The Risks of Putting People on Too Many Project Teams

Episode notes

Mark Mortensen, a professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD, discusses the research on "multiteaming"-when employees work not only across multiple projects, but multiple teams. It has significant benefits at the individual, team, and organizational levels. Among them: multiteaming saves money. The cost-stretched employees-is hard to see. And that is where the tension, and the risk, lies. Mortensen is the co-author, with Heidi K. Gardner, of "The Overcommitted Organization" in the September-October 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review. Key episode topics include: collaboration and teams, leading teams, business management, organizational restructuring Listen to the original HBR IdeaCast episode : How to Fix "Team Creep" Find more episodes of HBR IdeaCast Discover 100 years of Harvard Business Review articles, case studies, podcasts, and more at hbr.org