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How to Take Better Breaks at Work, According to Research
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What Is Psychological Safety?
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The Case for a Chief of Staff
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The Surprising Power of Questions
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An Antidote to Microaggressions? Microvalidations.
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How to Conduct a Great Performance Review
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Creating Psychological Safety for Black Women at Your Company
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9 Trends That Will Shape Work in 2023 and Beyond
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Employees Are Losing Patience with Change Initiatives
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Begin with Trust
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When Great Minds Don't Think Alike
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Proof That Positive Work Cultures Are More Productive
Organizational culture Digital ArticleFour ways bosses can create them. -
The Key to Inclusive Leadership
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The Leadership Odyssey
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The Performance Management Revolution
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleHated by bosses and subordinates alike, traditional performance appraisals have been abandoned by more than a third of U.S. companies. The annual review's... -
How Netflix Reinvented HR
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen Netflix executives wrote a PowerPoint deck about the organization's talent management strategies, the document went viral--it's been viewed more... -
Make the Most of Your One-on-One Meetings
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Beware a Culture of Busyness
Time management Magazine ArticleOrganizations must stop conflating activity with achievement. -
The Real Reason People Won’t Change
Managing people Magazine ArticleIt’s a psychological dynamic called a “competing commitment,” and until managers understand how it works and the ways to overcome it, they can’t do a thing about change-resistant employees. -
The Most Important Leadership Competencies, According to Leaders Around the World
Leadership Digital ArticleThey’re all hard to improve because they run counter to our instincts.
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How to Tell an Employee They’re Not Ready for a Promotion
Managing people Digital ArticleThe conversation shouldn’t just defer their next step; it should lay the groundwork for future success. -
Stop Assuming Introverts Aren’t Passionate About Work
Behavioral science Digital ArticleNew research to help ensure that true passion — not just extroverted behavior — is recognized and valued. -
Research: When — and Why — Employee Curiosity Annoys Managers
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4 Fundamental Ways to Boost Employee Engagement
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Storytelling That Drives Bold Change
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Helping Employees Succeed with Generative AI
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What's Your Gen AI Strategy?
Management Digital ArticleThis issue's spotlight explores the intersection of people and technology in the workplace, looking specifically at robots, brain wearables, and human-like... -
Keep Your Team Motivated When a Project Goes Off the Rails
Collaboration and teams Digital ArticleSix strategies to help get it back on track. -
5 Questions to Get Your Project Team on the Same Page
Collaboration and teams Digital ArticleEnsure everyone is aligned on purpose, scope, and objectives throughout the project — not just at the start. -
Best Practices for Engaging a Multigenerational Workforce
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Do You Manage Too Many People?
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Is Your Team Overworking But Underperforming?
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Whole Foods CEO Jason Buechel on the Challenges and Opportunities of Following a Visionary Leader
Business and society Digital ArticleFilling the shoes of a legendary founder was not only a personal challenge for Whole Foods CEO Jason Buechel, but a significant adjustment for all the company’s employees, from the C-suite to the hundreds of local stores. -
Creating a Cohesive Team for Corporate Transformation Projects
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Neurotech Is Coming to the Workplace. Here's How to Be Ready.
Management VideoThe era of brain surveillance has begun, and it's not a fad. It's a new way of living and thinking about ourselves and our well-being-personally and professionally.... -
Be the Mentor and Sponsor Your People Need
Management VideoA great mentor guides, coaches, and ultimately, sets people up for success. A great sponsor makes sure success translates into the visibility needed to... -
How to Speak Confidently to Your Team During Chaotic Times
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What to Do When You Don’t Trust Your Employee
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Keep Your Team on Track Amid Cost-Cutting, Layoffs, and Uncertainty
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Making the Case for the Resources Your Team Needs
Negotiating skills Digital ArticleSix strategies to help you persuade leadership to give your team more tools, personnel, or funds.
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Craig Parks (A)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Craig Parks is a 1992 HBS graduate who, without much deliberation, returns to work for his former employer, Taylor Burton on Wall Street. The choice proves... -
TRP International
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The purpose of the case is to provide an opportunity for students to evaluate the relative performance of portfolios. In the case, students are asked... -
Craig Parks (B)
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Compagnie du Froid, S.A.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The owner of an ice cream company must evaluate the performance of three regional businesses. To do the analysis, students must flex the budget by seasonal... -
Citibank: Performance Evaluation
Finance & Accounting Case Study6.95View Details Citibank has introduced a new, comprehensive performance-scorecard system. A regional president struggles with a tough decision: how to evaluate an outstanding... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People, Vol. 2 (with bonus article "The Feedback Fallacy" by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall)
24.95View Details Are you a good boss--or a great one? Get more of the management ideas you want, from the authors you trust, with "HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People... -
WeaveTech: High Performance Change
Leadership & Managing People Case Study1.00View Details WeaveTech, formerly Johnson-Ware, is a clothing company that produces jackets, coats, overalls, coveralls, and fire-resistant clothing for the military.... -
Rawayeti Foods: Performance Management in a Family-Owned Business
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In 2017, the chief executive officer of Rawayeti Foods, a Pakistani company dedicated to ensuring the purity and quality of its spices and pulses, was... -
Dovernet
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Harvard ManageMentor v11: Adjustments
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Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literature
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Evaluate Goals
99.00View Details Reaching a goal is not the end of the process. Learn why evaluating your goals and capturing lessons learned can be just as important as accomplishing... -
Hubtown (A): Designing a Bottom-Up Approach to Performance Management
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details In 2014, Hubtown Limited (Hubtown), an Indian real estate development company, was attempting to implement a process to differentiate between its employees... -
Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley (C)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details A year after Rob Parson's manager decided to postpone Parson's promotion, Parson's new manager Gary Stuart faces the decision of promotion again. Stuart... -
Hamilton Financial Investments: A Franchise Built on Trust
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Provides a vehicle for students to evaluate risk management in the fast-paced mutual funds industry. A new risk manager has been hired to install new... -
Multifactor Models
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Students evaluate the performance of four mutual funds and compute the cost of capital for two companies using fixed benchmarks, the CAPM, and a multifactor... -
Surbana Jurong: Navigating Organisational Challenges in a Mass Termination
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details In January 2017, Surbana Jurong Private Limited, a wholly-owned infrastructure consultancy of Singapore's Temasek Holdings, came under the spotlight for... -
Nordstrom: Dissension in the Ranks? (A)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details In 1989, the performance measurement systems and compensation policies of Nordstrom Department Stores unexpectedly came under attack by employees, unions,... -
Scott Family Enterprises: Building the Path to Effective Governance
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details As founders of First Interstate BancSystem, which held $8.6 billion in assets and had recently become a public company, and Padlock Ranch, which had over... -
Power Is the Great Motivator (Harvard Business Review Classics)
In this provocative exploration into the nature and value of power in organizations, authors David McClelland and David Burnham reveal how the drive for...
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How to Take Better Breaks at Work, According to Research
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA guide for employees and managers. -
What Is Psychological Safety?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA culture of trust and belonging doesn't just happen. Here's how you make one. -
The Case for a Chief of Staff
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleNew CEOs are typically focused on creating and implementing a strategy, building a top team, and driving culture change. Optimizing administrative workflow... -
The Surprising Power of Questions
Managing people Magazine ArticleIt goes far beyond exchanging information. -
An Antidote to Microaggressions? Microvalidations.
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleFive subtle acts of inclusion leaders can start practicing right now. -
How to Conduct a Great Performance Review
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhat to do before, during, and after the meeting. -
Creating Psychological Safety for Black Women at Your Company
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleWhat organizations tend to get wrong — and how to get it right. -
9 Trends That Will Shape Work in 2023 and Beyond
Business management Digital ArticleAmid a looming economic downturn, employers can expect another tumultuous year. -
Employees Are Losing Patience with Change Initiatives
Organizational change Digital ArticleA Gartner survey found that employees’ willingness to support enterprise change fell from 74% in 2016 to just 43% in 2022. -
Begin with Trust
Leadership Magazine ArticleThe first step to becoming a genuinely empowering leader