Ken Blanchard | Being A Servant Leader
The Jon Gordon Podcast
Jon Gordon
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This episode of Positive U is very special as Jon Gordon is joined by one his greatest heros, Ken Blanchard. Ken is author of The One Minute Manager, among several other books, and is regarded as the greatest business teacher of all time. In this episode, Jon and Ken discuss what it takes to be a servant leader, getting your ego out of the way, and how to remind yourself daily that it is “we, not me”.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is John Gordon with Positive You. And today, my guest is Ken Blanchard. Ken |
| 0:14.4 | is the author of The One Minute Manager and many other books. And his newest book is called |
| 0:21.4 | Simple Truths of Leadership. It's all about servant leadership and building trust. And |
| 0:27.1 | you just have to know that Ken is one of my greatest heroes. He's someone who changed my life |
| 0:32.0 | in so many ways. I'm doing the work I'm doing now because of him. He's the legendary heroic, |
| 0:38.0 | amazing Ken Blanchard. Ken, how you doing? I'm doing great job. I just think it sent me a message |
| 0:43.9 | like that once a week. It would kind of lift me up. I'll do what you do where you actually |
| 0:48.8 | send out a voicemail with all your people. So I'll just send one to you each day. |
| 0:52.4 | So Ken, talk about this new book that you wrote and why did you write this book on servant |
| 0:59.2 | leadership? And trust, I know that you've written other books on servant leadership. But why |
| 1:03.1 | this one? Well, it's interesting, John. My mission statement says I want to be a loving teacher |
| 1:09.4 | and example of simple truth. So I've been trying to teach simple truths for a long time. And |
| 1:15.6 | my big frustration, which I'm sure you have, is that people love what we teach, but they don't |
| 1:20.6 | use it. And so I get tired of that. So I finally said, well, I got to figure how do I write a book |
| 1:28.0 | that that it's almost impossible for them not to use. So this book has 52 ways to become a servant |
| 1:35.9 | leader and build trust. And Randy Connelly was worked at our company for 25 years to become |
| 1:42.8 | an expert in trust because I I really feel that if you're a servant leader, you build trust. |
| 1:48.8 | And trust is an output they kind of go like peanut butter with jelly. And so what's what's |
| 1:58.2 | neat about it, John, is on one side of the page is a concept like servant leaders use different |
| 2:04.5 | strokes for different folks. And the other side it shows how initially people tend to use one |
| 2:11.6 | leadership style, which works in some situations and not others. And what they need to lose is learn |
| 2:17.2 | SL2, which is our situational approach to servant leadership and and and leadership. |
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