Ken Blanchard Preaches Parodoxical Patient Persistence at Cornell

The incomparable business book best-seller and most compassionate person in Leadership Development in America, Ken Blanchard, spoke at the Cornell Football Associatiation's 51st annual Ben Mintz Golf and Tennis Tournament this past weekend. Over 500 of us who support Cornell Football marveled at the simple, yet profound nature of his short message on Patience and Persistence!

While Cornell's football history is storied and legendary, its number of official Ivy League Titles is few. Yet, those loyalists, who drive the annual summer fund-raiser that is considered the most successful in Ivy League and even Division I circles, patiently and persistently are working toward assisting Coach Jim Knowles, AD Andy Noel, and the University Administration in assuring Titles in the future. ( www.cornellbigred.collegesports.com ; www.cornellbigred.com )

But it was the ever-supportive Cornell Alumnus and internationally proclaimed author (The One Minute Manager, etc.) and guru of Organizational and Leadership Behavior, Ken Blanchard, who put it all in perspective for us at the Auction/Dinner Saturday night: The Paradox of Patient Persistence. (Ken has become a friend to me and an icon at my company Bluegreen Corporation that features his award-winning "Situation Leadership II" programs.) His proverbial advice was impactful, and more importantly, is working at Cornell on the gridiron. (www.kenblanchard.com  )

In the manuscript for my book What About Now? Secrets of a Rich Man, one of the secrets delivered is PATIENCE. Indeed, too many of us rush the natural order of things, and thereby abort the ideal process that is evolving. Kenny made that clear to us. Indeed, Cornell Football is in good hands with Coach Knowles and Ken at his side reminding him about this key secret, and its paradoxical companion, PERSISTENCE. (Yes, be persistent and assertive in all we do, "but don't run ahead of your interference, Joe," would my late backfield coach, Carmen Piccone say back in the sixties at Cornell.)

When What About Now? sees the light of the publishing world, you will be introduced to the Widow of Judas Iscariot who brings that secret of PATIENCE to the oppressed Joseph of Arimathea. While her perspective is not College Football, she and Ken Blanchard agree: Be patient in your persistence so the good that is ordained in what you are doing may move from spirit to form at its pre-ordained time. (Ah, the great Echert Tolle of The Power of Now  and A New Earth would agree. { www.eckarttolle.com })

The companion secret of PERSISTENCE comes through loud and clear later in my book from "the Rich, Young Ruler."  He encourages Joseph to perpetuate a stream of creative ideas and actions to complement PATIENCE, as not only a way to live successfully, but to experience the boundless power of the moment.

Go back to Ken Blanchard's Principled Centered Leadership, co-written with the late Norman Vincent Peale, to learn more about PATIENCE and PERSISTENCE.

And to discover how each can drive you into the limitless power of the eternal moment, stand by for What About Now.

Joe Cervasio

PS: on my way to Indianapolis, after a wonderful Cornell weekend with the patient and persistent Cornell Football Association.

Comments

[Heath]

Persistence is what get things done. Don't give up easily you'll never know when things would come out well.

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