Working Together
Why Great Partnerships Succeed

I have to admit, when I first heard about this book, I thought it was a joke. “Working Together”, from the man who was such a famously difficult manager? But as I read, I realized that I’d fallen prey to the same short-term-ism we are always decrying: my personal impression of Eisner was formed from......more

Good example how you can work with friends, families and colleagues together. It’s more explaining based on examples how it works rather than how you can do it. You need some translation to do but it helps us to understand how people can interact better and add a value to their collaboration.......more

Lots of different case studies of successful partnerships......more

I felt a great sense of satisfaction when completing this book. We often hear the horror stories of business relationships, large and small. This book highlighted, again and again, that goodness is the most successful characteristic of successful partnerships. Like a timeless Disney classic, good tr......more

Read this immediately after Bob Iger's book The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company to get a different perspective on the years running Disney before Iger came on. Of course that story is only about 10% of the book and the rest is analyses of other leg......more