Analytics & Business Intelligence
Every Leader’s Guide to the Ethics of AI
Until regulations catch up, AI-oriented companies must establish their own ethical frameworks.
Human Psychology
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Organizational Behavior
Think Critically About the Wisdom of Experts
Leaders and managers should question the expert analyses guiding their decisions in 8 specific ways.
Managing Your Career
The Challenge of Scaling Soft Skills
Empathy and creative thinking are valuable skills in the workplace, but they’re hard to teach.
Culture
Gender Discrimination Still Exists — Now What?
Providing language to use in day-to-day encounters with prejudice can help combat gender bias.
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.
Ethics
The Mindsets of a Leader
A recent study found 6 distinct profiles of leadership based on the query, “Whom do they serve?”
Disruption
Why Companies Don’t Respond to Digital Disruption
Many executives don’t recognize the threat posed by failing to respond to digital disruption.
Collaboration
Five Principles for Organizing Collective Intelligence
Featured excerpt from Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World.
Collaboration
The Trouble With Homogeneous Teams
Research finds that teams lacking diversity may be more susceptible to making flawed decisions.
Developing Strategy
How to Test Your Assumptions
Testing your assumptions in a logical order gives you the chance to make course corrections early.
Managing Your Career
Surviving a Day Without Smartphones
For young adults, even a single day without access to their cellphones can be anxiety-producing.
Moving Beyond the Silicon Valley State of Mind
Featured excerpt from Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm.
Ethics
The Trouble With Corporate Compliance Programs
Companies need a better understanding of how employees reach unethical decisions.
Leadership Skills
Helping Employees Improve Performance
The key for managers is less emphasis on how they rate employees and more on how they talk about performance improvement.
Leadership Skills
Will, Skill, and Velocity: Survival Skills for a Digital World
The future belongs to those who possess flexible talents, nerve, and personal speed.
Managing Your Career
Your Time Is Limited, So Choose Your Projects Wisely
Making the right decision about which projects to pursue should be easy. But it often isn’t.
When People Don’t Trust Algorithms
University of Chicago’s Berkeley Dietvorst explains why we can’t let go of human judgment — to our own detriment.
Executing Strategy
The Critical Difference Between Complex and Complicated
When you manage complex problems as if they’re complicated, you’re setting your company up to fail.
Innovation Strategy
Leadership Development’s Epic Fail
Most leadership development programs focus on competencies but fail to view leaders as individuals.
Leadership Skills
The Most Underrated Skill in Management
Articulating what problem you’re trying to solve is an important (and underrated) management skill.