Most organizations have created always-on work contexts that are burning people out and hurting performance rather than delivering productivity, innovation and engagement. Collaborative work consumes 85percent of employees' time and is drifting earlier into the morning, later into the night, and deeper into the weekend. The dilemma is that we all need to collaborate more to create effective organizations and vibrant careers for ourselves. But conventional wisdom on teamwork and collaboration has created too much of the wrong kind of collaboration, which hurts our performance, health and overall well-being. In Beyond Collaboration Overload, Babson professor Rob Cross solves this paradox by showing how top performers who thrive at work collaborate in a more purposeful way that makes them 18-24percent more efficient than their peers. Good collaborators are distinguished by the efficiency and intentionality of their collaboration—not the size of their network or the length of their workday. Through landmark research with more than 300 organizations, in-depth stories, and tools, Beyond Collaboration Overload will coach you to reclaim close to a day a week when you:
Identify and challenge beliefs that lead you to collaborate too quickly
Impose structure in your work to prevent unproductive collaboration
Alter behaviors to create more efficient collaboration
It then outlines how successful people invest this reclaimed time to:
Cultivate a broad network—not a big one—for innovation and scale
Energize others—a strong predictor of high performance
Connect with others to reduce micro-stressors and enhance physical and mental well-being
Cross' framework provides relief from the definitive problem of our age—dysfunctional collaboration at the expense of our performance, health and overall well-being.
Rob Cross has worked with more than 300 organizations as he studied the underlying networks of effective organizations and the collaborative practices of high performers. He has written five books and over 50 articles for Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review and other respected outlets. In his spare time Rob has become an avid cyclist, loves playing tennis, spending time on the water fishing and skiing, hiking, listening to live music and is actively involved in his church. Practicing what he preaches on well-being he recently became PADI certified for Scuba and always looks for another adventure with his two amazing children.
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