Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being

Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being

Rob Cross
$31.50
Publication Date: September 14th, 2021
Publisher:
Harvard Business Review Press
ISBN:
9781647820121
Pages:
256
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Description

Organizations are addicted to collaboration as the default mode of work and they assume it's good. It's not. Collaboration overload plagues us in ways that prevent us from being our best selves at work and in our lives. But there is an answer: Precision collaboration. The top 10% of workers who now how to work with others intentionally and effectively gain back 18-24% of their time—a full workday each week—and are happier people living more fulfilling lives. Here's your guide to becoming a precision collaborator.

  • Myth-busting and eye-opening treatise on a topic that doesn't get enough critical scrutiny.
  • Rigorous research supports ideas.
  • Utterly practical approach to applying principles makes content useful above all.
  • Well-organized two-part structure that's easy to follow and apply.
  • Compelling stories from research.

Audience: Managers, collaborative workers, HR and HR program leaders (who would distribute ala F90D), Learning professionals.

About the Author

Rob Cross is the Edward A. Madden Professor of Global Leadership at Babson College and the cofounder and Chief Research Scientist of the Connected Commons business consortium. For more twenty years, he has studied the underlying networks of effective organizations and the collaborative practices of high performers. Working with more than three hundred organizations and reaching thousands of leaders from the front line to the C-suite, he has identified specific ways to cultivate vibrant, effective networks at all levels of an organization and at any career stage.Cross has authored six Harvard Business Review articles on practical approaches to enhancing collaboration. He is the coauthor of five books, including The Hidden Power of Social Networks.You can find more about Rob Cross at robcross.orgconnectedcommons.com