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“Collaborative Leadership – Lessons from failure” – A Socia article published in the Developing HR strategy journal (418.0 kB)
Today’s interdependent world needs leaders who can get people and organisations working together across internal and external boundaries. But many traditional leadership role models are far from being collaborative. This article highlights four leadership stereotypes and looks at how the behaviour that may have taken them far in their chosen career can prove disastrous in a collaborative venture. It then goes on to identify six attributes that underpin future collaborative leadership success.

Tough times call for collaborative leaders (45.9 kB)
The paper analyses five areas of development for a collaborative leader with regard to conflict: understanding your own relationship to conflict; understanding the needs of groups; holding difficult conversations; finding the greater good; and mediating in other people's conflict. In each case it proposes practical steps to help leaders and development professionals handle these issues. (Copies of the full article are available to purchase from the I&CT website)

The new frontier (416.8 kB)
In this issue of Public Service Magazine, David and Alex argue that public sector leaders are bringing together interconnected groups to deliver results across traditional boundaries.

The Collaboration Spectrum (793.5 kB)
Socia’s presentation on 'The Collaboration Spectrum' at The Academy for Justice Commissioning high profile seminar on 17th June, is featured in their newsletter.

When Times are Tough, Check Your Partners Measure Up (990.7 kB)
Business Leadership Review feature article on the book by David and Alex: Collaborative Leadership: How to succeed in an interconnected world ...Across the public and private sector leaders are betting the future of their businesses on their ability to work in partnership and deliver results across boundaries...

The five key skills of Collaborative Leaders (2,965.0 kB)
Now that our book is published in the States, we were asked by Leadership Excellence to summarize the key skills of this particular collaborative approach Leadership which we believe is so important in these difficult and interdependent times. (See page 9 in the PDF)

The Rise of Collaborative Working (186.1 kB)
In an exclusive extract from their new book Collaborative Leadership, authors David Archer and Alex Cameron discuss Visa’s record-breaking IPO and how collaborative efforts can help stave off the direst predictions of climate change.

The Challenges of Collaboration (81.2 kB)
Collaborative leaders have to pull off a difficult balancing act: Respecting and valuing the differences of colleagues, while, at the same time, smoothing out some of those differences in the interests of making the business relationships work more efficiently. But the payoff is often business success now and in the future. It's up to HR leaders to help make such collaboration occur.

Collaborative leadership in times of change (48.2 kB)
For leaders, employees or citizens the scale of our interdependence is ever more apparent, the connections are getting wider and the speed of impact ever quicker. Read the article (Opens browser link)

Building better relationships (265.3 kB)
David and Alex explain how they have applied the principles of MBTI to organisations

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In his book, The Age of Paradox, Charles Handy looks at the concept of dual citizenship in organisations, which we explore in the context of partnership.

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