Leading Across Boundaries: Creating Collaborative Agencies in a Networked World

Acknowledgments

This is one of the most significant parts of this book, because writing this work was a true act of collaboration (how else to write a book on this topic?). The cases and examples were contributed by practicing managers and leaders who have thought long and hard about collaboration’s potential and pitfalls. Their insights and lessons learned are far more important than the theories that academics dream up. A large number of people read and critiqued parts or all of the manuscript. They offered everything from a better choice of words to a useful concept I hadn’t considered. And they pointed out passages and sections that needed major overhauls.

So, to put it succinctly, I’m truly indebted to a number of people who showed their ...