Key takeaways from our annual Meeting of Minds reveal the conditions under which diversity can create or destroy value.

Unlike humans, companies have no natural lifespans. Even so, they are subject to an unrelenting process of decline - accumulating excessive bureaucracy and becoming increasingly ineffective at adapting to their environments as they age.

Every year, we convene the Meeting of Minds, a multidisciplinary gathering of leaders in business and science to explore major issues in society and business. In our recent gathering, we focused on what we could learn from the COVID-19 crisis that might enable us to cope with future social disruptions. Read the key takeaways from the discussion.

Organizational resilience and personal resilience are rarely considered together, yet building a system that facilitates mutually-reinforcing resilience between organizations and employees opens new possibilities on both levels. We explore the relationship between the two forms of resilience.

Instead of defaulting to the standard change management methods, leaders should adopt strategies of change that respond appropriately to the specific characteristics of their change context.

Making tradeoffs between resilience and efficiency is challenging, as traditional optimization approaches are not well-suited for the task. By adopting alternative principles and strategies, leaders can make more effective tradeoffs between resilience and efficiency.