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Diversity & Inclusion
How Women of Color Can Drive Corporate Transformation
Deepa Purushothaman discusses the challenges women of color face in the workplace and ways everyone can champion equity.
Managing Your Career
Management Articles for Starting the New Year
These five articles from the MIT SMR library offer leadership insights to take into the new year.
Leadership Skills
The Top MIT SMR Articles of 2021
The year’s top articles offer insights on driving cultural change, combating burnout and fatigue, and managing teams.
Remote Work
Embrace Delegation as a Skill to Strengthen Remote Teams
In the context of remote work, leaders must reconsider conventional delegation methods.
Remote Work
Why Leaders Resist Empowering Virtual Teams
When remote leaders adopt an empowering leadership style, they are free to think bigger, achieve more, and worry less.
IT Governance & Leadership
Investing in Strategic Leadership
To be a technology leader, a CTO needs both tech and business knowledge, explains Two Sigma’s Camille Fournier.
Collaboration
The Problem With Certainty
The emotional desire for certainty often keeps us from seeing other perspectives and understanding how decisions get made.
Developing Strategy
Entrepreneurial Identity: A Leader’s Superpower and Their Achilles’ Heel?
In a business model based on an entrepreneur’s identity, company leaders may need to reassess who they are to respond to disruption.
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The Best of This Week
The risks of hubris in leadership, increased influence for minority partners, and transformative in-store tech.
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Leadership as Craft
Etsy CTO Mike Fisher discusses developing as a leader, speaking the language of business, and being open to change.
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Why Modern Executives Are More Susceptible to Hubris Than Ever
In the age of the celebrity CEO, too many leaders sacrifice character and good judgment in pursuit of their own success.
Developing Strategy
Why Good Arguments Make Better Strategy
Creating consistently great business strategies demands systematic constructive debate and logical rigor.
Managing Your Career
How to Manage ‘Invisible Transitions’ in Leadership
Four steps to help leaders transition into a substantial new role without a change in title or authority.
Remote Work
Driving Remote Innovation Through Conflict and Collaboration
Innovation can thrive when remote teams feel empowered to share ideas and engage in rigorous debate.
Leading Change
Innovative Work Cultures Know the Difference Between ‘Leader’ and ‘Manager’
Employees at all levels can be leaders in an organization that fosters a purpose-drive culture.
Remote Work
How to Combat Virtual Meeting Fatigue
Leaders can make meetings more effective and less fatiguing by incorporating feedback from their teams.
Technology Implementation
Less Algorithm, More Application: Lyft’s Craig Martell
Lyft’s Craig Martell talks education, eliminating bias, and cross-functional collaboration on machine learning projects.
Leadership Skills
Does Your C-Suite Have Enough Digital Smarts?
Digitally savvy executive teams deliver huge premiums in growth and valuation to their companies.
Leadership Skills
How Digital Transformation Disrupts Legacy Leaders
Hear from coauthors of the 2021 research report, “Leadership’s Digital Transformation,” about the ways leaders must transform themselves to lead organizations today.