The Collaboration Challenge

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"Austin has uncovered the common elements and key strategiesthat make for effective collaborations.... He gained unprecedentedaccess to the decision makers who instituted and managed thesealliances and who provide firsthand accounts of their successes,trials, and lessons learned.... In The CollaborationChallenge, he illuminates these key lessons for all leaders,and makes it possible for each of us to meet the collaborationchallenge." --Frances Hesselbein, chairman of the board ofgovernors, The Drucker Foundation, and John C. Whitehead, founder,The John C. Whitehead Fund for Not-for-Profit Management, HarvardBusiness School "Austin has performed a valuable service for nonprofitorganizations and their corporate partners by illuminating thedynamics of successful relationships. His useful book deserves tobe widely read by leaders in both sectors concerned aboutincreasing the effectiveness of their social action agenda." --Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School,author of World Class and Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the Frontiers ofManagement "The entire nonprofit sector has been searching for theexpertise and tools this book provides. Nothing else like itexists." --Bill Shore, executive director of Share-Our-Strengthand author of The Cathedral Within and Revolution of theHeart "It's hard to imagine managers crafting a leading partnershipand not applying all this book has to offer. It does a fantasticjob in offering leaders crisp principles to be applied innavigating the landscape of collaborations." --Ken Freitas, vice president of social enterprise,Timberland Company "Superbly provides a framework of order and understanding. Iwish I had had this book to share with staff and board membersduring my tenure at Outward Bound. It will accelerate the comingtogether of the sectors." --Allen Grossman, Bloomberg Senior Lecturer inPhilanthropy, Harvard University, and former CEO of OutwardBound "The book provides wonderful case studies, strong insights, andsolid frameworks that I plan to use in my own nonprofit course nextyear." --Marc Lindenberg, dean and professor, Evans School ofPublic Affairs, University of Washington, and former senior vicepresident of CARE "A very timely book of landmark collaborations betweennonprofits and businesses set within conceptual frameworks thatprovide both academics and practitioners guidance on how to makealliances better." --Alan R. Andreasen, professor of marketing, McDonoughSchool of Business, Georgetown University, and author ofMarketing Social Change