Part VIII

Building the Collaborative Organization of the Future

At the heart of healthy organizational life and sustainable performance success is people's ability to communicate and collaborate for the common good. As organizations have become more complex and the parts more interdependent, we have responded by creating a more cumbersome, complex and dynamic organizational maze. This often masquerades as a matrix reporting structure, which, more often than not, works against the objectives we claim to have.

In Part VIII, we debunk the myth that surrounds the common view of collaboration, and we suggest that leaders have not done enough to equip themselves or their organizations with the essential competencies to lead in a truly modern collaborative ...

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