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.
Leadership
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Developing Strategy
Why Best Practices Often Fall Short
For many leaders, the allure of best practices is strong and their expectations for results are unrealistic.
Innovation Strategy
The New Digital Mandate: Cultivate Dissatisfaction
People who are satisfied with the current way of doing business are not likely to transform it.
Developing Strategy
Tangled Webs and Executive Naïveté
Leaders in a digital world have to navigate more complexity than ever before.
AI & Machine Learning
Building a Robotic Colleague With Personality
Robots that use body language can have a positive effect on their human colleagues.
Organizational Behavior
How Emotion-Sensing Technology Can Reshape the Workplace
Emotion-sensing technologies can lead to better decisions and alleviate stress — if privacy issues are addressed.
Executing Strategy
The Truth About Corporate Transformation
Empirical analysis reveals that conventional wisdom about big, risky change initiatives is often wrong.
Boards & Corporate Governance
Why the Influence of Women on Boards Still Lags
The number of women on corporate boards has risen substantially over the past decade, but the growth rate is slowing. Why?
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How Developing Leaders Find Authenticity — and Authority
Feeling like an intellectual fraud can hamper actual job performance. But there is a solution.
Culture
Rationalizing Yourself Out of a Promotion
Some women who feel like they won’t “fit” a job description will talk themselves out of wanting it.
Collaboration
Architect Your Company for Agility
To facilitate speed, companies must design themselves to minimize obstacles to getting work done.
Disruption
Why Companies Don’t Respond to Digital Disruption
Many executives don’t recognize the threat posed by failing to respond to digital disruption.
Managing Your Career
The Long Journey to Understanding Intangible Assets
The “intangible assets” people bring to their jobs are valuable — but challenging to quantify.
AI & Machine Learning
The 20 Most Popular MIT Sloan Management Review Articles of 2017
The impact of artificial intelligence on the future of work and organizations was a popular topic.
Collaboration
The Unique Challenges of Cross-Boundary Collaboration
Leading teams with complicated hierarchies of power demands both curiosity and humility.
Leadership Skills
MIT SMR Contributors Prominent on 2017 ‘Thinkers50’ List
MIT Sloan Management Review congratulates contributors appearing on the Thinkers50 2017 list.
Collaboration
How Office Seating Arrangements Can Boost the Bottom Line
Investopedia CEO David Siegel describes his innovative approach to office seating arrangements.
Collaboration
What to Expect From Agile
What happens when a large, established bank decides to adopt agile as a management model?
Collaboration
The Trouble With Homogeneous Teams
Research finds that teams lacking diversity may be more susceptible to making flawed decisions.
Collaboration
The Truth About Hierarchy
Research finds that the right kind of hierarchy can help teams be better innovators and learners.