I was fortunate enough to see Betsy Myers deliver a keynote recently. Betsy said a really interesting thing that I think is worth sharing with you all. She said that some people start from a place of “yes” and the result they get is adventure. Some people start from a place of “no” and the […]
My Interview with Richard Morris at Simple-Talk
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Reach Out to Others
This morning I sat down and wrote a personal note to someone who recently helped me. You know, I have this personal stationery that was specially made and it’s just beautiful. And I thought, you know, I have to learn to use this more. Because just writing this personal note made me feel so good, […]
Choose to Feel Good About Yourself
You know, I was thinking today about the San Diego Padres. They’re 7 and 2 now and it’s interesting to hear the analysts. At one point they were 1 and 2, and they were down by 3 runs to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the eighth inning, and somehow they rallied and won the game […]
Don’t Forget to Take Care of Yourself!
Margie and I wrote a wonderful book with Dee Edington years ago called The One Minute Manager Gets Fit. And then we reissued it as The One Minute Manager Balances Life and Work. The whole concept was that we need to take care of our health. We need to take care of our bodies. We […]
Make Sure Your Employees Trust You–Or Else
Wanted to let you know about this recent article that was published in Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/23/trust-respect-employees-leadership-managing-blanchard.html Leadership Make Sure Your Employees Trust You–Or Else Ken Blanchard and Terry Waghorn 03.23.09, 5:48 PM ET How do you keep people trusting you at a time like this? Trust is essential in our lives, and it has been since […]
Everyone Needs to Contribute
In the last couple of weeks at our company, we’ve had our own special March Madness going on down on the basketball court at lunchtime. Next week, we’re going to start to get into the semifinals of this great tournament. One of the things I was thinking about was how, in basketball, the team that […]
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Ken Blanchard Coauthor of iconic bestseller The One Minute Manager® Groundbreaking works translated into 42 languages — more than 20,000,000 copies sold Amazon’s Hall of Fame – Top 25 best selling authors