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Getting It Done: How to Lead When You're Not in Charge

Roger Fisher and Alan Sharp with John Richardson

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Summary

Roger Fisher and Alan Sharp, with John Richardson, examine how to improve shared work when formal authority is limited. The public English excerpt describes common collaboration problems and why merely telling people to cooperate can fail.

  • SourceGetting It Done — public English excerpt · Excerpts; opening collaboration passage and Two Common Symptoms; table of contents, Purpose
  • SourceHarvard Program on Negotiation — Roger Fisher bibliography · PDF page 3; Getting It DONE author credit and original 1998 work

Why read it Our view

Useful for founders working with partners or colleagues they do not control. Clarify the result you need and examine how the group works before relying on authority. The overview is based on the public excerpt and bibliography, not invented exercises.