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Download: MIT Sloan research on leading the future of work

Here are insights and advice from MIT Sloan experts on empowering your workforce to master new technologies and navigate evolving risks.

Digital transformation, automation, a persistent productivity-wage gap, supply chain disruptions. Those are just a few of the headwinds buffeting business leaders as they try to set a course for the work of the future.

This four-article download arms savvy managers with actionable steps to reengage a workforce in a new landscape: one that’s more digitized, roboticized, diverse, and dispersed than ever before.

Here’s what’s inside:

  • Why distributed leadership is the future of management. Managing the future of work requires a nimble mindset focused on small, short-term wins, and a “cultivate and coordinate” approach to leadership.
     
  • How to make work of the future work for everyone. Guided by a new social contract, here’s how companies can develop working models that deliver for shareholders, employees, and global communities.
     
  • 5 traits of the workforce of the future. Future-ready employees are empowered, data-literate, comfortable with artificial intelligence and machine learning, and committed to social and climate concerns.
     
  • What work of the future means to 5 business leaders. Executives from Google, Target, and Amgen prioritize data, artificial intelligence, and empathy as they shape a future-ready workforce.

Further reading: Organizational culture coverage from MIT Sloan

Further reading: Leadership coverage from MIT Sloan

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