ABOUT THE AUTHORS
KEN BLANCHARD
Few people have made a more positive and lasting impact on the day-to-day management of people and companies than Ken Blanchard. He is the author of several best-selling books, including the blockbuster international best seller The One Minute Manager and the giant business bestsellers Leadership and the One Minute Manager, Raving Fans, and Gung Ho! His books have combined sales of more than eighteen million copies in more than twenty-five languages.
Ken is the chief spiritual officer of the Ken Blanchard Companies, a worldwide human resource development company. He is also cofounder of the Lead Like Jesus Ministries, a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring and equipping people to be servant leaders in the marketplace. Ken and his wife, Margie, live in San Diego and work with their son, Scott; daughter, Debbie; and Debbie’s husband, Humberto Medina.
ALAN RANDOLPH
Alan Randolph is an internationally respected and highly accomplished management educator and consultant. He consults on leadership, teamwork, empowerment, and project management issues for both domestic and international organizations in the public and private sectors. As a consultant, Alan is practical and works effectively with all levels of management, and as a seminar leader, he is relaxed, clear, and to the point. 142
Alan is a professor of management and international business at the Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore, and a senior consulting partner with the Ken Blanchard Companies. He has developed a variety of leadership and empowerment products and has published numerous articles in practitioner and academic journals such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Man-agement Review, The Academy of Management Executive, Organizational Dynamics, and The Academy of Management Journal.
Alan has also written and coauthored a number of books. His most recent books include Checkered Flag Projects: 10 Rules for Creating and Managing Projects That Win! (2002, with Barry Z. Posner), Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute (2001, with Ken Blanchard and John P. Carlos), and The 3 Keys to Empowerment: Release the Power within People for Astonishing Results (1999, with Ken Blanchard and John P. Carlos).
PETER GRAZIER
After spending years in the construction industry as a civil engineer, Peter Grazier began using employee involvement concepts in 1981 to improve productivity on construction work sites. Having been significantly affected by the results of involving employees directly in work improvement, he formed Teambuilding, Inc., in 1985. Since that time, he has worked with over one hundred organizations in all industries throughout North America and Europe, and his work has been noted in more than eighty publications, including The Wall Street Journal and AFL-CIO publications. 143
Peter is the author and publisher of a best-selling book on employee involvement and teamwork. In 1994, he was honored with the prestigious President’s Award from the Association for Quality and Participation for his contributions to the field. In January 2000, his Web site, Teambuildinginc.com, was listed by Harvard Management Update as one of the “Top 3 Websites for Managers on Teams.”
His work encompasses the entire field of organizational collaboration, specifically, employee involvement and empowerment, self-directed work teams, labor-management relations, creativity and innovation, human potential, relationship building, team building, vision-mission-values development, retreat facilitation, and motivational speaking. His training style is entertaining with heavy doses of experiential participant involvement.