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Three Nonnegotiable Leadership Skills for 2025

Jan 16, 2025 | mitsloanme.com | Melissa Swift

Topics Subscribe Share In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, factory floors used to spontaneously catch fire. Many industrial operations generated enough sawdust during the working day to make the whole place flammable at the slightest spark. Why does this matter now? Well, you might say we’re living in an electronically enabled version of that world today. Work is messy and volatile.
Three Nonnegotiable Leadership Skills for 2025 - Tribune Content Agency

Jan 16, 2025 | tribunecontentagency.com | Melissa Swift

Melissa Swift is the founder and CEO of organizational consulting firm Anthrome Insight. She is the author of Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace (Wiley, 2023). In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, factory floors used to spontaneously catch fire. Many industrial operations generated enough sawdust during the working day to make the whole place flammable at the slightest spark. Why does this matter now?
Three Nonnegotiable Leadership Skills for 2025

Jan 16, 2025 | sloanreview.mit.edu | Melissa Swift

Topics Column Our expert columnists offer opinion and analysis on important issues facing modern businesses and managers. More in this series Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty ImagesIn the early days of the Industrial Revolution, factory floors used to spontaneously catch fire. Many industrial operations generated enough sawdust during the working day to make the whole place flammable at the slightest spark.
Four Leadership Loads That Keep Getting Heavier - Tribune Content Agency

Dec 2, 2024 | tribunecontentagency.com | Melissa Swift

Melissa Swift (@swiftmelissa) leads Capgemini Invent’s Workforce & Organization practice for North America. She is the author of Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace (Wiley, 2023). Feeling emotionally drained at work? Is your patience exhausted? Your energy low? If so, you’re showing clinical markers of burnout. And you’re not alone.
Banish the Harmful Creatures of COVID-Era Work - Tribune Content Agency

Jul 17, 2024 | tribunecontentagency.com | Melissa Swift

Melissa Swift (@meswift) leads Capgemini Invent’s Workforce & Organization practice for North America. She is the author of Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace (Wiley, 2023). Ever get an animal in your house? Not a dog, a cat, or a hamster, but a wild animal: a bird that flew in and started frantically flapping around; a squirrel that invaded the fireplace.
Banish the Harmful Creatures of COVID-Era Work

Jul 17, 2024 | sloanreview.mit.edu | Melissa Swift

Topics Column Our expert columnists offer opinion and analysis on important issues facing modern businesses and managers. More in this series Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty ImagesEver get an animal in your house? Not a dog, a cat, or a hamster, but a wild animal: a bird that flew in and started frantically flapping around; a squirrel that invaded the fireplace.
Warm Hearts, Cold Reality: How to Build Team Empathy - Tribune Content Agency

Feb 27, 2024 | tribunecontentagency.com | Melissa Swift

Melissa Swift (@meswift) leads Capgemini Invent’s Workforce & Organization practice for North America. She is the author of Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace (Wiley, 2023). Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty ImagesIt’s tough out there, right? The business world is “dog eat dog”; you’re “swimming with sharks”; it’s like Lord of the Flies.
Warm Hearts, Cold Reality: How to Raise Team Empathy | Melissa Swift

Feb 27, 2024 | sloanreview.mit.edu | Melissa Swift

Topics Column Our expert columnists offer opinion and analysis on important issues facing modern businesses and managers. More in this series Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty ImagesIt’s tough out there, right? The business world is “dog eat dog”; you’re “swimming with sharks”; it’s like Lord of the Flies.
Leading in the Age of Exploding Transparency - Tribune Content Agency

Nov 29, 2023 | tribunecontentagency.com | Melissa Swift

Information is flowing faster and more broadly than ever. Consider these strategies to help leaders manage the flow. Frank is having a terrible morning. The seasoned CIO wakes up groggy to a flurry of texts from his team, who found out about the CEO’s retirement from LinkedIn because the internal announcement got stuck in everyone’s spam filters. As Frank huffs and puffs around the park during his morning run, his boss quizzes him by phone about some troubling numbers on a brand-new dashboard.
Leading in the Age of Exploding Transparency

Nov 29, 2023 | sloanreview.mit.edu | Melissa Swift

Topics Column Our expert columnists offer opinion and analysis on important issues facing modern businesses and managers. More in this series Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty ImagesFrank is having a terrible morning. The seasoned CIO wakes up groggy to a flurry of texts from his team, who found out about the CEO’s retirement from LinkedIn because the internal announcement got stuck in everyone’s spam filters.