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Putting People First

by MIT Sloan Management Review
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
83 pages
1h 21m
English
MIT Sloan Management Review
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The Three New Skills Managers Need

A changing work environment will require businesspeople to develop new competencies — such as a mindful approach to technology use.

In the coming years, both business leaders and their employees will face a number of challenges as they deal with changing digital technologies. In particular, they will need to learn three important new skills: (1) how to partner with new digital “colleagues”; (2) how to create a mindful relationship with increasingly ubiquitous digital technologies; and (3) how to develop empathy for the varying technology preferences of their human coworkers. Organizations, for their part, will need to design programs and processes to support these efforts. ...

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