Define the purpose and designate the final decision maker before a project starts.
To be sure, some collaboration fatigue just comes with the territory. The reason you pursue collaborative ventures in the first place is because you need to address an ambiguous, highly visible, boundary-crossing issue for which responsibility and control is spread evenly across many people. Decades of research show that these high demand/low control situations are a veritable petri dish for job stress and burnout.
Via Ken Cooper, Mark Treadwell
Yes we know we should be encouraging learners to collaborate but what are the pitfalls and how do we develop their collaborative ability? Some good points here.
Something else we should take into account.