Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster

Description for Sales People: ICONIC AUTHOR: Ken Blanchard is one of the bestselling business authors of all time, whose 60 books have sold over 21 million copies. CRITICAL SUBJECT MATTER: The workplace of the 21st century has evolved to become more open and team based, yet our understanding of the key skill to make this work has not kept pace. ACCESSIBLE AND ACTIONABLE: The Blanchard style a compelling story, a straightforward model and tools to apply it make this book easy to understand and implement, and perfect for pass-along sales."Review Quotes: Collaboration Begins with You provides a simple, memorable, and most important of all actionable model for destroying the barriers that prevent organizations from getting things done. Patrick Lencioni, President, The Table Group, and author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and The Advantage Creating a safe and trusting environment as a collaborator is the core of success removing fear and taking people to a place of freedom. You will find the steps to success in CollaborationBegins with You! Garry Ridge, President and CEO, WD-40 Company, and coauthor of Helping People Win at Work Collaboration Begins with Youstrips down the fluff and gets to the essence of how any organization can create a collaborative mindset for the greater good. Jesse Lyn Stoner, founder, Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership, and coauthor of Full Steam Ahead!"Table of Contents: Part I: A Journey To Collaboration1 A Troubling Conversation2 A Well Timed Visitor3 A Sensible Start 4 Utilize Differences5 Nurture Safety and Trust6 Involve Others in Crafting a Clear Purpose, Values, and Goals7 A Step Backward8 Talk Openly9 A Bit of a Breakthrough10 Empower Yourself and Others11 Collaboration at Work: A Real World Example 12 Getting Things Done13 A Turnaround and a Plan14 Three Months LaterEpilogue Part II: Tools and Resources to Create CollaborationSelf Assessment: How Collaborative Do You Think You Are? Collaboration: Best Practices Acknowledgements About the AuthorsServices Available"Publisher Marketing: Collaboration Begins with You Everyone knows collaboration creates high performing teams and organizations and with today's diverse, globalized workforce it's absolutely crucial. Yet it often doesn't happen because people and groups typically believe that the problem is always outside: the other team member, the other department, the other company. Bestselling author Ken Blanchard and his coauthors use Blanchard's signature business parable style to show that, in fact, if collaboration is to succeed it must begin with you. This book teaches people at all levels from new associates to top executives that it's up to each of us to help promote and preserve a winning culture of collaboration. The authors show that busting silos and bringing people together is an inside-out process that involves the heart (your character and intentions), the head (your beliefs and attitudes), and the hands (your actions and behaviors). Working with this three-part approach, Collaboration Begins with You helps readers develop a collaborative culture that uses differences to spur contribution and creativity; provides a safe and trusting environment; involves everyone in creating a clear sense of purpose, values, and goals; encourages people to share information; and turns everyone into an empowered self-leader. None of us is as smart as all of us. When people recognize their own erroneous beliefs regarding collaboration and work to change them, silos are broken down, failures are turned into successes, and breakthrough results are achieved at every level."

Contributor Bio:  Blanchard, Ken Ken Blanchard is the coauthor of The One Minute Manager(r) and fifty other books, including the New York Times business bestsellers Gung Ho! and Raving Fans. His books have combined sales of more than eighteen million copies in more than twenty-seven languages. He is the chief spiritual officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, a full-service global management training and development company that he and his wife, Dr. Marjorie Blanchard, founded in 1979. Contributor Bio:  Ripley, Jane Ken Blanchard is chief spiritual officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies. He is the author of more than 60 books, beginning with The One Minute Manager(r) in 1982, which have combined sales of more than 21 million copies, making him one of the bestselling business authors of all time. Contributor Bio:  Parisi-Carew, Eunice Ken Blanchard is chief spiritual officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies. He is the author of more than 60 books, beginning with The One Minute Manager(r) in 1982, which have combined sales of more than 21 million copies, making him one of the bestselling business authors of all time.