Mastering the Art of Creative Collaboration

I have found especially helpful the "7 building blocks", and "Tools" sections that have provided in a detailed format a framework and ideas to work with. The only negative part about this book is that the author overuses the example of Israel-Palestinian security talks. Examples from various disciplines and areas would improve and shape authors ideas much better by providing different perspectives.

I read Robert Hargrove's book on Masterful Coaching which focused on the individual, and prayed he would write one on collaboration. Not your cookie cutter approach to business books . . Great stories about how creative collaboration can lead to radical innovation in any business, political breakthroughs in the Middle East, transforming your local school system.Our elected representatives in Washington could learn alot from the simple, powerful how to principles and techniques offered here!

I was really inspired by this book and would highly recommend it to anyone who has dreams of creating something with others who may see the world differently. Hargrove paints a picture of what collaboration is that is very distinct and that is brought to life with some facinating examples--what he calls interludes. I especially liked the one on the Mid East Peace Accord and found it relevant to what is happening there now. Hargrove's guidelines for building a collaboration and for having collaborative conversations have been a lifesaver in the project that I am working on. They make a lot of sense and have been easy to apply. I can see why so many of the teams that I have worked on were not as successful as I would have liked. Thank you for a wonderful book that is fun to read and loaded with useful tools!

My basis is a long career as manager of cross organizational "first time" projects in technology and post graduate education. In his book, Mastering the art of Creative Collaboration, Robert Hargrove finally describes and labels the tools and techniques needed for success with that kind of projects.It is all there :- the determination to reach an "impossible goal" - the cooperation between "smart people with great ego's" - to find the best players for your team - to engage in partnership only if both sides see the spark - the (project) leader role as strategist and knowledge brokerand perhaps most important of all- the need to hire people who are "passionate, creative and bold".Thank you Robert Hargrave !

This book shows how the greatest breakthroughs of the twenty first century will not come from extraordinary people working in isolation but from bringing extraordinary, (creative) combinations of people together There are fascinating interludes of how creative collaboration has resulted in reaching goals and solving problems, previously thought difficult or impossible-the Internet, developed at Xerox Parc, and BBB & N,the Mars Project, the Israeli, Palestinian peace talks that resulted in the historic handshake on the White house lawn, and more. The book provides practical, step by step, universally applicable here's "how you do it" guidelines for helping any business organization build collaborative advantage. There's a simple recipe for creative collaboration as well as how to master the five phases of a collaborative conversation.