When most organizations strive to increase collaboration, they approach it too narrowly: as a value to cultivate—not a skill to teach. So they create open offices, talk up collaboration as a ...
The silo effect, characterized by limited communication between specialized business departments, can negatively impact communication and collaboration in organizations. In particular, there are ...
Executing complex initiatives like acquisitions or an IT overhaul requires a breadth of knowledge that can be provided only by teams that are large, diverse, virtual, and composed of highly ...
A client of ours — let’s call her Mary, a senior executive in the technology industry — faced significant challenges managing a large organization amid economic uncertainty. Both her company ...
HBR On Leadership / Episode 107 When Over-Collaboration Leads to Indecision Listen | Podcast loading... Building consensus is a good thing—until it stalls decision-making.
As organizations become more global, matrixed, and complex, they are requiring employees to collaborate with more internal colleagues and external contacts than ever before. According to research ...
In today’s increasingly diverse and divided workplaces, effective collaboration sometimes feels harder to achieve than ever. With five generations working side-by-side, growing political ...
