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Beyond Collaboration Overload by Rob Cross Network Strategy: Elevate Personal Performance and Well-beingNEW! Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being

A product of over a decade of study, this book reveals the hidden practices of today’s more successful leaders. First, they engage in ways that buy back 18-24% of time. Then, they invest that time collaboratively in ways that enable them to scale their accomplishments and avoid de-railing traps. Learn more.

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Driving Results Through Social Networks by Rob Cross Network Strategy: Promote Rapid Innovation, Propel Organizational Agility and AlignmentDriving Results through Social Networks: How Top Organizations Leverage Networks for Performance and Growth

This groundbreaking book, co-written with Robert J. Thomas, shows executives and managers how to obtain substantial performance and innovation impact by better leveraging traditionally invisible assets—social networks. Based on work with executives from over a hundred top-level companies and government agencies, the book gives in-depth examples of how leaders are using network thinking to increase revenues, lower costs and accelerate innovation.

The Hidden Power of Social Networks by Rob Cross Network Strategy: Promote Rapid Innovation, Propel Organizational Agility and AlignmentThe Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations

A powerful, visual framework helps managers discover how employees really communicate and collaborate to get work done—and helps them identify ways they can influence these social networks to improve performance and innovation. Co-authored with Andrew Parker and based on our in-depth study of sixty informal employee networks in well-known companies around the world, we illustrate how leaders can conduct a social network analysis of their organization.

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Physical Health is Not a Solo Sport by Rob Cross

Physical Health is Not a Solo Sport

Sink or Swim - Navigating Micro-stressors in an Always on World

Sink or Swim? Navigating the Invisible Sea of Micro-stressors in an Always on World

Collaborative Practices of High-Performing Teams

Collaborative Practices of High-Performing Teams: Agility at the Point of Execution

Six Dysfunctions of Collaborative Work

The Six Dysfunctions of Collaborative Work: How High-Performing Leaders Diagnose and Remedy Collaborative Failures

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