Authors:Scott Blanchard, Madeleine Homan,
Publisher: William Morrow
Keywords: executives, depend, top, secrets, ditch, coaching, leverage
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0060559780
ISBN-13: 9780060559786

leverage (lev’r ij) The power to act or influence. ditch (dich) Slang, to get rid of; discard. Finally, you hold in your hands a powerful tool that will show you how to take full advantage of -- Leverage! -- your strengths and most positive qualities, while at the same time discarding or getting around -- Ditch! -- whatever gets in your way. Scott Blanchard and Madeleine Homan, co-founders of Coaching.com, share their groundbreaking program, honed by fourteen years of high-level executive coaching and consulting. They offer new perspectives on how to spend your precious and limited resou

Authors:Robert J. Blanchard, D. Caroline Blanchard, Guy Grie
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: handbook, neuroscience, behavioral, volume, anxiety
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 2008-05-22
List price: $149.95
ISBN-10: 0444530657
ISBN-13: 9780444530653

This Handbook brings together and integrates comprehensively the core approaches to fear and anxiety. Its four sections: Animal models; neural systems; pharmacology; and clinical approaches, provide a range of perspectives that interact to produce new light on these important and sometimes dysfunctional emotions. Fear and anxiety are analyzed as patterns that have evolved on the basis of their adaptive functioning in response to threat. These patterns are stringently selected, providing a close fit with environmental situations and events; they are highly conservative across mammalian speci

Authors:Ken Blanchard, Marjorie Blanchard, D.w. Edingto,
Publisher: Harper Paperback
Keywords: work, life, balances, manager, minute, one
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1999-04-07
List price: $10.99
ISBN-10: 0688168507
ISBN-13: 9780688168506

This is the story of a One Minute Manager who was so successful in every way that he forgot one important thing: He forgot to stay physically fit. He was so much in demand that he ate on the run, didn’t take time to exercise, and all the while saw his weight balloon and his breath grow shorter. He soon discovered success in business was endangering his health. His life was out of balance.For all those busy, achieving people with overcrowded schedules, here is a useful blueprint that shows how to manage stress and make a lifetime commitment to fitness and well-being. By following four imp

Authors:Melinda Blanchard, Robert Blanchard,
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Keywords: time, caribbean, island, living, beach, trip
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-11-20
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 060980748X
ISBN-13: 9780609807484

This is the true story of a trip to the beach that never ends. It’s about a husband and wife who escape civilization to build a small restaurant on an island paradise -- and discover that even paradise has its pitfalls. It’s a story filled with calamities and comedy, culinary disasters and triumphs, and indelible portraits of people who live and work on a sliver of beauty set in the Caribbean Sea. It’s about the maddening, exhausting, outlandish complications of trying to live the simple life -- and the joy that comes when you somehow pull it off.The story begins when Bob and

Author: Ken Blanchard
Publisher: FT Pre
Keywords: creating, performing, organizations, leadership, blanchard, higher, level, leading
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-11-05
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0132347725
ISBN-13: 9780132347723

"Leading at a Higher Level translates decades of research and 25 years of global experience into simple, practical, and powerful strategies to equip leaders at every level to build organizations that produce bottom-line results. At Nissan, we have made these principles a core part of our leadership philosophy, better equipping our managers to bring out the great energies and talents of our employees." Jim Irvine, Vice President of Human Resources, Nissan North America "At Southwest Airlines, we have always strived to lead at a higher level. We truly believe that profit is the applause you get

Author: Ken Blanchard
Publisher: Thomas Nelso
Keywords: leader, servant
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2003-03-13
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0849996597
ISBN-13: 9780849996597

Best-selling author of The One-Minute Manager, Ken Blanchard, along with Phil Hodges, reveals the meaning of servant leadership modeled after Jesus Christ. Based on Blanchard’s and Hodges’ Faith W

Author: Ken Blanchard
Publisher: William Morrow
Keywords: organization, people, gung
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1997-10-08
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 068815428X
ISBN-13: 9780688154288

Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles, co-authors of the New York Times business bestseller Raving Fans, are back with Gung Ho! Here is an invaluable management tool that outlines foolproof ways to increase productivity by fostering excellent morale in the workplace. It is a must-read for everyone who wants to stay on top in today’s ultra-competitive business world. Raving Fans taught managers how to turn customers into full-fledged fans. Now, Gung Ho! brings the same magic to employees. Through the inspirational story of business leaders Peggy Sinclair and Andy Longclaw, Blanchard and Bowles