Workplace, Teams, & Culture

Digital Strategy Guide Letting employees work from home or at drop-in work centers can be beneficial to both employees and companies. But managing communication can be a challenge from both directions. This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review looks at how organizations are navigating the challenges of a dispersed workforce.

Jamal Khashoggi’s murder demands moral courage and a principled response from business leaders.

New research reveals five communication strategies that boost performance in virtual teams.

Leadership Collection 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 diverse, and more varied in their ability to work collectively.

Leadership Collection 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 company overall thrive.

Leadership Collection What are today’s best practices for finding, developing, and keeping the very best employees? This collection from MIT Sloan Management Review looks at what it takes to build and sustain a strong talent pipeline — one of the biggest challenges facing companies globally today.

Leadership Collection 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 divergent points of view, and how to make sure that the company doesn’t fall victim to the “Immutable Law of the Ex.”

Formal communication protocols may seem outdated, but they offer crucial performance advantages.

IT alignment can produce inertia — unless it’s accompanied by the right culture. Sure, closely aligning IT with the rest of a company’s strategy can cut costs and improve the ability to collect data, facilitating the creation of early-warning systems and operational dashboards. But a less regimented approach has its place, too, allowing responses to changing business and economic conditions that are swift and creative.

Technology has made business more globally connected than ever before. This is especially true for innovation projects, where diverse experts bring their specialized knowledge to play. But there’s a hitch: Many of today’s team projects have built-in hurdles because of differing communication styles, cultures, and professional norms. Leading this kind of “extreme teaming,” which often involves complicated hierarchies of power, demands both curiosity and humility.