The mere mention of keeping up with overflowing email, constant meetings, and time-sucking conference calls makes many of us groan and roll our eyes. How did we all get so busy? A major culprit is the sharp rise in cross-functional collaboration over the past several years.
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Today, it’s often not enough to just put your head down and work in one department for one boss. Demands can come at you daily from other functional areas of the company—marketing, R&D, finance—sometimes from colleagues you barely know, both within the United States and overseas in other time zones. And if you work in an open-plan office, your colleagues will often walk around starting impromptu discussions (when it’s convenient for them, not necessarily you). It can be overwhelming.
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