More than 500 students, professors and members of the Baylor community piled into the fifth floor of Cashion Academic Center looking for guidance on Christian leadership in the business world from a bestselling author Tuesday. Dr. Ken Blanchard, bestselling author of books “The One-Minute Manager” and “Lead Like Jesus,” shared his words of wisdom with Baylor as a co-founder and chief spiritual officer of his company, The Ken
Blanchard Companies.

Blanchard spoke as part of the Paul J. Meyer Christian Leadership in Business Speaker Series with the Hankamer School of Business.

Blanchard said that although he was writing about business leadership before he became a Christian, God was helping him before he realized it.

“I didn’t become a believer until I was almost 50 years old,” Blanchard said. “The One-Minute Manager” was a gift from God. I guess he figured I would be on his team sometime soon. It’s a lot easier to see God backwards in your life instead of forward.”

Blanchard said when he first started writing with a focus on God, he saw that integrity in the business world had not yet been written about.

“Jesus is the best leadership role model of all time, but I found that that wasn’t being taught at divinity schools,” Blanchard said. “So I guessed this is what I was supposed to be doing.”

Once Blanchard started writing about Christ-like integrity in the business world, his ideas quickly became popular.

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