Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together

Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working TogetherAn important and useful skill: In education, collaborative classroom learning is replacing head to head competition. In business, the best leaders are team builders who can inspire great group efforts. Tharp uses her decades of experience to explain why teamwork is a superior way of working for some of us and inevitable for almost all of us. . The essential lessons of group effort: Tharp takes readers through the most common varieties of

- An important and useful skill: In education, collaborative classroom learning is replacing head-to-head competition. In business, the best leaders are team-builders who can inspire great group efforts. Tharp uses her decades of experience to explain why teamwork is a superior way of working for some of us and inevitable for almost all of us. .

- The essential lessons of group effort: Tharp takes readers through the most common varieties of collaborations, including working with a partner, with institutions and middlemen, outside your expertise, in a virtual partnership, with a friend, with someone who outranks you, plus how to deal with toxic collaborators, and much more..

- Examples from one of America's greatest collaborators: Twyla Tharp shows how she built successful collaborations with Jerome Robbins, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Frank Sinatra, Billy Joel, Elvis Costello, David Byrne, Milos Forman, and four generations of great dancers..

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 02/16/2013
ISBN: 9781416576518
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 7.00w x 0.60d