<p dir="ltr">Sagar and Michael are two young men who live within a few miles of each other but are from vastly different worlds. Sagar, a recent immigrant, is headed to graduate school. Michael, a gangbanger, robs a drug dealer who he later finds out is connected and needs seven thousand dollars to stop the dealer’s nephew from killing him. He decides to rob Sagar’s home located in a white middle-class suburb, but the robbery goes wrong when Sagar’s brother is killed. Sagar is wrongfully taken into custody where he sets out to track down Michael and his accomplices, immersing himself in a world alien to him. Michael flees California but on his way to Denver, runs into more trouble which endangers the lives of his loved ones. The only way out for him is to forsake the only life he has ever known. Based on true events, this novel explores immigration, the American Dream, justice, and redemption.</p>

In our complex world of today we see that the leader- and followership is getting harder and harder to “command and control” our organizations and our society. The awareness of the decision makers are often too fragmented in relation to the often complex real situations out there. The information is only flowing in organizational stovepipes and not across boundaries as it should today. The patterns of mutual complex dependencies have taken over and we have difficulties in controlling the consequences of our decisions. The relations over organizational borders are often weak and fragmented and the mutual trust is low. Technology has always been a driver for the society to evolve and our idea is that technology can be the main driver for evolving cross boundary collaboration in order to meet the demands of the world. Technology can be the main driver but only if we consider all of the important dimensions when implementing Information and communication technologies (ICT) In order to find the right method of using technology and scientific methods for achieving better cross boundary collaboration a number of data collection activities has been performed, described and analyzed in the work with this thesis. The activities has been diverse in its nature, brainstorming activities, qualitative interviews and a small case study has been combined in order to derive the result – a path forward against further research for a better cross boundary collaboration in our western community. The thesis now have identified a path forward and a scientific framework for taking all of our experiences, existing capabilities, earlier performed research one step further and lift it up to the cross boundary level in organizations and in our society. We have the chance of cultivating all of the properties, relations, amounts of information, and evolve our technology. This may be all that we need in order to achieve a more socially sustainable climate in leader- and followership in our organizations and society. Who knows … maybe we can change the world … or at least make a real difference somewhere!