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1. What Interruptions Say About Your Organizational Culture

   27 Oct 2026 · sloanreview.mit.edu · Ghulam Murtaza, Benjamin Laker, Rahman Khan, and Athar Hameed. Ghulam Murtaza is an associate professor at Kedge Business School in France. Benjamin Laker is a professor of leadership at the University of Reading’s Henley Business School in the United Kingdom. Rahman Khan is an associate professor of management at the Paris School of Business in France. Athar Hameed is a senior lecturer of management at Westminster International University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

   Mark Airs/Ikon Images Leaders tend to talk about culture in abstract terms: values, norms, trust, belonging, and the like. But employees watch for the moments that show how culture actually manifests. During meetings, who gets interrupted? Employees notice whose sentences are cut short, redirected…

2. Why Every High-Performing Leader Needs a Pacer

   14 Oct 2026 · sloanreview.mit.edu · Jim Detert and Rahul Bhandari. Jim Detert is the John L. Colley Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and the author of Choosing Courage: The Everyday Guide to Being Brave at Work (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021). Rahul Bhandari is a distinguished senior lecturer in AI and strategy at the Darden School of Business and the CEO of Force Multiplier Capital. He is also the author of Slingshot: The Power of Bold Moves (Wolf Trap Press, 2021).

   Matt Harrison Clough/Ikon Images Jakob Ingebrigtsen, one of the best middle-distance runners ever, has won gold medals for Norway in two Olympics, won multiple world championships, and set five world records at distances between 1,500 meters and 2 miles. Watch him and you’ll see that he’s often…