Network Strategy: Elevate Personal Performance and Well-beingCollaboration Without BurnoutHarvard 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.
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Network Strategy: Propel Organizational Agility and AlignmentA Noble Purpose Alone Won’t Transform Your CompanyMIT 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.
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Network Strategy: Execute Critical Work Through NetworksCollaborative OverloadHarvard 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.
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Network Strategy: Propel Organizational Agility and AlignmentCollaborate Smarter, Not HarderMIT 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.
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Network Strategy: Elevate Personal Performance and Well-beingInvisible Network Drivers of Women’s SuccessOrganizational 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.
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Network Strategy: Execute Critical Work Through NetworksHow to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work TogetherHarvard Business Review
Agility requires the integration of different capabilities and perspectives. Managing an array of collaborative players as part of a network can help organizations be more agile.
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Network Strategy: Elevate Personal Performance and Well-beingTo Be Happier at Work, Invest More in Your RelationshipsHarvard Business Review
Our understanding of what leads to professional satisfaction is often misplaced. Many of us strive for a meaningful job, an impressive title or a sizable salary at the ideal company. In doing so, we drastically undervalue the importance of relationships, although research shows that people, not the perfect job, lead to fulfillment.
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