Collaboration Begins with You, Ken Blanchard
Collaboration Begins with You, Ken Blanchard
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Collaboration Begins with You
Be a Silo Buster

Author: Ken Blanchard, Jane Ripley, Eunice Parisi-Carew

Narrator: Joe Bronzi

Unabridged: 2 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 10/12/2015


Synopsis

Bestselling author Ken Blanchard and his coauthors bring his signature "business parable" style to a critical skill for today's workplace: collaboration.

Everyone knows that collaboration creates high-performing teams and organizations. Yet it often doesn't happen, because people and groups typically believe that they are doing what's needed-the problem is always outside: the other team member, the other department. So people stay in their silos and the creative energy collaboration generates is lost.

This book shows that collaboration begins with you. It is an inside-out process that starts with your heart (who you are) and head (what you know and believe), then moves to your hands (what you do). The authors help people develop a collaborative culture by utilizing differences, nurturing safety and trust, instituting clear purposes and goals, talking openly, and empowering themselves and others. When people recognize and change erroneous beliefs and actions regarding collaboration, failures can be turned into successes and breakthrough results achieved at every level.

About Ken Blanchard

Ken Blanchard is one of the most influential leadership experts in the world. He has co-authored sixty books, including Raving Fans and Gung Ho!. His groundbreaking works have been translated into over forty languages and their combined sales total more than twenty-one million copies. In 2005 he was inducted into Amazon's Hall of Fame as one of the top twenty-five bestselling authors of all time. The recipient of numerous leadership awards and honors, he is cofounder with his wife, Margie, of The Ken Blanchard Companies®, a leading international training and consulting firm.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Victor on May 16, 2022

When communication is hard to come by, opportunities for collaboration may be lost at the expense of individual growth and innovation. Using a simple yet effective style, this book challenges readers to think synergistically about communication, invest time in building trust, and empower the develop......more

Goodreads review by Nilkanth on December 28, 2019

This book makes you think. I learnt from this book.......more

Goodreads review by Arun on July 23, 2024

Inspiring fictional and factual merger of stories and information. Well written book to push you to think right on better ways of collaboration and its impact. Thanks for this interesting take......more

Goodreads review by Dr. Byron Ernest on October 16, 2015

This book provides a fable case study of an environment where employees are empowered to create, collaborate, and do their jobs. They are able to showcase their abilities without the barriers of hierarchy. As a leader I prefer to organize the world in a lateral fashion, seeing people on an equal pla......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on December 17, 2015

I would like to thank the authors for writing this book that i won a free copy on goodreads first reads. I was very impressed with this book and felt that in such a thin copy it gave a big punch of information.I agree that collaboration always begins with you,the person reading this,not someone else......more