Collaboration is good, and more collaboration is better, right? Wrong, says Morten T. Hansen in this month's Harvard Business Review. Managers sometimes forget that collaboration is a means to an end, he says. The end is business value, and not all collaboration produces it; in fact, some collaboration can actually destroy value.
Hansen is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity and Reap Big Results (Harvard Business Press, May 2009). He talked with Kathleen Melymuka about how to spot destructive collaboration.
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