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: #63336 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

The mystery revealed
This is a great uncovering of what Paul J. Meyer (Phil) has been doing with SMI and LMI ([...]) for over 40 years!!!

Everyone in Training and Development should read this - wait, everyone who has attended a seminar, workshop or lecture should read this.

Knowledge ISN'T power - applied knowledge is power!

A Must, Must, Must, Read, Read, Read
Leadership alert! Before you read one more book, attend one more seminar, or even listen to one more sermon, read this book--and read it four times! Ken Blanchard, Paul J. Meyer and Dick Ruhe have packaged the solution to a nasty problem in just 104 quick-reading, but pragmatic pages.

"The gap between knowing and doing," declares one of the characters in this short business story, "is probably wider than the gap between ignorance and knowledge." The gap solution: the power and practice of repetition, repetition, repetition. Plus, "people should learn less information more often, rather than learn more information less often." Read fewer books, they preach, and read them not once, but four times. Follow-up seminar attendance with a weekly one-hour coaching call for six weeks.

In their story, about 20 percent of each manager's performance evaluation is based on successfully conducting one-on-one meetings (every other week) with direct reports. (Three cheers for that one! See the template for one-on-one meeting reports in the "Meetings Bucket" chapter in my new book, Mastering The Management Buckets: 20 Critical Competencies for Leading Your Business or Non-profit.)

Why hold one-on-one meetings? Because great managers don't practice "seagull behavior," but are coaches and mentors in a partnership relationship with their team members. That's how you close the knowing-doing gap.

The Blanchard bottom line: this is a foundational book that will impact everything you read and learn--from this day forward--for the rest of your leadership/learning life. It's a must, must, must, read, read, read.

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.