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.
Morela Hernandez, Cristiano Guarana, and Catherine Owsik
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.
Nancy Duarte
Talent Management
Managing Through Uncertainty
MIT SMR’s fall 2022 issue includes articles on board refreshment, collaborative relationships, and management skills.
Abbie Lundberg
Content sponsored by DXC Technology
Digital Innovation and Employee Experience: Making the Connection
Two executives discuss why companies must provide relevant, personalized employee experiences.
Mike McDaniel and Ryan Steinberger
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.
Elizabeth J. Altman, Steven Hatfield, and Allison Ryder
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.
Deb Mashek
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.
Caroline Knight, Doina Olaru, Julie Anne Lee, and Sharon K. Parker
Leadership Skills
Effective Leaders Decide About Deciding
Categorizing decisions by riskiness and urgency helps clarify when to involve higher-ups.
Nancy Duarte
Collaboration
Improve Creative Brainstorming With Constructive Criticism
New research upends the assumption that criticism always impedes creative brainstorming.
Jared R. Curhan
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.
MIT SMR Editors
Collaboration
Agility at the Point of Execution
Babson’s Rob Cross discusses how to identify collaborative dysfunction — and then improve it.
MIT SMR Editors
Collaboration
The Surprising Impact of Meeting-Free Days
No-meeting days allow for efficient collaboration while preventing focused, heads-down work from being disrupted.
Benjamin Laker, Vijay Pereira, Pawan Budhwar, and Ashish Malik
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.
MIT SMR Editors
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.
David Kiron and François Candelon
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.
Elizabeth Heichler
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.
Jill E. Perry-Smith
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.
Sam Ransbotham, François Candelon, David Kiron, Burt LaFountain, and Shervin Khodabandeh
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.
Ori Mor
Corporate Social Responsibility
Social Intrapreneurship: Unleashing Social Innovation From Within
The next wave of social innovation is coming from employee-led initiatives.