Leading Across Boundaries: Creating Collaborative Agencies in a Networked World

Some Suggestions for Readers

Notice the Book’s Major Themes

This book reflects the following themes and assumptions, which I’ve developed since my study of collaboration began in the mid-1990s.

• There is an underlying structure to most collaborative efforts, made up of seven key ingredients (described in Chapters Three, Four, and Five).

• Most people in Western countries have two fundamental needs that must be met if they are to be effective in the workplace. These needs are (1) to be competent (and respected as such) and (2) to belong, to connect to something larger than themselves.

• These two needs are expressed in four questions that most team members ask (not necessarily out loud):

1. Do I have something to contribute that is needed, ...