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Harvard Business Review

With our connection to an ever-widening span of relationships at work and at home comes increased exposure to a steady stream of relationship-based micro-stressors. Through a program of research involving dozens of top tier companies and hundreds of people, we have identified 12 common “relational” drivers of stress that are likely taking a significant toll on your mental and physical well-being, without you necessarily being aware of their impact.

Harvard Business Review

Many successful, well-regarded leaders find themselves burning out or in crisis due to a gradual (and well-intentioned) over-focus on career. But a select group of people are top performers and they score high on measures of well-being by investing in critical social activities that create happiness.

Harvard Business Review

Always-on work cultures, encroaching technology, demanding bosses, difficult clients and inefficient coworkers create collaborative overload. But there is another enemy: individuals’ own mindsets and habits. Fortunately, people can overcome those obstacles and reclaim 18-24% of their time through practices that distinguish efficient collaborators.

MIT Sloan Management Review

Many leaders concerned with attracting and retaining top talent believe that nothing motivates people as much as the larger good they might be doing or the chance to change the world. Purpose is only one contributing factor. The level and quality of interpersonal collaboration actually has the greatest impact on employee engagement.

Harvard Business Review

Collaboration is indeed the answer to many of today’s most pressing business challenges. But more isn’t always better. Leaders must learn to recognize, promote, and efficiently distribute the right kinds of collaborative work, or their teams and top talent will bear the costs of too much demand for too little supply.

MIT Sloan Management Review

When an organization tries to boost collaboration by adopting a new structure, technology, or way of working, it often adds more time- and energy-consuming interactions to an already relentless workload, diminishing performance. Through analytics, companies can reduce overload and other costs of collaboration—and increase its rewards.

Organizational Dynamics

We have long known that women and men create different networks. But what network features distinguish more successful women from those who are less so? Four critical networking practices set high-performing women apart.