The Collaborative Habit Life Lessons for Working Together
The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together by Twyla Tharp, published by Simon & Schuster on February 16, 2013, offers insights into the importance of collaboration in various settings. This 168-page book discusses how teamwork has become a vital skill in both education and business, emphasizing that effective leaders are those who can inspire group efforts. Tharp draws on her extensive experience in the performing arts to illustrate why collaborative work is essential for many individuals and increasingly necessary for everyone.
Readers will find practical guidance on navigating different types of collaborations, including partnerships, institutional collaborations, and virtual teamwork. Tharp addresses challenges such as dealing with toxic collaborators and working with individuals who may outrank you. Through examples from her own career, including collaborations with renowned figures like Jerome Robbins and Mikhail Baryshnikov, the book provides a comprehensive look at the dynamics of working together effectively. The text is presented in English and is designed to be accessible to anyone interested in enhancing their collaborative skills.
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• 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..
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