Ken Blanchard Book Review - Whale Done, Accentuate the Positive and Build Trust

This book is a refreshing way to look at the power of positive relationships.The author, Ken Blanchard has caught the essence of learning how to manage and motivate people by watching and learning from trainers of killer whales.When I first read this book or heard of this book I had to ask,"What can you learn from a killer whale and relate it to people and relationships?"To my surprise we as leaders or managers have a lot in common with the killer whale. Killer whales whole bases works around the family pod. All the other whales in the family will depend and follow the leader. From watching the inter actions of a killer whale pod you can learn the power of positive relationships.As a leader that has and wants a lot of people following you the first place you need to start is in your own house. In the year 2010 we have equal partnership with our wives or wives with husbands.Warning: This is my disclaimer, what you read next is my opinion!Even though our wives are equal partners in our marriage and in life it is the responsibility of the head of the household to accentuate the positive and build the trust in the relationship.Personally this is were men today fall way short. We need to point out the Positive instead of the Negative in our relationship. By doing this will change your marriage if you do this for thirty days. Once you do that and you see the results you will keep doing this because you will not want your marriage any other way. Guys try it, I dare you!Now this will flow right into how you also deal with your children. Today's children have very low self esteem issues and their attitudes stem from the house hold. So instead of always pointing out the negative and you start accentuate the positive and build trust, you will see a big difference in your children. You will see their attitudes changing and the way they think of themselves.As a leader of people and by using Attraction Marketing are we not building trust and accentuating the positive? The way to look at this as a business owner, is if a new person joins and goes out and tries something on their own and it did not work. As a leader your best way to correct that is to always accentuate the positive to the situation and keep building trust.In summary: This is just one of the several ways we can learn from killer whales. With out accentuating the positive and building trust the killer whales would never do what their trainers want them to do. The same things will go with our marriage,children and in our business lives. This information came out of the first few pages of the first chapter of Whale Done. Whale Done is only six chapters long but is fill full of awesome ideas about relationship building.Just Remember: We are all on a journey towards or goals and dreams so make sure you are living life to the fullest and make sure you are having fun while you are doing it!written by: Mark WezykFreedomteamleader dr seuss cat in hat book