Why Managers Don't Collaborate - Andrew Humphries

This book is an innovative and controversial approach to dispel the baseless myths that are preventing managers of organizations from moving forward and reaping the benefits of collaboration. Compared to most publications on the market, this book is packed with the rich results of 20 years of research. It is based on over 200 studies in a wide variety of public, private, and international settings and over 4000 quotations gathered from interviews with managers. Many have been selected to illustrate the case studies and key points in the book. Collaboration has been presented as a serious business strategy for at least 50 years. Scads of books, papers, and conferences by consultants, academics, institutes, associations, and governments have trumpeted its benefits, and many online discussion channels are extolling the same messages. This book faces off against all this gung-ho hype that has patently failed in most alliance cases to achieve the full extent of the potential return,s such as improved revenues, reduced costs, greater market share, access to specialized know-how, and increased resilience in difficult economic conditions. The authors have looked at over 200 organizations in many industries and public sectors across the world, and in most cases, they have claimed they are collaborating, but it is not happening. This is the first Big Myth. The second Big Myth is that managers ignore it because they don’t have the foresight to realize how collaboration will ben
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