Opinion

Interesting review of Stephen Covey’s new book ‘The 3rd Alternative’ which promotes the idea of win-win collaboration. We think that perhaps for the first time he’s behind the curve on this stuff.

Interesting review of Stephen Covey’s new book ‘The 3rd Alternative’

Network Rail is responding to the need for collaboration across the rail sector by achieving the new British Standard for collaborative working BS11000.

Network Rail is responding to the need for collaboration

The CEO of Norway’s largest oil company StatOil highlights the imperative for greater cross industry collaboration in a recent presentation - “There needs to be more collaboration, we need to show leadership and take responsibility. All this will create trust”

The CEO of Norway’s largest oil company StatOil highlights the imperative for greater cross industry collaboration

A new alliance with big ambitions – GM cars and Peugeot –Citroen aim to save 2bn euros in five years! The global car industry is getting increasingly interconnected.

A new alliance with big ambitions

The founder of LinkedIn shares his ‘Theory of small gifts’ in this intriguing article. He has some important messages on altruism and how to make alliances really work.

Connections with Integrity

Jon Katzenbach discusses how to make top teams the hub of the enterprise. Great article but perhaps not enough about building trust.

Jon Katzenbach: The Right Role for Top Teams

New Hay Group report on public/private partnerships highlights some familiar issues. Comparing their questions on page 10 with our own Partnering Performance Indicator suggests that great minds think alike!

New Hay Group report

‘Fails to build relationships’ is the factor that contributed most to the failure of senior leaders – so says a new global leadership survey from Manpower Group. We see once again that collaboration matters to leaders.

Global leadership survey from Manpower Group

Hear Harvard Law Prof Yochai Benkler talking about his fascinating new book The Penguin and the Leviathan on how and when collaboration beats self-interest as a model for understanding human behaviour.

Harvard Law Prof Yochai Benkler: The Penguin and the Leviathan

A major academic study into the needs for collaborative governance and leadership amongst senior members of the US Government Administration has produced some ‘surprising findings’ (see pages 23 – 25 of their report). They don’t seem that surprising to us!

US Government Administration Report (see pages 23-25)

The leaders of Greece and Italy are experiences the challenges of ‘dual citizenship’ just now. We know the pressure of getting your own people behind an external collaboration is a challenge for business leaders too.

Points of interdependence

Unilever, Sainsbury and other top retailers see the value of collaboration when it comes to developing sustainability initiatives. We agree with Marketing Week’s analysis but retailers will need to draw on all their collaborative leadership attributes to make it work.

Collaborative leadership attributes

Six smart rules from the latest edition of HBR to help foster collaboration in a complex world. But at Socia we believe it’s the actions of leaders’ that really make the difference.

Six smart rules from the latest edition of HBR

The leader of the future is not just one exceptional person, it's several working together - so says the results of Hay Groups global leadership 2030 survey. But are your leaders ready to collaborate? – see a video on their findings.

Are you ready to share your leadership vision?

On-line collaboration tools are all the rage but don’t always bring out the best in people. See 9 types of collaborators and how they fail a real collaborative leadership test

9 types of collaborators and how they fail