12The Future Collaborative Leader

Since we published the first edition of this book in 2009, collaborative leadership as a term and as a concept has moved on considerably. Back then it was just an emergent idea arising from studies of leadership in joint ventures, business alliances and public–private partnerships. Now the language of collaborative leadership is in regular use in management journals and the business pages of newspapers. A Google search or news alert for collaborative leadership will show a daily stream of ideas and comment about the particular leadership challenges that collaboration brings.

But while the term is in much wider circulation it is still not well understood. In this final chapter we look back at the lessons learned ...

Get Collaborative Leadership, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.