Collaborate Better (6-Minute Smarts) - Softcover

Mashek, Deb

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788608151 ISBN 13: 9781788608152

Publisher: Practical Inspiration Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

You know you need to collaborate to achieve complex goals. You also know collaboration is a slog. Why is it so hard? Because none of us are ever taught this fundamental business skill. Deb Mashek is here to change all that. Discover how to apply relationship science to make every workplace collaboration less painful and more productive - in just 6 minutes!

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About the Author

Dr. Deb Mashek, PhD is an experienced professor, higher education administrator, and national nonprofit executive. Named one of the Top 35 Women in Higher Education by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, she has been featured in media outlets including The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Hechinger Report, Inside Higher Ed, Fortune, Reason, Business Week, University Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, and The Hill. She writes regularly for Psychology Today. Previously Full Professor of Social Psychology at Harvey Mudd College, Deb served as the college’s Associate Dean for Faculty Development and as the founding Director of the Claremont College’s Office of Consortial Academic Collaboration. She served as the inaugural Executive Director of Heterodox Academy, a national nonprofit advancing constructive disagreement on college campuses. Having garnered over $3 million in grant funding to support collaborative projects, Deb serves on the board of BridgeUSA, is a Senior Fellow at Claremont Graduate University, and teaches at Dennison Edge, a “high-touch learning environment where industry experts help liberal arts students and recent graduates acquire the skills and knowledge to launch into, pivot toward, or accelerate their preferred career.” Deb is the founder of Myco Consulting LLC, where she speaks, advises, and facilitates workshops on applying relationship science to help teams build healthy and effective collaborations so that they can accomplish ambitious goals. A member of both the Association for Collaborative Leadership and the International Coaching Federation, Deb has been an invited speaker on collaboration and viewpoint diversity at leading organizations including the United Nations, the American Psychological Association, the Council of Independent Colleges, and the Association of American Colleges & Universities. Originally from North Platte, NE, Deb lives in Staten Island, NY with her son. Author location: Staten Island, New York, 10301

From the Back Cover

You know you need to collaborate to achieve complex goals. You also know collaboration is a slog. Why is it so hard? Because none of us are ever taught this fundamental business skill.

Deb Mashek is here to change all that. Discover how to apply relationship science to make every workplace collaboration less painful and more productive - in just 6 minutes!

Edition details

• Publisher: Practical Inspiration Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788608151
• ISBN 13: 9781788608152
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120