A little good fortune this week. By happenstance, I got the opportunity to sit down and talk with Ken Blanchard. The author of The One Minute Manager, and one of the pre-eminent gurus on leadership in American business.

I noticed his title at the Blanchard Companies. He is the CSO: Chief Spiritual Officer. Never heard of that before. So I asked him about it.

In his company of 300+ employees, Ken focuses on doing three things as the leader.
1) Praying - and encouraging his employees to pray. He gives them persons and items to pray for so that the entire team is focused on the same prayer needs.

2) Praise - Ken praises members of his team over and over for the things they are doing right. Choosing to focus on things going well rather than the things they may be doing wrong. People never get tired of hearing what they are doing well and being reinforced for it.

3) Inspiration - Each day, Ken sends an email with something that inspired him to the entire organizational team.

Fascinating guy. Became a follower of Jesus at age 48 after the success of his One Minute Manager (more than 13MM copies sold).

I will share excerpts of our conversation on the show this weekend. Listen to the entire conversation here.