Lateral Leadership: Getting Things Done When You’re NOT the Boss - Hardcover

Fisher, Roger; Sharp, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002558815 ISBN 13: 9780002558815

Publisher: HarperCollins Business, 1998

Synopsis

World-renowned international peace negotiator Roger Fisher, who co-wrote the international bestseller Getting to Yes, has now written the definitive guide to getting results when you have to work with others.

In today’s business environment, everyone has to work with others who can’t be told what to do. Too often the result is disorganization, with little accomplished.

No one can accomplish all their goals on their own – we all have to work with others, a problem that is becoming more acute as organizations become more horizontal. Yet collaboration can be difficult. People have different ideas and approaches, and conflict is inevitable.

Roger Fisher, the world’s foremost negotiator in government and business situations, has teamed up with UK management consultant Alan Sharp to write the definitive guide to getting results when you have to do things with others – no matter what the task or situation.

Lateral Leadership spells out the detailed strategies necessary to work effectively and productively in a team, from the early stages of a project and the building of a common purpose, through the unavoidable conflicts of multiple views and work styles, describing step by step how to build up the portfolio of leadership skills you need if you want to get the best out of others – at any level.

A practical, inspirational and highly readable handbook, aimed as much at junior executives as at CEOs, it is littered with lively anecdotes, rather in the style of the One Minute Manager series and The Tao of Coaching.

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From the Back Cover:

The definitive guide to getting results when you have to work with others – by the world-renowned international peace negotiator, co-author of bestselling 'Getting to Yes'

No one can accomplish all their goals on their own – we all have to work with others, a problem that is becoming more acute as organizations become more horizontal. Yet collaboration can be difficult. People have different ideas and approaches, and conflict is inevitable.

Roger Fisher, international peace negotiator and co-author of the classic 'Getting to Yes', has teamed up with UK management consultant Alan Sharp to write the ultimate guide to getting things done with others – no matter what the task or situation.

'Lateral Leadership' spells out the detailed strategies necessary to work effectively and productively in a team, from the early stages of a project and the building of a common purpose, through the unavoidable conflicts of multiple views and work styles. Fisher and Sharp describe step by step how to build up the portfolio of leadership skills you require if you want to get the best out of others – at any level.

Practical, inspirational and peppered with lively anecdotes, 'Lateral Leadership' is a highly readable and effective handbook for those who need to get results.

Synopsis:

Most people have to work with others. But collaboration can be difficult - people have different ideas and approaches. Fisher and Sharp have written a guide to getting results when you have to do things with others - no matter what the task is. They spell out the detailed strategies necessary to work effectively and productively in a team, from the early stages of a project and the building of a common purpose, through the unavoidable conflicts of m ultiple views and work styles, describing step-by-step how to build up a portfolio of leadership skills you need if you want to get the best out of others - at any level.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Business
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0002558815
• ISBN 13: 9780002558815
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208