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Clear Leadership
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Clear Leadership

Sustaining Real Collaboration and Partnership at Work

Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2010
First Edition: 2001 mais...


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Applicable

Recommendation

A chapter in Something Happened, the 1974 novel by Joseph Heller, starts: “In the office in which I work there are five people of whom I am afraid. Each of these five people is afraid of four people (excluding overlaps) for a total of 20, and each of these 20 people is afraid of six people, making a total of 120 people who are feared by at least one person...[Everyone is] afraid of the 12 men at the top who helped found and build the company.” That’s a lot of fear. Does this environment sound familiar? Distrust, depression and anxiety are endemic in many organizations. According to professor and consultant Gervase R. Bushe, such negative emotions often result from the “interpersonal mush” that plagues offices. He details a program you can use to help eliminate the mush and create a workplace that fosters partnership and collaboration. getAbstract recommends Bushe’s intelligent, well-researched book to all executives, as well as to anyone who wants to learn how to relate to others honestly, openly and straightforwardly.

Take-Aways

  • Collaboration is replacing the old command-and-control workplace paradigm.
  • Because collaboration requires robust partnerships among employees, “interpersonal mush” can make it hard to sustain.
  • Interpersonal mush develops when colleagues invent stories about one another to explain puzzling attitudes, actions and behaviors.

About the Author

Gervase R. Bushe, Ph.D., is a leadership development consultant. He teaches leadership at the Segal Graduate School of Business at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.


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