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Sensitivity Can Be a Superpower at Work
Managing employees Digital ArticleHere are the tools managers need to properly supervise, nurture, and retain their sensitive employees. -
LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky: Skills, Not Degrees, Matter Most in Hiring
Business and society Digital ArticleEven if you don’t plan to change jobs, your job is going to change on you. -
5 Traps to Avoid as You Gain Power as a Leader
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticlePower will change you - and your relationships. How you wield it can make or break your success. -
The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten
Organizational Development Digital ArticleRevisiting W. Edwards Deming helps in an era of short-termism and mistrust. -
What to Do If Your Boss Doesn't Like You
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA targeted plan to make things better. -
Five Minds of a Manager (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleManagers are told: Be global and be local. Collaborate and compete. Change perpetually, and maintain order. Make the numbers while nurturing your people.... -
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. -
Followers Don't See Their Leaders as Real People
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleUnderstanding that is the first step to influencing others. -
Courage as a Skill
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleA division vice president blows the whistle on corruption at the highest levels of his company. A young manager refuses to work on her boss's pet project... -
The Labor-Savvy Leader
Society and business relations Magazine ArticleThe time has come for management to start working with—rather than against—organized labor. Here’s how. -
Research Shows Good Management Is Incredibly Hard to Copy
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Give Your Team More-Effective Positive Feedback
Communication Digital ArticleIt's one of the primary ways to keep employees engaged. -
Your Communications May Not Be Communicating
Communication Digital Article[For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.] Have you ever been in an organization where communication was not an issue? If so, you're the exception... -
Ferguson's Formula
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhen Alex Ferguson took over as manager of the English football team Manchester United, the club was in dire straits: It hadn't won a league title in... -
Good Management Predicts a Firm's Success Better Than IT, R&D, or Even Employee Skills
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Post-Capitalist Executive: An Interview with Peter F. Drucker
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleDrucker argues that in the post-capitalist society, managers must learn to negotiate a new environment with a different set of work rules and career expectations.... -
Managing for Business Effectiveness
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleProductive business managers are those who obtain optimum economic results from the prevailing resources. A series of primary steps, which have proven... -
7 Ways to Thank People in Your Network
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleMake it personal. -
When a New Manager Takes Charge
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleNew managers need from 24 to 36 months before they can be said to have mastered their jobs. Research on 14 U.S. and European new managers, which included... -
Why, What, and How of Management Innovation
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFor organizations like GE, P&G, and Visa, management innovation is the secret to success. But what is management innovation? Why is it so important? And...
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3M Optical Systems: Managing Corporate Entrepreneurship
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details A middle-level division manager must decide whether he should support an investment request for a third attempt at launching a new product developed by... -
SCORE! Educational Centers (D)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Describes Rob Waldron's actions upon assuming leadership of SCORE! Educational Centers, an after-school tutoring enterprise. Examines the issue of acquiring... -
The Beiteddine Festival: Bridging the Gap
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The Beiteddine Art Festival (BAF) is a non-profit organization that manages an art and musical festival in Lebanon with the aim of using cultural activity... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People (Paperback + Ebook)
Leadership & Managing People Special Offer34.95View Details Managing people is fraught with challenges: What really motivates people? How do you deal with problem employees? How can you build a team that is greater... -
Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership
35.00View Details Making the leap to management and leadership. In your career, or anyone's, there is one transition that stands out as the most crucial--going from individual... -
A Primer on OKRs
Management Case Study8.95View Details The OKR framework is a popular goal-setting and strategy execution tool that uses goal setting through "Objectives" and measuring performance using "Key... -
Denise Frazer and Paolo Canto: A Case Vignette on Feedback - Denise Frazer's Perspective
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Denise Frazer and Paolo Canto, two HBS students, have decided to give each other feedback on their class participation. While Denise believes that she... -
SCORE! Educational Centers (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Describes the start-up, strategy, organizational design, and operations of SCORE! Educational Centers, an after-school tutoring enterprise. Alan Tripp,... -
SCORE! Educational Centers, Supplement
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A), (B), (C), and (D) cases. -
AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details By the late 2000s, rapid changes in the telecommunications industry forced AT&T's management team to take on a task that CEO Randall Stephenson called... -
Bob Malott and Product Liability Law Reform
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Robert Malott, Chairman and CEO of FMC, must decide whether or not to continue his work on product liability law reform, an issue on which he has worked... -
Leveraging Difference for Organizational Excellence: Managing Diversity Differently
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Leaders who leverage difference are able to take a fresh stance! This note explores the proposition that the "diversity is good for business" premise... -
C3.ai-Driven to Succeed
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details CEO Tom Siebel navigates his artificial intelligence (ai) startup through a series of pivots, market expansions, and even an elephant attack to become... -
Leadership and Teaming
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal... -
Co-creation in Question(s): The Metamorphosis of the Montreal Insectarium A - Reinventing a Living Museum
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2010, Anne Charpentier, director of the Montreal Insectarium, a natural history museum dedicated to insects, was mandated to metamorphose her museum,... -
Management Levels at Staples (A): Company and Organization
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details One of six cases that describe the roles and responsibilities of managers at each of the hierarchical levels of management within the U.S. Stores business... -
Financial Intelligence for IT Professionals: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers
Finance & Accounting Book30.00View Details As an IT manager, you're expected to make key decisions and recommend major investments. And that means understanding your decisions' financial impact... -
ABB Deutschland (C)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Addresses the results and the lessons from the German restructuring effort by focusing in detail on the relationship with the works council and the actions... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers (with bonus article "How Managers Become Leaders" by Michael D. Watkins)
24.95View Details Develop the mindset and presence to successfully manage others for the first time. If you read nothing else on becoming a new manager, read these 10 articles.... -
Managing Oneself (Harvard Business Review Classics)
9.99View Details We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: with ambition, drive, and talent, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession regardless of where...
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The Most Underrated Skill in Management
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThis is an MIT Sloan Management Review article. According to the authors, there are few questions in business more powerful than "What problem are you... -
What Leadership Style Do You Major In?
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Sensitivity Can Be a Superpower at Work
Managing employees Digital ArticleHere are the tools managers need to properly supervise, nurture, and retain their sensitive employees. -
3M Optical Systems: Managing Corporate Entrepreneurship
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details A middle-level division manager must decide whether he should support an investment request for a third attempt at launching a new product developed by... -
SCORE! Educational Centers (D)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Describes Rob Waldron's actions upon assuming leadership of SCORE! Educational Centers, an after-school tutoring enterprise. Examines the issue of acquiring... -
The Beiteddine Festival: Bridging the Gap
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The Beiteddine Art Festival (BAF) is a non-profit organization that manages an art and musical festival in Lebanon with the aim of using cultural activity... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People (Paperback + Ebook)
Leadership & Managing People Special Offer34.95View Details Managing people is fraught with challenges: What really motivates people? How do you deal with problem employees? How can you build a team that is greater... -
LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky: Skills, Not Degrees, Matter Most in Hiring
Business and society Digital ArticleEven if you don’t plan to change jobs, your job is going to change on you. -
5 Traps to Avoid as You Gain Power as a Leader
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticlePower will change you - and your relationships. How you wield it can make or break your success. -
The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten
Organizational Development Digital ArticleRevisiting W. Edwards Deming helps in an era of short-termism and mistrust.