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.

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 ...

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 ...

In the 1920s, Mary Parker Follett put forth the heretical idea that managers should pursue power with—not power over—employees. “It is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly ...