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‘Adventure racing’—a sport where teams hike, bike, and kayak together across long-distances of wilderness—provides the perfect microcosm to study the effects of team dynamics on performance, in the face of fast-unfolding adversity, uncertainty, shocks, and crises. Featuring CIL Core Faculty Michelle Barton and Kathleen Sutcliffe

By integrating new technologies and insights from organizational science health care, leaders can embrace the digital era in ways that positively impact team design and teaming practices. Featuring CIL Faculty Anna Mayo and Chris Myers

Healthcare leaders should be aware of the pros, cons, and sometimes surprising nuances around different types of social networks in healthcare organizations. Featuring CIL Affiliate Christina Yuan

Harnessing the power of a multidisciplinary team carries vast potential for effectiveness and problem-solving—while achieving high-performance with diversely skilled stakeholders requires adroit management. Featuring CIL Affiliates Christina Yuan and Mike Rosen

Organizations committed to inclusivity and hearing varied opinions should be aware that upwardly mobile individuals in socially diverse professional environments, are often faced with hurdles to jump, for their views to be heard and heeded. Featuring CIL Faculty Affiliate Sean Martin

When individuals with strong moral character fill positions of prominence in their peer networks, they can have a positive influence on the moral awareness of others. These ‘moral beacons’ can help support a culture of ethical leadership, decision making, and behavior. Featuring CIL Core Faculty Erik Helzer.

Leading in an ethical way is more than simply ‘doing the right thing.’ Increasingly, ethical leadership is correlated with team performance—for instance, as this study shows, an ethically led team is better placed to bounce back from a period of poor performance. Featuring CIL Faculty Affiliate Sean Martin

Online knowledge-sharing communities such as ‘Stack Overflow,’ which add billions of dollars of value in increased productivity, provide rich data sets around motivating collaborative behaviors and evidence on the pros and cons of nonmonetary reward systems, a tool used to motivate remote employees. Featuring CIL Core Faculty Cassandra Chambers

Gender equity is an organization-wide leadership issue best addressed by men and women working together as allies to the cause. Featuring CIL Core Faculty David Smith

Leaders seeking to foster inclusivity should be aware that a team’s collective intelligence—its general ability to make decisions, innovate, plan, and more—is significantly influenced by its hierarchal structure and also by its gender composition. Featuring CIL Faculty Affiliate Anna Mayo

Ineffective collaboration between physicians and nurses in acute healthcare settings is known to lead to substandard patient outcomes. A new review highlights the role of respect in promoting better interprofessional relationships, offering insights to help leaders encourage and maintain respectful attitudes and behavior. Featuring CIL Affiliates Anna Mayo and Derrick Bransby

Contrasting with an underrepresentation of women in other top rank senior roles, new analysis reveals an encouraging increase in female CHROs—which may help us better understand decisions relating to gender diversity, or lack of it, at the top of organizations. Featuring CIL Core Faculty Rick Smith