Ken Blanchard, the man who changed the way the world leads, has a motto: “None of us is as smart as all of us.”
A new candid business biography, Catch People Doing Things Right, reveals how this bestselling author, speaker, and business consultant revolutionized management by leading with love.
From his early days, Ken Blanchard demonstrated that nice guys can finish first by focusing on serving rather than being served.
Biographer Martha Lawrence has woven an inspiring American success story of someone who achieved greatness not through ruthless ambition but by genuinely caring about people and helping them reach their full potential. He is also committed to spotlighting the wisdom of others.
“I’ve written over 60 books, and only two of those have been by myself,” Ken Blanchard once told me in an interview for a magazine feature. “One about golf because so many people have helped me with my game, and another is about my spiritual journey. The rest are co-authored. I continue to grow because I want to learn from people.”
Ken Blanchard transformed modern leadership theory through unlikely means—by catching people doing things right.
Written like a novel with warmth and humor, this authorized biography by Lawrence, a Blanchard insider and mystery writer,reveals how a mediocre student who was told he "couldn't write" became a bestselling author and a globally renowned management expert.
His impact as an author is impressive. His iconic 1982 classic, The One Minute Manager, coauthored with Spencer Johnson, MD, has sold more than 13 million copies and remains on bestseller lists today. In the past three decades, he has authored or coauthored books whose combined sales total more than 21 million copies.
His groundbreaking works—including Raving Fans, The Secret, and Leading at a Higher Level, to name just a few—have been translated into more than 42 languages. In 2005, he was inducted into Amazon’s Hall of Fame as one of the top 25 bestselling authors of all time.
Ken Blanchard, PhD, is the cofounder and Chief Spiritual Officer of Blanchard, an international management training and consulting firm that he and his wife, Margie Blanchard, PhD,began in 1979 in San Diego, California.
In addition to being a renowned speaker and consultant, he is a trustee emeritus of the Board of Trustees at his alma mater, Cornell University, cofounder of Lead Like Jesus, a worldwide Servant Leadership ministry, and he also teaches students in theMaster of Science in Executive Leadership Program at the University of San Diego.
Through extensive access to personal papers, letters, and interviews spanning six decades, Lawrence paints an intimate portrait of the man behind The One Minute Manager and dozens of other influential books.
Lawrence, a former editor for Simon & Schuster and Harcourt Publishers, is an executive editor at Blanchard and has worked closely with Ken Blanchard for more than twenty years. Over the course of her career, she has edited hundreds of books. She is also the author of five Edgar, Anthony, Agatha, and Shamus award-nominated mystery novels featuring private investigator Elizabeth Chase.
Henry DeVries is publisher/partner at Oceanside, CA-based Indie Books International, Inc., and is the author of 20 business books.
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