Leadership Skills
Common Traits of the Best Digital Leaders
Leaders must develop new skills to effectively guide their organizations into the uncertain future of the digital age.
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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.
Culture
When Communication Should Be Formal
Formal communication protocols may seem outdated, but they offer crucial performance advantages.
Developing Strategy
Goodbye Structure; Hello Accountability
Agile companies are assigning accountabilities for specific business outcomes to small teams.
Collaboration
John Doerr on OKRs and Measuring What Matters
Setting ambitious goals is crucial for strategy execution and innovation.
Climate Change
Finding the Middle Ground in a Politically Polarized World
Corporate activism is often framed as “take a stand or be silent.” But other alternatives exist.
Crisis Management
Why Tech Companies Don’t See Their Biggest Problems Coming
Tech firms have five big blind spots in crisis management. Addressing them is essential for survival.
Leading Change
Bringing Lessons From #MeToo to the Boardroom
If your board has not already re-examined its sexual harassment policies, the time to act is now.
Developing Strategy
With Goals, FAST Beats SMART
Traditional goal setting undermines the alignment, coordination, and agility needed to execute strategy.
Collaboration
Coming of Age Digitally
MIT SMR and Deloitte’s 2018 global executive study and research report investigates how born-digital and legacy organizations alike achieving digital maturity through continuous learning.
Collaboration
Interactive: Learning and Leadership Models Today’s Digital Business Environment
Explore interactive charts from the 2018 MIT SMR/Deloitte Digital Business Study and see how your organization measures up.
Collaboration
The Ability to Navigate the In-Between Spaces
There are four key leadership attributes for leading across networks (and silos and borders).
Ethics
The Mindsets of a Leader
A recent study found 6 distinct profiles of leadership based on the query, “Whom do they serve?”
Managing Your Career
Managing the Distraction-Focus Paradox
Professional success in today’s hyper-connected workplace demands “distracted focus.”
Digital Marketing
Your Customers May Be the Weakest Link in Your Data Privacy Defenses
Apps that encourage users to share contact information expose companies to a huge security liability.
Climate Change
A Platform Greater Than Facebook
Upheavals in technology and politics are a wake-up call: It’s time to reconsider our priorities.
Climate Change
Blockchain and the Clean, Smart Grid
A blockchain platform for the energy sector could accelerate the transition to renewables.
Innovation Strategy
If You Cut Employees Some Slack, Will They Innovate?
Giving people extra time and resources can boost innovation — but only if you match your “slack strategy” to employee type.
Organizational Transformation
Make the Move to Distributed Leadership
Most legacy companies are organized around hierarchies that worked in the 1980s — but won’t necessarily be effective today.
Organizational Structure
Designing Organizations Around Technology
Harvard Business School professor Carliss Baldwin explains how modularity affects team structures.