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Linden is a management educator and consultant with some 20 years of experience working with government, nonprofit, and private sector organizations. His text is designed to help practitioners examine the obstacles to collaboration between organizations, and to adopt strategies leading to successful cooperation, in order to better serve their customers and communities. Coverage includes an overview of the topic, a framework for effective collaboration, and a discussion of relevant leadership issues. For leaders and managers in government and nonprofit entities, people now in the workforce looking to move up into leadership roles, and for academics and their students. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Working Across Boundaries is a practical guide for nonprofit and government professionals who want to learn the techniques and strategies of successful collaboration. Written by Russell M. Linden, one of the most widely recognized experts in organizational change, this no nonsense book shows how to make collaboration work in the real world. It offers practitioners a framework for developing collaborative relationships and shows them how to adopt strategies that have proven to be successful with a wide range of organizations. Filled with in-depth case studies—including a particularly challenging case in which police officers and social workers overcome the inherent differences in their cultures to help abused children—the book clearly shows how organizations have dealt with the hard issues of collaboration. Working Across Boundaries includes Information on how to select potential partnersGuidelines for determining what kinds of projects lend themselves to collaboration and which do notSuggestions on how to avoid common pitfalls of collaborationStrategies proven to work consistentlyThe phases most collaborative projects go throughThe nature of collaborative leadership
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