Leadership Skills

It can be difficult for finance professionals to transition to broader leadership roles.

The Winter 2016 issue of MIT SMR explores how transparency effects the power structure.

By tweeting, CEOs have an opportunity to initiate and influence online conversations.

How can executives develop their skills as strategists? One way is to learn from the masters.

Organizations need to help executives look beyond individual units toward the broader enterprise.

Here’s what it takes to lead a high-performing data science team in which team members (and their managers) are excited by what their teammates can do.

Businesses need a new approach to the practice of leadership — and to leadership development.

How can executives best distinguish usable information from distracting noise?

It’s easier to make good decisions if you remove yourself from information overload and consider choices more abstractly.

Research offers insights into when trying to reach consensus is the right course, and when it isn’t.

A willingness to ask for advice on difficult problems can increase your perceived competence.

For many decisions, letting your mind wander to a choice that you feel drawn to — rather than weighing all the options — is ample.

New research offers insights into factors that can affect the decision-making process.

The Winter 2015 issue of MIT SMR highlights decision making — and acknowledging that you don’t have all the answers.

Six scholarly articles offer intriguing insights into factors that can affect the decision-making process.

Simulations can help shrink the gap between what analysts try to explain and what decision makers understand.

The overconfidence of presumed expertise is counterproductive. Instead, data trumps intuition.

Leaders can avoid unhappy project status surprises if they understand how — and why — people avoid sharing bad news.

We live in an age of data abundance, but that doesn’t make decision-making less challenging.

Asking reports if they would recommend their manager provides efficient management assessment.