Best Quotes by Ken Blanchard (Top 8)

  1. 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.
  2. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
  3. Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
  4. 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.
  5. As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there
  6. None of us is as smart as all of us.
  7. 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.
  8. For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.