Finding Allies, Building Alliances

8 Elements that Bring--and Keep--People Together

Mike Leavitt, Rich McKeown

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781118247921
• eBook ISBN: 9781118282472
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Leadership
• Index: Business

From Governor and White House cabinet member Mike Leavitt: how to find collaborative solutions to the greatest challenges

Your business challenges extend far beyond you and your firm, to the competitors within your industry and the regulators outside it. Finding solutions to larger issues requires cooperation between diverse stakeholders, and in this rapidly changing world, only those able to adapt and network successfully will produce fast, competitive solutions.

How can leaders successfully bridge divides and turn competitors into collaborators? Leavitt and McKeown explain how a well-chosen network can become a powerful alliance. Whether you're launching a new partnership, or rehabilitating one already in progress, Finding Allies, Building Alliances will help you find workable solutions to the most complex problems.

• Written byMike Leavitt, former Governor of Utah who brought the 2002 Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City, former US Secretary of Health and human services, and former head of the EPA; with his former Chief of Staff and business partner Rich McKeown, co-founder of Leavitt Partners
• Includes a framework of 8 elements that will help any leader foster and maintain an effective, productive collaborative venture
• Shows how better collaboration can not only solve problems, but boost the competitiveness and resilience in all sectors

Finding Allies, Building Alliances is essential reading for any business leader looking for transformative solutions and a sustainable future.

INDEX

A

1. Abbott Labs
2. Abundance mentality
3. Accountability, moral
4. Accountability system, creating an
5. Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)
6. Accreditation dilemma
7. Ad hoc versus formalized collaborative efforts
8. Advisors, positions as, creating
9. Advocacy: consensus versus; public policy and, trend in
10. Affordable Care Act
11. Afghanistan
12. Africa
13. Agreement, reaching, capacity for
14. AIDS treatment, alliances forming to address
15. Air France
16. Air pollution, alliances addressing. See also Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP)
17. Airlines, value alliances created by
18. al Qaeda
19. Alignment, importance of
20. Alitalia Airlines
21. Alliance enterprises: business model of; defined; evolving beyond original concept; form adopted by; formal, as independent alliances; as the future and the present; governance of; key traits of; legal status of; within organizations, example of; overview of; validation-focused; various forms of. See also Value alliances
22. Alternates, designating
23. Alternative approaches, surfacing of, addressing
24. Altruism versus self-interest
25. American Health Information Community (AHIC)
26. Analysis paralysis
27. Animosity: high level of, as a barrier to collaboration, recognizing; long-standing, leadership diplomacy required for; shifting focus off of
28. Antagonistic debate
29. Anthrax-based terrorism, collaboration designed to respond to
30. Anticompetitive behavior, worries about
31. Anxiety, moderate
32. Arguing, constant. See also Debates
33. Articles of Confederation
34. Asia
35. Assumptions: common, defining; disagreement over, mitigating; evaluating, for commonality, when choosing alliances. See also Common ground
36. Astute perception, of conveners of stature
37. Attendance, diminishing, addressing
38. Authoritative substance
39. Authority: to discipline participants; motivating in the absence of; positional power and; recruiting diverse individuals with, for implementation
40. Automated hospital supply chain
41. Automated teller machine (ATM) networks
42. Average measures, use of
43. Aviation alliance

B

1. Babbitt, Bruce
2. Bank of America
3. Bankruptcy
4. Bargain, striking a
5. Barry, John
6. Baxter
7. Behavior, poor, responding to. See Disruptive behavior, addressing
8. Bias
9. Bienemu, Eric
10. “Big data”
11. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
12. Biomedical Advanced Research Development Authority
13. Blended decisions, putting together
14. Board of directors: meetings of the, section on, in formal charters; section on, in formal charters
15. Boeing
16. Bounded problems
17. Brainstorming, problem with
18. Brand: quality of the; shifting focus to the, of the new entity; trusted; tying together independent entities
19. Brazil
20. Break-off groups/alliances, addressing
21. Bureau of Land Management
22. Bush, George W.
23. Business model, permanent versus temporary
24. Buy-in

C

1. Capabilities, leaders matching resources and
2. Capitalism and democracy
3. Catmull, Ed
4. Certification Commission on Health Information Technology (CCHIT)
5. Change, enacting effectively, essential component of
6. Charisma
7. Charity Health Care System
8. Charter amendments, section on, in formal charters
9. Charters, formal. See Formal charters
10. China: and different norms; digital networks and supply chain involving; economic models of; food and drug safety issues with; large U.S. contracts involving work done in; market of; and market-based expansion
11. Clean Air Act
12. Clearly defined purpose: art of a; defined; focus provided by a, example of; importance of a; looking for a, when choosing alliances; overview of a; step-by-step guide to developing a; for successful purpose statements; time periods for creating a. See also Purpose
13. Clinton, Bill
14. Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)
15. Cloud storage system
16. Cognitive intelligence
17. Cognitive substance
18. Collaboration: among allies, as a skill; for cost savings; declaring a purpose before; diverse, potential conflict from, consideration of; formalized versus ad hoc; fragility of efforts involving, collaborative intelligence and; and freedom; good, factors essential to; invitation for, inability to turn down, meaning behind; numerous opportunities for; open-mindedness with regard to; polarization and; sociology of; sustained; and technology; trust facilitating
19. Collaborations, ongoing. See Alliance enterprises
20. Collaborative intelligence (CI): assessing collective; collective, described; crucial traits of; and diverse countries and cultures; and fragility of collaborative efforts; greater need for; levels of, identifying; low versus high; overview of; and responding to the low-CI individual; and selection of representatives; some aptitude in, as necessary; and what it is not
21. Collaborative networks: ability of; co...

Table of contents

• COVER
• CONTENTS
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT
• DEDICATION
• FOREWORD
• INTRODUCTION
• ONE: The Collaborative Foundation
• TWO: A Common Pain
• THREE: A Convener of Stature
• FOUR: Representatives of Substance
• FIVE: Committed Leadership
• SIX: A Clearly Defined Purpose
• SEVEN: A Formal Charter
• EIGHT: The Northbound Train
• NINE: Defining Common Ground
• TEN: Collaborative Intelligence
• ELEVEN: Alliance Enterprises
• TWELVE: Collaborative Competitive Edge
• CONCLUSION
• APPENDIX: WRAP CHARTER
• NOTES
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• ABOUT THE AUTHORS
• INDEX
• END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT