Quotes from Ken Blanchard

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.

When you stop learning you stop growing.

When you write a business fable, people get caught up in the story and don't get judgmental about what you're teaching them. If you're teaching a bunch of concepts, people get skeptical and say, 'Where'd you get that research?' But if you tell them a story, they get caught up in it while they learn.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you.

Too often in business, only financial data is gathered - and then it is distributed only to management. Other key indicators that relate to performance areas also need to be tracked. Information on performance has to be made available to those people who can best use it - those doing the work.

Managing by values - not by profits - is a powerful process that will set your business on the path to becoming what I call a 'Fortunate 500' company.

Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.

'Lead with LUV' is the first book I've ever done that's just a pure conversation between my coauthor and me.

Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.

Life is special when you reach out beyond yourself to be a true servant leader for others.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

It's really hard to be a servant leader because we come into this world as a baby in a self-survival mode. Life is a journey toward service.

Age is rarely a limitation to being a mentor.

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.

Consistency isn't behaving the same way all the time.

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've 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.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

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.

One of the topics I'm most passionate about is servant leadership - the greatest leaders recognize that they're here to serve, not to be served.

We can't control everything in life, that's for sure, but we can reach out to the people we love to tell them we love and care about them.

Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.

If people aren't clear on what business you're in, what you're trying to accomplish, your values, your goals, then shame on you. It doesn't mean you shouldn't involve them. It's just your responsibility to make sure that that's clear.