Strategy & Leadership: Volume 51 Issue 6

Editor’s letter

Driving growth, productivity and engagement through “good jobs strategy”

Brian Leavy

An interview with Zeynep Ton, a professor of practice in the operations management group at MIT Sloan School of Management, about er latest book, The Case for Good Jobs: How Great…

Rethinking the role of middle management for the new world of work

Brian Leavy

McKinsey partners, Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock and Emily Field are championing the premise that the need for a fundamental rethink of the role of middle management in today’s…

Leading hybrid teams in a transition to the future knowledge workplace

Jodi Detjen, Sheila Simsarian Webber

Leaders face a unique opportunity to rethink the workplace in a post-pandemic environment. Virtual work demands and unclear messaging from senior leadership has created burnout…

Strategic scenario planning in practice: eight critical applications and associated benefits

Lance Mortlock, Oleksiy Osiyevskyy

Organizations face challenges in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environments. It is vital to manage the change’s rate and magnitude in new and different ways to…

Managing the emerging role of generative AI in next-generation business

Jacob Dencik, Brian Goehring, Anthony Marshall

Since the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI in November 2022 – with its ability to create compelling, relevant content, new large language model (LLM) technology – business leaders…

M&A: The process of planning to achieve deal synergies

Mark L. Sirower, Chris E. Gilbert, Jeffery M. Weirens, Jacob A. VandeVanter

M&A success and synergies are regularly discussed in the practical literature, but synergies are typically treated as a static concept (how do you get them?) with little…

Auditing safety leadership: three railroad catastrophes

Russell Craig, Joel Amernic

This paper addresses leadership and strategy issues associated with the management of safety. The paper proposes that companies conduct an annual safety leadership audit involving…

Can strategic planning adapt to an era that requires enhanced reactive capability?

Robert J. Allio

Quick takes

Larry Goodson