Ken Blanchard, Author FT Press $24.99 (359p) ISBN 978-0-13-144390-7
Blanchard (The One Minute Manager) and associates from his self-named management consulting and training firm present a greatest hits collection of tips, advice and techniques from 25 years of work on unleashing ""the power and potential of people...
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Ken Blanchard, Author, Margret McBride, Author . Morrow $19.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-688-16981-7
Blanchard, bestselling author and "Chief Spiritual Officer" of the Ken Blanchard Companies, and literary agent McBride have created a simple parable designed to demonstrate Blanchard's fourth essential management secret—the...
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Ken Blanchard, Author, Jesse Stoner, Joint Author . Berrett-Koehler $19.95 (171p) ISBN 978-1-57675-244-9
Blanchard, co-author of the bestselling One Minute Manager series, and consultant Stoner use a parable to convey the importance of vision to a company's success. Ellie has just returned to her job at an insurance company after an unpleasant...
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Ken Blanchard, Author, Mark Miller, Author, John C. Maxwell, Foreword by Berrett-Koehler Publishers $20.95 (124p) ISBN 978-1-57675-289-0
Debbie, the heroine of this insipid business novella, is an archetypal customer relations executive who fails to wring improved performance from her micro-managed and dispirited subordinates. CEO Jeff takes her under his wing to impart the wisdom of"
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Ken Blanchard, Author, Terry Waghorn, With McGraw-Hill Companies $22 (227p) ISBN 978-0-07-005940-5
Bestselling business guru Blanchard (The One Minute Manager) and Waghorn, a management strategist in the Netherlands, assert that companies today, to survive and thrive, must simultaneously improve current practices while redesigning themselves for...
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Ken Blanchard, Author, Sheldon M. Bowles, Author Grupo Editorial Norma $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-958-04-6076-3
First published in English in 2000, this book introduces readers into the basics of financial success and stability.
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Ken Blanchard, Author, Norman Vincent Peale, Author, Blanchard, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (144p) ISBN 978-0-688-07062-5
Addressing moral dilemmas in a time of influence peddling, insider trading and city-hall scandals, Blanchard (The One Minute Manager) and Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking) offer guidance in the form of a parable: a sales manager being pressed...
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Ken Blanchard, Author, William Oncken, Jr., Joint Author, Hal Burrows, Joint Author William Morrow & Company $19.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-688-06767-0
In this latest in the One Minute Manager series, the authors chastise executives who never have time for family or their own job enhancement because they accept too many responsibilities--``monkeys'' clinging to their backs--that properly belong to...
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Ken Blanchard, Author, Sheldon M. Bowles, Joint Author, Sheldon M. Bowles, Introduction by William Morrow & Company $19.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-688-15428-8
Blanchard and Bowles (Raving Fans) lay out a three-step strategy for motivating employees: make sure they know why their work is important; give them control of how they do their jobs; provide encouragement. The authors related their story through...
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Ken Blanchard, Author, Sheldon Bowles, Author, Sheldon M. Bowles, Joint Author William Morrow & Company $20 (208p) ISBN 978-0-688-17035-6
In Raving Fans, Blanchard (The One Minute Manager, etc.) and Bowles, a consultant, concentrated on the importance of delighting customers. In Gung Ho!, they focused on how companies could become ""the employer of choice"" and attract the best...
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Ken Blanchard, Author, Jim Ballard, Joint Author, Fred Finch, Joint Author Free Press $21 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7028-1
Self-described ""Chief Spiritual Officer"" Blanchard strikes a familiar note of ebullient optimism in this follow up to his bestsellers The One-Minute Manager, Whale Done and Raving Fans! This time the business populist chronicles the efforts of Yum!
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Ken Blanchard, Author, Marc Muchnick, Author Free Press $21 (128p) ISBN 978-0-7432-5001-6
Blanchard is a veritable self-help book writing machine. His latest--a typically slim volume offering a typically simple parable--concerns a competition between two leaders with wildly different management styles. One leader takes""the leadership...
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Ken Blanchard, Author, Steve Gottry, Author William Morrow & Company $19.99 (126p) ISBN 978-0-06-057459-8
This short, accessible and sometimes simplistic book addresses""a diabolical career killer that is lurking out there every day.... procrastination."" Blanchard (The One Minute Manager) and Gottry (A Kick in the Career) argue convincingly that...
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Ken Blanchard, Author, Susan Fowler, Author, Lawrence Hawkins, Author William Morrow & Company $19.99 (176p) ISBN 978-0-06-079912-0
Blanchard, author of the bestselling One Minute Manager, has a made a career out of writing the business equivalent of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. The self-appointed ""Chief Spiritual Officer"" of Ken Blanchard Companies, he portrays a business...
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Ken Blanchard, Author, Dee W. Edington, Author, Marjorie Blanchard, Photographer William Morrow & Company $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-06206-4
All work and no play made Kenneth Blanchard a fat, albeit famous and successful, boy. And because ""healthy people not only feel good about themselves but they produce good results,'' he and his coauthors have written a fourth book in the One Minute
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Laurie Beth Jones, Author, Ken Blanchard, Author, Ken Blanchard, Foreword by . Crown $22 (224p) ISBN 978-0-609-60679-7
"When Jesus called out to the fishermen, 'Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men,' he was about to transform each one of them from someone who worked only for himself and a daily catch to someone who was part of a larger team,...
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Laura Nash, Author, Ken Blanchard, Author, Scotty McLennan, Author . Jossey-Bass $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7879-5698-1
According to McLennan (author of Finding Your Religion
and inspiration for Doonesbury's Rev. Scott Sloan) and Nash, the church manages to support and nurture its people through birth, marriage and death; when it comes to helping Christians make
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S. T. Cathy, Author, Ken Blanchard, Author Zondervan Publishing Company $19.99 (124p) ISBN 978-0-310-24660-2
Motivational writer Ken Blanchard teams up with Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy for The Generosity Factor: The Power in Holding Things with Open Hands, a contemporary allegory about the importance of giving. While the characters in this...
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Terry Waghorn, Author, Ken Blanchard, Author, Ken Blanchard, Foreword by . Perseus $19.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7382-0791-9
KPMG strategist Waghorn blends business advice with a fictional account of corporate intrigue to create a "management novel," but his merger of fact and fiction is only partially successful. Essentially all his business points are found at...
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