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Overcoming Obstacles to Successful Culture Change

MIT Sloan Management Review ($) - Jul 26, 2021

Overcoming Obstacles to Successful Culture Change

New behaviors must become lasting habits to achieve positive, sustainable change.

By John Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar, and Gaurav Gupta
Is job sharing the solution to our flexible work problems?

Fast Company ($) - Jul 29, 2021

Is job sharing the solution to our flexible work problems?

Job sharing can help protect against burnout, let employees explore their interests, help with retention, and give everyone the flexibility they crave. So why aren’t more companies doing it?

By Danna Lorch

Brave New Work - Jul 27, 2021

Unsuck your next work meeting w/ Sam Spurlin

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a thousand times: Meetings are the worst. Instead of being a meaningful work tool to help teams strategize efficiently, meetings more often block things—anything—from. …more

By Aaron Dignan, Rodney Evans, and Sam Spurlin

The Innovation Show - Jul 22, 2021

Better, Simpler Strategy with Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Our guest today shows how the best companies achieve more by doing less. At a time when rapid technological change and global competition conspire to upend traditional ways of doing business, these. …more

By Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Aidan McCullen
Reconstructing the workplace

Deloitte - Jul 12, 2021

Reconstructing the workplace

The digital-ready organization

By Peter Evans-Greenwood, Sue Solly, and Robbie Robertson
A Strategy for Embracing Uncertainty

Bain & Company - Jul 20, 2021

A Strategy for Embracing Uncertainty

There are no crystal balls, but companies can get a lot smarter about envisioning future scenarios and knowing when to act on them.

By Nikhil Prasad Ojha, Miguel Simoes de Melo, and Rajiv Karna
Sheep, Wolves, and Employee Motivation

Management Matters ($) - Jul 21, 2021

Sheep, Wolves, and Employee Motivation

What a game in which virtual wolves chase virtual sheep can teach us about organizational culture

By George Bohan
How to Achieve Sustainable Remote Work

The New Yorker - Jul 9, 2021

How to Achieve Sustainable Remote Work

Companies must move away from surveillance and visible busyness, and toward defined outcomes and trust.

By Cal Newport
Centered leadership creates connection in turbulent times

McKinsey & Company - Jul 15, 2021

Centered leadership creates connection in turbulent times

McKinsey’s Joanna Barsh discusses how you can become an effective and engaged leader.

By Joanna Barsh and Diane Brady
What every business leader should know about “knowledge reuse”

Fast Company ($) - Jun 30, 2021

What every business leader should know about “knowledge reuse”

When employees have ready access to a company’s collected trove of expertise, productivity and innovation rise

By FASTCO WORKS
Why Companies Must Embrace Microservices and Modular Thinking

MIT Sloan Management Review ($) - Jun 28, 2021

Why Companies Must Embrace Microservices and Modular Thinking

Organizations can reduce coordination complexity with modular thinking, microservices, and APIs.

By Mark J. Greeven, Howard Yu, and Jialu Shan
What Does It Take to Build a Culture of Belonging?

Harvard Business Review ($) - Jun 21, 2021

What Does It Take to Build a Culture of Belonging?

To impose the changes needed to achieve promises of racial justice, equity, and inclusion, organizations require all hands on deck — at levels of the company. But widespread support on any effort. …more

By Julia Taylor Kennedy and Pooja Jain-Link

McKinsey & Company - Jun 21, 2021

The growth triple play: Creativity, analytics, and purpose

Companies that integrate creativity, analytics, and purpose are delivering at least two times the growth of their peers.

By Biljana Cvetanovski, Orsi Jojart, Brian Gregg, Eric Hazan, and Jesko Perrey
These immersive, virtual 3D models are helping plan the infrastructure of the future

Fast Company ($) - Jun 17, 2021

These immersive, virtual 3D models are helping plan the infrastructure of the future

‘Digital twins’ of spaces like ports, roads, and train stations let planners experiment with changes before implementing them in real life.

By Ian Koeppel

McKinsey & Company - Jun 16, 2021

Getting tangible about intangibles: The future of growth and productivity?

Companies that master the deployment of intangibles investment will be well positioned to outperform their peers.

By Eric Hazan, Sven Smit, Jonathan Woetzel, Biljana Cvetanovski, Mekala Krishnan, Brian Gregg, Jesko Perrey, and Klemens Hjartar
A new framing for cloud innovation

Deloitte. - Jun 3, 2021

A new framing for cloud innovation

Four potential scenarios for the future of cloud innovation strategy

By Lars Cromley, Diana Kearns-Manolatos, David Linthicum, and Mike Bechtel
The Real Value of Middle Managers

HBR.org ($) - Jun 7, 2021

The Real Value of Middle Managers

Middle managers have long had reputations as ineffective or weak supervisors. But research shows that, in fact, they’re often the people that make an organization run smoothly between hierarchies.

By Zahira Jaser
How the developer of a .4 billion real estate project plans to track its lofty goals

Fast Company ($) - Jun 10, 2021

How the developer of a $1.4 billion real estate project plans to track its lofty goals

Countless developers make lofty claims about their projects. Dream, the developer of a mixed-used community in Ottawa, plans to back them up.

By Nate Berg
The Global Applicability of Rendanheyi

Lina_HMI ($) - Jun 8, 2021

The Global Applicability of Rendanheyi

As a senior partner at McKinsey & Company (US), the top three management consulting firms in the world and the “Goldman Sachs of the consulting world,” Aaron De Smet is particularly interested. …more

By Lina_HMI

MIT Center for Information Systems Research - May 20, 2021

Build Data Liquidity To Accelerate Data Monetization

Future-ready companies draw on liquid strategic data assets to fuel data monetization.

By Barbara H. Wixom and Gabriele Piccoli

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