Collaborations and networks rarely achieve their ambitious goals. Here’s what it takes to make them actually work.

By David Ehrlichman, David Sawyer, and Matthew Spence

Collaboration is appealing in concept but challenging in practice. While extensive resources — including ones from the Community Tool Box, The Intersector Project, and NewNetworkLeader.org — exist online to support collaborative efforts, the fact remains that we human beings are simply not very good at making “we” work. And yet, mo...