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Critical thinking — meaning the ability to transcend bias and partial information to draw from objective analysis of facts to form a judgment — is one of the more challenging skills for managers to cultivate. This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines the ways to use data to supplement instinct, the importance of looking out for potentially important weak signals, and the ways to incorporate critical thinking into an organization overall.

To gain business agility, leaders must deconstruct jobs into tasks and deploy workers based on their skills.

Digital Strategy Guide The global robotics market is projected to reach $135 billion in 2019. This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review looks at how robots can and will move into the workplace, and examines the best ways for both businesses and individuals to prepare.

Leadership Collection Leaders grapple with bringing accountability into everything they do, for both internal audiences and the wider community of stakeholders.

Leadership Collection 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 strategy loops to incorporate new information and translate it into effective action.

Virtually all human achievements have been made by groups of people, not lone individuals. As we incorporate smart technologies further into traditionally human processes, an even more powerful form of collaboration is emerging.

At the same time that many traditional retailers are closing offline stores, digitally native vertical brands such as Bonobos and Warby Parker are aggressively expanding into offline locations. And both online and offline retailers are converging in experience-oriented “showrooms.”

Many of today’s most successful companies are able to leverage business model scalability to achieve profitable growth. Executives need to factor scalability attributes into their business model design, or they risk being left behind.

For decades, researchers have published their findings about innovation in MIT Sloan Management Review. Here are a dozen of the best insights.

Any organization intent on surviving and thriving into the future must follow a disciplined approach to “flaring” and “focusing,” as it alternates between broadly imagining and vigorously challenging the possibilities.