Leadership

How can executives best distinguish usable information from distracting noise?

Companies adding analytics professionals must navigate cultural tradition and turf tensions.

Pervasive and near-continual use of organizational information technology systems is taking a toll on some employees’ health.

It’s not enough to offer great pay and benefits anymore. Employees want their workplace to reflect and support who they are.

Being fresh for the work day requires prioritizing sleep — which organizations can do a better job encouraging.

Humanyze helps interpret social data so that businesses can identify the best collaborative practices of the most effective people.

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

The Spring 2015 issue of MIT SMR highlights project management — and the importance of expecting the unexpected.

The role of project sponsors is often overlooked, but actively engaged executives are crucial to a project’s success.

Successful project managers often combine elements of traditional and agile approaches to project management.

Six types of personal advisors can provide an important combination of psychosocial support and career support.

Advanced digital technologies are swiftly changing the kinds of skills that jobs require.

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

How well do people factor past performance into their expectations for the future? Not very, according to studies.

Employees can be inspired to perform better if their creativity is challenged through teamwork.

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

Making it safe to be honest about when projects are getting off track can promote cooperative behavior.

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

It’s smart to be on good terms with former employees. Recent research highlights the upside to following competitors’ former employees, too.

By 2020, most new data will be generated not by people but by sensors and embedded, intelligent devices.