HBS professors contribute to a good resource on partnering.
10/13/2003
This edited volume on leadership has a little bit of everything. A wide variety of consultants and academics weigh in on partnerships in four broad areas: within organizations, within teams, globally, and one-on-one. Of special note are two chapters by Harvard Business School professors D. Quinn Mills and Robert S. Kaplan. Mills teamed with three European and American co-authors for a chapter on the different leadership styles that Europeans and Americans adopt. (The main difference: Gun-slinger, lone ranger-type leaders are rare in Europe. "European leaders ... know that in the long run they can be successful only if they gain respect as a member of a group.") Kaplan, with co-author David P. Norton, provides a fine chapter reporting on their Balanced Scorecard system of measuring organizational performance.