Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Build Common Ground, and Reap Big Results

Journey’s End (for Now)

This book has now come full circle. While the final chapter highlights how leaders themselves can lead with a collaborative style, the other chapters outline how leaders can shape their organization and cultivate disciplined collaboration in others. Leaders who practice disciplined collaboration work at all levels: they cultivate collaboration by transforming themselves, their organization, and people working in the organization.

I began this book by relating my research journey of discovering how collaboration can lead to better performance. As I consolidated fifteen years of research, I was surprised by a few things. When I started my research on collaboration in the early nineties, the topic was not that important. ...