Co-authors, Dawna Markova Ph.D., and Angie McArthur present an awesome and powerful toolbox to create collaboration across people who listen, focus, and analyze in different ways – kinetic/movement, visual/seeing, or auditory/listening; when their mind is open and creative when they are focused and engaged in problem-solving, and when they are sorting the information or have drifted away.
Collaborative Intelligence is a unique and specific kind of encyclopedia. Its many real-life experiences of how the authors helped their top global brand corporate captain clients and country leaders, men and women, solve dysfunction by aligning attention and intention to create natural and sustainable collaborative cultures makes it engaging and impressive. The examples not just validate the book’s tools, but also inspire excellence.
While many experts have addressed how we think, learn, communicate, and focus differently, this book goes into tremendous depth of cross-mapping individual traits, behaviors, talents, and strengths, showing how each person and collective teams can collaborate to produce harmonious and marvelous outcomes.
The book does not stop here. It goes further to connect foundational pillars of wisdom, integrity, and individual core values. This book is not a one-time simple read. It is clearly a work of a lifetime for Dr. Markova and a labor of love for Angie McArthur. It is an encyclopedia to improve team collaboration, a workbook to use as a roadmap with milestones, a culture shift manual with step-by-step detailed steps, and much, much more.
This magnificent work has in common with the wisdom shared by many sages and celebrities, the need for managers to know themselves first. Knowing one’s self is the necessary foundation to the study of building bridges between individuals and teams. This book lights the path. It is an awesome work of insights, tools, and instructions, indeed. It should be required reading for new and tenured managers alike.