Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Build Common Ground, and Reap Big Results

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I have been fortunate to have received so much help from many people for the research behind this book and for the task of writing it. I would like to thank my coauthors who have worked with me over the years to produce academic and managerial articles that have provided the foundation for this book: Julian Birkinshaw, Martine Haas, Roger Lehman Bjorn Lovas, Louise Mors, Nitin Nohria, Joel Podolny, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Jasjit Singh, Thomas Tierney, and Bolko von Oetinger.

I have also been blessed with having had outstanding mentors in my career. Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer at Stanford Business School was the chair of my PhD committee at Stanford and has always provided great guidance in my research. Professor Nitin Nohria at Harvard ...