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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

The Economist's Boss Class podcast host Andrew Palmer joined students for an impactful experience on the 2023 Leadership Development Expedition course in Norway

Leaders today face unique challenges and new questions about how their teams should work together – particularly as organizations move to more flexible work arrangements and temporary team structures. This Field Guide highlights key practices that can be implemented quickly and seamlessly today as leaders reimagine their work in ways that keep employees engaged, fulfilled and productive.

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

Analysis of the South Korean healthcare system’s response during the COVID-19 pandemic calls for a reimagination of crisis management as a creative process—with dynamic negotiation and improvisation enabling rapid improvement of response capabilities, bringing a system to the ‘at the edge of chaos.’ Featuring CIL Core Faculty Suntae Kim

In a New England Journal of Medicine article, CIL Faculty Anna Mayo and Chris Myers discuss opportunities for enhancing teamwork in healthcare.

A new, comprehensive analysis of communication research data reveals much about the inner workings, impact, and outcomes of good and bad leadership communication. Featuring CIL Core Faculty Cassandra Chambers