Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

“Throughout the business world, communications are not managed right now. It’s the Wild, Wild West within organizations.”

Cassie Holmes is having what you might call a moment. The UCLA management professor and author of Happier Hour: How To Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time and Focus on What Matters Most has been landing accolades across the spectrum of leadership, lifestyle, and self-help since the book came out in late 2022. By the end of the year, Happier Hour had proven to be a hit. Amazon, Time, the Financial Times, and The Washington Post put Happier Hour on their best-of lists.

For collaboration to truly work, leadership can’t just watch from the sidelines. Real leaders get into the arena and participate.

“It’s a delicate balance between autonomy and social support, but the answers are there if you ask—and keep asking.”

The swirl of reasons a customer joins a brand community can be measured, stress-tested, and ranked, but there’s also maybe a less scientific-feeling reason people join a community for a brand. It’s maybe less science and a little more magic.

Experts say anyone can train their brain to be more forward-thinking. For leaders, doing so could be the difference between failing and thriving.

These days, workplace collaboration can feel downright broken. Here’s The Workback’s guide to getting your organization back into a collaborative groove.

“I had this immensely intuitive feeling that humans are going to be able to derive a great deal of capability from .”