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How to succeed in an interconnected world
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By
David Archer, Founding director of Socia Ltd, London, UK
Alex Cameron, Founding director of Socia Ltd, London, UK, and non-executive advisor to Inventa Partners
Description
Collaborative leadership is about delivering results across boundaries. The nature of that boundary is important, whether it's a formal
contract or an informal agreement between two parties to work together for a common aim. And leaders need to be clear about where the
boundary lies and how to use the different capabilities on either side of it to build a positive and efficient relationship. As the poet
Robert Frost once put it, 'Good fences make good neighbours'.
Getting value from difference is at the heart of the collaborative leader's
task. But that is not without its challenges. As in many marriages, it is often this difference – in skills, experience, resources or
culture – that attracts organisations to work together in the first place. Then, as time goes by, people start to rail against that very
difference and try to remove it wherever it causes frustration in the joint operation. An often-heard criticism is 'Why can?t they be
more like us?'. But of course the truth is that if they were, you'd have lost the very reason that brought the two of you together.
So,
collaborative leaders have to pull off a tricky balancing act – on the one hand, respecting and valuing the differences of a partner,
while on the other, smoothing out some of those differences in the interests of making the relationship work more efficiently. At the
same time, leaders have to learn to share control, and to trust a partner to deliver, even though that partner may operate very differently
from themselves. Collaborative leadership is a sophisticated art – but mastering this complexity lies at the heart of business success
now and in the future.
Audience
Leaders of public private partnerships; Leaders of Joint Ventures; Leaders in Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement; Business Partners in HR, Finance, IT, FM; Human Resource Practitioners.
Contents
The Rise of Collaborative Working; To Collaborate or Not to Collaborate; The Partnership Roadmap; The Three-Legged Stool; The Octagonal
Tape Measure; The Grit in the Oyster; The Secrets of Successful Leaders; Why Some Collaborative Leaders Fail; Risk and Opportunity; Conflict
and the Collaborative Leader; The Future of Collaboration.
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Paperback, 216 pages, publication date: NOV-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8705-8
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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