Change management. Overwork. AI-related job loss fears. Get advice from MIT SMR experts on these and other top leadership challenges. Explore proven strategies to build human connections and organizational success.
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Culture
Gender Discrimination Still Exists — Now What?
Providing language to use in day-to-day encounters with prejudice can help combat gender bias.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Building an Ethically Strong Organization
Large-scale misconduct starts small, so prevention should focus on how employees make decisions.
Customers
Use Customer KPIs to Reinforce Core Values
Focusing on customers and employees leads to the delivery of winning customer experiences.
Crisis Management
Platforms That Grow Are More Than Matchmakers
For platform businesses, matchmaking isn’t everything. They’re also risk minimizers for buyers and sellers.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
The Anatomy of Effective KPIs
KPIs measuring customer satisfaction and/or customer loyalty aren’t good enough anymore.
Climate Change
Your Organization Is a Network of Conversations
Leaders should realize that companies are fundamentally linguistic entities.
AI & Machine Learning
Humanizing Tech May Be the New Competitive Advantage
Technology leaders need to take a new approach to regain user trust.
Leadership Skills
Common Traits of the Best Digital Leaders
Leaders must develop new skills to effectively guide their organizations into the uncertain future of the digital age.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Business, Technology, and Ethics: The Need for Better Conversations
We need a commitment to honestly talk about the challenges technology now poses.
Culture
When Communication Should Be Formal
Formal communication protocols may seem outdated, but they offer crucial performance advantages.
Developing Strategy
Goodbye Structure; Hello Accountability
Agile companies are assigning accountabilities for specific business outcomes to small teams.
Collaboration
John Doerr on OKRs and Measuring What Matters
Setting ambitious goals is crucial for strategy execution and innovation.
Climate Change
Finding the Middle Ground in a Politically Polarized World
Corporate activism is often framed as “take a stand or be silent.” But other alternatives exist.
Crisis Management
Why Tech Companies Don’t See Their Biggest Problems Coming
Tech firms have five big blind spots in crisis management. Addressing them is essential for survival.
Leading Change
Bringing Lessons From #MeToo to the Boardroom
If your board has not already re-examined its sexual harassment policies, the time to act is now.
Developing Strategy
With Goals, FAST Beats SMART
Traditional goal setting undermines the alignment, coordination, and agility needed to execute strategy.
Collaboration
Coming of Age Digitally
MIT SMR and Deloitte’s 2018 global executive study and research report investigates how born-digital and legacy organizations alike achieving digital maturity through continuous learning.
Collaboration
Interactive: Learning and Leadership Models Today’s Digital Business Environment
Explore interactive charts from the 2018 MIT SMR/Deloitte Digital Business Study and see how your organization measures up.
Collaboration
The Ability to Navigate the In-Between Spaces
There are four key leadership attributes for leading across networks (and silos and borders).