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By: David Witt

David Witt — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:50:35 +0000

Hi Athena–on behalf of Ken, thanks for the kudos! You can always find out about our next complimentary webinar by visiting http://www.kenblanchard.com You can also sign-up for our free newsletter which highlights each upcoming event at http://www.kenblanchard.com/ignite

By: athena

athena — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:06:25 +0000

Congratulations Ken! On your award as the world’s #3 leadership guru. you really deserve it. you inspired me to always be better. i would like to attend future webminars, please keep me on your mailing list.

By: David Witt

David Witt — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:30:40 +0000

Hi Wesam,
You raise an interesting point about a leader looking at their motives for being known as a “servant leader.” I think it goes back to some of the points that Ken Blanchard raised in his webinar when he identified the importance of looking at your personal values when you are creating and communicating your leadership point of view. As you identified, it really boils down to asking yourself why you want to lead. Is it for your own personal fulfillment–or is it truly a desire to help and serve others? In our experience, people eventually sniff out a leader who is in it mainly for themselves. What do others think?

By: Wesam

Wesam — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:14:08 +0000

Hi Ken,

Just a thought I wanted to share with you.
Reading a number of books, interacting with leaders from different parts of the world, I found that leadership may vary from country to another. May be not a major, deep change in the concept, but, a change in the the way it looks, and how it’s perceived. Now, talking about Servant Leadership (others centred leadership) vs (self centred leadership, interacting with a number of leaders, people from different pars of the world, I found found that the servant leadership is a form of selfishness?
I’m sorry but, just think about it. Who wants to out other first? and why?
I mean unless there’s that strong inner driver to do so, one would always fall back in to old leadership style (me first). I thing one would be a servant leadership for different reasons, but one strong, inner motive to do so is to be recognized by others as a “servant leader”, people man, one that others would gather around, love and support. Honestly speaking, at this point in time, I don’t see any thing wrong with that. The bottom line is that “everyone benefits” when servant leadership is around. Any thoughts, comments?
Thanks.
Wesam

By: Lety

Lety — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:00:57 +0000

Thank you for sharing your perspective. I value your insights!

By: Peel Leadership Centre

Peel Leadership Centre — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:35:43 +0000

Much appreciated!

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:34:45 +0000

Thanks for all your interest, I hope that the presentation and the Q&A period were helpful. If you didn’t get anything out of today, I did, because I always need to remind myself of what is important. God Bless!

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By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:29:56 +0000

A book I coauthored with Margaret McBride called The Fourth Secret of the One Minute Manager covers that. It focuses on the one minute apology. There is two parts of an apology, the first is honesty, admitting you made a mistake, and making amends to those you might have damaged. The second part has to do with integrity, which is what are you going to do to make sure you don’t do this again in the future. Our experience is that when you apologize for a mistake, people don’t see that as a weakness, they see it as a strength. As a result, they are willing to forgive you. Bill Clinton, Pete Rose, Ken Lay from Enron, and others could have learned a lot from that as well as the steroid users in baseball. The earlier you admit a mistake, the better.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:26:37 +0000

Hi there! One of the big things in the Office of the Future is managing across generations. They published a white paper on that which can be found on our website, or send a request to webinars@kenblanchard.com, and we will send you a copy!