Leadership
The Top 10 MIT SMR Articles of 2024
Catch up on insights you might have missed as you look ahead to the potential business challenges of 2025.
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Hot Topics for Leaders
- Managing Your Career
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Hot Topics for Leaders
- Managing Your Career
- Leading Change
- Crisis Management
Hot Topics for Leaders
- Managing Your Career
- Leading Change
- Crisis Management
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Leadership Skills
Building a Consistently Excellent Culture: Bain’s Manny Maceda
Bain’s core culture has stayed healthy over time and across geographies. See what you can learn from its approach.
AI & Machine Learning
Four Tips for Staying Ahead of AI Disruption
Technologist Dr. John Halamka gives advice on keeping up with AI-driven change, in this short video.
Leadership Skills
Five Ways Leaders Can Get People to Speak Up
Leaders can use these techniques to encourage employees to constructively challenge managers’ ideas.
AI & Machine Learning
AI Tools That Modify Speech Have Downsides
Leaders must cultivate human connection as voice-altering technologies emerge that can strip away vital auditory cues.
AI & Machine Learning
GenAI Tools and Decision-Making: Beware a New Control Trap
Consider these three takeaways for leaders on how to avoid pitfalls while using generative AI tools in decision-making.
Culture
Five Tips on Avoiding ‘Terminal Niceness’: Former Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst
Vigorous debate is critical for any organization. The exec shares advice on eliciting candid feedback from all employees.
Remote Work
Building Human Connection in a Remote World
Leaders can build connection with virtual team members by applying different strategies than they’d use in person.
Organizational Behavior
RTO Mandates: Hard Truths for Leaders
In this short video, learn why return-to-office mandates can backfire and how to build a strong hybrid work culture.
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.
Data & Data Culture
Sharing AI Mistakes: Partnership on AI’s Rebecca Finlay
On this Me, Myself, and AI podcast episode, the nonprofit’s CEO argues for more transparency when companies err with AI.