Best Ken Blanchard Quotes & Sayings

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there — Ken Blanchard

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

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

The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves - meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk - before they go for it in the real world do best. — Ken Blanchard

Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their managers. — Ken Blanchard

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle. — Ken Blanchard

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth ... and what you tell it. — Ken Blanchard

Do your best to succeed and push the limits without violating them. — Ken Blanchard

Good thoughts not delivered mean squat. — Ken Blanchard

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

All leaders are permanent learners. — Ken Blanchard

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

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

Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job. — Ken Blanchard

Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly — Ken Blanchard

Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit, and I try my best to motivate him, too. — Ken Blanchard

Successful organizations have one common central focus: Customers. — Ken Blanchard

Many people measure their success by wealth, recognition, power and status. There's nothing wrong with those, but if that's all you're focused on, you're missing the boat ... if you focus on significance -using your time and talent to serve others -that's when truly meaningful success can come your way. — Ken Blanchard

The best way to develop responsibility in people is to give them responsibility. — Ken Blanchard

Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going. — Ken Blanchard

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

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

There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results. KEN BLANCHARD Chief Spiritual Officer of the Ken Blanchard Companies and coauthor of over 30 books, including the classic best seller The One Minute Manager — Jack Canfield

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

Perpetual prosperity comes to those who help others. — Ken Blanchard

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

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

People who produce good results feel good about themselves. — Ken Blanchard

Effective team leaders adjust their style to provide what the group can't provide for itself. — Ken Blanchard

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline. — Ken Blanchard

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

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

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

What we give our attention to, grows. — Ken Blanchard

I cannot say Who Art in Heaven-If all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things. — Ken Blanchard

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less. — Ken Blanchard

The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement. — Ken Blanchard

Empowering means helping teams develop their skills and knowledge and supporting them to use their talents. — Ken Blanchard

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

We can't control everything in life, that's for sure, but we can reach out to the people we love to tell them we love and care about them. — Ken Blanchard