Ken Blanchard

In the book The One Minute Manager, Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson introduce the readers an innovative idea of “one minute management” through an allegory of an anonymous man in search for an effective manager for his management “secrets” (Blanchard & Johnson 26). Throughout the anonymous man’s journey, he learns many lessons, which Blanchard and Johnson have summarized into the following three essential “secrets”. First, Blanchard and Johnson advocate “One Minute Goal Setting

The One Minute Manager One Minute Manager is a short story written by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson. The story is about a young man who is in search of an effective manager because not only did he want to work for one but he is also wanted to become one. His search for this ideal manager took him to many places and made him interact with a lot of different individuals. He wasn’t pleased with what he encountered and he began to notice that most of the people he interviewed would fall into

differently, depending on the situational role I was in. This is not unlike the concept of Situational Leadership (Hersey, 1984), where leadership style is dependent on the situation, task, time, authority, culture and dozens of other variables (Hersey & Blanchard, 1977). The chart below is the result of the assessment representing both the work and home standpoint: Work Rank Home Driver 1 3 Express/Persuade 2 1 Analyze 3 4 Amiable 4

The book, Whale Done, written by Ken Blanchard, exemplifies how a business manager named Wes Kinsley learns the key to managing relationships while on a trip to SeaWorld. Kinsley uncovers the secret to managing positive relationships with people by witnessing how trainers at SeaWorld receive incredible responses from their whales by highlighting their positive behaviour, and ignoring or redirecting their negative behaviours. In the book, Blanchard contrasts the “GOTcha” manager, one who seeks to

Lead Like Jesus Authors Ken Blanchard and Phil Hodges are two great friends who had a hope of getting others to experience Jesus in a whole new way, growing and trusting Him as the one to ultimately seek as the perfect one to lead others. I believe the two said it best when they defined leadership as “a process of influence. Anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of people in their person or professional lives, you are taking on the role of a leader.” (pg.18) Leadership

The number one major problem in the world today is leadership. Ken Blanchard discusses the issues of self-serving leaders in which they destroy current social institutions to rebuild them. Amongst the overabundance of self serving leaders that are constructing this generation’s perspective of our impending future, where are the servant leaders that are providing equal, positive examples and guidance of how these individuals can change the world in which we live today? Shifts in healthcare today

The book Raving Fans by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles is written in parable style which teaches the average person the importance of providing customer service and implementing effective systems to create “Raving Fans” a basic requirement. A raving fan is a customer who is extremely satisfied with the level of service they receive that they can’t help but tell everyone about it. The book is narrated in story like format as it follows the life of an Area Manager and Charlie, his fairy godmother

INTRODUCTION TO SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP Situational leadership can be defined as a concept that helps understand leadership in terms of changing environment. Situational leadership theory was developed in 1969 by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard. This type of leadership depends upon each individual situation. This theory requires an individual to analyse the needs according to a particular situation and then act towards it. Ability or maturity of the followers are equally important than leader who leads

In my own opinion, a good leader does not simply get more followers, but creates more leaders. In the book “The One Minute Manager” by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson, this idea is upheld. The book is simple, short, and extremely effective. Its goal is for people to “enjoy more success with less stress,” and that is exactly what it does. It is also been awarded “The All-Time #1 Best Seller on Managing Your Work and Life.” “The One Minute Manager” is a book told in the third person. Within the

leadership theory is a model based on the relationship between leaders and followers and proposes that the environment and the readiness of followers determines to a large extent, how leaders will tend to function. Developed by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard in 1969 the fundamental underpinning of the situational leadership theory is that there is no single “best” style of leadership (REFERENCE). Situational leadership has been used extensively in organizational leadership training and development