Network Strategy: Elevate Personal Performance and Well-beingNEW! The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems-and What to Do about itDrawing on fresh research, Rob Cross and Karen Dillon will explain the science behind what microstress is doing to you and teach you how to recognize and manage the most common forms of microstress, and even remove some from your life. Compelling interviews with high achievers who’ve endured their share of microstress bring to life best practices that show you how to build resilience against microstress, and ultimately how to find purpose in your everyday life, using it as an antidote to your own microstress. Learn more.



Network Strategy: Elevate Personal Performance and Well-beingBeyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-BeingA 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.



Network Strategy: Promote Rapid Innovation, Propel Organizational Agility and AlignmentDriving Results through Social Networks: How Top Organizations Leverage Networks for Performance and GrowthThis 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.


Network Strategy: Promote Rapid Innovation, Propel Organizational Agility and AlignmentThe Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in OrganizationsA 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.

Rob Cross has studied the underlying network dynamics of effective organizations and the collaborative practices of high performers for more than 20 years. Through research and writing, speaking and consulting, and courses and tools, Rob’s network strategies are transforming the way people lead, work and live in a hyper-connected world.