How to Make Collaboration Work: Powerful Ways to Build Consensus, Solve Problems, and Make Decisions

✍ Scribed by David Straus, Thomas C. Layton

Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 271
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Collaboration is an everyday practice that many people find to be a frustrating, even exhausting, experience. How to Make Collaboration Work provides a remedy: five principles of collaboration that have been tested and refined in organizations throughout the world. Author David Straus shows that these methods can help any group make better decisions and function more effectively. The five principles are: Involve the Relevant Stakeholders, Build Consensus Phase by Phase, Design a Process Map, Designate a Process Facilitator, and Harness the Power of Group Memory. Each principle addresses the specific challenges people face when trying to work collaboratively, and each can be applied to any problem-solving scenario.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 18
Introduction: The Power of Collaborative Action......Page 20
Part I: The Fundamentals......Page 34
1: The Process of Human Problem Solving......Page 36
Part II: The Principles of Collaboration......Page 54
2: Involve the Relevant Stakeholders......Page 56
3: Build Consensus Phase by Phase......Page 76
4: Design a Process Map......Page 100
5: Designate a Process Facilitator......Page 126
6: Harness the Power of Group Memory......Page 148
Part III: Putting It All Together......Page 162
7: Facilitative Leadership......Page 164
8: Collaborative Organizations......Page 184
9: Collaborative Communities......Page 206
10: Where to Go from Here......Page 224
Resources......Page 228
Bibliography......Page 230
Additional Models......Page 238
About Interaction Associates......Page 249
About the Interaction Institute for Social Change......Page 250
B......Page 252
C......Page 253
E......Page 254
G......Page 255
I......Page 256
M......Page 257
O......Page 258
P......Page 259
R......Page 260
S......Page 261
T......Page 262
W......Page 263
About the Author......Page 266

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