Skills & Learning
Video Insights from MIT SMR Authors
These mini-lessons are bite-sized insights from MIT SMR authors in four areas: decision-making, leadership, data and analytics, and digital transformation.
Leadership Skills
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Leadership Skills
Leadership Today and Tomorrow
Digitalization has transformed business. These essential resources will help you understand what that means for leaders.
Crisis Management
The Two Roles Leaders Must Play in a Crisis
Disaster managers must be sufficiently flexible to meet stakeholder expectations, depending on the situation.
Organizational Behavior
Sustaining Culture When Everyone’s Remote
In this webinar, Jennifer Howard-Grenville shares research on organizational culture and remote working.
Organizational Behavior
The Best of This Week
Returning “boomerang” CEOs, job crafting, and working with robots.
Leadership Skills
Boomerang CEOs: What Happens When the CEO Comes Back?
A comparative investigation of boomerang and non-boomerang CEOs reveals some nonobvious insights and critical implications for leaders.
Leading Change
BRAVE Conversations About Race
Enrica N. Ruggs and Derek R. Avery explore how to begin discussions of racial equality in the workplace.
Leading Change
Seize the Moment
The COVID-19 pandemic has permanently changed social norms. Although there will be enormous challenges ahead, these changes nonetheless offer business leaders an opportunity to create a future that’s different from — and better than — the prepandemic “business as usual.”
Leadership Skills
The Overlooked Key to Leading Through Chaos
Sensemaking can be overlooked as a key leadership skill but is critical for navigating complexity.
Leadership Skills
Summer Reading List From MIT SMR
It’s time for a reading list that helps you to reflect on what first-rate leadership really means to you.
Leadership Skills
Motivating Your Team With Empathy and Story
Nancy Duarte describes the power of story to engage and unite teams.
Leadership Skills
Leading Remotely Requires New Communication Strategies
The pandemic challenges managers to find a more productive way to meet with employees.
Leadership Skills
The Best of This Week
Strategizing for change, leading with agility, and developing AI strategy.
Leadership Skills
Being the Agile Boss
Leading through difficult times requires agility to leverage the turbulence around you.
Leadership Skills
How to Support Your Workforce in Critical Times
Leaders who take care of themselves will also take care of their teams.
Leadership Skills
The Secret to Supporting Your Workforce in Critical Times
Mollie West Duffy and Liz Fosslien contend that smart leaders acknowledge and embrace emotions in the workplace.
Leadership Skills
Leading With Humanity
We can all care for ourselves and others during challenging times.
Leadership Skills
Humanity: A Leader’s Secret Weapon
UVA Darden’s Morela Hernandez asserts that this time of crisis calls for compassionate leadership.
Leadership Skills
Gaining Clarity From Adversity
The coronavirus crisis is exposing some businesses’ weaknesses while highlighting others’ strong leadership.
Innovation Strategy
Our Guide to the Summer 2020 Issue
MIT SMR summer 2020 highlights leadership and innovation strategies, employee morale, and data sharing.