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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the authors | |
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| Foreword | |
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| The Rise of Collaborative Working | |
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| Beyond command and control | |
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| Everything is mutual | |
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| The ultimate partner | |
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| The explosion in business partnerships | |
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| The problem with partnership | |
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| The view from the top: partnership is essential | |
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| Why partnership have taken off | |
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| Five types of organisational collaboration | |
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| Take the first step | |
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| To Collaborate or Not to Collaborate? | |
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| The limits of togetherness | |
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| Transactional, symbiotic or mutual? | |
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| Points of interdependence: look out for the edge of the platform | |
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| Work out where you stand | |
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| Find your place on the spectrum | |
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| Don't fight shy of complexity | |
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| Get picky about who you collaborate with and why | |
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| Tell it like it is | |
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| Quantifying collaboration: the ten-step guide | |
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| The Partnership Roadmap | |
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| Know where you are | |
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| selection - fit for the future | |
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| transition - suspend judgment | |
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| maintenance - keep the machine running | |
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| Ending: don't burn your bridges | |
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| The partnership roadmap and collaboration | |
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| The Three-Legged Stool | |
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| Build a stable framework | |
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| Governance, operations and behaviours - the three-legged stool | |
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| The first leg: governance | |
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| Quality of decision-making: get the right people in the room | |
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| The second leg: operations | |
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| The third leg: behaviours | |
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| Three legs good, one leg bad | |
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| The Octagonal Tape Measure | |
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| You get what you measure | |
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| The rear-view mirror only looks one way | |
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| Bulldozing with detail | |
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| A measuring stick to beat you with | |
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| Measuring with a light touch | |
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| Go easy on the penalties | |
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| An octagonal measuring tape | |
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| What and how to measure | |
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| Measure the three legs of the stool - governance, operations, behaviours | |
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| Know when to escalate a problem | |
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| All in good measure | |
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| The Grit in the Oyster | |
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| The just don't understand us | |
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| Grit can make a pearl | |
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| Three common reactions: deny, ignore, obliterate | |
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| When cultures collide | |
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| Getting to grips with culture | |
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| Don't forget the sub-cultures | |
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| Analyzing collaboration styles: the organisational partnering indicator | |
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| The 16 types of organisation | |
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| How to use the profiles: get under each other's skin | |
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| Shifting the culture | |
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| Making difference work for you | |
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| The Secrets of Successful Leaders | |
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| Straight from the top | |
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| The draw of collaboration | |
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| Make it matter - for everyone | |
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| Don't blame when things go wrong | |
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| Put yourself in other people's shoes | |
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| Patience is a virtue | |
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| Share the credit, share the load | |
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| Exercise your inner steel | |
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| The art of quiet confidence | |
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| The chance to make a mark | |
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| Leaders make the difference | |
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| Why Some Collaborative Leaders Fail | |
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| Past performance is no guarantee of future success | |
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| The control freak | |
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| The idealist | |
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| The incrementalist | |
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| The selfish fast-streamer | |
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| Wising up to what it takes | |
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| Risk and Opportunity | |
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| Two and two can make eight | |
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| Why partnerships are riskier | |
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| Expect the unexpected | |
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| Put the right governance in place | |
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| Beware the risk register | |
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| Don't let risk destroy opportunity | |
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| Find your inner entrepreneur | |
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| Keep things open | |
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| Make things feel safe | |
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| Balance out the asymmetries | |
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| Cultivate incurable optimism | |
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| Go for it | |
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| Conflict and the Collaborative Leader | |
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| Conflict comes with the territory | |
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| Conflict can be healthy | |
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| Equip yourself to handle conflict | |
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| Don't ignore the early signs | |
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| Dig up the roots of conflict | |
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| Five leadership skills in dealing with conflict | |
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| Put the right governance in place | |
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| Make conflict-handling part of the culture | |
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| Learn to keep your cool | |
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| The Future of Collaboration | |
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| Interconnectedness is changing the world | |
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| Global threats need joined-up action | |
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| Isolationism doesn't work | |
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| The challenges for leaders: innovation, sustainability and resilience | |
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| Ensuring sustainability: the lesson of flocking | |
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| Building resilience - collaboration in difficult times | |
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| The collaborative leader 20 years ahead | |
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| What does this mean to you? | |
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| An afterword: lagom | |
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| Index | |