The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together

? 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..

Paperback: 168 pages

Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1 edition (February 16 2013)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1416576517

ISBN-13: 978-1416576518

Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.3 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces