Kenneth Blanchard, Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performance Organizations. FT Press, 2006.
Referenced in: Empowering Leadership
LifeandLeadership.com Summary
This is the essential Kenneth Blanchard on the subject of empowerment, encapsulating decades of research and 30 years of consulting and writing. It gathers the teachings that occur in story format in his other books and arranges them into a non-fiction explanation of Blanchard’s leadership philosophy. As an expression of the empowering leadership model, it includes chapters on empowerment, situational leadership, self-leadership, partnering for performance, one minute manager, team leadership, organizational leadership, and change management. Those familiar with Blanchard will appreciate this synthesis. Those unfamiliar with him will benefit from this introduction. It is the place to start for Blanchard. A good follow-up is Heart of a Leader, that distills Blanchard into thirty-six principles.
Please consult the following Ministry Resource Guides for help in navigating Blanchard’s many resources:
- Empowering Leadership – Includes several works by Blanchard, along with titles by Stephen Covey, Warren Bennis, James Kouzes and Barry Posner.
- Servant Leadership – Lists volumes by Blanchard and related works by Robert Greenleaf, James Hunter, Bill Hybels, and others.
- Situational Leadership – Describes the Situational Leadership model and lists relevant texts by Ken Blanchard and his associates.
From the Publisher
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.
In Leading at a Higher Level, Blanchard and his colleagues have brought 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.
Blanchard extends his breakthrough work on delivering legendary customer service and creating “raving fans.” You’ll find the definitive discussion of the renowned Situational Leadership® II techniques for leading yourself, individuals, teams, and entire organizations. Most importantly, Leading at a Higher Level will help you dig deep within, discover the personal “leadership point of view” all great leaders possess – and apply it throughout your entire life.
- Deliver legendary, maniacal customer service, and earn raving fans
- Truly empower your people and unleash their incredible potential
- Ground your leadership in humility and focus on the greater good
For everyone who wants to become a better leader…
…in any company, any organization, any area of life
Set the right targets, follow the right vision
Focus on the “bottom lines” that really matter
Serve your customers at a higher level
Deliver your ideal customer experience, and create “raving fans”
Beyond ego: the way of the servant leader
Listen, praise, support, guide, and help your people win
Lead at a higher level. Lead your people to greatness as you create high performing organizations that make life better for everyone.
This book will guide you, inspire you, provoke you, and be your touchstone.
Ken Blanchard (coauthor of The One Minute Manager®) and his colleagues have spent more than 25 years helping good leaders and organizations become great, and stay great. Now, for the first time, they’ve brought together everything they’ve learned about outstanding leadership. Discover how to…
Go beyond the short term and zero in on the right target and vision
For a long time, leaders have relied on Ken Blanchard’s insight, wisdom, and practical techniques. Now, he and his colleagues have delivered the leadership classic for a new generation: Leading at a Higher 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®, has sold 13,000,000 copies. He is Chief Spiritual Officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, an international management training and consulting firm he co-founded in 1979.
This book contains indispensable contributions from The Ken Blanchard Companies’ founding associates – Margie Blanchard, Don Carew, Eunice Parisi-Carew, Fred Finch, Laurence Hawkins, Drea Zigarmi, and Pat Zigarmi – and consulting partners Alan Randolph, Jesse Stoner, Susan Fowler, Fay Kandarian, Judd Hoekstra, and Scott Blanchard.
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