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Externally focused teams can drive innovation, performance, and distributed leadership — but adopting them requires a shift in mindset.

The future of work requires nimble leadership. Here’s how to cultivate a workforce able to accommodate new technologies and evolving risks.

The roles you played growing up can help and hinder you at work. Here’s how to maximize the positive.

Managers who focus on developing sensemaking capabilities can make better decisions in a complex and unpredictable world.

Even before COVID-19 we saw an evolution in team discourse that will continue long after the disease is gone.

Times of rapid change call for a new leadership model.

Walking the line between creativity and chaos

Leaders often say they want to empower autonomous teams and free the front line to innovate, but they also fear the chaos that might be unleashed if they do.

Deborah Ancona and Kate Isaacs, researchers at MIT Sloan School of Management, say many companies struggle to be nimble with a command-and-control leadership culture.

How to cultivate leadership that is honed to solve problems. Achieve breakthroughs by bringing together experts who love challenges.

This chapter introduces “sensemaking” as a key leadership capability for the complex and dynamic world we live in today. Sensemaking,

The typical org chart fails to reflect the reality that in most organizations, much of the work is actually carried out by teams.

No leader is perfect. The best ones don’t try to be—they concentrate on honing their strengths and find others who can make up for their limitations.

The current environment demands a new brand of team — one that emphasizes outreach to stakeholders and adapts easily to flatter organizational structures