Collaborative Leadership : How to Succeed in an Interconnected World
, by Archer,David
- ISBN: 9780750687058 | 0750687053
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 2/3/2009
This practical book gives you:
David Archer and Alex Cameron are founding Directors of Socia Ltd, a company which advises leaders of large organizations across the public and private sector on how to get more from their business critical relationships.
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| About the authors | p. xi |
| Foreword | p. xiii |
| The Rise of Collaborative Working | p. 1 |
| Beyond command and control | p. 1 |
| Everything is mutual | p. 2 |
| The ultimate partner | p. 2 |
| The explosion in business partnerships | p. 3 |
| The problem with partnership | p. 4 |
| The view from the top: partnership is essential | p. 7 |
| Why partnership have taken off | p. 8 |
| Five types of organisational collaboration | p. 11 |
| Take the first step | p. 17 |
| To Collaborate or Not to Collaborate? | p. 19 |
| The limits of togetherness | p. 19 |
| Transactional, symbiotic or mutual? | p. 19 |
| Points of interdependence: look out for the edge of the platform | p. 21 |
| Work out where you stand | p. 23 |
| Find your place on the spectrum | p. 24 |
| Don't fight shy of complexity | p. 26 |
| Get picky about who you collaborate with and why | p. 28 |
| Tell it like it is | p. 30 |
| Quantifying collaboration: the ten-step guide | p. 30 |
| The Partnership Roadmap | p. 33 |
| Know where you are | p. 33 |
| selection - fit for the future | p. 33 |
| transition - suspend judgment | p. 38 |
| maintenance - keep the machine running | p. 43 |
| Ending: don't burn your bridges | p. 47 |
| The partnership roadmap and collaboration | p. 50 |
| The Three-Legged Stool | p. 51 |
| Build a stable framework | p. 51 |
| Governance, operations and behaviours - the three-legged stool | p. 53 |
| The first leg: governance | p. 55 |
| Quality of decision-making: get the right people in the room | p. 57 |
| The second leg: operations | p. 60 |
| The third leg: behaviours | p. 64 |
| Three legs good, one leg bad | p. 69 |
| The Octagonal Tape Measure | p. 71 |
| You get what you measure | p. 71 |
| The rear-view mirror only looks one way | p. 72 |
| Bulldozing with detail | p. 72 |
| A measuring stick to beat you with | p. 73 |
| Measuring with a light touch | p. 74 |
| Go easy on the penalties | p. 74 |
| An octagonal measuring tape | p. 75 |
| What and how to measure | p. 76 |
| Measure the three legs of the stool - governance, operations, behaviours | p. 77 |
| Know when to escalate a problem | p. 86 |
| All in good measure | p. 87 |
| The Grit in the Oyster | p. 89 |
| The just don't understand us | p. 89 |
| Grit can make a pearl | p. 89 |
| Three common reactions: deny, ignore, obliterate | p. 90 |
| When cultures collide | p. 91 |
| Getting to grips with culture | p. 93 |
| Don't forget the sub-cultures | p. 96 |
| Analyzing collaboration styles: the organisational partnering indicator | p. 96 |
| The 16 types of organisation | p. 99 |
| How to use the profiles: get under each other's skin | p. 108 |
| Shifting the culture | p. 109 |
| Making difference work for you | p. 110 |
| The Secrets of Successful Leaders | p. 111 |
| Straight from the top | p. 111 |
| The draw of collaboration | p. 114 |
| Make it matter - for everyone | p. 115 |
| Don't blame when things go wrong | p. 116 |
| Put yourself in other people's shoes | p. 117 |
| Patience is a virtue | p. 119 |
| Share the credit, share the load | p. 119 |
| Exercise your inner steel | p. 120 |
| The art of quiet confidence | p. 120 |
| The chance to make a mark | p. 121 |
| Leaders make the difference | p. 123 |
| Why Some Collaborative Leaders Fail | p. 125 |
| Past performance is no guarantee of future success | p. 125 |
| The control freak | p. 126 |
| The idealist | p. 129 |
| The incrementalist | p. 132 |
| The selfish fast-streamer | p. 135 |
| Wising up to what it takes | p. 138 |
| Risk and Opportunity | p. 141 |
| Two and two can make eight | p. 141 |
| Why partnerships are riskier | p. 142 |
| Expect the unexpected | p. 145 |
| Put the right governance in place | p. 145 |
| Beware the risk register | p. 146 |
| Don't let risk destroy opportunity | p. 147 |
| Find your inner entrepreneur | p. 148 |
| Keep things open | p. 149 |
| Make things feel safe | p. 151 |
| Balance out the asymmetries | p. 152 |
| Cultivate incurable optimism | p. 153 |
| Go for it | p. 154 |
| Conflict and the Collaborative Leader | p. 157 |
| Conflict comes with the territory | p. 157 |
| Conflict can be healthy | p. 158 |
| Equip yourself to handle conflict | p. 159 |
| Don't ignore the early signs | p. 159 |
| Dig up the roots of conflict | p. 160 |
| Five leadership skills in dealing with conflict | p. 163 |
| Put the right governance in place | p. 171 |
| Make conflict-handling part of the culture | p. 172 |
| Learn to keep your cool | p. 173 |
| The Future of Collaboration | p. 175 |
| Interconnectedness is changing the world | p. 175 |
| Global threats need joined-up action | p. 176 |
| Isolationism doesn't work | p. 178 |
| The challenges for leaders: innovation, sustainability and resilience | p. 179 |
| Ensuring sustainability: the lesson of flocking | p. 181 |
| Building resilience - collaboration in difficult times | p. 182 |
| The collaborative leader 20 years ahead | p. 184 |
| What does this mean to you? | p. 185 |
| An afterword: lagom | p. 188 |
| Index | p. 191 |
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