Are you struggling to make cross-silo collaboration work in your organization? In my experience, most are.

This HBR blog post suggests a creative solution. We’re not talking about adding a full-time position but assigning CCO as an additional focus area for an existing executive – specifically one with great collaboration skills.

I like the idea. As the post notes, this is something most often expected of the CEO but he or she typically has a full plate already. Finding another executive in the leader group that doesn’t have any conflicting interests and is a good collaborator could be hard. The payoff, however, could be significant.

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