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Whale Done!: The Power of Positive Relationships
Written by Kenneth Blanchard
Narrated by Tony Roberts
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A compendium of straightforward techniques on how to accentuate the positive and redirect the negative, increasing productivity at work and at home.
What do your people at work and your spouse and kids at home have in common with a five-ton killer whale?
Probably a whole lot more than you think, according to top business consultant and mega-bestselling author Ken Blanchard and his coauthors from SeaWorld. In this moving and inspirational new book, Blanchard explains that both whales and people perform better when you accentuate the positive. He shows how using the techniques of animal trainers -- specifically those responsible for the killer whales of SeaWorld -- can supercharge your effectiveness at work and at home.
When gruff business manager and family man Wes Kingsley visited SeaWorld, he marveled at the ability of the trainers to get these huge killer whales, among the most feared predators in the ocean, to perform amazing acrobatic leaps and dives. Later, talking to the chief trainer, he learned their techniques of building trust, accentuating the positive, and redirecting negative behavior -- all of which make these extraordinary performances possible. Kingsley took a hard look at his own often accusatory management style and recognized how some of his shortcomings as a manager, spouse, and father actually diminish trust and damage relationships. He began to see the difference between "GOTcha" (catching people doing things wrong) and "Whale Done!" (catching people doing things right).
In Whale Done!, Ken Blanchard shows how to make accentuating the positive and redirecting the negative the best tools to increase productivity, instead of creating situations that demoralize people. These techniques are remarkably easy to master and can be applied equally well at home, allowing readers to become better parents and more committed spouses in their happier and more successful personal lives.
What do your people at work and your spouse and kids at home have in common with a five-ton killer whale?
Probably a whole lot more than you think, according to top business consultant and mega-bestselling author Ken Blanchard and his coauthors from SeaWorld. In this moving and inspirational new book, Blanchard explains that both whales and people perform better when you accentuate the positive. He shows how using the techniques of animal trainers -- specifically those responsible for the killer whales of SeaWorld -- can supercharge your effectiveness at work and at home.
When gruff business manager and family man Wes Kingsley visited SeaWorld, he marveled at the ability of the trainers to get these huge killer whales, among the most feared predators in the ocean, to perform amazing acrobatic leaps and dives. Later, talking to the chief trainer, he learned their techniques of building trust, accentuating the positive, and redirecting negative behavior -- all of which make these extraordinary performances possible. Kingsley took a hard look at his own often accusatory management style and recognized how some of his shortcomings as a manager, spouse, and father actually diminish trust and damage relationships. He began to see the difference between "GOTcha" (catching people doing things wrong) and "Whale Done!" (catching people doing things right).
In Whale Done!, Ken Blanchard shows how to make accentuating the positive and redirecting the negative the best tools to increase productivity, instead of creating situations that demoralize people. These techniques are remarkably easy to master and can be applied equally well at home, allowing readers to become better parents and more committed spouses in their happier and more successful personal lives.
Author
Kenneth Blanchard
Kenneth Hartley Blanchard is an author, business consultant and motivational speaker. His writing career includes 60+ published books, most of which are co-authored books.
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Reviews for Whale Done!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Soooo Good. A challenge I want to start implementing. I've been a husband/Father of waiting for my family to make mistakes and Point out those mistakes and short comings in a heart beat.
This will be new language for me! - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent, excellent, excellent, excellent, excellent, very very very very interesting.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My major takeaway from this book is this: Focus on the good instead catching people (children, spouse, students, workmates, emoloyees etc.) when they do something wrong either intentionally or unintentionally.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book.
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Whale Done ! - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastic book. Excellent philosophy to apply both with the work team and at home. Great narrator
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5There's some good suggestions in this book but it could have been written in about 10 pages without all the dramatisation. No reason it had to be so long other than the desire to sell books instead of pamphlets. Not sure how this would be received now after the controversy caused by Blackfish and the death of a trainer leading to a ban on swimming with orcas.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What a surprise. Another executive allegory written in the writing style of a 4th grader.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I picked this book up at the ITIL seminar in Orlando in January 2003. Ken was one of the speakers and as usual, I got enthused by the speaker and ran out to the lobby to buy everything he had on the table. I think I came away with 5 of his books. I read this book in about an hour, maybe less. I was on a plane at the time, so looking at my watch was not a priority. As per Blanchard's usual parable style, he tells the story of a man trying to figure out how to motivate and manage people. He runs into a friend who puts him in touch with a trainer of the killer whales at SeaWorld. He asks the trainer how they get the whales to perform without getting killed. The typical management techniques of today's business world would most certainly turn a whale into the natural killer it is. The trainer then goes into how whales are trained and how managers should use the same techniques to get good results. The man does and has astounding results, not only at work, but at home. If I have a complaint about Ken Blanchard's books, such as One Minute Manager, it is the style of the story telling. It turns me off. The stories are too trite and contrived for me. There isn't anything wrong with the style, it just doesn't float my boat. The information is good, but I thought it overwhelmed by the story.