Climate Change
Your Organization Is a Network of Conversations
Leaders should realize that companies are fundamentally linguistic entities.
Workplace, Teams, & Culture
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Culture
When Communication Should Be Formal
Formal communication protocols may seem outdated, but they offer crucial performance advantages.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Leading With Next-Generation Key Performance Indicators
MIT Sloan Management Review’s first annual cross-industry survey of senior executives in collaboration with Google offers insight into organizations’ use of key performance indicators in the digital era.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Measure Your KPI Alignment
Are you on the path toward strong KPI alignment? Take this self-assessment to uncover challenges and opportunities based on your score.
Collaboration
John Doerr on OKRs and Measuring What Matters
Setting ambitious goals is crucial for strategy execution and innovation.
Collaboration
Five Ways to Improve Communication in Virtual Teams
New research reveals five communication strategies that boost performance in virtual teams.
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.
Marketing Strategy
Interactive Infographic: Customer-Focused KPIs Fuel the Future of Business
What sets leading companies apart is not so much the number of metrics they track but how they use them to better engage customers — and thereby grow their businesses.
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).
Managing Your Career
Managing the Distraction-Focus Paradox
Professional success in today’s hyper-connected workplace demands “distracted focus.”
AI & Machine Learning
How Human-Computer ‘Superminds’ Are Redefining the Future of Work
As smart technologies embed deeper into human processes, a more powerful form of collaboration is emerging.
Collaboration
Fostering a Team-Oriented Culture at John Hancock
John Hancock’s chief marketing officer describes how the legacy company is organizing for digital.
Collaboration
Let Talent Drive Digital Maturity
Focused on internal networking and upskilling, the marketing organization at John Hancock is well-positioned to compete in a digital world.
Collaboration
How Digital Leaders Inspire Engagement
An engaged workforce positions a company’s digital initiatives for success.
Organizational Behavior
Converting Email From Drain to Gain
Teams can develop shared practices that enable email to help, not harm, productivity.
Culture
Can IT Be Too in Sync With Business Strategy?
IT alignment can produce organizational inertia — unless it’s accompanied by the right culture.
Remote Work
The Quest to Create Utterly Normal Virtual Reality Experiences
VR is being used for job training, but it also has the potential to reduce our need to commute.
AI & Machine Learning
The Need for ‘Techno-Supporting Skeptics’
Aspiring leaders need to harbor healthy skepticism of the digital technologies they champion.