“Leading in an Exponentially-Changing World”
“Leading in an Exponentially-Changing World”
About the webinar
We are living in a unique moment of rapid change that is shifting our understanding of how leaders need to lead self, teams, and organizations. In this session, Professor Ancona, Founder of the MIT Leadership Center, will present three key points for succeeding in a world of uncertainty. Leaders need to be able to communicate their own unique way of leading to provide an anchor in uncertainty and to track an ever-shifting environment. They need to create flexible teams that collaborate effectively with both internal and external partners. They must inspire their organizations to solve big problems and nimbly adapt to shifting realities. During this session, she will focus on these issues:
- Discovering and communicating one’s unique Leadership Signature
- Creating xTEAMS for innovation and success
- Architecting Nimble Organizations that harness leadership at all levels to adapt to these changing times
Speaker
Speaker
Deborah L Ancona
Deborah Ancona is the Seley Distinguished Professor of Management, a Professor of Organization Studies, and the Founder of the MIT Leadership Center at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Her pioneering research into how successful teams operate has highlighted the critical importance of managing outside, as well as inside, the team’s boundary. This research directly led to the concept of xTEAMS as a vehicle for driving innovation within large organizations. Ancona’s work also focuses on the concept of nimble and on the development of research-based tools, practices, and teaching/coaching models that enable organizations to foster creative leadership at every level.
She is the author of the book, X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed (Harvard Business School Press) and the related articles, “In Praise of the Incomplete Leader” and “Nimble Leadership: Walking the Line Between Creativity and Chaos.” (Harvard Business Review). In addition to X-Teams, her studies of team performance have also been published in the Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, and the MIT Sloan Management Review. Her previous book, Managing for the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes (South-Western College Publishing), centers on the skills and processes needed in today’s diverse and changing organization. Ancona has served as a consultant on leadership and innovation to companies such as Bristol-Myers Squibb, BI, Takeda, Li & Fung, OCP, Accenture, YPO, and the International Development Bank.
Ancona holds a BA and an MS in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in management from Columbia University.
Ancona holds a BA and an MS in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in management from Columbia University.
