Far from being a productivity panacea, a collaborative culture will drive your top performers away.
By Geoffrey James
If you listen to management pundits, “collaboration” is all the rage. While the term is a bit fuzzy, what’s usually meant by “
collaboration” is 1) plenty of ad-hoc meetings and 2)
open-plan offices that increase the likelihood that that such meetings take place.
Rather than improving their own performance, mediocre employees socially isolate top performers, spread nasty rumors about them, and either sabotage, or attempt to steal credit for, the top performers’ work. As the study put it: “Cooperative contexts proved socially disadvantageous for high performers.”
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more on team work in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=team+work