Poor Leadership Practices Cost You Money

By S. Chris Edmonds / December 12, 2011 / Comments Off on Poor Leadership Practices Cost You Money

In a recent webinar, Blanchard program director and senior researcher David Witt presented findings from his analysis of data from over 200 companies that have completed Blanchard’s “Cost of Doing […]

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Great Leaders Do Not Lie.

By S. Chris Edmonds / November 21, 2011 / Comments Off on Great Leaders Do Not Lie.

Recently, I overheard two frontline supervisors talking about a meeting they attended a few days earlier. At that meeting, senior leaders of the division shared upcoming plans (layoffs) for cutting […]

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Creating a Motivating Work Environment

By S. Chris Edmonds / October 24, 2011 / 4 Comments

The Ken Blanchard Companies is a research-based firm. Blanchard comes up with all kinds of cool ideas, hypotheses, and strategies – but only those ideas that are tested in real world […]

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Culture Fit ON PURPOSE

By S. Chris Edmonds / June 27, 2011 / Comments Off on Culture Fit ON PURPOSE

We’ve all seen it happen, more than once. A new team member is hired. Everyone is enthused about her past accomplishments and skill set. She is enthusiastic about her goals […]

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Customer Service Department?

By S. Chris Edmonds / June 20, 2011 / Comments Off on Customer Service Department?

It was a pretty simple transaction. I ordered a pedal for my guitar stage rig (check out Chris’ “working musician” life here). It was a “scratch and dent” item, meaning […]

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Blanchard's 2011 Corporate Issues Survey

By S. Chris Edmonds / April 25, 2011 / Comments Off on Blanchard's 2011 Corporate Issues Survey

Every year since 2003, the Ken Blanchard Companies has conducted it’s survey of business leaders and has published findings from these conversations. For the 2011 study, over 1300 global leaders […]

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