Ken Blanchard Quotes

I think it's fun to have work that you can relate to, that you can feel like is meaningful.

There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.

Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.

Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.

If people are not tied to the work from a mission-driven focus, I don't think you're going to motivate them.

Just as important, we need a new dedication to opening avenues for employee participation and motivation through profit-sharing and innovative programs of job enrichment.

Forget socialism, capitalism, just-in-time deliveries, salary surveys, and the rest ... concentrate on building organizations that accomplish that most difficult of all challenges: to make people look forward to coming to work in the morning.

Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.

I want to do work that means something to me so that when I go to work at the theater eight times a week, I want to be there.

About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'

Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.

You have to look at why people come and work at Nest. Part of it is that a lot of people here already know each other, but we're also on a mission with a purpose. People are personally motivated by energy or safety.

I think it's absolutely essential that the people that work for a company need to feel that they're part of something bigger - that it's not just a job.

Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs because that was their personality, and no matter how hard managers tried, there wasn't much they could do with some of those people.

When you care about people's happiness and productivity, you give them what brings out the best in them and their creativity. And if you give them a choice, they'll say, 'I want an iPhone,' or 'I want a Mac.' We think we can win a lot of corporate decisions at that level.

Finding meaning in your work is your responsibility. Any job can be better when you actively work to find meaning in the work.

Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.

It's important to feel wanted by your manager.

If your employees are not happy, nothing else at your company will go well.

Work satisfaction is important to me.

Work is really wrapped up with identity. Work is not just money for most people.

I feel like there are some careers that do have a higher meaning.

If your job is not making a difference in this world, by all means, get out there and find something else ... You’ll find a sense of making a difference through your work if you simply look for it.

The one thing I know through experience ... is that people don't know why they come to work until they don't have to come to work.