Finding Allies, Building Alliances: 8 Elements that Bring—and Keep—People Together

CONCLUSION

A TIME FOR GREAT COLLABORATIONS

The opportunities to collaborate are numerous and multiplying, but capitalizing on them requires reliance on a structured and disciplined methodology. In this book we outline an adaptable framework of eight key criteria that must exist for successful collaborative efforts—criteria that can also be used to evaluate invitations you receive to participate in such efforts. While collaboration has always existed, this book is devoted to the proposition that collaboration is a skill or competency that can be improved with study, practice, and experience, and that current business environments dictate that now ...