SPOTLIGHT: Preventing Collaboration Overload With Rob Cross

In this Talent Angle podcast, collaboration expert Rob Cross
shares ways employees can become more efficient collaborators and
reclaim and reinvest their time. Cross explains how small
stressors throughout the work day are  increasing,
overwhelming and exhausting employees and lays out practical
advice for addressing these issues.


Rob Cross has studied the underlying network dynamics of
effective organizations and the collaborative practices of high
performers for more than 20 years. He is the Edward A. Madden
Professor of Global Leadership at Babson College and the
co-founder and director of the Connected Commons, a consortium of
over 100 leading organizations accelerating network research and
practice. Cross is a graduate of the University of Virginia’s
McIntire School of Commerce, and earned an MBA from UVA’s Darden
School and completed doctoral work at Boston University.


*This episode is an excerpt taken from our 2021 interview.