Boundary Spanning Leadership: Six Practices for Solving Problems, Driving Innovation, and Transforming Organizations

Leadership Management

Author: Chris Ernst and Donna Chrobot-Mason

ISBN-13: 978-0071638876

We all work across boundaries: cultural, age, gender, skills. There are many boundaries. How does a leader cross those boundaries to create a functioning business? Powered by a decade of global research and practice by the top-ranked Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), this book takes you from rural towns in the United States to Hong Kong's skyline, from a modernizing South Africa to the bustling streets of India, showing you how to build bridges across boundaries.

Through compelling stories and practical tools and tactics, you'll learn how to apply the six boundary spanning practices that occur at the nexus where groups collide, intersect, and link

Buffering defines boundaries to create safety
Reflecting creates understanding of boundaries to foster respect
Connecting suspends boundaries to build trust
Mobilizing reframes boundaries to develop community
Weaving interlaces boundaries to advance interdependence

Boundaries exist. What matters most is how you work to bridge these divides and transform your organization's wide-ranging talents and knowledge to deliver value.