In Collaboration, author Morten Hansen takes aim at what many leaders inherently know: in today's competitive environment, companywide collaboration is an imperative for successful strategy execution, yet the sought-after synergies are rarely, if ever, realized. In fact, most cross-unit collaborative efforts end up wasting time, money, and resources. How can managers avoid the costly traps of collaboration and instead start getting the results they need?

In this book, Hansen shows managers how to get collaboration right through "disciplined collaboration"-- a practical framework and set...

A book based on over two decades of research and an ongoing longitudinal study on individual performance that answers the question of why some people deliver exceptional perfomance and others, often despite innate talent or external forces, do not, and what these out-performers do differently.