President-elect Barack Obama had a successful campaign because of his collaborative leadership. There’s a great article on Harvard Business written by Umair Haque that outlines how Obama built his organization.

1) Have a self-organization design.

2) Seek elasticity of resilience.

3) Minimize strategy.

4) Maximize purpose.

5) Broaden Unity.

6) Thicken Power.

7) Remember that there is nothing more asymmetrical than an ideal.