Team Dynamics

According to Deloitte’s John Hagel, the best collaborative teams are diverse and built from the bottom up.

Harvard Business School professor Carliss Baldwin explains how modularity affects team structures.

Featured excerpt from Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World.

Leading teams with complicated hierarchies of power demands both curiosity and humility.

Investopedia CEO David Siegel describes his innovative approach to office seating arrangements.

Research finds that the right kind of hierarchy can help teams be better innovators and learners.

Business leaders need to prioritize effective, two-way communication with their data scientists.

If you’re running a big project, watch out for these signs that stakeholders have doubts about it.

Branding, a process used by marketers, can also be used internally to build excitement for projects.

Design thinking needs better alignment with the dynamics of established businesses.

Research reveals five lessons that can help executives manage big, complex projects more effectively.

Knowing the signs of negative emotions in employees can help managers respond more effectively.

Readers contest the view that corporate culture becomes less important in distributed organizations.

Many executives try to ignore negative emotions in the workplace, but that tactic can be costly.

There’s value in looking at good processes to figure out what works.

Projects can lose momentum if stakeholders grow skeptical. Here’s how to avert a ‘cycle of doubt.’

One way to learn, argue Paul J.H. Schoemaker (Wharton School) and Steven Krupp (DSI), is to “try to fail fast, often and cheaply in search of innovation.”

Simple as it sounds, regular sleep is the best antidote for a fatigued or stressed-out workforce.

Asking why you’re embarking on a project before you begin raises the project’s chance of success.