Rotman Management

IF YOU OPENED THIS MAGAZINE feeling confident about your leadership skills, consider this: According to McKinsey’s study of 80,000 leaders, 77 per cent believe they do a good job of engaging their people and fostering productivity; yet 82 per cent of

DATA ANALYSIS can be an effective way to sort through complexity and assist our judgment when it comes to making decisions. But even with impressively large data sets and the best analytics tools, we are still vulnerable to a range of decision-making

Behavioural researchers have found that we experience a consistent and strong bimodal pattern — ‘twin peaks’ — during the day. Our positive affect — when we feel active, engaged and hopeful — climbs during the morning hours until it reaches an optima

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY some careers flourish, while others stall? ‘Career derailment’ occurs when an individual previously deemed to have strong potential is fired, demoted or plateaus below expected levels of success. According to statistics, so

FOR SEVERAL YEARS, ABRAHAM HEIFETS had worked on applying recent advancements in artificial intelligence to drug discovery. Developing a new medicine takes an average of 15 years, and Heifets had devised a way to shrink the process to a fraction of t

LEADERSHIP PIONEER PETER DRUCKER once said, “You cannot manage other people unless you manage yourself first.” If this is true, most leadership education programs have it backwards. They tend to start with skills like strategy, people management and

AT SOME POINT IN THEIR CAREERS, most — if not all — executives aspire to become the CEO of their organization. And why not? These individuals tend to be highly ambitious, not just for themselves but for their business — and increasingly, for society.

WHAT MAKES A LEADER INSPIRING? According to research we recently conducted with the Economist Intelligence Unit, companies that can answer this question have a powerful tool to increase their competitive edge. We found that inspired employees are mor

IN OUR WORK WITH CLIENTS IN RECENT YEARS, my colleagues and I have noted considerable confusion and stress around the role of strategy and the effectiveness of the annual planning process. So much so that we decided to take a serious look at ‘the sta

WAY BACK IN 1948, W.H. Auden won the Pulitzer Prize for a book-length poem titled ‘The Age of Anxiety’. Little did he know how pervasive anxiety would become in the next century. This topic has never resonated more strongly with respect to the workfo

OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES, we have worked with dozens of organizations, helping them with everything from managing beds in a cardiac surgery unit to sequencing the human genome. While the work itself has been highly varied, one thing has become clear

Sheryl Sandberg: The fact is, I got through [the sudden death of my husband] because you and others in my life have been unbelievable friends. You were right there for me emotionally, processing it all with me in real time. As a result of this experi

IN 1952, the Boston Symphony Orchestra famously introduced ‘blind auditions’ to test for gender bias in hiring, by having musicians audition behind a screen. At first, the screen made no difference in who made it past the first round of auditions. Th

LESLIE E. WOO Chief Planning Officer, METROLINX Alumnae of The Judy Project What is your greatest challenge in your current role? Developing a seamless and effective transit and transportation system is ultimately about enabling residents to live, wo

THOSE WHO KNOW ME WELL know that I have a love/hate relationship with all things strategic. On the one hand, I hate ‘strategic planning’ and traditional strategic plans; but on the other, I absolutely love strategy. At heart, I’m a ‘strategy guy’, bu

EVERY LEADER, regardless of industry, needs to possess the ability to build a great team and support it. But as teams go, innovation teams are unique. Research shows that innovation benefits from a high degree of diversity, technical depth and people