Internal Communication

Reveal data piece by piece instead of all at once to give it narrative structure — and meaning.

MIT Sloan Management Review’s spring 2023 issue examines organizational structure, innovation, and employee well-being.

Choosing the right listening style can help close the gap between what a speaker needs and how a listener responds.

Leaders need to help their business and IT staff better respect each other’s capabilities.

Categorizing decisions by riskiness and urgency helps clarify when to involve higher-ups.

Front-line employees are uniquely aware of the early symptoms of coming change. Management should heed their insights.

Leaders need to recognize workplace hierarchies to create an effective learning environment for employees.

Monolithic, highly interdependent organizations can become modular ones by embracing microservices.

Good arguments at the core of great strategy, the risks of concurrent change initiatives, and the courage to be candid.

New research points to consistency as a pivotal success factor when companies launch concurrent change initiatives.

Leaders can take proactive steps to make workers feel more comfortable about going back to in-person work.

Consider these six guiding principles for how companies can harness internal competition as a force for good.

Digital transformation efforts are most effective when leadership priorities reflect an organization’s cultural values.

Siloed corporate social responsibility responses are insufficient to tackle structural inequities.

New research explores whether founder CEOs incorporate or ignore advice from their leadership teams.

Without visual annotations, charts and graphs are missed opportunities to feed your audience insights from your data.

The pandemic challenges managers to find a more productive way to meet with employees.

The pandemic has made online interaction more routine, creating new opportunities for businesses.

Data-wrapping techniques, building diverse AI teams, and communicating with empathy and authority.

The right communication during a crisis can help teams be more connected — and productive.