Chapter 3. Who Are Collaborative Leaders?

To promote a collaboration culture, we have to engage leaders who are ardent evangelists of this style of working. If you are already a firm believer in collaborative leadership in project management and in teamwork, you may want to reflect on the path that led you to this particular leadership style. What was it about your successful and non-successful previous projects that influenced your style? And, given what we now know about the strength of collaboration cultures, what leadership fundamentals did you apply toward collaboration that absorbed what you learned from the past?

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