Product Description

Know Can Do! is a teaching parable in the tradition of Ken Blanchard's bestselling business books. It tells the story of a well known author who is troubled by the gap between what people know: all the good advice they've digested intellectually from books and seminars, and what they actually do. Seeking a way to close this learning-doing gap, the author sets out on a journey to find a solution. He soon meets a legendary businessman named Carl Hesse, who has discovered the secrets of putting knowledge into action. Carl teaches the author the three reasons people don't make the leap from knowing to doing and The key to overcoming these roadblocks. Through Carl Hesse and his colleagues, the author learns life-changing secrets that provide answers to the age-old question: "Why don't I do what I know I should do?" Know Can Do! teaches people at all levels how to apply life-changing techniques to reach their fullest potential.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43590 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 115 pages

From the Back Cover
For years Ken Blanchard has been troubled by the gap between what people know--all the good advice they get from books, seminars, and training courses--and what they actually do with this knowledge. All too often, in spite of their most sincere efforts, what people learn just doesn't stick. It's an endless source of frustration for individuals and for organizations as well.

In this new book Blanchard and his coauthors, Paul J. Meyer and Dick Ruhe, use the fable format Blanchard made famous to lay out a straightforward method for learning more, learning better, and making sure you actually use what you learn. This engaging story identifies three key reasons people don't make the leap from knowing to doing and then moves on to the solution.

Know Can Do will teach you how to avoid information overload by learning "less more, not more less." You'll find out how to adjust your brain's filtering system to learn many, many times more than ever before, ignite your creativity and resourcefulness with Green Light Thinking, master what you've learned using spaced repetition, and more.

At last, an answer to the question, "Why don't I do what I know I should do?" Read this book and you will!

About the Author
Ken Blanchard is Chief Spiritual Officer of the Ken Blanchard Companies. He is the author or coauthor of more than forty books, including the classic The One Minute Manager® (with Spencer Johnson), Leading at a Higher Level, Full Steam Ahead! (with Jesse Stoner), and The Secret (with Mark Miller).

Paul J. Meyer is the founder of Success Motivation Institute, Inc. He is the author of numerous books, including The 5 Pillars of Leadership, 24 Keys That Bring Complete Success, and Forgiveness: The Ultimate Miracle, and is coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Golden Soul.

Dick Ruhe is a highly popular motivational speaker, a celebrated consultant, and a gifted trainer. He is a senior consulting partner for the Ken Blanchard Companies and is the author of the Blanchard training program Total Quality Leadership.

Customer Reviews

Knowledge Isn't Enough
This is a great book, but one that you shouldn't just read. You need to take the book and apply what it says, like putting together a list of the top things that you need to study, learn and apply that will make a difference in your life. Stop reading and start obsorbing and applying what is really important in your life.

Know Can Do - Fun, Informative, but a Little Simplistic
I enjoyed reading Ken Blanchard and Paul Meyer's new book Know Can Do!. It provided constructive insights into how adults learn, and why we tend not to put new learning into action. It also provided a simple framework for helping to overcome the obstacles we face in putting new knowledge to work.

On the down side, like Blanchard's other books, Know Can Do! is overly simplistic. It provides a neat, pre-digested set of "do's and don'ts", but fails to capture the subtleties and politics of real business life - or even an approximation of it.

If you have influence over how your company conducts training and education, and/or can institute a solid mentoring program, you'll most likely be in a position to take advantage of Blanchard and Meyer's proposed framework. If not, at least you'll be able to use the information to better integrate new learning into your business and personal life.

The net net: A bit too simplistic, but worth reading.

Habit Forming
Putting his own advice into action, Blanchard applies his 'Less-is-More' philosophy with yet another single-focus business tale. In this one, Blanchard and his cohorts share a process for making learning a habit - putting new skills into daily action. Advocating three reasons - information overload, negative filtering, and lack of follow-up - people don't start doing what they learn, the book's story approach takes the reader thru steps to overcome each reason.

Information overload is combated by focus, using the 'less-is-more' principle and then repetition (hear/read it), repetition (write it), repetition (review it), and repeat again. Of course to do that, one must overcome our normal negative filtering process (we often listen for what is wrong, not what we might learn) by listening with a positive mindset. Follow-up, by definition, is used to overcome the lack of follow-up. For this, coaching by another, using positive reinforcement and accountability is recommended.

As always with Blanchard, this book gets quickly to the heart of the subject and takes the reader thru its process with storybook simplicity. It is such a short and easy read that many training programs would do well to hand the book out - and then follow its process.

Dennis DeWilde, author of
"The Performance Connection"