Crossing the Divide

Author: Todd Pittinsky
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
ISBN: 9781422118344
Published In: December 2009
Format: Hardback , 320 pages
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Introduction

Insightful. Offers the latest research on this issue, presented by preeminent thought leaders and scholars.
Comprehensive. Covers viewpoints from diverse academic disciplinary approaches.
Approachable. Divided into short, digestible chapters that can be read individually or collectively.

About the book

Bringing groups together is a central and unrelenting task of leadership. CEOs must nudge their executives to rise above divisional turf battles, mayors try to cope with gangs in conflict, and leaders of many countries face the realities of sectarian violence.

Crossing the Divide introduces cutting-edge research and insight into these age-old problems. Edited by Todd Pittinsky of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, this collection of essays brings together two powerful scholarly disciplines: intergroup relations and leadership. What emerges is a new mandate for leaders to reassess what have been regarded as some very successful tactics for building group cohesion. Leaders can no longer just "rally the troops." Instead they must employ more positive means to span boundaries, affirm identity, cultivate trust, and collaborate productively.

In this multidisciplinary volume, highly regarded business scholars, social psychologists, policy experts, and interfaith activists provide not only theoretical frameworks around these ideas, but practical tools and specific case studies as well. Examples from around the world and from every sector - corporate, political, and social - bring to life the art and practice of intergroup leadership in the twenty-first century.

Introduction: Intergroup Leadership:

What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Is Done
-Todd L. Pittinsky

Part I Insights & Concepts

Chapter 1 Leadership Across Group Divides: The Challenges and Potential of Common Group Identity
-John F. Dovidio, Samuel L. Gaertner, and Marika J. Lamoreaux

Chapter 2 From Group Conflict to Social Harmony: Leading Across Diverse and Conflicting Identities
- Michael A. Hogg

Chapter 3 On the Social Psychology of Intergroup Leadership: The Importance of Social Identity and Self-Categorization Processes
-Michael J. Platow, Stephen D. Reicher, and S. Alexander Haslam

Chapter 4 United Pluralism: Balancing Subgroup Identification and Superordinate Group Cooperation
-Margarita Krochik and Tom Tyler

Chapter 5 Imaginative Leadership: How Leaders of Marginalized Groups Negotiate Intergroup Relations
-Jolanda Jetten and Frank Mols

PART II TOOLS AND PATHWAYS

Chapter 6 Creating Common Ground: Propositions About Effective Intergroup Leadership
-Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Chapter 7 Boundary-Spanning Leadership: Tactics to Bridge Social Identity Groups in Organizations
-Chris Ernst and Jeff Yip

Chapter 8 Trust-Building in Intergroup Negotiations: Challenges and Opportunities for Creative Leaders
-Roderick M. Kramer

Chapter 9 Boundaries Need Not Be Barriers: Leading Collaboration Among Groups in Decentralized Organizations
-Heather M. Caruso, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman

Chapter 10 Operating Across Boundaries: Leading Adaptive Change
-Ronald Heifetz

Cases In Context

Chapter 11 Leadership for Enhancing Coexistence: Promoting Social Cohesion Among Groups in Pluralistic Societies
-Alan B. Slifka

Chapter 12 Bringing Groups Together: The Politics of Africa and Elsewhere
-Robert I. Rotberg

Chapter 13 The Context for Intergroup Leadership Among Women's Groups in Saudi Arabia
-May Al-Dabbagh

Chapter 14 From Bolted-on to Built-In: Diversity Management and Intergroup Leadership in American Corporations
-Candice Castleberry-Singleton

Chapter 15 Reaching Across the Aisle: Innovations for Cross-Party Cultural Collaboration
-Mark Gerzon

Chapter 16 Collective Memory and Intergroup Leadership: Israel as a Case Study
-Irit Keynan

Chapter 17 Interfaith Leadership: Bringing Religious Groups Together
-Eboo Patel, April Kunze, and Noah Silverman

Todd Pittinsky is a Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Research Director of Harvard's Center for Public Leadership. His research explores positive intergroup attitudes (allophilia) and how leaders can use them to bring groups together