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

  • 57m
  • Ken Blanchard, Randy Conley, Renee Broadwell
  • Berrett-Koehler Publishers
  • 2024

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.

The 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

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. And 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.

About the Author

Ken Blanchard is chief spiritual officer of the Ken Blanchard Companies. He is the author or coauthor of fifty books that have sold more than 20 million copies, including the iconic One Minute Manager®.

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.

Renee Broadwell is senior editor for The Ken Blanchard Companies, where she has worked for sixteen years. She and Ken are coeditors of Servant Leadership in Action. She has served as lead editor on several of Ken's book projects including Simple Truths of Leadership, Legendary Service, Lead with LUV, and more. She also edits articles, blogs, and special projects for the marketing department and executive suite.

In this Book

  • Simple Truth #1: Servant Leadership is the Best Way to Achieve Both Great Results and Great Relationships.
  • Simple Truth #2: Every Great Organization has a Compelling Vision.
  • Simple Truth #3: Servant Leaders Turn the Traditional Pyramid Upside Down.
  • Simple Truth #4: All Good Performance Starts with Clear Goals.
  • Simple Truth #5: The Key to Developing People is to Catch Them Doing Something Right.
  • Simple Truth #6: Praise Progress!
  • Simple Truth #7: When People are Off Track, Don’t Reprimand Them—Redirect Them.
  • Simple Truth #8: The Best Minute Servant Leaders Spend is the One They Invest in People.
  • Simple Truth #9: Effective Servant Leaders Realize They Have to Use Different Strokes for Different Folks.
  • Simple Truth #10: Effective Servant Leaders Don’t Just Use Different Strokes for Different Folks, They Also Use Different Strokes for the Same Folks.
  • Simple Truth #11: Profit is the Applause You Get for Creating a Motivating Environment for Your People so They Will Take Good Care of Your Customers.
  • Simple Truth #12: Create Autonomy Through Boundaries.
  • Simple Truth #13: You Get From People What You Expect.
  • Simple Truth #14: The Best Use of Power is in Service to Others.
  • Simple Truth #15: Never Assume You Know What Motivates a Person.
  • Simple Truth #16: People with Humility Don’t Think Less of Themselves, They Just Think of Themselves Less.
  • Simple Truth #17: It’s Okay to Toot Your Own Horn.
  • Simple Truth #18: Don’t Work Harder; Work Smarter.
  • Simple Truth #19: “No One of Us is as Smart as All of Us.”—Eunice Parisi-Carew and Don Carew
  • Simple Truth #20: Love is the Answer. What is the Question?
  • Simple Truth #21: Servant Leaders Don’t Command People to Obey; They Invite People to Follow.
  • Simple Truth #22: People Who Plan the Battle Rarely Battle the Plan.
  • Simple Truth #23: Servant Leaders Love Feedback.
  • Simple Truth #24: People Who Produce Good Results Feel Good about Themselves.
  • Simple Truth #25: “It’s Not about You.”—Rick Warren
  • Simple Truth #26: Great Leaders Serve.
  • Simple Truth #27: Leadership Begins with Trust.
  • Simple Truth #28: Building Trust is a Skill That Can Be Learned and Developed.
  • Simple Truth #29: “Self-Trust is the First Secret of Success.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Simple Truth #30: Someone Must Make the First Move to Extend Trust. Leaders go First.
  • Simple Truth #31: “People Admire Your Strengths, But They Respect Your Honesty Regarding Your Vulnerability.”—Colleen Barrett
  • Simple Truth #32: There’s No Trust Without Us.
  • Simple Truth #33: Fear is the Enemy of Trust.
  • Simple Truth #34: A Relationship with no Trust is Like a Cell Phone with no Service or Internet—All You Can Do is Play Games.
  • Simple Truth #35: People Don’t Care How Much You Know Until They Know How Much You Care.
  • Simple Truth #36: “People Will Forget What You Said, People Will Forget What You Did, But People Will Never Forget How You Made Them Feel.”—Maya Angelou
  • Simple Truth #37: “Your Actions Speak So Loudly I Cannot Hear What You are Saying.”—Anonymous
  • Simple Truth #38: Tell the Truth. Always. It’s That Simple.
  • Simple Truth #39: Don’t Ever Make a Promise You Can’t Keep.
  • Simple Truth #40: “There’s Nothing so Unequal as the Equal Treatment of Unequals.”—Anonymous
  • Simple Truth #41: #Trust is Always Trending. Doing the Right Thing Never Goes Out of Style.
  • Simple Truth #42: True Servant Leaders Admit Their Mistakes.
  • Simple Truth #43: Since We Were Given Two Ears and One Mouth, We Should Listen More Than We Speak.
  • Simple Truth #44: The Most Important Part of Leadership is What Happens When You’re Not There.
  • Simple Truth #45: The Opposite of Trust is Not Distrust—It’s Control.
  • Simple Truth #46: People Don’t Resist Change; They Resist Being Controlled.
  • Simple Truth #47: People Without Accurate Information Cannot Act Responsibly, But People with Accurate Information are Compelled to Act Responsibly.
  • Simple Truth #48: Building Trust is a Journey, Not a Destination.
  • Simple Truth #49: A Successful Apology is Essential in Rebuilding Trust.
  • Simple Truth #50: Apologizing is Not Necessarily an Admission of Guilt, But it is an Admission of Responsibility.
  • Simple Truth #51: Choosing Not to Forgive Someone is Like Taking Poison and Waiting for the Other Person to Die.
  • Simple Truth #52: Forgiveness is Letting Go of All Hope for a Better Past.
  • Closing Thoughts
  • Resources
  • Works Cited
  • Notes
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