Managing Your Career
Pathways to Progress for Women Entrepreneurs
Women face similar challenges in entrepreneurship as in management.
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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.
Managing Your Career
Five Strategies for Investing in Your Career
Five practical strategies for motivated employees who want to stand out from the crowd.
Managing Your Career
Leisure Is Our Killer App
In the race for jobs, the capacity for leisure can give humans a surprising edge.
Diversity & Inclusion
Do Men Know More About Salaries?
New research explores gender differences in acquiring information about salaries.
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.
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.
Managing Your Career
Self-Reports Spur Self-Reflection
The act of answering survey questions can increase awareness, which opens the door to development.
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.
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.
Culture
Do Workplace Wellness Programs Really Work?
Managers play a crucial role in boosting employee participation in health-related activities at work.
Leading Change
It’s Time to Make Paternity Leave Work
Longer life spans make it possible for fathers to devote more time to childcare. So why don’t they?
Collaboration
How to Get Others to Adopt Your Recommendation
To sell your ideas, you have to understand what your particular audience needs to hear.
Business Models
MIT SMR Summer Must-Reads
The MIT SMR archive’s most popular articles explore innovation, leadership, strategy and technology.
Leadership Skills
Why People Believe in Their Leaders — or Not
Credibility hinges on perceptions of competence and trustworthiness, drawn from specific behaviors.
Managing Your Career
The Challenge of Scaling Soft Skills
Empathy and creative thinking are valuable skills in the workplace, but they’re hard to teach.
Ethics
The Mindsets of a Leader
A recent study found 6 distinct profiles of leadership based on the query, “Whom do they serve?”
Managing Your Career
Managing the Distraction-Focus Paradox
Professional success in today’s hyper-connected workplace demands “distracted focus.”