He has been in the leadership business for 40-plus years, so it's no surprise that management guru and bestselling author Ken Blanchard has acquired some impressive titles along the way.
He is the co-founder of the Ken Blanchard Companies, the Escondido, California-based international management training and consulting firm that he and his wife, bestselling author Margie Blanchard, started in 1979. He is a trustee emeritus of Cornell University's Board of Trustees.He teaches students in the Master of Science in Executive Leadership program at the University of San Diego.
And in 2005, the co-author of 1982's "The One Minute Manager" (which Blanchard wrote with Spencer Johnson) was inducted into Amazon's Hall of Fame as one of the Top 25 bestselling authors of all time.