Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations (3rd Edition)

Blanchard, Ken

ISBN 10: 0134857534 / ISBN 13: 9780134857534

Published by FT Press, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations (3rd Edition)
• Publisher: FT Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0134857534
• ISBN 13: 9780134857534
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Great organizations don’t happen by accident! For 35+ years, Dr. Ken Blanchard and his colleagues have helped thousands of leaders and organizations evolve from good to great -- becoming the providers, employers, and investments of choice in their respective industries. Leading at a Higher Level, Third Edition brings together Blanchard’s most up-to-date thinking and research on the principles and practices used by the world’s most successful organizations. Readers will learn how to:

• Build a high performing organization
• Create a compelling vision
• Nurture customers and empower people
• Tailor leadership styles to bring out individuals’ highest potential
• Cultivate self-leaders
• Use coaching and mentoring to develop leadership bench strength
• Create effective teams and foster collaboration
• Manage change
• Cultivate trust
• Establish a world-class culture
• Develop a leadership point of view
• Practice servant leadership to attain the highest individual, social, and financial results

Based on the Blanchard principle that both results and people are important, Leading at a Higher Level, Third Edition combines proven theories with practical actions for leaders in every organization, large and small.

About the Author

Ken Blanchard has had an extraordinary impact on the day-to-day management of millions of people and companies. He is the coauthor of the iconic New York Times bestseller The One Minute Manager ®–revised and released as The New One Minute Manager ®–as well as 65 other books whose sales total over 22 million copies in 47 languages. Blanchard’s other business bestsellers 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 creating the world’s best managers, training more than 150,000 people each year.

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