Developing Strategy
12 Essential Strategy Insights
We’ve collected 12 popular strategy articles to help leaders facing new challenges sharpen their strategic thinking.
Decision-Making
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Leadership Skills
Gaining Clarity From Adversity
The coronavirus crisis is exposing some businesses’ weaknesses while highlighting others’ strong leadership.
Innovation Strategy
Our Guide to the Summer 2020 Issue
MIT SMR summer 2020 highlights leadership and innovation strategies, employee morale, and data sharing.
Leadership Skills
The Best of This Week
How businesses can act against racial injustice, and new leadership challenges in a suddenly virtual workplace.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Want to Make Better Decisions? Start Experimenting
It’s early in the age of experimentation — and the right time to start building expertise.
Leading Change
New Leadership Challenges for the Virtual World of Work
Senior leaders must rethink key decision-making processes to enhance trust, transparency, and teamwork.
Organizational Structure
Dynamic Networks Improve Remote Decision-Making
Decision-making networks perform better when they’re dynamic and respond quickly to feedback.
Leading Change
Webinar: Leading Through a Crisis Day-by-Day
A webinar to help leaders proactively respond to the COVID-19 crisis.
Leadership Skills
The Best of This Week
From avoiding bias to fostering successful virtual work — how leaders can learn from the pandemic to make better decisions.
Leadership Skills
How to Make Better Decisions About Coronavirus
In unpredictable, high-stress situations, cognitive decision biases may lead to poor decisions.
Organizational Structure
Managing the Flow of Ideas in a Pandemic
Social distancing demands creative ways to sustain effective communication and decision-making.
Technology Implementation
Designing AI Systems With Human-Machine Teams
Many organizations don’t understand the value of teaming machine capabilities with human abilities.
Business Models
How to Spot Disruption Before It Strikes
The Future Today Institute’s Amy Webb discusses 11 ways disruption can sneak up on organizations.
Business Models
The 11 Sources of Disruption Every Company Must Monitor
Think you’re aware of the forces that might disrupt your company? Your lens may be far too narrow.
Developing Strategy
How to Succeed Without Being the Smartest Person in the Room
Successful leaders establish missions, facilitate decision-making, and eliminate obstacles.
Developing Strategy
The Five Bestselling MIT SMR Articles of 2019
Getting ahead of industry disruption, successful frameworks for strategic decision-making, and creating value through customer experience.
Leading Change
Overcoming Cultural and Technical Debt
Stanford’s Bob Sutton examines the non-financial debts that companies carry on Three Big Points.
Developing Strategy
Don’t Let Metrics Critics Undermine Your Business
The true underperformers in this digital disruption era are not measures but their managers.
AI & Machine Learning
The Best of This Week
Must-reads for managers: breaking down big tech, smart KPIs, and a new podcast for busy leaders.
Leading Change
12 Essential Leadership Insights
The skills, processes, and frameworks that can help managers lead through times of uncertainty and disruption.