The Problem with Collaboration Overload

"One of my favorite interviews was the head of neuroscience at one of the leading hospitals in the world. Here’s this very pedigreed person—mid-60s, probably—and just giddy, telling me how he’s started playing guitar again, and he’s hanging out with 20-year-olds. He’s creating a new version of who he is and how he’s experiencing things."

This McKinsey article interviews Rob Cross, author of Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore your Well Being.  The author describes the perils of "collaboration overload," especially in today's rapidly-changing workplace.  The giddy anecdote above indicates a concept we love--that playing music has curative powers.  Our In-Tune workshops use music to re-engage your employees--curing Cross' primary "cost."    

"One cost is lost engagement." 

"The second big cost is around attrition and losing the overwhelmed people. Especially as we go into 2022 and the resignations that are planned, the big surprise that people are going to have is that it’s the people who were overwhelmed to begin with who learned through the COVID-19 crisis that there is a different way to live their lives. So they’re not going resubscribe to it, right? And that’s going be a very substantive cost that companies don’t measure well."

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