Managing Your Career
Hacking Inequality at Home
Apps can help working couples share household labor more equitably if they’re used the right way.
Human Psychology
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Analytics & Business Intelligence
Talent Versus Teamwork
Counterpoints looks at whether analytics can quantify team chemistry.
Leadership Skills
In Praise of the Incurably Curious Leader
Constant curiosity is essential to navigating leadership in a changing world.
Organizational Behavior
Imaginary Time Travel as a Leadership Tool
Leaders can help employees manage problems by harnessing their capacity to think beyond the moment.
Developing Strategy
A Structured Approach to Strategic Decisions
A rigorous process for navigating strategic decisions can mitigate errors and improve judgment.
Managing Your Career
Self-Reports Spur Self-Reflection
The act of answering survey questions can increase awareness, which opens the door to development.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Every Leader’s Guide to the Ethics of AI
Until regulations catch up, AI-oriented companies must establish their own ethical frameworks.
Organizational Behavior
Think Critically About the Wisdom of Experts
Leaders and managers should question the expert analyses guiding their decisions in 8 specific ways.
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.
Culture
Gender Discrimination Still Exists — Now What?
Providing language to use in day-to-day encounters with prejudice can help combat gender bias.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Business, Technology, and Ethics: The Need for Better Conversations
We need a commitment to honestly talk about the challenges technology now poses.
Ethics
The Mindsets of a Leader
A recent study found 6 distinct profiles of leadership based on the query, “Whom do they serve?”
Disruption
Why Companies Don’t Respond to Digital Disruption
Many executives don’t recognize the threat posed by failing to respond to digital disruption.
Collaboration
Five Principles for Organizing Collective Intelligence
Featured excerpt from Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World.
Collaboration
The Trouble With Homogeneous Teams
Research finds that teams lacking diversity may be more susceptible to making flawed decisions.
Developing Strategy
How to Test Your Assumptions
Testing your assumptions in a logical order gives you the chance to make course corrections early.
Managing Your Career
Surviving a Day Without Smartphones
For young adults, even a single day without access to their cellphones can be anxiety-producing.
Moving Beyond the Silicon Valley State of Mind
Featured excerpt from Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm.
Ethics
The Trouble With Corporate Compliance Programs
Companies need a better understanding of how employees reach unethical decisions.