Talent Management
Melding Flexibility and Connectivity in the Workplace
Organizations are trying to bridge their need for connectivity with people’s hunger for flexibility.
Organizational Structure
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Talent Management
Gain Competitive Advantage by Transcending the Front-Line Paradox
Front-line employees are uniquely aware of the early symptoms of coming change. Management should heed their insights.
Carsten Lund Pedersen
Talent Management
Why Short CMO Tenure Is Not Always a Problem
Negative factors like leadership failure and dissatisfaction aren’t the only reasons for CMO turnover.
Kimberly A. Whitler
Platforms & Ecosystems
Interactive: The Workforce Ecosystem Perspective
Use this dashboard to benchmark your organization’s readiness to adopt a workforce ecosystem approach.
Innovation Strategy
The Unconventional Innovator Who Created Wikipedia
Wikipedia’s creation required the determined efforts of an unconventional, original thinker.
Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, and Michael Wade
Collaboration
Are Your Team Members Lonely?
Loneliness can be triggered by team design, even when people work face-to-face.
Constance N. Hadley and Mark Mortensen
Data & Data Culture
Why Chief Data Officers Must Assume Leadership for Data Success
Top chief data officers share insights on how leaders and organizations can ensure data success.
Randy Bean
Content sponsored by AWS
Developing the Data-Driven Organization: Leadership, Culture, and Learning
A Q&A with AWS’s Ishit Vachhrajani on how leaders can generate excitement about and support for AI organization-wide.
Anne Stuart, MIT SMR Connections
Talent Management
Do You Know Who Your Best Interviewers Are?
Identifying your best interviewers can substantially reduce hiring expenses and increase the quality of hires.
Lalith Munasinghe and Kate Gautier
Leadership Skills
Do Founder CEOs Tune Out Their Teams?
New research explores whether founder CEOs incorporate or ignore advice from their leadership teams.
Christopher Bingham, Bradley Hendricks, and Travis Howell
Leading Change
Decentralizing Your Operating and Talent Models the Right Way
To operate their companies effectively worldwide, leaders need to rethink how work gets done, and where.
Alec Levenson
Organizational Behavior
Sustaining Culture When Everyone’s Remote
In this webinar, Jennifer Howard-Grenville shares research on organizational culture and remote working.
Jennifer Howard-Grenville and Paul Michelman
IT Governance & Leadership
Why You — Yes, You — Need Enterprise Architecture
It’s time to rethink how work gets done in your company by reconsidering its enterprise architecture.
Jeanne Ross and Cynthia Beath
Organizational Structure
Contextualizing the Office: How and Where Work Gets Done
Our systems of belief, technology, and cultural practices have shaped what many of us think of as “the office.”
Martha Bird
Analytics & Business Intelligence
When It Comes to Culture, Does Your Company Walk the Talk?
Company practices often conflict with corporate values. Closing the gap starts with communication.
Donald Sull, Stefano Turconi, and Charles Sull
Technology Innovation Strategy
Solving the Problem of Siloed IT in Organizations
Focusing on better conversations can improve collaboration and unlock creative solutions to business problems.
Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick
Innovation Strategy
Accelerating Innovation Through a Network of Ecosystems
Use a networked approach to manage distributed innovation across teams, units, and regions.
Elizabeth J. Altman and Frank Nagle
Leading Change
Leaders Must Have the Courage to Choose the Future
In a crisis, it’s easy to unconsciously prioritize the past. But this is the time to look forward.
Scott D. Anthony
Talent Management
How to Increase Collaborative Productivity in a Pandemic
Managing home-office working will require a combination of technology deployment and job redesign.
Lynda Gratton
Leadership Skills
The Best of This Week
How businesses can act against racial injustice, and new leadership challenges in a suddenly virtual workplace.