Collaboration is great when it effectively and efficiently solves a problem -- but not so much when it exhausts your organization’s experts, which often leads to falling productivity and turnover.

As organisations become more global, adopt matrixed structures, offer increasingly complex products and services, and enable 24/7 communication, they are requiring employees to collaborate with more ...

Rob Cross, professor at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce, explains how work became an exhausting marathon of group projects. He’s the coauthor... Rob Cross, professor at the ...

Collaboration is taking over the workplace. According to data collected by the authors over the past two decades, the time spent by managers and employees in collaborative activities has ballooned by ...

When it comes to overload and burnout at work, our usual corrective approach is to follow the advice of Captain Renault in the movie Casablanca: “Round up the usual suspects.” We focus on, or at least ...

This year, as you reinforce your commitment to challenging gender stereotypes and overcoming biases, it’s important to acknowledge some often-overlooked aspects of the workplace that are still very ...

Here's a common scenario: After a long day at work, you come home and realize you didn't get anything done. By the end of the week, the list of tasks on your to-do list has grown and you can't explain ...

That’s the question posed by the Harvard Business Review’s latest cover story. The short answer is a resounding yes. For their research, the authors of the HBR article–Wharton’s Adam Grant and Reb ...

Collaboration sounds great, but it’s possible to have too much of a good thing. A recent cover story in Harvard Business Review looked at the topic of “collaborative overload” and the burnout that can ...