Leading at a Higher Level, Revised and Expanded Edition: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations - Hardcover

Blanchard, Ken

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0137011709 ISBN 13: 9780137011704

Publisher: Pearson, 2009

Synopsis

HardCover. Pub Date :2009-09-01 Pages: 362 Language: English Publisher: FT Press From The One Minute Manager to Raving Fans. Ken Blanchards books have helped millions of people unleash their power and the potential of everyone around them The Ken. Blanchard Companies has helped thousands of organizations become more people-oriented. customer-centered. and performance-driven. Now. in Leading at a Higher Level. Updated Edition. Blanchard and his colleagues bring together everything theyve learned about world-class leadership. Youll discover how to create targets and visions based on the triple bottom line. and make sure people know who you are. where youre going. and the values ??that will guide your journey. From start to finish. this book extends Blanchards breakthrough work on delivering legendary customer service. creating raving fans. and building Partnerships for Perform...

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From the Back Cover:

"Leading at a Higher Level makes clear that respect and integrity aren’t pleasant-sounding options; they are essential criteria for an organization’s survival. As inspiring as it is instructive, this book belongs in every leader’s core curriculum."

Warren Bennis, bestselling author of Leaders and On Becoming a Leader

 

"If you want to have a great company, you don’t have a choice but to lead at a higher level. When you do that, you excite your people, they take care of your customers, and your cash register goes ca-ching."

Horst Schulze, Vice President and CEO, The West Paces Hotel Group, LLC; Founding and former President & COO, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, LLC

 

30 Years of Breakthrough Leadership Insights in One Extraordinary Book!

 

From The One Minute Manager® to Raving Fans, Ken Blanchard’s books have helped millions of people unleash their power and the potential of everyone around them. The Ken Blanchard Companies has helped thousands of organizations become more people oriented, customer centered, and performance driven.

 

Now, in this fully updated edition of Leading at a Higher Level, Blanchard and his colleagues bring together all they’ve learned about world-class leadership. You’ll discover how to create targets and visions based on the “triple bottom line” and make sure people know who you are, where you’re going, and the values that will guide your journey.

 

Leading at a Higher Level presents the definitive discussion about using Situational Leadership® II to lead yourself, individuals, teams, and entire organizations. More important, you’ll learn how to dig deep within, discover the personal “leadership point of view” all great leaders possess, and apply it throughout your entire life.

 

For everyone who wants to become a better leader...

...in any company, any organization, any area of life

 

Build an organization that “walks the walk” on values

Eliminate the gap between your company’s stated values and actual behavior

 

Serve your customers at a higher level

Deliver your ideal customer experience and create “raving fans”

 

Coach to bring out everyone’s best, from top to bottom

Create a coaching culture that boosts performance at every level

 

 

About the Author:

Ken Blanchard has had an extraordinary impact on the day-to-day management of millions of people and companies. His phenomenal bestseller The One Minute Manager®, coauthored with Spencer Johnson, has sold 13,000,000 copies worldwide in 27 languages. Blanchard’s 17 business bestsellers also include Raving Fans, High Five!, and The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do.

 

Blanchard is Chief Spiritual Officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, a global leader in workplace learning, employee productivity, leadership, and team effectiveness.

 

This book contains indispensable contributions from The Ken Blanchard Companies’ founding associates and current consulting partners, including Marjorie Blanchard, Don Carew, Eunice Parisi-Carew, Fred Finch, Laurie Hawkins, Drea Zigarmi, Pat Zigarmi, Alan Randolph, Jesse Stoner, Fay Kandarian, Susan Fowler, Lael Good, Judd Hoekstra, Chris Edmonds, Bob Glaser, Garry Demarest, Vicki Halsey, Kathy Cuff, Linda Miller, Scott Blanchard, and Madeleine Homan Blanchard.

 

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0137011709
• ISBN 13: 9780137011704
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 384