Working Across Boundaries: Making Collaboration Work in Government and Nonprofit Organizations (JOSSEY BASS NONPROFIT & PUBLIC MANAGEMENT SERIES) - Hardcover

Linden, Russell M.

 
9780787964306: Working Across Boundaries: Making Collaboration Work in Government and Nonprofit Organizations (JOSSEY BASS NONPROFIT & PUBLIC MANAGEMENT SERIES)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0787964301 ISBN 13: 9780787964306
Verlag: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Working Across Boundaries is a practical guide for nonprofit and government professionals who want to learn the techniques and strategies of successful collaboration. Written by Russell M. Linden, one of the most widely recognized experts in organizational change, this no nonsense book shows how to make collaboration work in the real world. It offers practitioners a framework for developing collaborative relationships and shows them how to adopt strategies that have proven to be successful with a wide range of organizations. Filled with in-depth case studies—including a particularly challenging case in which police officers and social workers overcome the inherent differences in their cultures to help abused children—the book clearly shows how organizations have dealt with the hard issues of collaboration. Working Across Boundaries includes

  • Information on how to select potential partners
  • Guidelines for determining what kinds of projects lend themselves to collaboration and which do not
  • Suggestions on how to avoid common pitfalls of collaboration
  • Strategies proven to work consistently
  • The phases most collaborative projects go through
  • The nature of collaborative leadership

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Russell M. Linden is a management educator specializing in organizational change. He is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Virginia, University of Maryland, and Federal Executive Institute. For over twenty years he has helped government, nonprofit, and private sector organizations develop leadership, foster innovation, and improve performance. He writes a column on management innovations for the Virginia Review, and is the author of Seamless Government (Jossey-Bass, 1994). Clients have included the National Geographic Society, several intelligence agencies, the U.S. Department of State, two state attorneys generals, two foreign governments, and many nonprofit and government agencies.

Aus dem Klappentext

If we are to solve today's complex problems urban sprawl, drug abuse, low-performing schools, global warming, inadequate transportation, and terrorism public and nonprofit agencies must be able to cut across agency and professional boundaries and work collaboratively.
Working Across Boundaries is a practical guide for nonprofit and government professionals who want to learn the techniques and strategies of successful collaboration. Written by Russell M. Linden, one of the most widely recognized experts in organizational change, this no nonsense book shows how to make collaboration work in the real world. It offers practitioners a framework for developing collaborative relationships and shows them how to adopt strategies that have proven to be successful with a wide range of organizations. Filled with in-depth case studies including a particularly challenging case in which police officers and social workers overcome the inherent differences in their cultures to help abused children the book clearly shows how organizations have dealt with the hard issues of collaboration. Working Across Boundaries includes

  • Information on how to select potential partners
  • Guidelines for determining what kinds of projects lend themselves to collaboration and which do not
  • Suggestions on how to avoid common pitfalls of collaboration
  • Strategies proven to work consistently
  • The phases most collaborative projects go through
  • The nature of collaborative leadership
Working Across Boundaries explores the interpersonal and organizational forces that often inhibit collaboration and offers government and nonprofit leaders the tools to combat those forces. This important resource shows readers how they can create a collaborative culture in their agencies and work across boundaries with others, in order to deal with complex, cross- cutting challenges.

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Verlag
Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0787964301
ISBN 13 
9780787964306
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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