Leaders LoopWhen Teammates Become Competitors
Henning Piezunka, Wharton associate professor of management, explores how competition between colleagues can damage collaboration and reshape workplace relationships. … Read More
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The Leadership Reading List
We don't write everything worth reading. This is where we collect the best leadership and business writing from other publications and blogs, so you don't have to go looking for it.
What Analytics Reveal About College Football’s Top Teams
Bill Connelly, ESPN staff writer and creator of SP+, previews the college football season through playoff odds, schedule strength, roster stability, and conference depth. … Read More
Grok Bot vs. OpenClaw: How I replaced my entire agent stack
Watch now | 🎙️ I’ve been running Grok Bot for several weeks, and I’ve killed every OpenClaw I had. Here are the nine bots doing real work across my inbox, my kids’ school pickups, my PR queue, and my wardrobe
Enrollment and learning
“Why are you taking this class?” That seems like a fair question. After tenth grade or so, it’s a choice, after all. One honest answer is, “I have to get a good grade to get to where I want to go.” That means certification, compliance, regurgitation. It means enrollment in the outcome, not the process. […]
The Hidden Rules of Workplace Opportunity
Judd Kessler, Wharton professor of business economics and public policy, explains how hidden market rules shape access to top projects, leadership attention, and career advancement. … Read More
The Four Essential Elements of Successful Situations
In an excerpt from her new book, ‘Situated,’ Wharton’s Angela Duckworth explains the four critical elements of situational agency. … Read More
Can AI Productivity Grow Fast Enough to Justify Big Tech’s Spending?
New Wharton research finds that Big Tech’s $1 trillion AI bet may require productivity to nearly triple or risk becoming history’s largest capital misallocation. … Read More
Cookstove Subsidies Fight Climate Change at a Lower Cost
Clean cookstove subsidies are more cost-effective at reducing carbon emissions than subsidies for EVs or solar panels, according to a new study from Wharton’s Susanna Berkouwer. … Read More
Over and Out
For this final issue of MIT Sloan Management Review, Benjamin Laker and Maria Papacosta offer advice on ending things well. In that spirit, we want to reflect on the impact our editorially independent publication has had in its 67 years. Over the past few months, we’ve been buoyed by many messages and online comments validating […]
What Kind of Chief Purpose Officer Does Your Company Need?
Rob Dobi The Research The authors identified 56 individuals with purpose leadership roles who were representative of a variety of industries, company sizes, and regions. Of the CPOs interviewed, 60% identified as female and 40% as male. They conducted semi-structured interviews online from 2022 to 2025 to explore participants’ role experiences, strategic practices, and key […]
Dethroning Loyalty
Rob Dobi What’s wrong with loyalty? Isn’t it a virtue to display steadfast allegiance to something or someone other than oneself? After all, loyalty has been celebrated as a virtue across many cultures for millennia. As economic headwinds and a tough job market appear to be empowering more authoritarian styles of leadership, it’s a good […]
How Leadership Anxiety Derails Transformation
Rob Dobi The Research This article draws on a four-year ethnographic study of a professional services firm whose leaders initiated a major transformation to reverse declining performance. The research involved nearly 760 hours of observation across leadership and project team meetings, more than 300 interviews, and analyses of internal documents spanning the full life of […]
First Look: Leadership Books for September 2026
HERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2026 curated just for you. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month. The Executive Condition: The Hidden Health Crisis of High-Performing Leaders by Denis Cronson High performers aren't burning out—they're breaking down. The Executive Condition exposes how modern leadership accelerates biolog
How to turn your AI into a world-class designer
An end-to-end process for tapping into AI’s hidden creativity
Apophenia cuts both ways
Apophenia is the uniquely human tendency to perceive meaningful patterns or connections in random or unrelated data, events, or objects. Humans are story telling machines. And one thing we do is turn co-incident events into more than coincidences. When we see faces and shapes in clouds, apophenia wastes our time in the form of pareidolia. […]
LeadershipNow 140: August 2026 Compilation
Here is a selection of Posts from August 2026 that you will want to check out: What Launches an Organization or Initiative Isn’t What Sustains It from @AdmiredLeaders No Excuses: Lesson #1 from a Lifetime of Leadership by @TomBrady When you’re explaining, you’re losing Write Down Your Purpose Statement and Read It Each Day by @JonGordon11 Your Culture Is Built by What You Celebrate by @daveferguso
🎙️ How I AI: How this PM uses Claude to handle 70% to 80% of his workday
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How I turned Claude into a self-improving PM assistant | Daniel Blum (PM, Melio)
Listen now | 🎙️ PM Daniel Blum walks through the exact Cowork and Claude setup that manages his Notion, tracks his tasks across Slack and email, and self-improves every week without him lifting a finger
Tying Purpose to Performance
Photo courtesy DHL John Pearson has been CEO of DHL Express and on the DHL Group board of management since 2019. He joined the global logistics and courier company in 1986 and has held senior management positions in its divisions in the Middle East, the Asia-Pacific region, the U.S., and Europe. MIT Sloan Management Review […]
A Compelling Story Can Disarm Even a Skeptical Negotiator
Ivan Diaz/Unsplash Human beings are not good at separating fact from fiction. But surely hard-nosed B2B professionals are different? Our research suggests otherwise. In two experiments with 622 B2B sales professionals, we gave participants a negotiation scenario in which a buyer either lied or told the truth. We then gave half the participants a story […]