Our guest for this episode, Mike Beer, is back with us for an encore. He spoke with us a year ago about his latest book, Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations about…

In these turbulent times, business as usual is a recipe for failure. In our work—and in our lives more broadly—we need to challenge the status quo and find new ways to overcome obstacles and…

Imagine you’re emailing back-and-forth with someone trying to resolve a problem. What if you had an app that would track your words and coach you on how to engage more effectively? Or,…

Richard Shell, who teaches negotiation at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, is our guest in this episode. His new book, just published this month, is The Conscience Code: Lead with Your Values,…

The top-down, command-and-control model of leadership has fallen out of fashion in today’s complex and fast-paced world. Our guest in this episode, Rob Wilkinson provides an agile alternative that he and Kim…

That’s the name of a book by our HBS colleague Deepak Malhotra, the guest in this episode. The book’s subtitle is How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts (without Money or Muscle). The…

Our guest in this episode is Joe Badaracco from the Harvard Business School. Decades ago, he designed a literature-based course for MBA students to enable them to deeply explore moral issues which…

Greetings from Kim Leary and Mike Wheeler, co-hosts of Agility at Work! And for our latest episode, we’re co-authors of this description of our latest episode.  It’s Kim here at the top,…

We have two guests in this episode. That’s a first for us! They are Noah Susskind and Samantha Stephens, colleagues at McKinsey, the global consulting company. Noah is deeply into cybersecurity. He…

Our guest for this episode of Agility at Work is Erin Egan. She does business development for Amazon—acquiring technology, partnering with other companies, and sometimes taking a leading role in buying them. She previously…