Ken Blanchard

And this was the first time I encountered someone again to look at me and go, here are your strengths.

And a lot of times, even when you read books by Ken Blanchard, the one-minute manager, one of the principles within that book is catch somebody doing something right.

Right.

And that has

If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough." Oprah Winfrey.

Number seven, "None of us is as smart as all of us." Ken Blanchard.

Number eight, "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." Jimmy Dean.

Number nine, "Believe you can and you're halfway there." Theodore Roosevelt.

But I was inspired not only by prayer, but also by a book that I love that I strongly recommend and suggest to all of you.

And it's called Lead Like Jesus, wrote by Kenneth Blanchard and Phil Hodges.

Kenneth Blanchard is the main manager.

He's a very successful American manager, but he converted to Christianity when he became quite old, and he wrote these bestseller books, Lead Like Jesus, for example.

And so Kenneth Blanchard says that our spiritual habits are those activities we do in order to stay on track with God and with others.

And we can think of what I said at the beginning, that Jesus, thanks to those habits, could actually be faithful till the end to his missions.

Instead of, you know, being affected by temptations or other opportunities, you know, his emotions and what was going on, approval of people, disapproval of people, he just didn't care.

And so he was faithful and on track all the time.

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I've been traveling and talking about teamwork and trust, talking about leadership, talking about resilience, and so many other kinds of things because what happened with Roselle and all of my guide dogs is it's a team relationship, and I learned a lot more about teamwork and trust from eight guide dogs than I would ever learn from Ken Blanchard, Tony Robbins, all the leadership and management and motivational people and so on, because it's really living it with a guide dog, working with a creature that speaks a completely different language and thinks entirely different.

But the reality is you can learn to communicate, and the two of you working together can have a great relationship, and that's, that's what we had.

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The critical defining element here is that the leader knows exactly how the task should be performed.

The Grobridge text references Kenneth Blanchard's situational leadership model to explain this.

In vertical delegation, the supervisor assesses the employee's current skill level, provides highly specific tactical direction to fill their knowledge gaps, and monitors their output against a known standard.

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Oh, yeah.

You know, and there was one extraordinary member at one of my clubs I got to work with and everybody was Ken Blanchard.

So Ken Blanchard came in and worked with our team and he led us through personal mission statement in core value work.

And that sure left a lasting impact on me so much so that I still incorporate that like I made a family mission.

And it's to incorporate fun in every day.

Yes.

And we had been introduced and I left that meeting and I was thinking, what would it be like to be that smart? and i thought well it's not going to be happening for me but maybe i can borrow on your intellectual part but i was in my son's office the other day and all of the little pads that you use your mouse on sure every pad had humble hungry and smart as three key values humble hungry and smart i really like that Because I think I learned from Ken Blanchard, being humble and confident is one of the great things that you can be as a leader.

And it's so attractive to people you might be working with.

But let me ask you this.

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Okay.

But yeah, I think you need a sticky message book because I think when I had a book distribution company called Simple Truths, Ken Blanchard had told the owner that people won't read big, long books.

They want the simple truths.