I can remember in my leadership journey the bad old days of highly directive leadership. Priorities were set at the very top and everyone else was delegated the responsibility for execution but not development.
Then the Information Age of leadership started to value the collective wisdom of others and collaboration went to the top of the list of preferred leadership styles. There was also the added benefit of everyone knowing everything and surely that was good for moral and a healthy organizational culture.
Now we have finally realized that everyone does not need to know everything and we are drowning in too much “For Your Information” updates that require everyone to read and respond. This HBR post starts to bring some sanity back to this critically important leadership subject:
“Collaborative work — time spent on email, IM, phone, and video calls — has risen 50% or more over the past decade to consume 85% or more of most people’s work weeks. The Covid-19 pandemic caused this figure to take another sharp upward tick, with people spending more time each week in shorter and more fragmented meetings, with voice and video call times doubling and IM traffic increasing by 65%. And to make matters worse, collaboration demands are moving further into the evening and are beginning earlier in the morning.”
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