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Leadership Skills
How Tech CEOs Are Redefining the Top Job
Pioneering leaders roll up their sleeves, create, and stay relevant.
Boris Groysberg and Tricia Gregg
AI & Machine Learning
The Best of This Week
How companies are making AI pay; tread cautiously in a transparent world; CIOs step up their game.
The MIT SMR Editors
Managing Your Career
How to Manage Your Career in the Age of Uncertainty
Author Whitney Johnson offers guidance for managing your career in an era of constant change.
Paul Michelman
Managing Your Career
Hacking Inequality at Home
Apps can help working couples share household labor more equitably if they’re used the right way.
Jennifer Louise Petriglieri
Managing Your Career
How Managers Can Help Workers Tackle Digital Distractions
Managers can improve productivity by helping their teams avoid digital distractions.
Brian Solis
Skills & Learning
New Frontiers in Re-skilling and Upskilling
Companies are experimenting in how to help employees learn the skills to stay competitive.
Lynda Gratton
Managing Your Career
Don’t Let ‘Busy’ Be Your Status
Work martyrdom seldom makes you more productive. Take a vacation instead.
Ally MacDonald
Managing Your Career
Pathways to Progress for Women Entrepreneurs
Women face similar challenges in entrepreneurship as in management.
Whitney Sales
AI & Machine Learning
Let Your Mind Wander
A mental vacation is good for your powers of creativity.
Lisa Burrell
Managing Your Career
How Will Digital Trends Shape Your Career?
Digital trends are influencing our careers — perhaps more than we realize. Benchmark yourself against your peers to see how.
Leadership Skills
Older and Wiser? How Management Style Varies With Age
As managers get older, they are more likely to work through others and focus on the big picture.
Julian Birkinshaw, James Manktelow, Vittorio D’Amato, Elena Tosca, and Francesca Macchi
Managing Your Career
Five Strategies for Investing in Your Career
Five practical strategies for motivated employees who want to stand out from the crowd.
Ally MacDonald
Managing Your Career
Leisure Is Our Killer App
In the race for jobs, the capacity for leisure can give humans a surprising edge.
Adam Waytz
Diversity & Inclusion
Do Men Know More About Salaries?
New research explores gender differences in acquiring information about salaries.
Zoë Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Leadership Skills
Free Reading Spree to Kick Off Spring
MIT SMR is dropping its paywall on March 5 and 6; all content will be freely available to visitors.
Lisa Burrell
Talent Management
Career Management Isn’t Just the Employee’s Job
Organizations can use analytics to help employees chart a path for growth and advancement.
Matthew Bidwell and Federica De Stefano
Managing Your Career
Self-Reports Spur Self-Reflection
The act of answering survey questions can increase awareness, which opens the door to development.
Angela Duckworth
Data & Data Culture
What to Do When Industry Disruption Threatens Your Career
If your industry faces disruption, first diagnose the volatility. Then act preemptively to disrupt your own career.
Boris Groysberg, Whitney Johnson, and Eric Lin
Leadership Skills
Leadership Lessons From Your Inner Child
Leaders can blend the bold thinking and actions of childhood while maintaining responsibility to the bottom line.