Managing Your Career
Self-Reports Spur Self-Reflection
The act of answering survey questions can increase awareness, which opens the door to development.
Human Psychology
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Analytics & Business Intelligence
Every Leader’s Guide to the Ethics of AI
Until regulations catch up, AI-oriented companies must establish their own ethical frameworks.
Thomas H. Davenport and Vivek Katyal
Organizational Behavior
Think Critically About the Wisdom of Experts
Leaders and managers should question the expert analyses guiding their decisions in 8 specific ways.
Andrew A. King
Managing Your Career
The Challenge of Scaling Soft Skills
Empathy and creative thinking are valuable skills in the workplace, but they’re hard to teach.
Lynda Gratton
Culture
Gender Discrimination Still Exists — Now What?
Providing language to use in day-to-day encounters with prejudice can help combat gender bias.
Morela Hernandez
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.
R. Edward Freeman and Seth Lashley
Ethics
The Mindsets of a Leader
A recent study found 6 distinct profiles of leadership based on the query, “Whom do they serve?”
Modesto A. Maidique and Nathan J. Hiller
Disruption
Why Companies Don’t Respond to Digital Disruption
Many executives don’t recognize the threat posed by failing to respond to digital disruption.
Gerald C. Kane
Collaboration
Five Principles for Organizing Collective Intelligence
Featured excerpt from Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World.
Theodore Kinni
Collaboration
The Trouble With Homogeneous Teams
Research finds that teams lacking diversity may be more susceptible to making flawed decisions.
Evan Apfelbaum, interviewed by Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Developing Strategy
How to Test Your Assumptions
Testing your assumptions in a logical order gives you the chance to make course corrections early.
Jon Fjeld
Managing Your Career
Surviving a Day Without Smartphones
For young adults, even a single day without access to their cellphones can be anxiety-producing.
Marcello Russo, Massimo Bergami, and Gabriele Morandin
Moving Beyond the Silicon Valley State of Mind
Featured excerpt from Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm.
Theodore Kinni
Ethics
The Trouble With Corporate Compliance Programs
Companies need a better understanding of how employees reach unethical decisions.
Todd Haugh
Leadership Skills
Helping Employees Improve Performance
The key for managers is less emphasis on how they rate employees and more on how they talk about performance improvement.
Reported by Bruce Posner
Leadership Skills
Will, Skill, and Velocity: Survival Skills for a Digital World
The future belongs to those who possess flexible talents, nerve, and personal speed.
Paul Michelman
Managing Your Career
Your Time Is Limited, So Choose Your Projects Wisely
Making the right decision about which projects to pursue should be easy. But it often isn’t.
Leslie Brokaw
When People Don’t Trust Algorithms
University of Chicago’s Berkeley Dietvorst explains why we can’t let go of human judgment — to our own detriment.
Berkeley J. Dietvorst, interviewed by Paul Michelman
Executing Strategy
The Critical Difference Between Complex and Complicated
When you manage complex problems as if they’re complicated, you’re setting your company up to fail.
Theodore Kinni
Innovation Strategy
Leadership Development’s Epic Fail
Most leadership development programs focus on competencies but fail to view leaders as individuals.