goals for the coming year. As I’ve said for decades, all good performance begins with clear goals. That’s why Spencer Johnson and I decided that One Minute Goal Setting should be the first secret of The New One Minute Manager®. Setting clear goals is just the beginning,… Read More
These 5 Keywords Are the Key to Goal Achievement with SLII®
This month we are excited to celebrate the release of the modernized SLII®, the update to our best-selling leadership development training program. We’ve always worked to keep SLII® relevant for today’s leaders, and this latest revision is no exception. One of my favorite new modules in SLII® is about managers and direct reports sharing a… Read More
Celebrating 45 Years of Leadership Development
This October Blanchard is celebrating the 45th anniversary of our creation as a company in 1979. What a privilege it has been these past four-and-a-half decades to serve so many extraordinary clients, and to empower so many people to sharpen their skills and lead with love! Blanchard’s Beginnings Like many of the best things in life, the… Read More
Table Talk, Anyone?
Early in our marriage, Margie and I realized how enjoyable it was to have people come to our home for dinner. Sometimes we would invite just a few close friends we hadn’t seen for a while; sometimes we would host family members from out of town; and other times it was great fun introducing neighbors… Read More
Better Together: The Importance of Friends and Family
In June’s blog I talked about the joys and rewards of connecting with people in your industry at business conferences like ATD. Today I want to focus on the priceless rewards of connecting with friends and family. In this day and age, when so much of our connecting happens over Zoom and other digital platforms,… Read More
What Keeps Me Growing
People often ask me how I became successful and what keeps me going. One of the biggest factors is that I’m a big believer in ongoing personal and professional growth. As Mark Miller and I wrote in Great Leaders Grow, “The path to increased influence, impact, and leadership effectiveness is paved with personal growth.… Our capacity… Read More
Connecting with the Training Community at ATD
One of the joys of being in the leadership training business is belonging to a wonderful community of people and organizations dedicated to helping others achieve their full potential by improving their knowledge, skills, and abilities at work. A great place to network with this community is at the annual conference of the Association for Talent… Read More
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