When collaboration becomes a chore, companies need to strike a balance between allowing for focused work and fostering collaboration among colleagues and teams. As companies grow, the modes of collaboration shift from natural conversation to more organized meetings, but this can lead to deadlock situations where multiple people disagree. To avoid this, it's essential to learn to let go and trust others, be deliberate about how you involve people in decisions, choose the right medium for collaboration, decide and move on, not feel the need to collaborate on everything, protect your time and respect others, and continually evaluate and iterate on how you work as you scale. By finding this balance, companies can ensure that their best collaborators are able to do deep work while still fostering a collaborative environment.