Ken Blanchard

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Kenneth Blanchard is an American businessman, as well as a consultant, speaker, trainer, and author on management and leadership.

He owns the Ken Blanchard Companies, a family-owned business in San Diego, California, and is well-known for developing the Blanchard and Hersey Model of situational leadership theory, together with Paul Hersey. He and others have extended it as Situational Leadership® II. With Spencer Johnson, he developed the One Minute Manager concept, and co-authored a series of books on it. His One Minute Manager Library has collectively sold more than 7 million copies and has been translated into more than 20 languages. He has also tied in Situational Leadership with team development, which he calls Highly Performing Teams.

Dr. Blanchard received his B.A. from Cornell University in government and philosophy, an M.A. from Colgate University in sociology and counseling, and a Ph.D. from Cornell in educational administration and leadership. He maintains a faculty position as Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting lectureship at Cornell University, where he is also an elected member of the Board of Trustees.

He has been a guest on a number of national television programs, and has been featured in Time, People, US News & World Report.

Contents 1 Works 2 In Education 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Works

(almost all works have one or more co-authors)

• One Minute Manager Library
  • One Minute Manager (1982)
  • Putting the One Minute Manager to Work (1984)
  • Leadership and the One Minute Manager (1985)
  • The One Minute Manager Gets Fit (1986)
  • The One Minute Manager Balances Work and Life
  • The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey (1989)
  • The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams (1990)
  • Empowerment Take More than a Minute (1996)
  • The One Minute Apology (2003)
  • The On-Time On-Target Manager
  • Self Leadership and The One Minute Manager

• Team Trilogy
  • Raving Fans (1993)
  • Gung Ho! (1998)
  • Big Bucks ()

• Other
  • Organizational Change Through Effective Leadership (1985)
  • Power of Ethical Management (1988)
  • Mission Possible (1996)
  • Heart of a Leader (1999)
  • Leadership by the Book (1999)
  • Management of Organizational Behavior, 8th edition (2000)
  • High Five! (2000)
  • Whale Done (2002)
  • Zap the Gaps! (2002)
  • Customer Mania
  • Full Steam Ahead
  • Go Team!'
  • The Leader Within
  • The Leadership Pill
  • The Secret
  • Leading at a Higher Level (to be released October 2006)

[edit] In Education

Currently, Dr. Blanchard is associated with the business school at Grand Canyon University. The Ken Blanchard College of Business incorporates many of Dr. Blanchard's time-proven educational, leadership, and general management techniques in both Bachelor's and Master's Degrees. Additionally, Grand Canyon University announced on August 30, 2006 the creation of the Ken Blanchard Executive MBA program:

The eMBA, which will be taught mostly online, is largely based on Blanchard's book Leading at a Higher Level, which comes out in October and deals with one-on-one, team and organizational leadership styles.^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ Grand Canyon University creates Ken Blanchard eMBA program. Retrieved on August 30, 2006.

[edit] External links

• Ken Blanchard Bio from the Ken Blanchard Companies
• Ken Blanchard Summary Biography & Events
• Ken Blanchard Profile Page - Video clip, book listings, speaking topics.
• Ken Blanchard Executive MBA Program