For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
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More Ken Blanchard Quotes
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Catch people in the act of doing something right.
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Everyday do something in relation to everything that’s important to you.
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Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.
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Present thinking people kill the future.
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Do your best to succeed and push the limits without violating them.
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Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It’s not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.
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When you stop learning you stop growing.
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Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.
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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.
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Vision comes alive when everyone sees where his or her contribution makes a difference.
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The best way to develop responsibility in people is to give them responsibility.
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We are not just our behavior. We are the person managing our behavior.
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If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs.
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Catching people doing things right is a powerful management concept.
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Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don’t know where you are going, your leadership doesn’t matter.
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Don’t quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
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The first principle of ethical power is Purpose… It is the picture you have of yourself – the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.
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Real communication happens when people feel safe.
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Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.
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The cure for too much to do is solitude and silence.
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Leadership is not something you do to people. It’s something you do with people.
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What we give our attention to, grows.
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Effective team leaders adjust their style to provide what the group can’t provide for itself.
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When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.
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None of us is as smart as all of us.
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Things not worth doing are not worth doing well.
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