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Building a Culture Focused on Execution
Author MIT Sloan Management Review
What are the best ways to make sure that projects and new ideas move forward smoothly and smartly? This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines the ways to tap employees for their best ideas, encourage them to share their concerns, and use ....
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Balancing Perseverance with Agility
Author MIT Sloan Management Review
Today’s leaders need to be able to adapt and stay focused in the age of uncertainly. This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines the need for continual reinvention, the ways to tap creativity strategically, and the fact that to grow ....
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Competing in Challenging Markets
Author MIT Sloan Management Review
What does it mean to compete in today’s world? This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines new ways of thinking about business models, the importance of using analytics and data to support strategic vision, and the best ways to compe....
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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Conflict at Work
Author MIT Sloan Management Review
Conflict can be a source of creativity and new ideas, or a weight that drags down people’s emotions and productivity. This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review looks at how to deal with strong emotions in the workplace, how to manage diverg....
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Executing Successful Change Management
Author MIT Sloan Management Review
Changing the direction of a company or a project can be a harrowing process, because it often means changing management practices and methods. Many people resist change, particularly if it challenges their day-to-day work life. This collection of articles from MIT ....
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Fostering a Culture of Innovation
Author MIT Sloan Management Review
What does it take to make an organization truly innovative? This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines the deliberate processes managers can take to nurture innovation and the importance of being able to translate the language of innovato....
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Author MIT Sloan Management Review
What are the best ways for companies to manage and take advantage of virtual teams? This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines the unique challenges of managing dispersed workers and the tactics managers can take to help them and the comp....
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Getting Smarter About Strategy
Author MIT Sloan Management Review
How can executives make themselves smarter about strategy? This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines the ways managers can set themselves up to think more strategically, examine opportunities, and then sell their ideas to stakeholders. ....
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Author MIT Sloan Management Review
How do you decide how to decide? What are the best strategies for problem-solving? This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review explores the critical importance of knowing what problem you are trying to solve, taking the time to thoroughly frame a d....
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Author MIT Sloan Management Review
How can managers establish a framework for productive teamwork — one in which team members can work together with enthusiasm? This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines how to build teams that utilize each member’s talents, pl....
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Managing Along the Digital Continuum
Author MIT Sloan Management Review
The digital world presents new challenges for every organizational leader. Do you fold digital capacities onto your organization, or do you remake the business entirely? This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines how executives are respon....
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Negotiating Acquisitions and Partnerships
Author MIT Sloan Management Review
How can leaders increase their odds of having successful negotiations? This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines the many stages of negotiation, from evaluating potential partners and valuing the deal to providing protection from lies du....
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Author MIT Sloan Management Review
A more inclusive workplace not only boosts morale but often increases performance, too. This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines ways that organizations are adapting to workforces that are older, more demographically and geographically ....
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Author MIT Sloan Management Review
Not every leader is wildly charismatic or cut from the same cloth as other leaders in the organization. This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines the ways leaders can turn their weaknesses into strengths, overcome their personal deficits....
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Why People Believe in Their Leaders — Or Not
Author Lynne M. Andersson , Brad Gilbreath , Tae-Yeol Kim , Daniel Han Min Chng
Organizations need to focus on how blockchain can be used to support their unique strategies. Without this focus, they risk investing in initiatives that don’t provide meaningful value. Show and hide more
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Why Tech Companies Don’t See Their Biggest Problems Coming
Author Ian Mitroff
Technology companies, such as Facebook, often fail to make crisis management a central feature of their operations, thanks to five blind spots to which they're especially susceptible. Recognizing these shortcomings is the first imperative; the next is developing a....
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Five Ways to Improve Communication in Virtual Teams
Author Kathryn M Bartol , N. Sharon Hill
If you think sophisticated communication technologies are the ticket to your virtual team’s success, think again. It’s not the tech that matters — it’s how people use it. New research reveals five strategies for conquering distance and impro....
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Selling Solutions Isn’t Enough
Author Kevin Sellers , Jonathan Knowles , Hannah Grove , Richard Ettenson
Rather than trying to sell standardized products or services to the biggest possible set of buyers, B2B companies need to develop ways to help specific customers achieve better outcomes. Instead of describing their solutions, companies first need to understand cust....
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Master the Challenges of Multichannel Pricing
Author Sajal Kohli , Manish Chopra , Gadi BenMark , Walter Baker
Retail customers may accept different prices on different channels — but retailers need to manage new complexities to make it work. These include understanding what customers value in each channel and how that affects what they will pay, giving store employee....
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Four Ways Jobs Will Respond to Automation
Author Beth Humberd , Scott Latham
The robots are coming! But counter to popular belief, it’s not just low-paying jobs that are at risk of automation. According to research by Scott Latham and Beth Humberd, predicting which jobs are vulnerable requires analyzing the type of value job holders d....
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Digital Transformation Opens New Questions — and New Problems to Solve
Author Hal Gregersen
Modest questions about how today’s problems could be solved more effectively lead to applications of technology with easily foreseeable gains. But when people start asking bigger, bolder questions that challenge basic assumptions about how a problem has been ....
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Technical Debt Might Be Hindering Your Digital Transformation
Author Prashant Shukla , Tomas Nyström , Ranmath Venkataraman , Adam Burden , Edwin Van der
Data reveals the C-suite recognizes that technical debt — the “price” companies pay for short-term technological fixes — hinders their ability to innovate and adapt in the digital age. One strategy to combat technical debt? Digital decouplin....
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Taking Stock of Corporate Risk-Taking
Author Jong-Ho Lee , Don O'Sullivan , Vincent O'Connell
Research shows equity incentives introduce bias in executive recommendations and strategic planning. To counter this, boards should consider three key steps in assessing corporate risk. Show and hide more
Release Date 2018/08