Organizational Culture

When newcomers arrive at a small, homogeneous organization, struggles with group identity and cohesion can arise. Three strategies can help leaders meet this challenge.

While metrics matter, a fixation on specific hiring targets can actually obscure the right worker for the job. Here’s how to examine processes, update leadership models, and drive real change.

Learn from companies that are succeeding with hybrid work models — by building teams that are rewarded for performance, not appearances.

Many leaders of growing organizations bemoan employee resistance to change. But the reason most change efforts fail is that leaders suffer from the hero complex.

Without traditional credentials, established networks, or experts’ stamp of approval, the outsider’s journey is often uphill: Along the path to the Nobel, Karikó was demoted and kicked out of her lab space at the University of Pennsylvania, and she was actively discouraged from pursuing work on mRNA.