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Why You Need Essential Collaboration

What is collaboration overload currently preventing you from doing? At one level, it keeps you from taking the actions that would help you be more innovative and effective in your work.

Personal performance and career-defining accomplishments are almost always generated by doing two things simultaneously: One, reaching out to networks broadly for help early in the life cycles of projects; it is critical to engage others at the moment when we are busiest and our thinking is most nebulous. Two, we must create enthusiasm and draw others to our work and ideas. As we will see in chapter 7, the single biggest predictor of high performance is the ability to generate energy and engagement in networks.

Which behaviors ...

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