Know Can Do!: Put Your Know-How Into Action [Hardcover]

Ken Blanchard (Author), Paul J Meyer (Author), Dick Ruhe (Author)

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Use What You Learn and Change Your Life!

Why is it that so many things we try so hard to learn just don't stick? Because we spend all our energy on learning new skills and better habits, but we lack effective strategies for retaining and applying all the helpful information we take in.

In Know Can Do!, bestselling author Ken Blanchard, Success Motivation Institute founder Paul J. Meyer, and ace motivational speaker and consultant Dick Ruhe use a story about an author with questions and an entrepreneur with answers to offer a simple and systematic approach for learning more efficiently and using that knowledge to make lasting changes.

People who have mastered learning are free to be creative and make big things happen. In fact, John F. Kennedy once remarked that "leadership and learning are indispensable to each other." This powerful book will help people at all levels develop the mind-set and the skill set to achieve extraordinary results.

From the Back Cover

For years Ken Blanchard has been troubled by the gap between what people know--all the good advice they get from books, seminars, and training courses--and what they actually do with this knowledge. All too often, in spite of their most sincere efforts, what people learn just doesn't stick. It's an endless source of frustration for individuals and for organizations as well.

In this new book Blanchard and his coauthors, Paul J. Meyer and Dick Ruhe, use the fable format Blanchard made famous to lay out a straightforward method for learning more, learning better, and making sure you actually use what you learn. This engaging story identifies three key reasons people don't make the leap from knowing to doing and then moves on to the solution.

Know Can Do will teach you how to avoid information overload by learning "less more, not more less." You'll find out how to adjust your brain's filtering system to learn many, many times more than ever before, ignite your creativity and resourcefulness with Green Light Thinking, master what you've learned using spaced repetition, and more.

At last, an answer to the question, "Why don't I do what I know I should do?" Read this book and you will!

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 115 pages
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 1 edition (October 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576754685
• ISBN-13: 978-1576754689
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #533,265 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Know Can Do, October 1, 2007

By	Susan M. Drexler - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Know Can Do!: Put Your Know-How Into Action (Hardcover)

This book has nailed it -- not only the problem, but the solution. In the classic Blanchard parable style, it has managed to do quickly what a lot of other books have failed to do, and yet they have taken 100 or 200 more pages than K-C-D. This is a wonderful tight, well-organized and enjoyable read. When I put it down, I realized that it had accomplished what the title suggests: putting me in the position to go out and get it done.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical and applicable - great resource, October 8, 2007

By	S. D. Ravago - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Know Can Do!: Put Your Know-How Into Action (Hardcover)

This book was a great surprise, very practical and very applicable to multiple facets of my life. I bought it to enhance my professional life, but found it translated to my personal life as well. The more I read, the more I realized that I can take the lessons learned from "Know Can Do!" and apply it to things in my everyday life, and help people move from 'thought' to 'behavior', whether it is getting more exercise, stopping bad habits or starting to turn negatives into positives. The fact is that most of us are judged by our behavior, not by what we know. This is a good book for people who are "turning over a new leaf" and not just those in the work place looking to do better.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The system is flawless, October 1, 2007

By	B. Mast "business owner" (Florida) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Know Can Do!: Put Your Know-How Into Action (Hardcover)

The secret of learning is using the power of repetition. You might have to read this book more than once to get it, but it'll be worth it. The guts of this book come straight from the master of personal development, Paul J. Meyer ... and you can't go wrong there!