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    Collaborate or Perish!: Reaching Across Boundaries in a Networked World

    By William Bratton and Zachary Tumin

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    In Collaborate or Perish! former Los Angeles police chief and New York police commissioner William Bratton and Harvard Kennedy School’s Zachary Tumin lay out a field-tested playbook for collaborating across the boundaries of our networked world. Today, when everyone is connected, collaboration is the game changer. Agencies and firms, citizens and groups who can collaborate, Bratton and Tumin argue, will thrive in the networked world; those who can’t are doomed to perish.

    No one today is better known around the world for his ability to get citizens, governments, and industries working together to improve the safety of cities than William Bratton. At Harvard, Zachary Tumin has led senior executives from government and industry in executive sessions and classrooms for over a decade, burnishing a global reputation for insight and leadership. Together, Bratton and Tumin draw on in-depth accounts from Fortune 100 giants such as Alcoa, Wells Fargo, and Toyota; from masters of collaboration in education, social work, and the military; and from Bratton’s own storied career. Among the specific strategies they reveal:

       • Start collaboration with a broad vision that supporters can add to and make their own
       • Rightsize problems, and get value in the hands of users fast
       • Get the right people involved—from sponsors to grass roots
       • Make collaboration pay in the right currency—whether recognition, rewards, or revenue

    Today companies and managers face unique challenges—and opportunities—in reaching out to others, thanks to the incredibly connected world in which we live. Bratton and Tumin provide practical strategies anyone can use, from the cubicle to the boardroom. This is the ultimate guide to getting things done in today’s networked world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrown
    Release dateJan 17, 2012
    ISBN9780307592422
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    • 4/5
      Supposed to be a funny book, but apart from the odd item didn't laugh that much. That said was written well as all the other Chris Stewart books are
    • 4/5
      A gentle re-telling of the author's trial and triumphs with boats. Not as immediately engaging as his account of rural life in the Alpujarra, along with a varied cast of local characters, his neighbours - lemons, parrots, pepper trees and the rest. Still, Chris Stewart has had a varied and full life and that should be celebrated.
    • 4/5
      A very funny read with some laugh out loud moments. Quite short, but well written and not flooded with too much of the technical like a lot of sailing books.
    • 4/5
      A light and enjoyable memoir of the author's sailing experiences - starting as a novice professional skipper (that's as peculiar as it sounds!) in the Greek Islands and concluding with his experience as crew on a high latitudes voyage in a Bristol Channel pilot cutter. The author is funny and self deprecating and his experiences at sea ring very true - the bit about the difficulties of going to the loo on a boat during a storm is painfully realistic and hilarious. Well worth reading by sailors but I imagine landlubbers would enjoy it too.
    • 5/5
      My husband loved this book.

      My husband has been boat-mad for about three years now, so when I spotted this book in our local book shop just before Christmas, it seemed to be the perfect stocking filler. Thankfully it lived up to expectations, and although I haven't read it myself, it feels as though I have - given the numerous quotes and captions he has read out loud.

      Chris starts his boating career by skippering a boat around the Greek Islands, never having sailed before. This was followed by the opportunity to join a crew crossing the Atlantic, which, of course, he accepted.
      And to cap it all - this guy gets sea sick!!

      Possibly the greatest acolade for the book is the fact that he finished it (all 173 pages!), which is very rare! He then went on to read Drink, Dear Boy by Alwynne Chappelle, which I downloaded on to my Kindle, which then became 'His Kindle' !!
    • 4/5
      Written by the original drummer of Genesis (Chris Stewart), "Three Ways to Capsize a Boat" covers his time between being kicked out of the band and the farming experiences as outlined in his bestselling memoir, "Driving Over Lemons". Part Bill Bryson/Part Peter Mayle, Stewart’s narrative outlines a hilarious (although at times harrowing) life on the open sea – beginning with a job offer to skipper the sailboat of a wealthy American couple – an offer he received and accepted at a time when he had never yet even stepped foot on a boat. Clearly he learned a thing or two before this first position, and what he experiences in his life at sea, while not particularly profound, provides enough humor and insight to keep the book moving at a fast and steady pace.

      The book continues to chronicle a second sea voyage as part of a group sailing the north Atlantic from the UK to Greenland, and at times, the detail of experience and the monotony of the open seas (and of the writing describing it) begins to drag. But even at times of pending peril, Stewart finds moments of hilarity to keep the reader’s interest.

      Based on the fact his later books do not describe a life at sea, it remains a question what the “point” of this book is. It did not prove an epiphany to his personal growth and the reader views the experiences from a distance without really becoming a part of the journey. But as a diversionary read, a view of life at sea and/or an insight into life abroad, [Three Ways to Capsize a Boat] is worth a look.
    • 3/5
      The book tells of a time long before Chris Stewart's farm in Spain and even Ana is still in a girlfriend stage. In the first part of the book Chris gets a job offer of a lifetime, when his friend asks him to skipper a boat on the Mediterranean for a summer. Why, is anybody's guess, since Chris hasn't set a foot on a sailing boat in his life. But naturally he accepts.

      In the second part Chris is invited on a sailing trip across the Northern Atlantic via Norway and Iceland all the way to Newfoundland in the footsteps of the viking Leif Eiriksson. The trip is considerably more dangerous and demanding than his previous summer on the Med, but luckily he lives to tell the tale.

      One can only marvel at Chris Stewart's relaxed attitude to life. I think his writing style is just as relaxed and he is often very funny. However, the book is rather short and not quite as good as his previous ones. Somehow it left me wanting for more. I kept wondering, whether the stories had worked better as part of another book, like he did with his stories about sheep shearing in A Parrot in the Pepper Tree. As it is, I did enjoy reading about his exploits with sailing and spent a couple of happy hours on a rainy July day with this book, most of the time glad to be far far away from the sea myself...