Friday Features: 19-April-2019
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BY Antti TEnhiala & Fabrizio Salvadorvia MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW
Informality helps an organization’s daily operations run more smoothly, to be sure. And unnecessary meetings that serve no real business purpose can plague a workplace. But no one would argue against the value of formal, reliable communication in, say, aviation or the military. In those mission-critical contexts, protocols for a communication’s timing, content, and participants ensure clarity, transparency, and accountability
BY Bill Snyder via Stanford Business Insights
Getting fired while seemingly at the apogee of a career would faze most executives. But it only took Jeffrey Katzenberg eight days to recover after being shown the door at Disney, where he’d headed its motion picture division for 10 years. In just over a week, he teamed with Hollywood heavyweights Steven Spielberg and David Geffen to launch DreamWorks, where they turned out hits including Saving Private Ryan, Castaway, A Beautiful Mind, and Shrek.
BY Stephanie Hyde & Wilson Chow via Strategy+Business
The introduction of robots into the workforce will also reverberate in the C-suite. Not only will top executives lead the charge for automation in their business operations, but they also must be prepared for their own jobs to change. Heading up a hybrid workforce of people and robots will require a different type of leadership, one that blends quintessential human skills such as empathy with a tech-savvy and data-driven mind-set.
BY Laura Methot et AL. via BAIN Insights
In major change efforts, frontline leaders should not be treated simply as conduits for top-down communication nor as mediums for ensuring compliance to new standards. Their full engagement is critical.
BY Reva Seth via FastCompany
Whether you spend it coding, sharpening your design skills, or getting an MBA, the start of your career is a crucial time to develop “hard” skills–the technical abilities that let you get a foot in the door and lead to your first few promotions. But further on, a shift happens: the skills that secured you those initial roles become progressively less important. Sure, you still need to broaden your knowledge base, but the higher up you go, the more your leadership abilities and management experience matter. The “soft,” or interpersonal, skills come to the fore.
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Narayan Kamath
