For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio. – Ken Blanchard
In the past a leader was a boss. Todays leaders must be partners with their people… they no longer can lead solely based on positional power. – Ken Blanchard
I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings Ive 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. – Ken Blanchard
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. – Ken Blanchard
I never appreciated positive heroes in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more productive literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. – Jose Saramago