The Foundations for Collaboration - Paperback

by David B. Savage (Author)

The Foundations for Collaboration is Book 1 of the Collaborative Podcast Series. This book is based on a series of podcasts by David B. Savage between 2015 and 2017. Table of Contents Forward Chapter 1 Finding Your Truth Chapter 2 10 Essential Steps to Collaboration Chapter 3 Great Leaders Know That They Don't Know Chapter 4 Global Book Release Celebration Chapter 5 EGOS Chapter 6 How Collaborative is my organization? Chapter 7 Collaboration is the Way; Shared Value is the Destination Chapter 8 Building Your Collaborative Culture Why Collaborate? We have seen many and repeated failures, sometimes with the cost of billions. These affect organizations and their capital projects and operations. When a company starts making mistakes, tries to force its agenda on others, or is in conflict with its own stakeholders, the consequences are significant. People revolt and profit margins are destroyed. Projects get delayed in regulatory and community review for extended lengths of time. Employees simply don't give their best because they do not trust the systems they work in especially when they have little influence in the processes or programs in which they are involved. The cost to organizations can be both internal and external disengagement, rejection by regulatory bodies and governments, rejection by impacted communities, and damage to the environment. Add to that a wide range of human cause including everything from the oppression, conflict, suicide, marital breakdown and career paralysis to the loss of intelligence and vision of the brightest people in your business, simply because they mentally check out when they come to work. All this means lost productivity, lost opportunities to grow and prosper, and distracted leaders and workers who no longer feel able to do good work. Leaders and organizations, however, can gain a strategic advantage by avoiding all of this energy and revenue-zapping negativity simply by working together to build a culture of collaboration. Collaboration is not an event, it's a culture. It's the way we work together. I am a lifelong student of how to get the right people in the right place with the right information in the right mindset to figure out how to conquer challenges and solve conflicts together. Collaboration is a new field of study and success. Collaboration must evolve. Let's learn together and make our world, communities, and families better. In this series; Book 1, The Foundation for Collaboration. Book 2: The Collaborative Guest Podcasts Book 3: The 10 Essential Steps of Collaboration Book 4: Unlocking the Possible with Collaboration Other books by David B. Savage include Break Through To Yes: Unlocking the Possible within a Culture of Collaboration.

Author Biography

David B. Savage brings over 42+ years expertise, experience, and leadership in oil and gas, renewable energy, healthcare, entrepreneurship, stakeholder engagement and conflict management. David B. Savage works with leaders and organizations to advance their success through collaboration, negotiation, conflict resolution, and business development. Savage's book Breakthrough to Yes: Unlocking the Possible within a Culture of Collaboration was published March 2016 and is available at major bookstores internationally in hardcover, eBook and Audible. Savage, also, hosts a weekly business radio show/ podcast; Breakthrough to Yes with Collaboration. In his book and podcasts, Savage has interviewed over 175 guest experts. An updated version will be published soon. The Collaborative Podcast Series is David's new series of four books and audiobooks. The Foundations for Collaboration, The Collaborative Guests, 10 Essential Steps for Collaboration and Unlocking the Possible. His co-shared book, Ready Aim Excel: 52 Leadership Lessons, is an international business bestseller on Amazon published in 2011. In 2003, David's Company to Company Dispute Resolution Council published the Let's Talk Handbook. In 2011, Think Sustain Ability published Sustain Magazine. Getting the right people, in the right places, with the right systems and right resources to collaborate, innovate and figure out challenges together is the best way. And, if that is not possible, then guiding the parties to the right people, principles, processes, and systems to ensure everyone's interests are heard and innovative outcomes are generated is the goal.