Join forces to solve your toughest problems.

If you need the best practices and ideas for putting heads together--but don't have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are nine inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place.

This collection of HBR articles will help you:

• Forge strong relationships up, down, and across the org chart
• Build collaborative teams
• Know when not to collaborate
• Pick the right type of collaboration for your business
• Harness employees' informal knowledge sharing
• Manage conflict wisely
• Make smart trade-offs
• Put social media technologies to work for your organization