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

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

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Manufacturer: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Author: David Straus
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 2002-09-09
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Label: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Number Of Pages: 250
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Editorial Review:
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.
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Customer Reviews
Average Customer Rating: 4.5

How to Make Collaboration Work 2007-08-16
I recommend this book to anyone who wants to work things out with their family, co-workers, managers, or any relationship you may have that requires collaboration.


Clear, well-organized guidance. 2005-02-23
This book does exactly what the title says it does. It provides clear, well-organized and specific guidance to building collaboration in a whole range of situations and between individuals, within groups and across organizations.

This book is likely to be useful whether you are a professional facilitator or simply someone who needs to get agreement with one or more others. Much of its advice is, of course, widely available elsewhere, but this is a good choice for a single reference. 


Terrific Book from a National Leader in Group Empowerment 2002-09-10
Just plain terrific. David Straus's second book is useful for anyone involved in groups, whether at work, at home, or in the community-- and isn't that all of us? He covers it all-- from very basic details such as how to arrange the furniture in your meeting room, to how to effect the most sophisticated interchanges between participants at the highest levels of authority. Whether you're in business, education, government,or consulting, you'll learn from Straus. He has worked with a wide range of clients, from Ford Motors and the E.P.A. to the City of Denver and the Boston public schools. Throughout the book, his warm personality, absolute candor, and wealth of anecdotes make his principles easy to understand and absorb. A really valuable book from a national leader in group empowerment.