Collaboration in the face of uncertainty: how leaders can empower teams to collaborate successfully

Interviewer: Today, I'm interviewing Kathryn Landis, Founder and CEO of Kathryn Landis Consulting and a teacher at NYU, USA, on collaboration as advocated in our article written with Jenny Fernandez and Julie Lee titled "Why Collaboration Is Critical in Uncertain Times", published in Harvard Business Review on 13th of February, 2024. Listeners are expected to have read the article before listening to this interview. Ms. Landis, thank you for sparing the time. May I start by asking two questions? 1. What is the evidence that leaders are reluctant to collaborate? Are there hard data beyond the anecdotal? 2. Would it be reasonable to add that Mary in your article should caution herself by thinking to adopt a healthcare analogy but be realistic? Success in therapeutic intervention and achieving a happy outcome are rooted in sound diagnosis. Ms. Landis? Ms. Landis: Thank you, Neil. Thank you for having me. Two great questions to start off this conversation. I'll start with the first one. The evidence that readers are reluctant to collaborate, is there hard data beyond the anecdotal? Actually, in the article, we reference McKinsey's innovation through crisis survey, which was published in April 2020, that speaks to the fact that during uncertainty, only a quarter of executives reported that capturing