Ken Blanchard Quotes

People are not going to support what they did not help create.

When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate.

People like to be consulted.

People really respond when given an opportunity to take part in something.

We can just keep doing it the way we're doing it. We can attack everybody for small-minded things and crush everybody with a new idea. And where are we going to be? Where we are now - behind. Or we can embrace new things and try to be positive and let everybody play a role.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

We need to engage rather than educate people.

In classrooms full of students who range from brilliant to sullen disaffection, it's games - and often games alone - that I've seen engage every single person in the room. For some, the right kind of play can spell the difference between becoming part of something, and the lifelong feeling that they're not meant to take part.

An open society invests in people and new ideas, rewards talent and hard work, values dialogue and learns from dissent, operates to high standards with transparent information, looks for common ground, sees problems as opportunities for creative change, and encourages those who are fortunate to help others get the same chance, because service is the highest ideal.

When people realize they're being heard, and have a seat at the table, things seem to work out.

Diversity requires commitment. Achieving the superior performance diversity can produce needs further action - most notably, a commitment to develop a culture of inclusion. People do not just need to be different, they need to be fully involved and feel their voices are heard.

We cannot ensure equal access or build upon our diverse strengths by sitting at our desks.

I think governance is about giving people an opportunity to engage with you on subjects that you are responsible for, believing in people's capacity to deliver, and allowing them that platform plus project their work.

People get very creative if you include them.

What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.

The fact that, for so many generations, ordinary, everyday Americans came out of the closet and told their family and friends about who they are has laid the foundation for public sentiment to change. They got comfortable in their own skins to be able to share themselves with family and friends. This is where social change took place.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why.

I learned so much from other actors and they definitely didn't treat me like some sex bomb or bimbo. I felt fully accepted in the regular movie world. I didn't feel categorised.

We're not going back anywhere, we're going forward, we're going forward in democracy, we're going forward in participation, we're going forward with ideas.

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.