Chapter 2: The Greatest Leadership Role Model of All Time
1. Ken Blanchard first developed Situational Leadership® with Paul Hersey in the late 1960s. It was in the early 1980s that Blanchard and the founding associates of the Ken Blanchard Companies—Margie Blanchard, Don Carew, Eunice Parisi-Carew, Fred Finch, Calla Crafts, Laurie Hawkins, Pat Zigarmi, and Drea Zigarmi—created a new generation of the theory, called Situational Leadership® II. The best description of this thinking can be found in Kenneth Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi, and Drea Zigarmi, Leadership and the One Minute Manager (New York: William Morrow, 1985).
Chapter 4: Is Jesus a Relevant Role Model for Us Today?
1. William Barclay, “Commentary on John 14:1,” The New Daily Study Bible, http://www.studylight.org/commentaries/dsb/view.cgi?bk=42&ch=14&vs=1.
Chapter 6: The Four Domains of Leading Like Jesus
1. John Ortberg, The Life You’ve Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People (1997; repr., Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002), 167.
Part II: The Heart of a Great Leader
1. A. W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life, 1st gift ed. (New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992), 1.
Chapter 8: I Want to Lead Like Jesus, But My Heart Does Not
1. Robert S. McGee, The Search for Significance: Your True Worth Through God’s Eyes (Nashville: W Publishing, 2003), 21.
Chapter 9: The Results of a Heart Out of Order
1. Inspired by C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (repr., New York: HarperCollins, 2001), 44: “an ever-increasing craving for an ever-diminishing pleasure.”
Chapter 10: Warning Signs on the Path to Edging God Out
1. Francis Fisher Browne, The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln: A Narrative and Descriptive Biography with Pen-Pictures and Personal Recollections by Those Who Knew Him (Chicago: Browne & Howell, 1914), 408–10.
2. Leighton Ford, Transforming Leadership: Jesus’ Way of Creating Vision, Shaping Values and Empowering Change (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1991), 261.
3. Gordon MacDonald, Ordering Your Private World (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 2003).
Chapter 11: A Heart Turnaround
1. Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap . . . and Others Don’t (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), 35.
2. Ken Blanchard and Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Ethical Management (New York: William Morrow, 1988), 39.
3. Fred Smith, Breakfast with Fred (Ventura, CA: Regal Books/Gospel Light, 2007), 166.
Part III: The Being Habits
1. Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For? (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002), 175.
Chapter 14: The Habit of Practicing Prayer
1. Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1935), 171.
2. Johnson Oatman Jr., “Count Your Blessings,” 1897.
Chapter 16: The Habit of Maintaining Supportive Relationships
1. Ken Blanchard and Colleen Barrett, Lead with LUV: A Different Way to Create Real Success (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Financial Times Press, 2011), 106.
2. Ken Blanchard, Bill Hybels, and Phil Hodges, Leadership by the Book: Tools to Transform Your Workplace (New York: William Morrow, 1999), 110.
Part IV: The Head of a Great Leader
1. Ken Blanchard and Jesse Lyn Stoner, Full Steam Ahead! Unleash the Power of Vision in Your Work and Your Life (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2003), 79.
Chapter 17: Developing Your Own Compelling Vision
1. Susan Fowler developed this process for the Situational Self Leadership program offered by the Ken Blanchard Companies. For more information, see www.kenblanchard.com.
2. Ken Blanchard and Michael O’Connor, Managing by Values: How to Put Your Values into Action for Extraordinary Results (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1997), 112.
Chapter 19: Creating a Compelling Team/Organizational Vision
1. Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (1865/1872; repr., New York: Cosimo Books, 2010), 41.
2. Everything written here about Louisiana State Penitentiary, Warden Burl Cain, and the Malachi Dads program came from visits by Phyllis Hendry and Phil Hodges to the prison and in-person discussions with Warden Cain.
3. Pew Charitable Trusts, Collateral Costs: Incarceration’s Effects on Economic Mobility (Washington, DC: Pew Charitable Trusts, 2010), 18; Roger Weeder, “Breaking the Cycle: Children Who Have Parents in Jail,” Operation New Hope, May 6, 2015, http://operationnewhope.org/breaking-the-cycle-children-who-have-parents-in-jail/.
4. Jeff James, “Standards with Purpose,” Talking Point: The Disney Institute Blog, September 4, 2012, https://disneyinstitute.com/blog/2012/09/standards-with-purpose/94/.
5. Ken first heard this concept of great leaders being like third-grade teachers from Max DePree, the legendary former chairman of Herman Miller.
6. Ken Blanchard, John P. Carlos, and Alan Randolph, Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1996).
Chapter 20: Implementing Your Compelling Vision
1. Bob Buford, Halftime: Moving from Success to Significance (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1994), 197.
Chapter 22: The Work of the Carpenter
1. Henry Drummond, The Greatest Thing in the World (Chicago: Revell, 1891), 32.
Chapter 23: The Way of the Carpenter
1. John MacArthur, Twelve Ordinary Men: How the Master Shaped His Disciples for Greatness—and What He Wants to Do with You (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2002).
2. Ibid., 39.
3. More than forty years ago, Ken began developing Situational Leadership® with Paul Hersey. Today, the latest version of that concept, called Situational Leadership® II, is used widely around the world to help leaders develop high-performing leader-follower relationships. It was not until the late 1980s, when Ken became a believer and read the Bible, that he realized how compatible the concepts contained in Situational Leadership® II were with the biblical record of how Jesus trained and developed His disciples as He moved them from call to commission. In fact, this Way of the Carpenter model is an adaptation of the Situational Leadership® II model. To find out more about Situational Leadership® II, read Ken Blanchard, Patricia Zigarmi, and Drea Zigarmi, Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership (New York: Harper Collins, 1985).
Chapter 25: The Habit of Obeying God and Expressing His Unconditional Love
1. Henry Drummond, The Greatest Thing in the World (Chicago: Revell, 1891), 18.
Chapter 29: The Habit of Community
1. Rod Handley, Character Counts: Who’s Counting Yours? (Grand Island, NE: Cross Training, 2002), 35–36.
Chapter 31: Leading Positive Change
1. Ken Blanchard et al., Leading at a Higher Level (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Financial Times Press, 2009), 215.
2. If you are interested in learning more about Ken’s journey to a healthier lifestyle, read Fit at Last (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2014), which Ken Blanchard coauthored with his fitness coach, Tim Kearin.
Chapter 32: EGOs Anonymous: Taking the First Step Toward Exalting God Only
1. Alcoholics Anonymous, The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous (New York: Works Publishing, 1939).