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Summary

In our increasingly interconnected world, its not the  biggest or best-managed organizations that win; its the best  networked groups that triumph those that move faster and  more innovatively than stand-alone competitors toward ambitious  objectives. Individual excellence is being replaced by  collaborative excellence. Unfortunately, few know how to  collaborate in a high performance way, how to hold a coalition  together as pressures threaten to tear it asunder, how to overcome  one partners desire to dominate other partners and impose  his will, or how to secure a zealous commitment to collaborative  problem solving when the entire group benefits more than any  individual member. Typically, a successful approach to  collaboration has been marked as a simple willingness to work with  others. In the world of low-level tasks, this perspective is fine.  However, if the stakes are high, the partners are diverse and  success requires a network among unnatural collaborators, a more  sophisticated approach is required.   As the former Governor of Utah and U.S. Secretary of Health and  Human Services, Mike Leavitt has first-hand experience with  building these kinds of high-level collaborations. In his current  career as a corporate and government consultant, he teaches  executives at all levels how to build the high performance  collaborative enterprises he and business partner Rich McKeown call  Value Nets.  Successful Value Nets require the presence of 8 elements that  bring and keep people together: Common Pain (a shared  problem or opportunity); A Convener of Stature (a respected  and influential presence); Representatives of Substance  (collaborators with the right mix of experience and expertise);  Committed Leaders (to keep a collaboration moving over the  rough patches); A sense of movement (toward an  important destination); A Formal Charter (established rules  that help resolve differences and avoid stalemates, A Clearly  Defined Purposea driving idea that keeps people on task  rather than being sidetracked by complexity, ambiguity and other  distractions; A Common Information Base (to avoid divisive  secrets and opaqueness).  Drawing from the authors' unique experience, The 8  Elements of Collaboration features examples from supply  chains in manufacturing, marketing alliances among airlines,  bundled pricing networks among healthcare providers, creditors who  form networks to protect their investments, businesses struggling  to form enterprise solutions across departments, government  agencies collaboratively solving problems with other agencies,  environmental clean ups among adversaries, standards created by  competitors to achieve a better outcome for all, and treaties among  competing nations. Leaders in every sector of the economy  intuitively see the value of bringing together competitors,  scientists, activists, government representatives and others to  forge solutions to problems they cant solve on their own.  Whether its an auto company executive seeking to increase  the percentage of alternative fuel vehicles manufactured or an  educational leader trying organize a charter schools in an inner  city neighborhood, collaborations are essential, and a viable  collaborative process is critical. This book will give them those  tools.

Duration: about 8 hours (07:36:18)
Publishing date: 2020-10-11; Unabridged; Copyright Year: 2020. Copyright Statment: —

• Business & Economics