Leadership

Leaders need a blend of traditional and new skills to steer their organizations into the future.

Goals and KPIs are rapidly becoming important drivers of strategy execution, customer satisfaction, and performance management.

Anonymous digital dialogues with employees can help managers build trust and increase engagement.

Leaders and managers should question the expert analyses guiding their decisions in 8 specific ways.

Platform businesses, like Airbnb or Lyft, often talk about themselves as if they’re merely matchmakers. That’s a smart pitch — when a company is negotiating with investors. But any platform that wants to succeed will have to learn something Airbnb did: Matchmaking isn’t everything. Success also depends on identifying and mitigating risks for your buyers and sellers. The quantity and quality of goods or services bought and sold on your platform will be proportional to the amount of risk mitigated.

Tech firms have 5 big blind spots in crisis management. Addressing them is essential for survival.

Providing language to use in day-to-day encounters with prejudice can help combat gender bias.

Organizations need to focus on how blockchain can be used to support their unique strategies.

Leadership Collection 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 responding today — and the ways they can be smarter in the future.

Leadership Collection 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, and position themselves to stay ahead of the curve.