Performance Management
When Hybrid Work Strategy Aggravates 20-Somethings
Gen Z — already adept at online communication — can model ways for hybrid teams to develop stronger digital connections.
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Quality & Service
Know Your Own Strength
MIT Sloan Management Review’s summer 2024 issue highlights ways to better support customers, partners, and employees.
Leadership Skills
Ask Sanyin: What’s the Right Way to Carry Out Layoffs?
Leaders’ direct involvement and presence in all stages of a workforce reduction helps maintain trust and mitigate harm.
Security & Privacy
One CISO Can’t Fill Your Board’s Cybersecurity Gaps
Don’t over-rely on a chief information security officer: Every board member must learn cybersecurity.
Data & Data Culture
Building a Data-Driven Culture: Three Mistakes to Avoid
Persuading employees to use data to make better decisions requires both top-down leadership and grassroots initiatives.
Managing Your Career
Ask Sanyin: How to Win at Career Transitions
In this short video, learn how to evaluate opportunities based on whether they build or diminish your personal capital.
Talent Management
For Ambitious Employees, a Viable Career Path Can Make Up for a Just-OK Manager
New data shows that strong leadership and growth opportunities are key to whether employees choose to stay put.
Disruption
The Anomalies of Disruption
The examples of Apple, Uber, and Tesla strengthen our ability to predict the impact of in-process innovations.
Ethics
Effective Leaders Articulate Values — and Live by Them
Leaders who explore, evaluate, and refine their values set themselves up to make better decisions.
Talent Management
The Unexpected Upsides of Letting Employees Define Their Jobs
Support for job crafting can lead to greater engagement, more effective working relationships, and more adaptable teams.
Leadership Skills
Ask Sanyin: Are You Haunted by the Old Boss?
Learn how you can escape the specter of your former boss and put your own mark on a new role in this short video.
Climate Change
Why We Need to, Have to, Want to Act on Climate
A three-part framing outlines the reasons for businesses to act on the world’s climate change challenges.
Leadership Skills
How to Create Slides That Suit Your Superiors: 11 Tips
When you’re pitching to execs in your organization, deliver slides that fit those particular people just right.
AI & Machine Learning
Mayo Clinic’s Healthy Model for AI Success
The nonprofit is delivering technology and services to help its staff build AI applications efficiently and safely.
AI & Machine Learning
In AI We Trust — Too Much?
To reduce the risk of accidentally using bad artificial intelligence, we need regulation — and skepticism.
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.
Leading Change
Let’s Get to Work
MIT SMR wants to hear from you, our readers, to better understand your biggest challenges and help you meet them.
Leadership Skills
Ask Sanyin: What Matters Most in Evaluating New Opportunities?
Executives deciding their next move should weigh how they can best apply five types of personal capital.
Culture
Warm Hearts, Cold Reality: How to Build Team Empathy
Here’s how to fix the root problems that make organizations feel rude and uncaring to employees.
Leadership Skills
Ask Sanyin: How Can I Minimize Impostor Syndrome?
Learn some simple but effective tips on how to reduce your own and your team’s impostor syndrome.