Team Dynamics

Addressing social capital in return-to-office plans, deploying AI to manage wealth, and reducing coordination complexity with microservices.

Leaders can help employees build the social connections that weakened during the pandemic by addressing three key areas.

Companies have a unique opportunity to rebuild employees’ social connections when they return to in-person work.

Innovation can thrive when remote teams feel empowered to share ideas and engage in rigorous debate.

Consider these six guiding principles for how companies can harness internal competition as a force for good.

When team members do good deeds, their leaders can be susceptible to bad behavior. Here’s why.

Redefining work without jobs, optimizing emotional landscapes, and fitting in while standing out.

How leaders respond to employees’ emotional states affects both creativity and productivity.

New research reveals steps that can help remote teams boost innovation and create customer value.

MIT SMR’s winter issue looks at why teams work (or don’t), plus innovation, supply chains, and data for AI.

Loneliness can be triggered by team design, even when people work face-to-face.

Before leaders can mitigate the consequences of poor collaboration, they must pinpoint the causes.

Disaster managers must be sufficiently flexible to meet stakeholder expectations, depending on the situation.

An intentional approach to sharing positive news can help boost employee morale.

Organizations can overcome three major remote-work communication challenges with these strategies.

In times of high stress and crisis, interdepartmental strife can wreak havoc. Here’s how to stop it.

Effective teams depend on mutually reinforcing functional and cultural change processes.

A webinar for managers who need to balance frank feedback with data-driven performance and inclusivity.

Taboo or undiscussable topics can make it impossible for teams to function. But they can fix that.

While hierarchy can impede innovation, handled well it can provide important benefits.