Leadership Skills
The Courage to Listen
MIT SMR’s winter 2025 issue offers advice for leaders on making better decisions by seeking out divergent perspectives.
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Developing Strategy
Ask Sanyin: How Do You Build for an Unpredictable Future?
Wise leaders live with the discomfort of uncertainty and focus on horizon scanning and preparing for a range of options.
AI & Machine Learning
The GenAI App Step You’re Skimping On: Evaluations
Will your generative AI app succeed? A rigorous process for assessing its quality — before and after launch — is key.
Leadership Skills
Four Leadership Loads That Keep Getting Heavier
From hyping up teams to finding the right data, ever more challenging tasks demand new approaches. Here are four tips.
Performance Management
Return-to-Office Mandates: How to Lose Your Best Performers
Executives should be focusing on employee outcomes and accountability rather than performative in-office appearances.
Performance Management
Managing an Employee Who Has a Side Hustle
An employee’s entrepreneurial pursuits can create challenges for managers, but it’s possible to turn them into a win-win.
Sustainability
Sometimes Sustainability Costs More. So What?
Many smart, strategic business decisions come with a price. Only in sustainability is this considered a problem.
Skills & Learning
Building Mastery: What Leaders Do That Helps — or Impedes
Organizations should help employees build the expertise that they’re hungry for — and that they need to be successful.
Diversity & Inclusion
How to Stand Up When It Comes to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
More than three out of four employed people surveyed want their companies to recommit to DEI, not retreat.
Skills & Learning
Tackling Disruption Playfully
Purposeful play offers a rich opportunity to learn by doing and adapt to disruptive change.
AI & Machine Learning
How GenAI Helps USAA Innovate
After deploying hundreds of AI solutions, financial services company USAA is breaking new ground with generative AI.
Collaboration
Ask Sanyin: Three Tips to Handle Tough Work Relationships
This short video explains how to smooth out snags in work relationships by changing some of your own habits.
Leadership Skills
What You Still Can’t Say at Work
Your people are holding back comments that leadership needs to hear. Use these techniques to free up communication.
Talent Management
How to Deal With Political Polarization in the Workplace
Political division among employees is a reality. Here’s how to lead through the tensions and maintain civil discourse.
Managing Your Career
When Moving Sideways Makes Sense
Moving laterally or even down a rung on your career path can pay off in the long term if you have a growth perspective.
Leading Change
Business, Politics, and Cultivating Resilience
MIT SMR’s fall 2024 issue highlights the need for personal and organizational resilience amid global uncertainty.
AI & Machine Learning
When Waste Management Companies Pick Up AI Tools
AI technologies can change the safety and cost equations in certain industries, including waste management.
Leadership Skills
Ask Sanyin: How Can I Turn Around a Difficult Work Relationship?
When you just don’t get along with a colleague, reset the relationship by focusing on trust.
Leadership Skills
Ask Sanyin: How to Unlock Your Team’s Superstar Strengths
This short video explains how to build a better team by surfacing each player’s unique powers.
Performance Management
Seven Truths About Hybrid Work and Productivity
Hybrid work presents trade-offs for organizations, and measuring its impact on productivity remains complex.