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Understand and Motivate Your Team

January 1, 2020 | MIT Sloan Management Review | Leadership

Team dynamics are tricky. As leaders we need to understand deeply what makes our teammates get out of bed every day. In this guide, a compilation of insights from MIT SMR, you’ll find strategies for employee engagement and project management, as well as deeper understanding of what motivates your employees to do their best work.

Articles included in this collection:

The Question Every Executive Should Ask
Bernard J. Tyson, interviewed by Paul Michelman

The Four Ways to Manage Digital Talent and Why Two of Them Don’t Work
By Kristine Dery and Ina Sebastian

Why Design Thinking in Business Needs a Rethink
By Martin Kupp, Jamie Anderson, and Jörg Reckhenrich

Leading to Become Obsolete
Zhang Ruimin (Haier), interviewed by Paul Michelman

The Project Management Tool You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
By Leslie Brokaw

Measuring the Benefits of Employee Engagement
By V. Kumar and Anita Pansari

Salary, Benefits, Bonus … and Being
By Gregory Unruh

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