Sole leadership is an illusion. Most projects become successful through the collaboration of partners united by a common mission and values. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Eldar Ryazanov and Emil Braginsky, Federico Fellini and Tonino Guerra, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Oleg Tinkov and Oliver Hughes are well-known examples of creative and business tandems that achieved great results thanks to well-coordinated teamwork.

Gor Nakhapetyan and Victoria Mikhailova believe that within every company there are many obvious or hidden tandems and it is they who lead it to success. Learning to create such partnerships and manage the relationships within them is the main goal of tandemocracy, a new approach to leadership. Over the course of three years, the authors studied examples of successful and unsuccessful tandems, and then developed their own methodology and training program for managers and entrepreneurs. The book “Tandemocracy” explains the basic principles of the new theory using examples from the authors’ personal practice and research results.

The book’s authors examine in detail how a tandem functions: how tasks are distributed, how decisions are made, and what distinguishes effective partnerships from destructive ones. Much attention is paid to the human aspects: researchers explain how the personality of each person within a union is revealed, how differences allow partners to enhance each other's capabilities, and what influences the emotional closeness between them. Finally, the book proposes a new form of organization that relies on a network of tandem connections instead of traditional roles.