Whale Done! : The Power of Positive Relationships
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- ISBN13: 9780743235389
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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 reflect, according to top business consultant and mega-bestselling leader Ken Blanchard and his coauthors from SeaWorld. In this moving and inspirational new book, Blanchard clarifies that both whales and people perform better when you accentuate the positive. He shows how using the techniques of animal trainers — specifically persons reliable for the killer whales of SeaWorld — can supercharge your effectiveness at work and at home.
When gruff business manager and family tree 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 incredible powerful leaps and dives. Later, talking to the chief teacher, 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 regularly accusatory management style and recognizable how some of his shortcomings as a manager, spouse, and father really diminish trust and hurt relationships. He started to see the difference between “GOTcha” (catching people doing things incorrect) 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, as a replacement for of making situations that demoralize people. These techniques are remarkably simple to master and can be applied equally well at home, allowing readers to become better parents and more committed spouses in their more pleased and more successful personal lives.
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Here we have a book about an ancient thought: positive reinforcement. In additional words, reward people when they do excellent as the whale teacher does when he gives the whale a fish for jumping through a hoop. I wish life was this simple and managing people this simple, but dealing with complex relationships is far harder than giving simple rewards. The basic premise of this book is that people are like whales.To assert that managers can mandate people to do what they want by simple rewards is silly, naive and just downright dumb! No company that I know works this way. There is office politics to consider, personalities to contemplete and power players to acknowledge. This is what it is like to work in an office, which is much more complex than the simple reward system that Blanchard advocates. People are more complex than whales and while this book may be a whale of an thought it is not a book that carries much weight.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
As a manager for many years, I got nothing out of this book. I don’t see how workers are like whales. It just doesn’t make sense!!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book reads like it was written on a two hour plane ride. Suppose the leader is looking to cash in on his name in the meadow. Disappointing and a waste of money.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
After I read this book, I watched the Discovery Channel’s program about killer whales. They showed the whales swimming in packs and how they combined their efforts to kill a baby blue whale. This is the kind of behavior that Blanchard does not take up in his book Whale Done. He has a simplistic view of whales and people. He thinks of only domesticated, well-trained whales that appear in shows for entertainment. Here he misses the mark completely!! He thinks that by being excellent to whales you will bring out the best in them and he applies the same sort of unreliable logic to people. I suppose giving the killer whales that were about to kill the baby whale a tiny treat would have spared the baby’s life. Nonsense!!This book is flawed, simple and out of touch with reality.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is fluff and a way to make a quick buck for the leader. It’s makes Who Stirred My Cheese seem like an epic novel. The print is about an 18 point font – like a Dick and Jane book. The concepts are simple-minded psycho babble. Save your money… here it is in full:
Provide positive response to excellent behavior
Redirect attention of animal when terrible behavior is exhibited
Please… if people were as simple as animals, i.e., WANTED ONLY TO PLEASE, then maybe this would work. I guess it could be applied when training a pet, like a dog.. or maybe a 1 year ancient child.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5