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How Leaders Shape Opinions

July 30, 2018 | MIT Sloan Management Review | Leadership

How can leaders increase their odds of being influential within their organizations and out in the external world? This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines the ways executives can increase their influence by sharing their power and listening more, manage the data and bots that are managing their businesses, and use Twitter and social media to shape the conversation about their companies.

Articles included with this collection:

How CEOs Can Leverage Twitter by Claudia Kubowicz Malhotra and Arvind Malhotra

Rethinking Leadership by Joseph A. Raelin

Managing the Bots That Are Managing the Business by Tim O’Reilly

Why Managers Still Matter by Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein

Fighting the “Headquarters Knows Best” Syndrome by Cyril Bouquet, Julian Birkinshaw, and Jean-Louis Barsoux

Why Good Leaders Don’t Need Charisma by Christian Stadler and Davis Dyer

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