Simple Truths of Leadership Playbook A 52-Week Game Plan for Becoming a Trusted Servant Leader

by Blanchard, Ken; Conley, Randy

• ISBN13: 9781523006113
• ISBN10: 1523006110
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-12-05
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Summary

Leadership legend and bestselling author Ken Blanchard returns with trust expert and thought leader Randy Conley to present a structured playbook based on the bestselling Simple Truths of Leadership.

This companion playbook to Simple Truths of Leadership expands on the book’s 52 essential principles of servant leadership and trust building. This structured playbook provides weekly prompts and exercises to help you track your progress toward your leadership goals. It focuses on one Simple Truth per week and includes:

• A summary of each Simple Truth
• A game plan for using each truth in your workplace, including thought-provoking questions and exercises to challenge your thinking and cause you to consider new ideas about leadership
• A Call to Action to “Try It This Week”

By journaling alongside servant leadership principles, you will be able to turn the common sense behind these simple truths into common practice for you and your organization.

People today are looking for leaders to trust and believe in. With so much of today’s workforce feeling disengaged from the work they do, it’s critical for leaders to move away from self-serving methods and embrace servant leadership to put their followers’ needs before their own. Doing so will help leaders bring trust back into their organization.

Author Biography

Ken Blanchard is cofounder of The Ken Blanchard Companies, a leading international training and consulting firm. He is coauthor of more than sixty-five books, including the iconic The One Minute Manager, with combined sales of over 23 million copies in forty-seven languages. In 2005, he was inducted into Amazon’s Hall of Fame as one of the top twenty-five bestselling authors of all time.

Randy Conley is vice president of global professional services for The Ken Blanchard Companies and coauthor of Blanchard’s Building Trust training program. Inc.com named him a Top 100 Leadership Speaker. Conley is a contributing author of three books, including Leading at a Higher Level with Ken Blanchard. Conley’s award-winning blog, Leading with Trust, has influenced over 4 million viewers since its inception in 2012.