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As the worldwide economy recovers, the number of companies appointing new chief executives is on the rise. 
Attracting and retaining top talent are perennial concerns among managers, in good times and in bad.
According to research by this influential author and expert on building ethical cultures, companies that practice humanistic self-governance have a multifaceted edge in performance.
An interview with Marcus Buckingham, founder of TMBC and author of StandOut. For more, visit the HBR article Leadership Development in the Age of the Algorithm. 
For some time I’ve resisted the urge to excoriate a term that has been taking more prominent space in the lexicon of HR professionals.
Recently my fellow HBR blogger Daniel Markovitz suggested that stretch goals can be demotivating, and should be replaced by confidence-building "quick wins." Frankly, this is like saying that the taste of food is more important than its nutrient...
Clay Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and best-selling author, discusses his new book and explains why it's essential to follow your commitments 100% of the time. For more, read his article, How Will You Measure Your Life?
So it was Lyme disease that did it! The tick-borne illness kept JPMorgan Chase's Ina Drew out of the office for extended periods in 2010 and 2011.
Melissa, a talented Gen X'er, is given a promotion that puts her in direct contention for a key senior spot. Although her Boomer colleagues are offering their congratulations, Melissa finds herself feeling vaguely uneasy.
Danger lurks if a problem-solving discussion turns into unfocused complaining.
Encourage v: to inspire with courage, spirit, or confidence- Random House Dictionary A story is told about the Duke of Wellington, the British military leader who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. He was not an easy man to serve under.
In my last blog post, I encouraged thoroughly investigating the culture you're thinking of joining. In the comments, some people agreed they needed to learn about culture but were unsure how to approach it.
Each year, twenty million babies worldwide are born prematurely or with a low birth weight, and four million of them die, most in developing nations. Those who survive often suffer from low IQ, diabetes, and heart disease when they reach adulthood. |
Analysis of informal networks offers a potent leadership model for the C-suite: Make top teams the hub of the enterprise, and watch performance improve.
Corporate decision makers struggling with uncertainty need not always gamble the same way; they can choose from a trio of business strategy paradigms - planning and positioning, organization learning, and constructive transformation - that have...
A review of Thinking, Fast and Slow , by Daniel Kahneman.
Business bloggers at Harvard Business Review discuss a variety of business topics including managing people, innovation, leadership, and more. By Andrew Winston 
Here is a difficult topic that we often avoid to deal with as change managers: the difference between installation and realization.
Did you know that an additional 0.1 second in the time it takes a web page to load can lead to a 1% decline in customer activity? Neither did I. But Amazon does.
Welcome to HBR's Insight Center on Managing Risky Behavior.
The single most revealing moment in the coverage of JPMorgan's multibillion dollar debacle can be found in this take-your-breath-away passage from The Wall Street Journal:
Until recently, I hadn't really known any great leaders. As a writer, the highest-ranking people I deal with are editors, and they're pretty much just writers who have gotten lazy. The only thing an editor has ever led me into is a bar.
Admit it; you’ve had managers you wanted to see succeed and you’ve likely worked for others that you didn’t respect or trust. And you’ve had occasions where you threw everything you had at your job and other times where you dialed it back to idle.
An interview with Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever. This interview is featured in the forthcoming June issue of HBR. |
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