Bøger af David B. Savage

Collaboration is the new field of leadership. And it is evolving quickly. Now access the most current and collaborative book. Savage's updated book guides you through the business, social and environmental costs of bad collaboration, the roadblocks to collaboration, the 10 Essential Steps to Collaboration, Disruptive Technology, Team Assessments, getting beyond fake news, how to create a culture of innovation, create shared value, build on success and much more. Tired of the barriers and wasted resources? This is the breakthrough guide for you and your organization. David B. Savage's Break Through To Yes provides the key for real success- collaboration! -Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers 50 #1 Leadership Thinker in the World and Top 5 Management Thinker 2015. KIRKUS REVIEW Break Through To Yes: Unlocking the Possible within a Culture of Collaboration A book thoroughly examines the power of successful collaborations. Canadian collaboration expert Savage (a contributor to Ready, Aim, Excel, 2012) offers a work that couldn't be more timely. While it addresses organizational collaboration, this book could be interpreted more broadly as a treatise on building a cooperative culture within families, groups, businesses, and government. In a collection of concise chapters, Savage leads the reader through a discussion of the meaning and value of collaboration. The author supplements his own experiences over more than four decades with extensive quotes from experts and results from surveys that he conducted; in effect, he collaborated far and wide to garner input for this volume. Part One lays the groundwork by first exploring reasons for collaboration, why it fails, and what is required for effective collaboration. Part Two explores "The Discipline of Collaboration," addressing such issues as why collaboration is misunderstood, how to involve stakeholders, and why the practice demands "opening the mind...opening the heart...and opening the will." This section also delivers a useful assessment tool to determine the state of an organization's "collaborative ecosystem." In Part Three, Savage provides a comprehensive road map via 10 specific steps for implementing organizational collaboration. Beginning with "Step 1: Set Intention and Declare Your Purpose," and concluding with "Step 10: Make It So: Positively Change the Energy and the Future Together," the book systematically details each step and then summarizes to facilitate implementation. Part Four ("Break Through") offers a discussion of circles and teams and explains the rise of the "Chief Collaboration Officer" as a senior position, which, Savage writes, is "the greatest advance in organizational productivity in the knowledge economy." This engaging volume's Appendices contain additional worthy information, including quotes from experts (from Bryce Medd/Wealthy Tortoise Financial, British Columbia: "In the financial services realm, if the intention is to create one plan, a roadmap for a client, then only by collaboration can all of the various disciplines come together for the best interest of the client"). The Appendices also include an itemized list of "roadblocks to collaboration," and vital lessons the author has learned from some less-than-successful collaborative engagement startups. Highly readable, informative, and well-organized, this insightful work acts as a short-form textbook on the best practices in collaboration. A valuable volume for the senior leader of any group, business, or organization who wants to build a collaborative culture.

"When it comes to the often daunting challenge of collaboration, most leaders wish there was a handy guide available to help walk them through uncharted territory. Thankfully, David Savage has now produced just such a resource. His new book, Better by Design: Your Best Collaboration Guide., should be part of every leaders' toolkit. David Savage has produced a practical guide that promises to simplify the process of collaboration and enhance the outcomes of trusting relationships." David Mitchell, past CEO of the Canadian Public Policy Forum Why Buy and Use This Guide Book? "We can only meet our critical global and local challenges with collective intelligence." Roz Savage, MBE Work is challenging. Volunteer work is challenging. Life is challenging. And getting more complex every week. Yet, we expect to be more productive and successful each day. We know that we can achieve far more, far more effectively and efficiently when we work together well. But how do we do that? This book is your guide. Use it to: 1. Learn more about collaboration 2. Lead your teams 3. Generate, decide, design, assess, and complete your initiatives. This guide is your hands-on planner. I offer it to you so you can produce better outcomes. This is How To. And this book will become your ongoing reference. Contents include; Values and Ethics A Graphic Overview What is Collaboration? Why Collaboration Fails A Culture of Collaboration A Collaborative Process Key Elements How You Show up The 10 Essential Steps to Collaboration A Checklist An Assessment Your Examples and Decisions A Call to Action Better by Design is the 7th in my Break Through to Yes series on collaboration. 2016: Unlocking the Possible within a Culture of Collaboration 2017: The Foundations for Collaboration, The Collaborative Guests Podcasts, The 10 Essential Steps to Collaboration, and Unlocking the Possible with Collaboration 2018: Unlocking the Possible within a Culture of Collaboration (revised and updated), and Better by Design: Your Best Collaboration Guide My previous books, co-authored, are Ready Aim Excel: 52 Leadership Lessons (2012) and Let's Talk: A Company to Company Council Dispute Resolution Handbook (2004). My Sustain Magazine (2013) served organizations committed to the economic and social opportunities of sustainability. I realize there is a significant gap. That gap is the absence of a readily accessible, informative, and practical guide for you. You may not have the time or resources to bring together all the wisdom. And you still have dreams, aspirations, purpose, and teams to create, encourage, and accomplish. This Better by Design guidebook is intended to help you decide, design, assess, lead, and succeed in your initiatives and projects.