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Leading at a Higher Level

Lead your organization to greatness by creating a peopleoriented, performancedriven, and customerfocused culture. Join bestselling author Ken Blanchard as he shares a road map for a new model of leadership. Ken Blanchard has spent more than 25 years helping good leaders and organizations become great, and stay great. In this webinar, youýll learn that leadership today needs to be about more than just self interest. Itýs only when you realize that itýs not about you that you begin to lead at a higher level. Drawing from his new book, Leading at a Higher Level , (available October 2006) Ken will show you why todayýs leaders have to adopt a both/and philosophy where the development of people is of equal importance to shortterm financial performance. The result is an organization that produces longterm results with high levels of both customer and employee satisfaction. Join Ken Blanchard and find out how you can start leading at a higher level by Going beyond the short term to zero in on the right target and vision Delivering legendary customer service that earns ravings fans Truly empowering your people and unleashing their incredible potential Grounding your leadership in humility and focusing on the greater good About Ken Blanchard Consultant, Speaker, and Author Few people have impacted the daytoday management of people and companies more than Ken Blanchard. A prominent, gregarious, sought after author, speaker, and business consultant, Dr. Blanchard is universally characterized by his friends, colleagues, and clients as one of the most insightful, powerful, and compassionate individuals in business today. When Ken speaks, he speaks from the heart with warmth and humor. His unique gift is to speak to an audience and communicate with each person as if they were alone and talking one on one. He is a polished storyteller with a knack for making the seemingly complex easy to understand. From his phenomenal bestselling book, The One Minute Manager , coauthored with Spencer Johnson, which has sold more than 12 million copies and remains on bestseller lists today, to the library of books coauthored with Sheldon Bowles, Raving Fans, Gung Ho!, Big Bucks!, and High Five! , Kenýs impact as a writer is far reaching. Ken is Chief Spiritual Officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, an international management training and consulting firm that he and his wife, Dr. Marjorie Blanchard, founded in 1979 in San Diego, California. He is also a visiting lecturer at his alma mater, Cornell University, where he is a trustee emeritus of the Board of Trustees.

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