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