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How to Convince Your Boss You Need Time Off
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5 Ways to Demonstrate Your Value - Remotely
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What to Do When Work Feels Meaningless
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The Reality of What Makes Silicon Valley Tick
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What if Performance Management Focused on Strengths?
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Manage Your Time Like Jim Collins
Work-life balance Digital ArticleJim Collins is all about discipline. The man who described Level 5 Leadership not only understands the inner fortitude of the best-performing companies and leaders; he’s famously disciplined and enormously productive, as you can tell from his website (jimcollins.com). A runner and mountain-climber, he is the picture of fitness. How does he manage his time? […] -
Managers, Encourage Your Team to Take Time Off
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Fixing the World’s Infrastructure Problems
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How Much Truth Should You Share?
Business ethics Digital ArticleComments for this Make Your Case installment are now closed. Thanks to all who participated. This week’s guest commentator, Marshall Goldsmith, has posted his response to your comments and shared some thoughts of his own below. The opening to your cube is darkened by the familiar figure of a longtime colleague. Though you’re his immediate […] -
Empathy Is Key to a Great Meeting
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When Your Colleague Is a Saboteur (HBR Case Study)
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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 […] -
It’s OK If Going to a Conference Doesn’t Feel Like Real Work
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Strategic Humor: Cartoons from the May 2013 Issue
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Does Accusing a Coworker of an Ethical Lapse Hurt Your Credibility?
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleNew research finds that leveling an accusation can increase trust in the accuser - regardless of whether they're telling the truth. -
Expose Your Company’s Blind Spots
Customer experience Digital ArticleIs your company unintentionally keeping your most senior people from getting the feedback they most need? It can easily happen as an unintended consequence of success. Consider these situations: Senior executives at car companies drive only the newest models: For decades, the top executives at America’s leading automobile manufacturers always drove models fresh from the […] -
Leaders, Make Curiosity the Core of Your Organizational Culture
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Finding the Right Balance - and Flexibility - in Your Leadership Style
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The Better You Know Yourself, the More Resilient You’ll Be
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Live Life as an Experiment
Managing yourself Digital ArticleIt was an experiment. I was returning an item to the store from which I had bought it. The item was well within the return period, but there would be a 20% restocking fee. Could I evade that fee? What would I have to do or say to persuade them not to charge it to […]
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KLOCKNER: OPERATIONS DURING TRANSFORMATION
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Hale and Dorr (A)
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Idea Generation and Selection: The Alternative Use Exercise, Handout
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Goldman Sachs' Digital Journey
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Braintrust: The Blockchain-Powered Talent Network
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The Resort in Pueblo Valley (B)
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Netflix Inc.: Proving the Skeptics Wrong
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Welcome to AI: A Human Guide to Artificial Intelligence
Management Book30.00View Details A fascinating guide to the rapidly advancing world of artificial intelligence and how this powerful technology will impact our lives, our careers, and... -
Euro-Air (Revised)
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HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business
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Comedy Nights with Kapil: Maintaining Value Creation
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Conflict Management at TKC Consulting
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Mack Henley (D)
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Revitalizing State Bank of India
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HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers Collection (4 Books)
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Performance Management Systems: How Companies are Rethinking People Development
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Roll-Ups and Surprise Billing: Collisions at the Intersection of Private Equity and Patient Care
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How to Convince Your Boss You Need Time Off
Communication Digital ArticleDon't be a work martyr. -
5 Ways to Demonstrate Your Value - Remotely
Communication Digital ArticleShare your wins. -
What to Do When Work Feels Meaningless
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleStep one: focus on what you can control. -
The Reality of What Makes Silicon Valley Tick
Creativity Digital ArticleThe secret sauce is “socialstructing.” -
What if Performance Management Focused on Strengths?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA do-it-yourself guide to building a strengths-based performance management system. -
Manage Your Time Like Jim Collins
Work-life balance Digital ArticleJim Collins is all about discipline. The man who described Level 5 Leadership not only understands the inner fortitude of the best-performing companies and leaders; he’s famously disciplined and enormously productive, as you can tell from his website (jimcollins.com). A runner and mountain-climber, he is the picture of fitness. How does he manage his time? […] -
Managers, Encourage Your Team to Take Time Off
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThey need it. -
Fixing the World’s Infrastructure Problems
International business Digital ArticleAn analysis of 400 case studies uncovers several ways to solve the world’s infrastructure challenges more efficiently. -
How Much Truth Should You Share?
Business ethics Digital ArticleComments for this Make Your Case installment are now closed. Thanks to all who participated. This week’s guest commentator, Marshall Goldsmith, has posted his response to your comments and shared some thoughts of his own below. The opening to your cube is darkened by the familiar figure of a longtime colleague. Though you’re his immediate […] -
Empathy Is Key to a Great Meeting
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIt's one of two necessary emotional competencies.