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Five Signs that Your Mentor Is Giving You Bad Advice
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Hiring Without Firing
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Giving a High Performer Productive Feedback
Managing people Best PracticeGiving feedback, particularly constructive feedback, is often a stressful task. As counterintuitive as it may seem, giving feedback to a top performer can be even tougher. Top performers may not have obvious development needs and in identifying those needs, you can sometimes feel like you’re being nitpicky or over-demanding. In addition, top performers may not […] -
Executive Incentives vs. Corporate Growth
Boards Magazine ArticleBonuses and other forms of incentive compensation are an effective motivator of executives to achieve ever higher earnings per share. The drive to produce short-term results, however, often influences management to forgo investment in capital equipment and R&D that would benefit the corporation several years hence even more than improved earnings next year would. The […] -
Larger Language for Business: David Whyte on Conversational Leadership
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Margaret Thatcher, Fighter
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Are You Spending Your Parenting Time and Energy Wisely?
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The Case of the Religious Network Group
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Should All Employees Feel Like Owners?
Leadership Digital ArticleApparently, my post on the “lunch lesson” rubbed some people the wrong way. When I opined that I found that leadership = responsibility = not always getting to eat lunch, this was, for some, the most heinous concept short of universal healthcare for illegal aliens. The comments that disagreed with me fell into a few […] -
It’s OK If Going to a Conference Doesn’t Feel Like Real Work
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A Question of Character
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Good Managers Don't Make Policy Decisions (Classic)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleTo be successful, senior executives need to cultivate five skills. First, they need to develop a network of information sources in order to keep informed... -
Authenticity: Is It Real or Is It Marketing?
Leadership Magazine ArticleCompanies that boast of their authenticity confront challenges that more faceless firms don’t even have to consider. -
The Toxic Handler: Organizational Hero—and Casualty
Organizational culture Magazine ArticleWhen companies cause emotional pain through nasty bosses, layoffs, and change, a certain breed of “healing” manager steps in to keep the gears moving. They are toxic handlers—unsung corporate heroes who save the day, but often pay a high price. -
The Surprising Power of Impulse Control
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The Age of Customer Capitalism
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleModern capitalism can be broken down into two major eras. The first, managerial capitalism, began in 1932 and was defined by the then radical notion that... -
How to Lead When Your Team Is Exhausted — and You Are, Too
Employee engagement HBR BestsellerThe latest wave of Covid-19 is pushing us to new depths of personal resilience. -
A Leap Year Lesson on Correcting Leadership Drift
Managing yourself Digital ArticleWe all know why leap years exist, right? Our calendars get out of synch with the solar system so we must periodically get our human calendars back on track with the celestial ones. In other words, February 29th is all about correcting drift. Without those corrections, things become more and more out of synch. Not […] -
Is Your Company Using Employee Data Ethically?
Managing people Digital ArticleThe trade-offs can be complex.
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How Part-Time Senior Leaders Can Help Your Business
Human resource management Digital ArticleBringing on seasoned leaders in “fractional” roles can help companies gain expertise without the expense and commitment of a full-time hire. -
How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk
Economics Magazine ArticleModels and forecasts can be seductive, but it’s time for executives to reclaim their economic judgment. -
Power, Influence, and CEO Succession
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The Psychology of CEO Succession
Succession planning Magazine ArticleChoosing the company’s next leader is one of the most crucial decisions a board makes. Yet directors, incumbents, and incoming leaders routinely underestimate how tricky the transition at the top can be. Here’s a guide to making it go smoothly. -
How CEOs Build Confidence in Their Leadership
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When Your Employee Feels Angry, Sad, or Dejected
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Case Study: Are the Right People in the Right Seats?
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Firms Led by CEOs from Former U.S. Frontier Areas Are Awarded More Patents
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe qualities that were needed to succeed on the frontier are the same ones needed to drive corporate innovation. -
Build a Corporate Culture That Works
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Stop Playing Favorites
Managing people Magazine ArticleAll managers have in-groups and out-groups. Here’s how to manage those dynamics more effectively. -
The Vital Role of the Outgoing CEO
Succession planning SpotlightEverybody focuses on what the new boss needs to do. But what the departing one does can make all the difference. -
The Psychology of CEO Succession
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3 Ways to Build a Culture That Lets High Performers Thrive
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Reinventing the Core Value Statement
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Constant Change Is Rewriting the Psychological Contract with Employees
Managing people Digital ArticleIn the face of rising dissatisfaction, leaders need to revisit their unwritten agreements with workers — and agree on a sustainable path forward. -
How to Vet Information Before Making a Decision
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3 Ways to Support Employees with Bipolar Disorder
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Learning to Delegate as a First-Time Manager
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5 Traps to Avoid as You Gain Power as a Leader
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3 Ways to Compassionately Hold Your Team Accountable
Motivating people Digital ArticleWhy some teams are more successful at meeting deadlines, hitting targets, and growing revenues.
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United Airlines 232
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The cases are used to introduce the concept of collective responsibility and leadership in team situations by applying the concept of Crew Resource Management... -
Organizational Reinvention
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This note is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts of leading innovation in established organizations. Reinvention is a process whereby... -
Alaska Airlines: Navigating Change
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Alaska Airlines has recently recovered from a period of operational instability, yet its executives worry the airline is draining its reserves of customer... -
Alltech
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Alltech was a Lexington, Kentucky-based producer of supplements for animal feed, with revenues of over $2 billion (projected to reach $3 billion in 2018),... -
A Cross Cultural Crash and Labour Conflict: Sài nóng Restaurant (B)
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Greg Dyke Taking the Helm at the BBC (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This is a teaching case designed to illustrate the challenges facing a senior executive, in this case a CEO (Director-General), as he/she takes over a... -
Bennett, Strang & Farris
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details A law firm must decide how to split partnership profits among the partners. Issues of seniority versus performance, performance evaluation, and lack of... -
Failure to Communicate: How Conversations Go Wrong and What You Can Do to Right Them
Strategy & Execution Book20.00View Details Your stomach's churning; you're hyperventilating -- you're in a badly deteriorating conversation at work. Such exchanges, which run the gamut from firing... -
West Side United: Hospitals Tackle the Racial Health and Wealth Gap
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ONE2ID B.V.
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Elizabeth Parker (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details A new political appointee with years of volunteer experience takes over a highly responsible job in the state government and is met with bureaucratic... -
Marlow Construction (B): Robby Gomez
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Managing Performance
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Encourages managers to think critically about how to prepare for and give a performance appraisal interview. Presents frameworks for evaluating subordinates'... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads 2019: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review (with bonus article "Now What?" by Joan C. Williams and Suzanne Lebsock) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)
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Philippines: From Sick Man to Strong Man
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Kyocera Corp.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Examines the three factors critical to this company's remarkable success in the high tech field. The first factor is the founder, Dr. Inamori's powerful... -
House for Sale: The Buyer
Management Case Study8.95View Details You are married with two teenage children and living in a two-bedroom apartment. You have lived in the north of Horsley all your life, but following the... -
Ramesh and Gargi (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the deterioration of the relationship between three people in an organization. Ramesh, Learning and Development Head, Chrysalis Pharmaceuticals,... -
ghSMART, 2006: Pioneering in Professional Services
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How to Make Decisions Amid Chaos (HBR Special Issue)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine Issue19.95View Details Harvard Business Review Special Issues are timely, single-theme collections of HBR articles written by some of the world's leading management scholars... -
Five Signs that Your Mentor Is Giving You Bad Advice
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleJust because someone is firmly in your corner doesn't mean they know what's best. -
Hiring Without Firing
Leadership Magazine ArticleHitting the hiring bull’s-eye is one of an executive’s most important—and most difficult—responsibilities. Ten common mistakes can get in the way, but a pointed and systematic approach can virtually guarantee success. -
Giving a High Performer Productive Feedback
Managing people Best PracticeGiving feedback, particularly constructive feedback, is often a stressful task. As counterintuitive as it may seem, giving feedback to a top performer can be even tougher. Top performers may not have obvious development needs and in identifying those needs, you can sometimes feel like you’re being nitpicky or over-demanding. In addition, top performers may not […] -
Executive Incentives vs. Corporate Growth
Boards Magazine ArticleBonuses and other forms of incentive compensation are an effective motivator of executives to achieve ever higher earnings per share. The drive to produce short-term results, however, often influences management to forgo investment in capital equipment and R&D that would benefit the corporation several years hence even more than improved earnings next year would. The […] -
Larger Language for Business: David Whyte on Conversational Leadership
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleDavid Whyte talks about how poetry begets courageous conversation and, in turn, better leadership. -
Margaret Thatcher, Fighter
Leadership Digital ArticleThe best change agents almost never realize when it’s time to stop. That’s what makes them so good. -
Are You Spending Your Parenting Time and Energy Wisely?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA matrix to help guide your decision-making. -
The Case of the Religious Network Group
Diversity and inclusion Magazine ArticleNetwork groups for black and Hispanic employees had been an unqualified success. Now a Christian group was forming—and Bill Thompson didn’t know what to think about it. -
Should All Employees Feel Like Owners?
Leadership Digital ArticleApparently, my post on the “lunch lesson” rubbed some people the wrong way. When I opined that I found that leadership = responsibility = not always getting to eat lunch, this was, for some, the most heinous concept short of universal healthcare for illegal aliens. The comments that disagreed with me fell into a few […]