Today’s teams face challenges with employee engagement, overwork, stress management, and ineffective meetings. At the same time, many are also trying to scale AI tools usage but finding culture change a primary obstacle. Get advice from MIT SMR experts on how to build stronger teams and work cultures that lead to organizational success.
Readers contest the view that corporate culture becomes less important in distributed organizations.
If managed well, internal crowdsourcing initiatives can open up a rich source of innovation.
Companies want managers to help employees develop and improve — but many managers don’t know how.
Kaiser Permanente’s CEO says leaders need to ask how well employees’ intelligence is put to work.
Garvin’s 1998 article, “The Processes of Organization and Management,” remains one of the most popular articles ever published in MIT Sloan Management Review.
China continues to be the best place to go to learn how to make ideas commercially viable.
Moving to a digital business model altered Marriott’s culture in unexpected ways.
As firms work with increasingly diverse arrays of people, they need to adopt leadership standards that cross geographies.
Certain types of management policies are associated with higher productivity and profitability.
In the age of networked enterprise, strong cultures may turn from assets to liabilities.
Accelerating compression of both revenues and profits in some businesses can be fatal, and fast.
Closely observing how work is done in your business can yield many opportunities for improvements.
Companies should blend the power of computers with insights into human decision making.
Many executives try to ignore negative emotions in the workplace, but that tactic can be costly.
The ways that consumer-users improve product through tinkering has evolved over the past decade.
People are living and working longer — but companies are unprepared for the implications of that.
If handled well, conflicting demands in a business can be sources of creativity and opportunity.
There’s value in looking at good processes to figure out what works.
Before adopting any new management approach, ask: How well will its values fit our culture?
Projects can lose momentum if stakeholders grow skeptical. Here’s how to avert a ‘cycle of doubt.’
