Congratulations to Patti Breckenridge of Tampa, Florida and Lee Wise of Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania who were announced yesterday as the winners in our Twitter contest to help identify today’s top leaders. Both Patti and Lee will be receiving a gift pack of 7 of Ken Blanchard’s best books, including best-sellers together with some of Ken’s newest…
Today is the last day of Ken Blanchard’s Top Leader survey/contest on Twitter. Over 2,000 people have viewed tweets, or posted nominations at http://www.twitter.com/kenblanchard. On this final day, the role of the leader as coach seems to be the aspect of leadership to highlight. In addition to inspirational, unsung, and visionary leaders, the leader as…
There have been a large number of nominations posted over the weekend for Ken Blanchard’s Top Leader Survey/Contest on Twitter. (Thanks to all of you who have nominated someone, or re-Tweeted the original post.) In looking over the latest group of nominees, one thought that came to mind was the inspirational side of leadership. Many…
What’s the relationship between notoriety and leadership? That’s the question that might surface for you as you look at the following list of people who have recently been nominated as one of today’s top leaders in our Top Leader Survey. As you scan the list below, you’ll probably see some names you immediately recognize. Others…
We want to know who you think today’s top leader is, and why. LeaderChat is partnering with Ken Blanchard on Twitter to conduct a fun and interesting survey/contest. Starting today, and going through October 13th, we’d like you to Tweet the name of the person you think is today’s top leader. In order for us to…
Join The Ken Blanchard Companies for a free webinar. Garry Ridge, CEO of WD-40, and coauthor together with Ken Blanchard of the new book, Helping People Win at Work: A Business Philosophy Called ‘Don’t Mark My Paper, Help Me Get an A” will be sharing the real life strategies that he has used successfully at…
My friend Jim Ballard wanted me to forward this question on to all of you: Dear blogger: As a writer of fables, to me the current explosion of social networking begs a fable. A fable provides a fictitious world and whimsical characters that are fun to read about, while conveying some lesson or simple truth.…
70% of change efforts fail according to Pat Zigarmi, coauthor with Ken Blanchard, John Britt, and Judd Hoekstra of the new book Who Killed Change? out in bookstores now. In Zigarmi’s experience of working with clients on organizational change initiatives over the past 20 years, a couple of common mistakes keep popping up when organizations…
Collaboration is a powerful competitive strategy for today’s organizations—and for individuals also. Why? It’s because no one can develop the skills necessary fast enough to meet the increasing demands of customers. Today you have to partner with others if you are going to succeed. What can leaders do to improve collaboration in their organizations? Ken…
Don’t miss Ken Blanchard for a free webinar today on The Power of Collaboration. This is a special event co-sponsored by Cisco WebEx as a part of their Pass the Ball Ideas in Motion program featuring different thought leaders from a wide variety of business, social, academic, and government sectors all coming together around one…