Ken Blanchard biografie en boeken
Ken Blanchard (1939) is een bekende Amerikaanse onderzoeker, consultant en schrijver van diverse managementboeken, waaronder 30 bestsellers. Eén van de bekendste theorieën waaraan Ken Blanchard heeft bijgedragen is het Situationeel Leiderschap model waarin de effectiviteit van leiderschap verbonden is aan situaties.
Biografie Ken Blanchard
Ken Blanchard behaalde in 1961 zijn Bachelorgraad (BA) in politicologie en filosofie aan de Cornell-universiteit (Verenigde Staten).
In 1963 behaalde Ken Blanchard zijn Mastergraad (MA) op het gebied van sociologie aan de Universiteit van Colgate (Verenigde Staten). Uiteindelijk promoveerde Ken Blanchard in 1963 en behaalde zijn Doctorsgraad (Ph.D.) in het vakgebied onderwijsadministratie en leiderschap aan de Cornell-universiteit. Ken Blanchard is nog steeds aan deze Universiteit verbonden in de vorm van bezoekende Emeritus professor.
Na een tijd te hebben gewerkt binnen de academische wereld, besloot Ken Blanchard samen met zijn vrouw in 1979 een management consultancy bureau te beginnen. Gecombineerd met zijn adviesdiensten deed hij onderzoek naar onder andere leiderschap, klantloyaliteit, coaching medewerkersbetrokkenheid, project management, organisatie ontwikkeling en meer. Dit leidde naast succesvolle advies- en trainingsopdrachten, ook tot een aantal bestsellers. Zo zijn er bijvoorbeeld van het boek The one minute manager (1982) meer dan 10 miljoen exemplaren verkocht.
Andere bestsellers van Blanchard en collega’s zijn Raving Fans (1993), Gung Ho! (1998) en Big Bucks! (2000). Naast bestsellers heeft Ken Blanchard ook verschillende nominaties en prijzen gewonnen op het gebied van management, leiderschap en spreken in het openbaar.
Blanchard is nog steeds actief in zijn organisatie als Chief Spiritual Officer. De organisatie opereert wereldwijd onder de naam van Ken Blanchard Companies en levert haar diensten op het gebied van training en advies aan grote multinationale ondernemingen en organisaties.
Bekende quotes
- “For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.”
- “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”
- “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.”
- “The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.”
- “Don’t quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.”
- “Feedback is the breakfast of champions.”
- “People who produce good results feel good about themselves.”
- “I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I’ve had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.”
- “I never use notes, they interfere with me.”
- “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.”
- “There’s 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.”
- “Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don’t work for you, you work for them.”
- “None of us is as smart as all of us.”
Bekende publicaties en boeken van Ken Blanchard et al.
- 2015. Refire! Don’t Retire: Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
- 2015. The New One Minute Manager. William Morrow.
- 2015. Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
- 2014. Legendary service: The Key is to Care. McGraw-Hill Education.
- 2014. The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
- 2012. Great Leaders Grow: Becoming a Leader for Life. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
- 2011. Full Steam Ahead! Unleash the Power of Vision in Your Work and Your Life. 2nd Edition.
- 2011. Lead with LUV: A Different Way to Create Real Success.
- 2009. Averting the collision between rising health care costs and corporate survival. Journal: Leader To Leader, vol. 2009, no. 53, pp. 24-30.
- 2009. Who Killed Change? Solving the Mystery of Leading People Through Change.
- 2009, 1982. The one minute manager. William Morrow.
- 2009. Leading at a Higher Level, Revised and Expanded Edition: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations. Pearson Prentice Hall.
- 2008. Lead Like Jesus: Lessons from the Greatest Leadership Role Model of All Time. Thomas Nelson
- 2008. The One Minute Entrepreneur. Doubleday, United States.
- 2008. Nursing leadership nursing leadership can be taught. Journal: Nurse Leader, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 28-29.
- 2007, 1977. Management of Organizational Behavior: Utilizing Human Resources. Prentice Hall.
- 2007. The higher plane of leadership. Journal: Leader To Leader, vol. 2007, no. 46, pp. 25-30.
- 2007. The Heart of a Leader: Insights on the Art of Influence. David C. Cook.
- 2007. Know Can Do! Put Your Know-How into Action.
- 2004. Customer Mania!
- 2004. The vision thing: Without it you’ll never be a world-class organization. Journal: Leader To Leader, vol. 2004, no. 31, pp. 21-28.
- 2004. Leadership Smarts. David C. Cook.
- 2003. The Servant Leader. Thomas Nelson.
- 2002. Whale Done!: The Power of Positive Relationships. Free Press.
- 2001. Takes More Than a Minute, 2nd Edition.
- 2000. Big Bucks!. Harpercollins Publishers.
- 1998. Gung Ho! Turn On the People in Any Organization. William Morrow.
- 1997. Seven steps to becoming a fortunate 500 company. Journal: Leader To Leader, vol. 1997, no. 4, pp. 40-46
- 1993. Raving Fans. William Morrow.
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