Mastering the Art of Creative Collaboration
Free Download of Chapter One: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Mastering the Art of Creative Collaboration takes collaboration way beyond its traditional frontier and focuses on its creative uses — something that is frequently left behind when collaboration is mandated.
Robert Hargrove offers groundbreaking advice that gives readers the tools to make any collaborative activity creative, productive, and rewarding.
The book provides a proven process for creative collaboration that starts with getting all stakeholders in the same room, identifying a problem, and then brainstorming exciting, thrilling breakthrough solutions.
Real life examples of breakthrough collaborations are introduced: Xerox PARC that brought us the computer mouse, the inspirational Mideast diplomacy that led to the Oslo Accord, and NASA’s Pathfinder Mission that landed a remote controlled rover on Mars.
Creative collaboration, when done correctly, can make the impossible, possible.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Creative Collaboration: An idea Whose Time Has Come
Interlude: The Mars Pathfinder Mission
Chapter Two: How to Become a Collaborative Person
Interlude: Passionate Diplomacy in the Middle East
Chapter Three: The Building Blocks of Creative Collaboration
Interlude: The Future of the Firm
Chapter Four: Close Encounters of the Creative Kind: Launching Your Collaboration
Interlude: Joan Holmes and the Hunger Project
Chapter Five: It Happens in Conversations: An Introduction
Chapter Six: The Five Phases of a Collaborative Conversation
Chapter Seven: Coaching Practical Applications, and Tools of Creative Collaboration