How to Fix “Team Creep”

Mark Mortensen, an associate professor of organizational behavior
at INSEAD, discusses the research on "multiteaming"—when employees
work not only across multiple projects, but multiple teams. It has
significant benefits at the individual, team, and organizational
levels. Among them: multiteaming saves money. The cost—stretched
employees—is hard to see. And that is where the tension, and the
risk, lies. Mortensen is the co-author, with Heidi K. Gardner, of
“The Overcommitted Organization” in the September–October 2017
issue of Harvard Business Review.