The Collaboration Response: Eight Axioms that Elicit Collaborative Action for A Whole Organization A Whole Community A Whole Society

by Gilbert Steil

There are extraordinary moments when people set aside their self-interest to take action that will benefit something larger than themselves: their extended family, company, community, or country. These moments are enormously important; they result from a deep and natural response to challenging conditions, a response that leads to solutions better than compromise.From Silicon Valley to villages in rural Asia, author Gil Steil has employed this natural collaboration response in leading summit meetings of all shapes and sizes for three decades. Within this book Gil presents eight simple axioms, which, when employed by leaders, enable the emergence of agreement and effective action in even the most horrendous of times.Stories that are true and surprisingly readable educate the reader about the social psychology of collaboration, and then the author shares genuinely practical tools for leading your own strategic planning meetings that elicit the collaboration response.

315 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

Reviews

[Nicole · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like this book for how it built more scaffolding in my facilitation brain. A lot of the axioms and advice inside is very useful in this insightful text. I appreciated the structure as so much of facilitating is relational communication and the tone and approach in this book matches that well. I’ll certainly keep this book as a valued reference for hopeful future consulting or org dev work I’ll do- and integrate the axioms into how I structure group processes as I approach retreats, trainings and meeting designs moving forward.