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Book Description

To succeed these days your organization must create amazing results.

Your employees and teams may be quite capable of handling their specific areas of focus, but unless you get them to work together, your products, services, and profits will suffer. While progress has been made, maximizing collaboration is still a challenge for many companies. They need a new approach.

Over the last quarter century, California’s Silicon Valley has become synonymous with building complex, successful businesses. Companies and leaders there have succeeded because they did more than apply existing business models—they created a new model for collaboration.

Dr. Thea Singer Spitzer has combined her longstanding expertise on this subject with innovative thinking, research, and focused interviews with Silicon Valley leaders to create a practical framework for the next epoch of collaboration. The Power of Collaboration shows how any company, anywhere, can adapt to achieve its goals. This cutting-edge title features:

  • Narratives about collaboration from top leaders in Silicon Valley.

  • A sensible, straightforward collaboration framework.

  • Positive, realistic hints for adapting that framework to your organization.


  • With The Power of Collaboration as your guide, those amazing results will be surprisingly easy to achieve.

    Table of Contents

    1. Cover
    2. Praise for The Power of Collaboration
    3. Title Page
    4. Copyright Page
    5. Dedication
    6. Acknowledgments
    7. Contents
    8. Introduction: Harmonizing Employee Efforts
    9. Chapter 1: The Power of Collaboration
    10. Chapter 2: Characteristics of Silicon Valley Collaborators
    11. Chapter 3: Stories of Successful Collaborations
    12. Chapter 4: The Silicon Valley Approach to Collaboration
    13. Chapter 5: Individual Skills that Enhance Collaboration
    14. Chapter 6: The First Two Individual Skills: Being True to Yourself and True to Others
    15. Chapter 7: The Other Individual Skills: Being True to the Work and True to the Company
    16. Chapter 8: Agile Work Process: Anyplace, Anytime
    17. Chapter 9: Other Vital Team Tools that Boost Collaboration
    18. Chapter 10: Architecting Your Management Practices
    19. Chapter 11: Employee Incentives
    20. Chapter 12: Access Enables Collaboration
    21. Chapter 13: Collaborative Ethos: The Secret Sauce in the SVAC
    22. Chapter 14: The End Is the Beginning
    23. Final Words
    24. Notes
    25. Bibliography
    26. Index
    27. About the Author