Collaboration
Turn Your Teams Inside Out
Externally focused x-teams can drive innovation, performance, and distributed leadership but require a shift in mindset.
Collaboration
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Leadership Skills
Use Your Ambivalence to Make More Ethical Decisions
Decisions that have moral consequences often require sustained and systematic consideration.
Leadership Skills
Broaden Your Influence by Adapting How You Listen
Choosing the right listening style can help close the gap between what a speaker needs and how a listener responds.
Talent Management
Managing Through Uncertainty
MIT SMR’s fall 2022 issue includes articles on board refreshment, collaborative relationships, and management skills.
Content sponsored by DXC Technology
Digital Innovation and Employee Experience: Making the Connection
Two executives discuss why companies must provide relevant, personalized employee experiences.
Platforms & Ecosystems
Collaboration, Communication, and Virtual Innovation: Orchestrating Workforce Ecosystems
Elizabeth J. Altman, Steven Hatfield, and Allison Ryder speak about the 2022 MIT Sloan Management Review – Deloitte Future of the Workforce global executive survey and research report at MIT Technology Review’s EmTech Next event.
Collaboration
Collaboration Is a Key Skill. So Why Aren’t We Teaching It?
New research points to the potential of professional development training for boosting teams’ collaboration skills.
Remote Work
The Loneliness of the Hybrid Worker
Research finds that having supportive colleagues in the workplace is key to feeling less isolated when working from home.
Leadership Skills
Effective Leaders Decide About Deciding
Categorizing decisions by riskiness and urgency helps clarify when to involve higher-ups.
Collaboration
Improve Creative Brainstorming With Constructive Criticism
New research upends the assumption that criticism always impedes creative brainstorming.
Culture
A Global Brand President’s View of the Future of Work
Vans’s Doug Palladini discusses how the future of work is playing out at the global sports lifestyle brand.
Collaboration
Agility at the Point of Execution
Babson’s Rob Cross discusses how to identify collaborative dysfunction — and then improve it.
Collaboration
The Surprising Impact of Meeting-Free Days
No-meeting days allow for efficient collaboration while preventing focused, heads-down work from being disrupted.
Leading Change
Recapping Work/22: Day 1
Day One of MIT SMR’s Work/22 symposium included discussions of employee activism, DEI best practices, and collaboration.
Culture
Developing a Culture of AI
David Kiron and François Candelon discuss the latest MIT SMR-BCG AI and business strategy report at Web Summit 2021.
Innovation Strategy
Game Changers
The winter 2022 issue of MIT SMR provides a collection of articles to help leaders overcome the obstacles that can get in the way of innovation.
Collaboration
How Collaboration Needs Change From Mind to Marketplace
Advice to help business leaders create the conditions innovators need to develop breakthrough ideas for the marketplace.
Culture
The Cultural Benefits of Artificial Intelligence in the Enterprise
New research points to a strong, multidimensional link between AI use and improvements in organizational culture.
Skills & Learning
Three Steps to Building a Learning Culture That Delivers Innovation
World-changing innovations are grounded in a culture of optimism and team learning.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Social Intrapreneurship: Unleashing Social Innovation From Within
The next wave of social innovation is coming from employee-led initiatives.