On April 7th Renault, Nissan and Daimler announced the sort of wide ranging strategic that would have been unthinkable even a few years ago in the ultra-competitive world of car manufacturing. Across many industry sectors leaders have learned that they can’t survive...

The Royal Society of Arts (RSA) has published two pieces about our work in their recent journal. The paper copy of the journal has an interview and profile of David Archer, and discusses why ‘strong characters are not always the best bosses’. The on-line version of...

One of the things that many people ask us when talking about collaboration is ‘What makes a good collaborative leader?’ Sometimes they are asking for themselves and the question is really – ‘Am I a good collaborative leader and what do I need to get better at?, and...

The life form that really excites us from the collaborative point of view is pretty unprepossessing – it’s slime mould, the nasty reddish jelly-like stuff you sometimes find under half-rotted bark. Slime mould has fascinated scientists for decades. It’s hard to...

Collaborative Leadership – Building relationships, handling conflict, sharing control, by David Archer and Alex cameron

‘Collaborative Leadership – Building relationships, handling conflict, sharing control’, why we had to write the book