Collaborative Leader: Collaborating for Success, The [Paperback]

John L Mariotti (Author), John Mariotti (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 18, 2000 | ISBN-10: 1583760873 | ISBN-13: 978-1583760871

This handbook identifies the conditions that lead to a successful collaborative effort. The author shows you how to recognize the stages collaborative groups progress through, teaches you to move through those stages quickly, and demonstrates methods for heading off common problems such as resistance to change and interpersonal conflicts.

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From the Publisher

The decline of control and command demands that leaders master new skills.

In today's team-based, continuous-change-and-improvement organizations, you need to know how to work with and through others in new ways -- ways that not only save time and balance the workload, but also bring together the organization's best wisdom and know-how to affect successful change.

Whether you are a middle or upper manager, front line supervisor or occasional group leader, you can -- and, to be truly effective, you must --learn to lead through collaboration, not coersion. You must be able to establish powerful, effective working relationships with people at all levels.

Because these crucial new skills are seldom taught in the classroom or on the job, Berrett-Koehler, series editor Perry Pascarella, and a distinguished team of management professionals have created The Collaborative Leader series. Each of the six concise, jargon-free, and action-oriented handbooks breaks down an essential component of participative leadership, teaching the skills individuals must master and providing ready-to-use tools for effective collaboration.

Each booklet offers practical wisdom on a key component of leadership in today's business environment: *

Earning Trust *

Asserting Yourself Appropriately *

Mastering Your Priorities *

Collaborating for Success *

Involving Others in Problem Solving *

Unleashing the Power of Shared Dreams

Each of these booklets is approximately 32 pages, and sells for only $6.95 each-or you can order the complete set of six for only $37.50, a savings of over 10% off the single copy price.

Product Details

• Paperback: 36 pages
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers (July 18, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1583760873
• ISBN-13: 978-1583760871
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,938,218 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

John Mariotti is an award winning business author and an internationally recognized executive, consultant, keynote speaker. Mariotti started his career in the telecommunications industry, and was deeply involved in governmental affairs during parts of his career. He has written hundreds of articles and columns and nine non-fiction books. In "The Chinese Conspiracy" he merges an exciting fictional thriller with a factual reality of America's risk from Cyber-Attacks. His last business book, "The Complexity Crisis" was chosen as one of 2008's Best Business Books and also one of 2008's Best Books for Small Business.

John led major businesses first as President of Huffy Bicycles, which was the world leader in bikes, and then as Group President of Rubbermaid Office Products, when Rubbermaid was America's Most Admired Company.

In the 1980's and 1990's he was also Chairman of the Board of the Productivity Communications Center, Board Chairman of Goodwill Industries of Dayton (OH), and President of the Bicycle Institute of America, for which he represented the U.S. Bike industry in Washington with the International Trade Commission, the U. S. Trade Representative, the U. S. Customs Office, and members of Congress, dealing with Legislative, Trade and Product Safety issues.

Since founding The Enterprise Group in1994, he has served on multiple corporate boards and has advised leading American companies such as Emerson, Scotts, Titleist, DirtDevil, CharBroil, Hills Pet Nutrition and many others. More recently, he was non-Executive Chairman of World Kitchen, Inc., on whose board he still sits.

John is Founder of the Reunion Conference series, now in its 14th year. Since 2001 he has published THE ENTERPRISE, a weekly on-line newletter and web-blog. He holds a B. S. M. E., from Bradley University and an M. S. M. E. from the University of Wisconsin. He lives in the Columbus, OH area. John can be reached at www.mariotti.net or www.thechineseconspiracy.com