The Collaboration Imperative: Executive Strategies for Unlocking Your Organization's True Potential

Do you want to lead the kind of company that can quickly seize any opportunity and solve any problem? The Collaboration Imperative: Executive Strategies for Unlocking Your Organization's True Potential offers valuable executive strategies to unleash the hidden assets trapped inside your company-from talent and experience to the right answer and the next big idea. Free these assets through increased collaboration and you build a world-class organization that can tackle market opportunities with lightning speed. Written by two seasoned Cisco executives, Ron Ricci and Carl Wiese, The Collaboration Imperative outlines actionable strategies for how you can: Create a culture that encourages collaboration Build processes to streamline collaboration from top to bottom Use collaboration technology to achieve tangible results In The Collaboration Imperative, you will learn: Why collaboration is the biggest opportunity of the next decade How you can become a chief catalyst for collaboration How to develop authentic communicators at every level How to get teams aligned and working toward a shared vision How to make the most of meetings in an increasingly dispersed work world What technologies are available to foster collaboration Which common business activities are most ripe for collaborative transformation How to ensure the maximum return on your collaboration investments How you can become a truly collaborative leader Collaboration Imperative includes case studies from a number of leading companies-from General Electric to Duke University to Best Buy and more. It also features interviews with collaboration thought leaders such as Morten Hansen (author of Collaboration), Thomas Malone (author of The Future of Work) and Andrew McAfee (author of Enterprise 2.0).