Gung Ho!

Gung Ho!
Author: Ken Blanchard
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1997-10-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 068815428X

Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles, co-authors of the New York Times business bestseller Raving Fans, are back with Gung Ho! Here is an invaluable management tool that outlines foolproof ways to increase productivity by fostering excellent morale in the workplace. It is a must-read for everyone who wants to stay on top in today's ultra-competitive business world. Raving Fans taught managers how to turn customers into full-fledged fans. Now, Gung Ho! brings the same magic to employees. Through the inspirational story of business leaders Peggy Sinclair and Andy Longclaw, Blanchard and Bowles reveal the secret of Gung Ho--a revolutionary technique to boost enthusiasm and performance and usher in astonishing results for any organization. The three principles of Gung Ho are: The Spirit of the Squirrel The Way of the Beaver The Gift of the Goose These three cornerstones of Gung Ho are surprisingly simple and yet amazingly powerful. Whether your organization consists of one or is listed in the Fortune 500, this book ensures Gung Ho employees committed to success. Gung Ho! also includes a clear game plan with a step-by-step outline for instituting these groundbreaking ideas. Destined to become a classic, Gung Ho! is a rare and wonderful business book that is packed with invaluable information as well as a compelling, page-turning story. Management legend Ken Blanchard and master entrepreneur Sheldon Bowles are back with Gung Ho!, revealing a surefire way to boost employee enthusiasm, productivity, and performance and usher in astonishing results for any organization. Raving Fans brilliantly schooled managers on how to turn customers into raving fans. Gung Ho! now brings the same magic to employees. Here is the story of how two managers saved a failing company and turned in record profits with record productivity. The three core ideas of Gung Ho! are surprisingly simple: worthwhile work guided by goals and values; putting workers in control of their production; and cheering one another on. Their principles are so powerful that business leaders, reviewing the manuscript for Ken and Sheldon, have written to say, "Sorry. Ignored instructions. Have photocopied for everyone. I promise to buy books, but can't wait. We need now!" Like Raving Fans, Gung Ho! delivers.

Gung-Ho #3

Gung-Ho #3
Author: Benjamin Von Eckartsberg
Publisher: Ablaze Publishing
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2020-02-26
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

After a rough start to their new life at Fort Apache, Zach and Archer are starting to make friends and fit in. But then a sudden, unexpected breach to the fort happens...white reapers penetrate the colony’s defenses with quick and deadly consequences. Both brothers make choices during the breach that will have lasting impacts on their lives and those around them...

Gung Ho!

Gung Ho!
Author: Steve Miller
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Armed Forces
ISBN: 9780823016617

• In-depth visual reference for every artist of war comics • Top-gun artists from DC/Wildstorm • 4th in Watson-Guptill's super-successful fantasy-comics series War offers compelling subject matter for artists: life-or-death battles, conflict, bravery. For sixty years, war comics have attracted the biggest names in the industry, including Jack Kirby, Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, and Wally Wood.Gung Ho! How to Draw Fantastic Military Comicsoffers an introduction to war comics, then goes on to page after page after page of essentials for drawing accurate military personnel (including infantry, Navy Seals, Green Berets, and more); military vehicles (jeeps to M1-A1 tanks and beyond), military planes (F-14s to stealth planes), military boats (rafts, submarines, aircraft carriers, more), and military armory (knives, pistols, antiaircraft guns, and many others). Featuring the work of a team of DC/Wildstorm comic-book top guns,Gung Ho!is essential for any artist who wants to be fully prepared for battle.

Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute

Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute
Author: Ken Blanchard
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2001-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1605093394

In the newly updated edition of this classic empowerment business fable—over 400,000 copies sold—Ken Blanchard and John Carlos show you how to shift to an empowered, employee-driven work environment. Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute tells the story of a young manager whose attempts to turn his troubled company around through traditional top-down, command-and-control management are failing. Reluctantly, he contacts an expert in empowerment, even though he feels like he's already tried that approach. Step by step, the expert helps him understand why his past and present efforts have fallen short and figure out what he needs to do to create an empowered workforce. The process as it unfolds is complex, paradoxical, and counterintuitive—but well worth the effort. This new edition dispels the notion that empowerment is a bygone fad. No matter what its name, the essential concept—that organizations can achieve extraordinary results by recognizing and taking advantage of the skills, experience, and knowledge already existing in the organization—will always be relevant. Although sometimes arduous, the journey to empowerment is well worth embarking on. In fact, unleashing the power of people in an organization may be the only way to continue to do business in a competitive, complicated marketplace.

Gung Ho!

Gung Ho!
Author: H. J. Poole
Publisher: Posterity Press (NC)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Guerrilla warfare
ISBN: 9780981865942

Includes bibliography (p. 359-368) and index.

Whale Done!

Whale Done!
Author: Kenneth Blanchard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2003-02-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0743251776

A compendium of straightforward techniques on how to accentuate the positive and redirect the negative, increasing productivity at work and at home. What do your people at work and your spouse and kids at home have in common with a five-ton killer whale? Probably a whole lot more than you think, according to top business consultant and mega-bestselling author Ken Blanchard and his coauthors from SeaWorld. In this moving and inspirational new book, Blanchard explains that both whales and people perform better when you accentuate the positive. He shows how using the techniques of animal trainers -- specifically those responsible for the killer whales of SeaWorld -- can supercharge your effectiveness at work and at home. When gruff business manager and family man Wes Kingsley visited SeaWorld, he marveled at the ability of the trainers to get these huge killer whales, among the most feared predators in the ocean, to perform amazing acrobatic leaps and dives. Later, talking to the chief trainer, he learned their techniques of building trust, accentuating the positive, and redirecting negative behavior -- all of which make these extraordinary performances possible. Kingsley took a hard look at his own often accusatory management style and recognized how some of his shortcomings as a manager, spouse, and father actually diminish trust and damage relationships. He began to see the difference between "GOTcha" (catching people doing things wrong) and "Whale Done!" (catching people doing things right). In Whale Done!, Ken Blanchard shows how to make accentuating the positive and redirecting the negative the best tools to increase productivity, instead of creating situations that demoralize people. These techniques are remarkably easy to master and can be applied equally well at home, allowing readers to become better parents and more committed spouses in their happier and more successful personal lives.

Gung-Ho #6

Gung-Ho #6
Author: Benjamin Von Eckartsberg
Publisher: Ablaze Publishing
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2020-07-15
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

Yuki continues to make her presence felt at Fort Apache, drawing the interest of Zack, and the ire of Pauline. And two of the boys while on guard duty have their first encounter with one of “The Lost”—a permanently exiled member of the community—who pose their own kind of threat against the group.

High Five!

High Five!
Author: Ken Blanchard
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2000-12-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0688170366

High Five! combines the spellbinding charm of a timeless parable with cutting-edge information about why teams are important and what individuals and organizations can do to build successful ones. Through the story of Alan Foster, a workplace one-man band, High Five! identifies the four key ingredients of winning teams. Although Alan is an effective producer, he is unwilling to share the spotlight by partnering on projects and is fired because, as his boss puts it, "Alan, we need good producers who are good team players, too." It is a bitter pill for him to swallow. While mulling over his disappointment, he takes his son to his grade-five hockey practice, where it is clear that his son's team, the Riverbend Warriors, knows nothing about teamwork, either. When the team's two overworked coaches learn of Alan's plight, they persuade him to join their ranks, and he finds himself charged with teaching himself and the players the meaning of teamwork. With the help of a woman friend-a former girls' basketball coach who has "won more high school basketball championships than anyone"-Alan and the Warriors learn the magic of teamwork and that "none of us is as smart as all of us." With its simple style and easy-to-follow techniques, High Five! is a must-read for anyone seeking to learn the value and power of teamwork.

The New One Minute Manager

The New One Minute Manager
Author: Kenneth H. Blanchard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780008128043

With a new foreword by Ken Blanchard The original, bestselling blockbuster which has transformed businesses world wide. The blockbuster number one international bestselling phenomenon is back ... not that it ever really went away. This easily-read story quickly demonstrates three very practical management techniques: One Minute Goals, One Minute Praisings and One Minute Reprimands. The One Minute Manager also includes information on several studies in medicine and in the behavioural sciences, which help readers understand why these apparently simple methods work so well with so many people. The book is brief, the language is simple, and best of all ... it works.

Big Bucks!

Big Bucks!
Author: Kenneth H. Blanchard
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2001
Genre: Finance, Personal
ISBN: 0007108206

How to make serious money for both you and your company - from the top selling author of the One Minute Manager. Management gurus Blanchard and Bowles show how anyone - armed with a set of basic tools - can build personal wealth and financial security. Like the One Minute Manager and Raving Fans this is a business parable. It tells the story of Len, a manager who wants to be rich. Under the guidance of a group of mentors he comes across playing a card game, he begins to chart his own course to riches by learning three valuable secrets - the guideposts to becoming a multi-millionaire: The Test of Joy: how to discover the source of money making energy and drive The Test of Purpose: how to focus that power effectively The Test of Creativity: where to focus to create spectacular financial success Packed with practical advice, this is a must-read for any individual or business professional seeking to create money.