Leadership

The winner of the 2020 Beckhard Prize is “Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration,” by Ethan Bernstein, Jesse Shore, and David Lazer.

Sensemaking can be overlooked as a key leadership skill but is critical for navigating complexity.

A framework for sensing the unexpected, organizing in response, capturing value, and renewing capabilities.

Four team management practices have been key to navigating the initial pivot to virtual workplaces.

The resilient, knowledge-based economy; a COVID-19 data disaster; smart buildings; and democratized AI.

It’s time for a reading list that helps you to reflect on what first-rate leadership really means to you.

It’s time to rethink how work gets done in your company by reconsidering its enterprise architecture.

Nancy Duarte describes the power of story to engage and unite teams.

Leaders must focus on managing the gaps in AI skills and processes within the organization.

The pandemic challenges managers to find a more productive way to meet with employees.

Strategizing for change, leading with agility, and developing AI strategy.

A fundamental source of confusion about change is the use of that single term — change — to refer to three distinct strategies.

CFOs need to lead AI technology decision-making — and they should start now.

Leading through difficult times requires agility to leverage the turbulence around you.

A successful AI-enabled workforce requires key hiring, training, and risk management considerations.

Employers could use surveillance tools — with constraints — to keep workers safe and healthy.

Preparing for AI’s next phase means prioritizing your talent pipeline and technology infrastructure.

Accelerating strategy breakthroughs, transforming the supply chain, and contextualizing office space.

Companies that show the most agility and resilience in responding to the global pandemic pursue four main strategies.

Our systems of belief, technology, and cultural practices have shaped what many of us think of as “the office.”