Topic
Team Building and Teamwork
430 articles
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How Japan’s Oldest Companies Navigate Uncertainty
In the period from 1994 to 2024, Japan’s family businesses matched or exceeded the returns of peers in the United States, Germany, and Canada while taking on far less risk. Their advantage came not from better forecas...
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Research: How Curveball Questions Can Surface the Insight You’re Looking For
Traditional “tough” questions often elicit polished talking points rather than candid answers. A more revealing approach is the curveball: a question that is closely tied to what someone has said but difficult to anti...
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How to Spot a Toxic Leader—Before Hiring Them
Leaders with toxic interpersonal behaviors often make excellent first impressions, which means they’re surprisingly difficult to identify in traditional interviews. As a result, organizations can hire technically impr...
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The Invisible Work Draining Your Best Employees
Most leaders assess workload through hours, deadlines, and output, but these measures overlook the mental load employees carry: the ongoing cognitive and emotional effort required to manage tasks, relationships, and c...
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The World Wants Physician Leaders and It Needs Leadership Development Opportunities
Physician leadership is increasingly valued globally, but leadership training lags. This article explores gaps and efforts to build development opportunities.
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The Ultimate Clinical Dyad: The Chief Nursing Officer and Chief Medical Officer in Partnership
The CMO-CNO relationship is key to healthcare success, uniting distinct expertise to improve culture, safety, and outcomes. Built on respect and collaboration, strong partnerships enhance teamwork, accountability, and...
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4 Hidden Traps of Team Dynamics
Many leaders believe that diverse teams naturally produce better ideas and decisions. But difference creates value only when leaders can navigate the friction that accompanies different perspectives.
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Why Mentoring Matters More in the AI Era
As AI automates more routine work, organizations are losing the everyday experiences that once helped employees develop judgment, pattern recognition, and leadership instincts. To close the gap, companies must redesig...
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Aspiring Leaders, Don’t Just Network Up
Aspiring leaders and high-potential professionals often prioritize building relationships with senior leaders, assuming visibility at the top drives advancement. But research on organizational networks suggests that r...
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The Two-Organizations Problem
What if the company you’re leading isn’t the one you think it is? Most companies operate as two organizations: the polished version executives see in dashboards and boardrooms, and the messier, more revealing reality ...
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The False Alignment Trap
Drawing on research, behavioral science, and a case study of the jewelry group Pandora, this article explains how false alignment arises from vague discussions, avoidance of disagreement, and pressure to move too quic...
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What Physician Leaders Need to Know About Change Management for AI
Physician leaders must navigate change management as AI transforms clinical care, tackling challenges without a clear playbook to guide this pivotal shift.
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Shaping Your Healthcare Team at Every Level
Effective communication is vital for healthcare teams to prevent errors, burnout, and poor outcomes. Self-awareness, connection-building, and recognition foster collaboration and resilience.
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It’s Hard to Use AI as a Team. These 3 Practices Can Help.
Many organizations expect AI to automatically improve teamwork, but research shows the opposite can occur. Without intentional integration, AI can reduce engagement, narrow participation in meetings, and shift ownersh...
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Unlocking the Power of Collaborative Leadership as a Driver of Healthcare Transformation: A Qualitative Systematic Review
The study highlights collaborative leadership's role in fostering healthcare teamwork, empowerment, and communication, improving patient care, job satisfaction, and outcomes.
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Why Leaders Should Let Minor Mistakes Slide
Many managers are criticized for showing leniency in performance reviews for low performers. But new research finds that may actually be a rational response to a costly problem: employee retaliation.
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What Operating Rooms Can Teach Leaders About Team Design
A study of surgeries at a hospital in Madrid and a subsequent pilot program there offers lessons for any organization that relies on fluid, high-pressure teams.
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How to Build a Superteam That Keeps Getting Better
In periods of rapid change, the teams that outperform everyone else are not those with the best plans or the most talent but those that learn the fastest. Research across thousands of teams reveals a consistent patter...
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Brilliant Teams Don’t Just Happen
High-performing teams thrive on shared purpose, efficient habits, mutual improvement, and continuous learning.
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Whom Physicians Become Under Pressure
Healthcare leadership faces structural pressure, with lives at stake and constrained resources. Burnout, trust erosion, and blame persist, highlighting the need for values-driven leadership under stress.
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Servant Leadership and the Chief Medical Officer: Ethos Made Operational
Servant leadership empowers physician executives to navigate clinical complexity and limited authority by fostering moral authority, psychological safety, and workforce engagement. It emphasizes structured listening, ...
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The Ten Characteristics of Excellent Healthcare Teams
This article explores team excellence in healthcare, highlighting characteristics like trust, communication, emotional intelligence, and offering a strengths audit and quiz.
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Boards Are Falling Short on Cybersecurity
Despite boards placing greater emphasis on cyber risk, their ability to mitigate it is improving slowly and marginally. There are three prominent factors driving this problem: 1) there’s a lack of cybersecurity expert...
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Gen AI Won’t Make Your Employees Experts
Generative AI can help workers perform unfamiliar tasks more quickly, but it doesn’t eliminate the performance gap between novices and experts. Researchers explored this dynamic by running a controlled writing experim...
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Improving the Physician Experience to Attract, Retain, and Engage Top Physician Talent — Part 2: Refocusing the Physician Leader’s Role on Engaging the Team
This article explores physician leadership's evolving role and suggests strategies to enhance effectiveness, including role clarity, structured meetings, and self-leadership, to improve well-being and reduce burnout.
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How to Manage an Insecure Leader
Insecure leaders—whether anxious or avoidant—are more common in organizations than most people acknowledge. Their behaviors can distort communication, undermine collaboration, and burden teams.
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The Interprofessional Advantage: How Mixed-Team Leadership Training Builds Trust, Communication, and Performance in Healthcare
This study highlights how interprofessional education (IPE) boosts physician leadership by improving collaboration, communication, trust, and inclusive behaviors, enhancing team performance in healthcare.
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The Emerging Physicians Leadership Program at Boston Children’s Hospital: A Unique Program Equipping Exemplary Mid-Career Physicians to Successfully Transition to Leadership Within the Organization
Physician leadership is key to healthcare quality. Boston Children’s Emerging Physicians Leadership Program (EPLP) trains mid-career physicians, fostering skills for leadership, collaboration, and operational improvem...
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Disney’s New CEO and the Rise of “Experience Intelligence”
As organizations today confront trust, engagement, and resilience challenges, leaders who have “experience intelligence” have a strategic advantage.
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Leading After the Founder
Research shows that founder-CEO handovers are significantly more prone to failure than other leadership transitions. Drawing on their advisory experience, dozens of in-depth interviews, and client case studies, the au...
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Get Off the Transformation Treadmill
Many organizations stumble into cycles of repeated transformations—bold restructurings meant to fix deep problems but instead sap morale, unsettle customers and investors, and consume leadership energy. True transform...
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The Project-Driven Organization
In an era when adaptability and innovation are paramount, organizations are recognizing the pivotal role of projects in driving success. In fact, we’ve already arrived at a moment when projects, not operations, are th...
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Bring Your Extended Leadership Team into Strategy Decisions
When strategies don’t work, people blame the C-suite for lack of clarity or follow-through, middle managers for blocking progress, or frontline employees for not playing their part. Yet the real influence often sits w...
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Financial and Economic Issues
Effective financial planning ensures organizational resilience during crises by emphasizing liquidity, monitoring, revenue stability, and preparedness.
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Life’s Lessons From the Baseball Diamond
Healthcare can learn from other industries, like hospitality and baseball, to improve patient experiences, loyalty, and service quality through shared principles.
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Physician Leadership Development: A Comparative Study of Two Approaches
This article introduces and describes a comparative study of two approaches to physician leadership development conducted during a research program in collaboration with a major healthcare organization.
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Applying Cross-Functional Team Methodology in Healthcare: Critical Considerations from Lived Experience
Cross-functional teams in healthcare address complex challenges, but guidance for physician leaders is limited. This article offers practical insights for success.
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The Surprising Success of Hands-On Leaders
Leadership theory suggests CEOs should focus on high-level issues such as strategy and resource allocation. These authors challenge this conventional wisdom by spotlighting CEOs who dive deep into day-to-day execution...
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Human Resources: Motivation and Employee Retention
Motivating employees involves meeting intrinsic and extrinsic needs through autonomy, recognition, and purpose, using strategies like collaboration and empowerment.
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How to Create an Engaged Team: 150 Team-Building Questions
This article covers team-building questions to boost engagement, offering benefits, strategies, practical tips, and 150 questions in five categories.
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Does Your C-Suite Really Operate as a Team?
New research from Gartner finds that in many companies, the C-suite team isn’t acting like one. Surveys show that just 31% of C-suite executives consider the C-suite to be their primary team. When senior leaders are a...
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A Data-Based Approach to Delegating
Delegation is not an uncommon challenge. Many leaders know that they should be delegating some of their tasks, but often struggle to identify meaningful tasks to delegate. Using a time log to track daily activities pr...
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Leadership Lessons From Napoleon
Explore Napoleon Bonaparte's leadership style and learn how his strategies can inspire effective management in your medical practice.
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How Doctor and Doula Partnerships Transform End-of-Life Care
Discover how doctor-doula partnerships are redefining end-of-life care, offering holistic support, empowerment, and personalized experiences for patients and families.
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How AI Can Help Tackle Collective Decision-Making
When a big decision must be made by multiple constituencies with different goals, it can often fall victim to challenges from drawn-out processes to data overload. But AI is helping.
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Humility at the Top, Motivating Your Staff, Retailer-Brand Relationships, and More
New research on topics ranging from leadership to AI are instrumental for making decisions about your career and your business. To help, we’ve collected a handful of useful and surprising findings from across academia...
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Breaking Down Team Silos
This article examines workplace silos in healthcare, their causes, impacts, and offers 25+ practical strategies to dismantle them and build effective cross-functional teams.
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Avoid These Communication Breakdowns When Launching Strategic Initiatives
Communication “leak points”—specific transition moments where critical meaning evaporates—require systematic intervention. There are three leak points that are most common in organizational messaging.
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CMOs and CNOs Work Together to Address Staffing Challenges
Strong CMO-CNO collaboration, respect, and communication can ease staffing issues, fostering system solutions and reducing friction in healthcare teams.
