Unlocking the Possible with Collaboration

by David B. Savage

Table of Contents

Guests
Foreword
What is Creating Shared Value, Critical Thinking, and Collaboration?
Define your personal values as a successful collaborative leader
Chapter 1 Collaboration and Leadership featuring Bob Acton and David Mitchell
Chapter 2 Collaboration and Sports featuring Tristen Chernove and Martin Parnell
Chapter 3 Collaboration and Organizational Culture featuring Mike Thompson and Stephen Hobbs
Chapter 4 Collaboration, Company Dispute Resolution, and Mindfulness featuring Julie Murray
Chapter 5 Collaboration and Critical Thinking in This Age of Lies featuring Doreen Liberto and Chuck Rose
Chapter 6 Collaboration, Europe and Rotary International featuring Elisabeth Delaygue Bevan and Florian Wackermann
Chapter 7 Collaboration and Human Sexual Trafficking featuring Lance Kadatz and Cliff Wiebe
Chapter 8 Collaboration, Human Resources and Global Networks featuring Amy Schabacker Dufrane and Japman Bajaj
Chapter 9 Collaboration, The Secret Marathon and Going the Extra Mile featuring Kate McKenzie, Shawn Anderson, and Martin Parnell
Chapter 10 Collaboration, Leadership and Disruptive Technologies featuring Jim Gibson
Chapter 12 Collaborative Global Initiative Tool Kit featuring Barry Wilson, Doreen Liberto, and Jeff Cohen
Chapter 13 One Yes, One Thing, One Dream featuring Deva Premal and Miten, Klara Fenlof, Robert Stewart, Sara Amos and Quinn Amos
Chapter 14 Unlocking the Possible featuring Ken Cloke and Duncan Autrey
Break Through To The Collaborative Podcast Series
Acknowledgements
About the Author;

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 Unlocking the Possible within a Culture of Collaboration.

Kindle Edition

Published November 7, 2017

About the author

“David Savage is deeply insightful and highly intuitive. He is a skilled and highly regarded practitioner with a strong sense of ethics and values. He has a profound commitment to personal and organizational transformation and can be counted on to be honest, resourceful, and supportive. I recommend him highly.” Ken Cloke, Founder Mediators Beyond Borders and Author of The Dance of Opposites.

David’s speaking, workshops, and writing highlights include;

Transforming Bad Communication to Great Break Throughs
Business on Purpose,
Turning the Great Resignation into Your Great Opportunity,
Nobody Gets to be Right: How to Lead through Curiosity,
Leading as a Positive Conflict Resolver: Don’t be an A.C.E. Hole,
How to Produce Better Outcomes through Well Designed Collaborations, and
Creating Shared Value is the Way: Collaboration is the Path.
David brings expertise, experience, and leadership including oil and gas, renewable energy, health care, entrepreneurship, stakeholder engagement, business development, coaching, and conflict management.

David is President, Savage Management Ltd., Advisor, The Canadian Energy and Climate Nexus, Director, Waterton Glacier International Peace Park Association and Chair Conservation and Environment Committee Waterton Glacier I.P.P.A.

Past Director/ Chair/ President roles include the ?aq’am (St. Mary’s Indian Band) Community Enterprises, Rotary Club of Cranbrook Sunrise, Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group (District 5080), Canadian Association of Professional Speakers Calgary, Heart and Stroke Foundation Alberta, Nunavut and NWT, Petroleum Joint Venture Association (President) and Mediators Beyond Borders International- Canada.

David’s nine published books include Better by Design: Your Best Collaboration Guide, Break Through to Yes: Unlocking the Possible within a Culture of Collaboration 2018 Edition, The Collaborative Podcast Series, Ready Aim Excel! And Company to Company Dispute Resolution Council published the Let’s Talk Handbook. David’s tv appearances and podcasts offer you over 55 opportunities to learn.

david@davidbsavage.com / 403-466-5577 / https://www.davidbsavage.com/ Let’s talk.