Whale Done: the Power Of Positive Relationships New ed Edition

When a disillusioned business manager and family man, Wes Kingsley, visits Sea World he is mesmerized. The ability of the trainers to have the biggest predators of the sea, the killer whales do acrobatic tricks, amazes him. Through Whale Done: The Power Of Positive Relationships, Blanchard says that the key to increasing productivity in life lies in building trust, accentuating the positive, and redirecting the negative when mistakes occur. It highlights the difference between saying Whale Done, when finding people doing things right, and Gotcha, while catching people doing things wrong. The author has shown similarity between a five ton killer whale and people around an individual. In simple, easy to master techniques, he has compared the training of whales to that of human beings so that they can improve in relationships and other endeavours.

American author Kenneth Hartley Blanchard was born in May 1939. He completed his BA in government and philosophy at Cornell University, MA in sociology and counselling at Colgate University, and PhD in education administration and leadership at Cornell University. With Paul Hersey, Blanchard developed the Situational Leadership theory and model in the 1960s. Along with his wife, he co-founded an international management training and consulting firm, The Ken Blanchard Companies in 1979. They were named the Cornell Entrepreneurs of the year 1991. He is now a visiting professor at the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, a management expert and the co-author of over thirty bestsellers. Some of his famous books are The One Minute Manager, Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service, Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness Through Situational Leadership, Gung Ho! Turn On the People in Any Organization, and Leading at a Higher Level: Blanchard on Leadership and Creating High Performing Organizations.