Student Vaibhavi Bhat
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Why Great Innovations Fail to Scale
Breakthrough solutions aren’t enough. New ideas can’t flourish without “bridgers”—leaders who excel at collaborating across boundaries. by Linda A. Hill, Emily Tedards and Jason Wild
Innovation increasingly depends on partnerships. As complexity and specialization rise and technologies such as AI reshape workflows and product portfolios, no…
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Why Great Innovations Fail to Scale
Scaling innovation today demands contributions from multiple partners. Many innovations fail not because of flawed ideas but because teams and organizations struggle to collaborate across boundaries. What’s needed is a particular kind of leader: the bridger. Bridgers excel at curating … Continue reading
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How Smart Leaders Can Be Less Miserable - by Arthur C. Brooks
I might be biased, but I suspect this newsletter has a sharp readership. You likely lead teams and product lines (and probably companies, too), jobs that require some intellectual horsepower. And if you’re a good leader, you have hired a bunch of smart people under you. But in your effort to build more happiness at work, all that cleverness…
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When the Bold Leader You Hired Starts to Conform
Companies often hire new leaders to spark transformation, yet without structural support, even the boldest individuals tend to revert to established norms. This challenge is typically rooted in systemic factors rather than shortcomings in personal performance. New leaders encounter intense pressure to conform to a business’s unspoken rules,… Read more
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When the Bold Leader You Hired Starts to Conform
Companies often hire new leaders to spark transformation, yet without structural support, even the boldest individuals tend to revert to established norms. This challenge is typically rooted in systemic factors rather than shortcomings in personal performance. New leaders encounter intense … Continue reading
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Ask Sanyin: Why Is It So Hard to Pull the Plug on a Project?
When it’s time to kill an ongoing initiative, here’s how to ensure the project team feels valued.
Listen to “Ask Sanyin: Why Is It So Hard to Pull the Plug on a Project?” (3:57)
We’re finding it difficult to wind down projects that no longer serve our priorities. Team members doing the work feel that we are giving up on something…
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Leaders at All Levels: 7 Strategies to Give Your Team Real Power
In this video, MIT Sloan professor Kate Isaacs and bestselling author Michele Zanini present proven leadership strategies from GE, Bayer, W.L. Gore, Fidelity, and Cascade Engineering.
If you’re lucky, your team has talent. What they may lack is the freedom to use it fully.
Distributed leadership can unlock employee potential that has been stifled…
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10 Essential Leadership Traits for the AI Era
As AI transforms business, what qualities do leaders need? In this brief video from the 2025 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, AI experts and leaders discuss the skills to build.
Artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of business and technology leadership in real time. Given that fact, what…
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Leaders at All Levels: GE Appliances CEO Busts Hierarchy
What if your biggest organizational problem isn’t too little leadership but leadership trapped at the top? In this video, GE Appliances CEO Kevin Nolan explains how he distributed power through microenterprises at the fastest-growing appliance company in the U.S.
In the premiere episode of…
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9 Mistakes Leaders Make With AI Strategy
What common mistakes do leaders make when shaping AI strategy? In this short video, technology and business leaders at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium share how to avoid potential pitfalls.
At the 2025 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, many tech and business leaders voiced the same frustrations — about AI initiatives…
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Leaders at All Levels: How Gore Thrives With Zero Bosses
In this video interview, W.L. Gore & Associates CEO Bret Snyder explains how the company behind Gore-Tex succeeds with 12,000 employees but no traditional hierarchy, no job titles, and no bosses.
What happens when you run a $4.8 billion company with no bosses? At W.L. Gore & Associates,…
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Leaders at All Levels: How Bayer Simplified to Unleash Innovation
When faced with serious business challenges, the 150-year-old pharma giant didn’t do a typical restructuring. It radically streamlined to let teams operate more like startups, as Michael Lurie explains in this video.
What happened when pharma giant Bayer radically simplified its…
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