Leading Collaborative Organizations : Insights into Guiding Horizontal Organizations

Societies face many challenges that are too complex to be solved by the public, private, and nonprofit sectors each acting alone.

These sectors are increasingly working together to address burgeoning healthcare needs, international threats, energy shortages, and much more. Regardless of what sector you work in, this guidebook provides proven strategies to successfully collaborate with a variety of individuals and organizations. You can learn to

• overcome leadership challenges that go along with collaboration;
• change your thinking in ways that cultivate success;
• understand the difference between various types of collaborative organizations;
• apply experience-based guiding principles on public-private partnerships.

This guide offers background on leading different types of organizations and case studies on leaders that have successfully collaborated with others while avoiding common pitfalls.

From addressing national health-care needs and building modern sports arenas to bringing bullet trains on line and conserving natural habitats, there are so many goals that can only be met when organizations work together. Private, public, and nonprofit sector leaders and employees need to make the most of their endeavors by learning the lessons and strategies in Leading Collaborative Organizations.

Tyrus Ross Clayton holds a PhD from the University of Southern California. He worked eight years for a naval research and development laboratory before joining the faculty at his alma mater, where he is an emeritus professor and dean. He is also the co-author of Managing Public Systems, published by Duxbury Press, and coeditor of Futures of the Past published by iUniverse. He lives in Rocklin, California.