@nplusonemag (December 4, 2024): The Winter 2025 issue of n+1, RERUN features:
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MIT Sloan Management Review – Top 2024 Articles
MIT Sloan Management Review (December 4, 2024): Looking beyond AI, many of our top 10 stories involve tough culture and people management challenges, like dealing with the informal meetings that happen after formal meetings (No. 2) and getting people to stop self-censoring with company leaders (No. 5). These two stories, by Phillip G. Clampitt and Jim Detert, respectively, truly struck a nerve with readers. At a time of radical change, communication and trust have never been more important.
#10
Building Culture From the Middle Out
Spencer Harrison and Kristie Rogers
Midlevel leaders are critical to fostering an organizational culture that’s healthy and vibrant.
#9
Video — RTO Mandates: Hard Truths for Leaders
Brian Elliott
In this brief video, learn what the latest research and current examples say about return-to-office mandates — and what leaders can do instead to boost productivity and retain talent.
#8
Eight Essential Interview Questions CEOs Swear By
Adam Bryant
Get beyond job candidates’ pat answers to hiring managers’ standard queries by recasting questions to elicit thoughtful responses.
#7
Seven Truths About Hybrid Work and Productivity
Lynda Gratton
To get the most from hybrid work, leaders should prepare for trade-offs, make expectations clear, and think harder about how productivity is measured.
#6
How Tech Fails Late-Career Workers
Stefan Tams
Managers must make deliberate choices to support older workers’ use of complex technologies.
#5
What You Still Can’t Say at Work
Jim Detert
Most people know what can’t be said in their organization. But leaders can apply these techniques to break through the unwritten rules that make people self-censor.
#4
Return-to-Office Mandates: How to Lose Your Best Performers
Brian Elliott
Your organization’s highest-performing employees want executives to focus on outcomes and accountability, not office badge swipes.
#3
The Future of Strategic Measurement: Enhancing KPIs With AI
Michael Schrage, David Kiron, François Candelon, Shervin Khodabandeh, and Michael Chu
This artificial intelligence and business strategy report looks at how organizations are using AI to evolve their key performance indicators to better align with their strategies and deliver on enterprise goals.
#2
Hard Truths About the Meeting After the Meeting
Phillip G. Clampitt
Leaders must encourage respectful debate during meetings and use related strategies to avoid toxic post-meeting dynamics.
#1
Five Key Trends in AI and Data Science for 2024
Thomas H. Davenport and Randy Bean
These developing issues should be on every leader’s radar screen, data executives say.
Research Preview: Nature Magazine – Dec. 5, 2024
Humble scientists earn more trust
Study participants rated fictional scientists who admitted their own knowledge gaps as more credible.
The cells that help the immune system fight lung cancer
Neighbouring cells bolster the immune cells’ tumour-fighting abilities.
Antarctica’s first known amber whispers of a vanished rainforest
The only continent where amber had not been found no longer has that distinction, thanks to a sediment core drilled just offshore.
This dwarf planet might have its very own ice volcano
Relatively warm regions of the object called Makemake could also be explained by a dusty planetary ring.
Current Affairs: Prospect Magazine – January 2025
Democracy is in a doom spiral—but it isn’t dead yet
The far right thrived in 2024, and the erosion of liberal democracy is the story of the century so far. It didn’t have to be this way By Cas Muddle
Concrete resistance: how one building symbolises Kharkiv’s defiance
Want to imagine the city of the future? Try Milton Keynes Jen Stout
Prospect’s books of the year 2024: Politics & Reportage
News: South Korea’s Yoon Declares Martial Law, Emir Of Qatar Visits UK
The New York Times — Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024
South Korea President Declares Martial Law, Then Backs Down
Soon after President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration on Tuesday, lawmakers voted to defy him, prompting the president to say he was lifting his order.
Justice Dept.’s Apolitical Tradition Is Challenged by 2 Presidents
The post-Watergate norm that political leaders should steer clear of criminal cases is being tested from opposite ends of the political spectrum.
Inside the Supreme Court Ethics Debate: Who Judges the Justices?
In private meetings and memos, the justices made new rules for themselves — then split on whether they could, or should, be enforced.
Supreme Court Returns to a Culture War Battleground: Transgender Rights
On Wednesday, the justices will hear the marquee case of the term, a challenge to a Tennessee law banning several forms of medical care for transgender youths.
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