Leading at a Higher Level, Revised and Expanded Edition: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations

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FT Press, Sep 8, 2009 - Business & Economics - 384 pages

From The One Minute Manager to Raving Fans, Ken Blanchard's books have helped millions of people unleash their power and the potential of everyone around them. The Ken Blanchard Companies has helped thousands of organizations become more people-oriented, customer-centered, and performance-driven. Now, in Leading at a Higher Level, Updated Edition, Blanchard and his colleagues bring together everything they've learned about world-class leadership. You'll discover how to create targets and visions based on the "triple bottom line", and make sure people know who you are, where you're going, and the values that will guide your journey. From start to finish, this book extends Blanchard's breakthrough work on delivering legendary customer service, creating "raving fans," and building "Partnerships for Performance" that empower everyone who works for and with you. Updated throughout, this new edition contains two powerful, important new chapters: one on coaching to create higher-level leaders, and another on creating a higher-level culture throughout your organization. It also offers the definitive, most up-to-date techniques for leading yourself, individuals, teams, and entire organizations. Most importantly, it will help you dig deep within, discover the personal "leadership point of view" all great leaders possess-and apply it throughout your entire life.

 

Contents

TREAT YOUR CUSTOMERS RIGHT
31
TREAT YOUR PEOPLE RIGHT
55
HAVE THE RIGHT KIND OF LEADERSHIP
259
ENDNOTES
309
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
323
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
327
SERVICES AVAILABLE
347
INDEX
351
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Ken Blanchard has had an extraordinary impact on the day-to-day management of millions of people and companies. His phenomenal bestseller The One Minute ManagerŪ, coauthored with Spencer Johnson, has sold 13,000,000 copies worldwide in 27 languages. Blanchard’s 17 business bestsellers also include Raving Fans, High Five!, and The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do.

Blanchard is Chief Spiritual Officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, a global leader in workplace learning, employee productivity, leadership, and team effectiveness.

This book contains indispensable contributions from The Ken Blanchard Companies’ founding associates and current consulting partners, including Marjorie Blanchard, Don Carew, Eunice Parisi-Carew, Fred Finch, Laurie Hawkins, Drea Zigarmi, Pat Zigarmi, Alan Randolph, Jesse Stoner, Fay Kandarian, Susan Fowler, Lael Good, Judd Hoekstra, Chris Edmonds, Bob Glaser, Garry Demarest, Vicki Halsey, Kathy Cuff, Linda Miller, Scott Blanchard, and Madeleine Homan Blanchard.

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