Ken Blanchard

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Kenneth Hartley Blanchard (born May 6, 1939) is an American author and management expert. His extensive writing career includes more than 60 published books, most of which are co-authored. His most successful book, The One Minute Manager , has sold over 13 million copies and has been translated into many languages.

Blanchard is also the Chief Spiritual Officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, an international management training and consulting firm that he and his wife, Marjorie Blanchard, founded in 1979 in San Diego, California.

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Education

Blanchard attended New Rochelle High School, and graduated in 1957. He completed his BA in government and philosophy at Cornell University in 1961, an MA in sociology and counseling at Colgate University in 1963 and a PhD in education and leadership administration at Cornell University in 1967. As a scholar at Cornell, he joined the fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI), and was selected for membership in the Quill and Dagger community.

Blanchard is emeritus guardian of Cornell University and a visiting professor at the Cornell School of University of Hotel Administration. He and his wife were named the Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year in 1991.

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Ken Blanchard Company

The Ken Blanchard Companies is an international management training and consulting firm that Ken and his wife Marjorie co-founded in 1979. The company's core mission is to improve organizational performance through leadership counseling. Currently, the company provides leadership training and consulting in coordination with most companies in various industries. The three pillars in which the company stands are Building Leadership Capacity, Developing Bench Leadership Strength, and Leading Organizational Change.

Building leadership capacity focuses on enhancing employee passion, customer loyalty, and organizational vitality through the creation of effective leaders in the workplace. The implication of this, and the ultimate goal of building leadership capacity, is to enable organizations to create results-oriented leaders and focus on people who improve performance, improve retention and morale, and deliver results.

Developing different leadership powers from building leadership capacity so far is an in-depth approach to helping individuals understand themselves so that they can become effective leaders. The premise of this mission is that with high-potential talent mentoring and giving them the resources to grow into competent and confident managers, the company will become a pipeline distributor for organizational growth.

The last of the three pillars of the company, leading organizational change, focuses on sharpening the operational strategies, processes, and communications of client companies. The company handles changes in management because of reorganization, appointment of new executives, mergers, acquisitions, downsizing, and the like. The Ken Blanchard Companies also discusses and consults on important issues and needs during each phase of corporate organizational change.

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Notable Works

Ken's writing career includes over 60 books, and hundreds of keynote speeches. Some of his most famous books include:

• The One Minute Manager Ã,® (co-written with Spencer Johnson), which has sold over 13 million copies and has been translated into 37 languages. It has been repeatedly plagiarized from the original research of former Blanchard and Johnson colleagues, Arthur Elliott Carlisle, who was never recognized by Blanchard and Johnson as anything more than a co-author. The book is shown by 40% plagiarism of Carlisle's article "MacGregor".
• Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service (1993)
• One Minute Leadership and Manager: Improving Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership Ã,® (1985) (where he coined the term seabird manager)
• Gung Ho! Turn People on Any Organization (1997)
• Pope Completed! The Power of Positive Relationships (2002)
• Lead at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating a High Performing Organization (2006).

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See also

• Hersey-Blanchard situational theory
• Spencer Johnson
• Business fable

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References

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Bibliography

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External links

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