Playing the Great Game of Golf: Making Every Minute Count [Hardcover]

Kenneth H. Blanchard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1992

The co-author of The One-Minute Manager shows how the skills managers use in business can be applied to golf, teaching readers how to set goals and attain them, shed bad golf habits, and more. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 169 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow & Co; 1st edition (October 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 068812125X
• ISBN-13: 978-0688121259
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,949,660 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Few people have influenced the day-to-day management of people and companies more than Ken Blanchard. A prominent, sought-after author, speaker, and business consultant, Dr. Blanchard is universally characterized by his friends, colleagues, and clients as one of the most insightful, powerful, and compassionate individuals in business today. Ken is one of the most influential leadership experts in the world and is respected for his years of groundbreaking work in the fields of leadership and management.

Dr. Ken Blanchard is the cofounder and Chief Spiritual Officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, an international management training and consulting firm that he and his wife, Margie Blanchard, began in 1979 in San Diego, California. In addition to being a renowned speaker and consultant, Ken also spends time as a visiting lecturer at his alma mater, Cornell University, where he is a trustee emeritus of the Board of Trustees.

Ken has received many awards and honors for his contributions in the fields of management, leadership, and speaking. The National Speakers Association awarded him its highest honor, the "Council of Peers Award of Excellence." He was inducted into the HRD Hall of Fame by Training magazine and Lakewood Conferences, and he received the Golden Gavel Award from Toastmasters International. Ken also received The Thought Leadership Award for continued support of work-related learning and performance by ISA--The Association of Learning Providers. Ken has been inducted into Amazon's Hall of Fame as one of the top 25 best-selling authors of all time. The business school at Grand Canyon University bears his name. In addition, Ken teaches students in the Master of Science in Executive Leadership Program at the University of San Diego.

Born in New Jersey and raised in New York, Ken received a master's degree from Colgate University, and a bachelor's and PhD from Cornell University. An avid golfer, Ken belongs to the Loch Lomond Golf Club in Scotland.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great attitude adjuster, March 20, 2006

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Larry Miller (Los Gatos, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Playing the Great Game of Golf: Making Every Minute Count (Hardcover)

Ken Blanchard has taken his practical business management style and applied it to the emotional side of golf. His experience at the Golf University has given him insight as to how folks perform and how much the mental factor affects things.

Some of the best and most applicable advice I've ever had for golf. Recommended.

3.0 out of 5 stars Good mental prep, August 22, 2010

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This review is from: Playing the Great Game of Golf: Making Every Minute Count (Paperback)

Good mental preparation for aspiring golfers who want to improve their enjoyment of the game.

5.0 out of 5 stars Success in life and golf is always relative to what we want it to be and how we interact with others, January 17, 2009

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Playing the Great Game of Golf: Making Every Minute Count (Hardcover)

While I have never played a round of golf, I have been around enough golfers to understand the lure that it has. Unlike other sports, the less strenuous nature of golf means that it can be played at a reasonably high level by people whose athletic ability is somewhat lacking. It is also a very stepwise game, in the sense that each hole is different and each shot on the same hole presents different challenges. Finally, it is a very sociable game, as long as you don't take the competition too seriously, much of the joy derived from playing it is from the time spent with your partners.
For these reasons, playing golf is an excellent analogy to the way things are in life, particularly in business. Improvements in your golf game are incremental, while theory is fine and is a good overview; even the greatest of understanding of the theory of the game is inadequate. It is the practice, action and the attitude with which you play that determines your level of success. One of the best statements made in the book is that if you want to improve your game from a 90 to an 80, you do so by first scoring an 89, then an 88, etc.
Business and life performance is similar; very few people are successful by rapidly dropping their score from the equivalent of a 90 to an 85. They recognize a problem or an opportunity, study it to learn what is going wrong, determine the options to tackle it and then go with the best option for them.
As Blanchard makes very clear, the greatness of the game of golf is not measured merely by your number of strokes, but by the overall enhancement of life that playing it can give you. For, as is the case with life as well as golf, most of the competition we face is with ourselves. Our ability to handle the mild adversities, be patient with our incremental improvement, put past mistakes behind us and being able to always keep your eye on the pin is what truly makes us successful. Even if you know nothing about golf, the lessons in this book will be understandable and can have a profound and significant positive effect on your life.