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<title>“A Players” or “A Positions”?: The Strategic Logic of Workforce Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/12/a-players-or-a-positions-the-strategic-logic-of-workforce-management</link>
<description>A single-minded focus on finding and developing A players misses the point. A better approach is first to identify strategically critical jobs, then to invest disproportionately to ensure that the right people—doing the right things—are in those positions.</description>
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<title>The Power of Preventive Assessment</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/05/the-power-of-preventive-assess-2</link>
<description>I just returned from Toronto where I spent some time in the hands of an amazing corps of health care professionals at Medcan, North America’s biggest preventive health clinic. I heard more than one story of how Medcan’s preventive assessments saved lives — and enormous medical cost. Medcan’s CEO, Shaun Francis, is an alumnus of […]</description>
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<title>The Connection Between Employee Trust and Financial Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/07/the-connection-between-employee-trust-and-financial-performance</link>
<description>A high-trust culture pays off.</description>
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<title>Next-Gen Retirement</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/next-gen-retirement</link>
<description>Post-career life has changed, and it demands a new approach.</description>
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<title>Decisions Without Blinders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/01/decisions-without-blinders</link>
<description>The “bounded awareness” phenomenon causes people to ignore critical information when making decisions. Learning to expand the limits of your awareness before you make an important choice will save you from asking “How did I miss that?” after the fact.</description>
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<title>Managing for Shareholder Value—From Top to Bottom</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1989/11/managing-for-shareholder-value-from-top-to-bottom</link>
<description>In his first big presentation to the board, the newly appointed CEO of a $3 billion, multibusiness company announced his intention to shift management’s focus from quarterly earnings to “shareholder value.” The management team was determined to understand exactly how much value the corporation and each of its business units were creating for shareholders and […]</description>
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<title>Use Social Media to Build Emotional Capital</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/11/use-social-media-to-build-emot</link>
<description>Why firms’ internal social media efforts fail, and what to do instead.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Lead When You’re Not the Boss</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/02/how-to-lead-when-youre-not-the</link>
<description>Real leadership is never a matter of mere formal authority. Leaders are effective when other people acknowledge them as such–by listening seriously to their ideas, valuing and following their suggestions for action, and turning to them for advice. Opportunities to lead aren’t limited to times when you have formal authority over a particular team or […]</description>
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<title>A New Mandate for Human Resources</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1998/01/a-new-mandate-for-human-resources</link>
<description>HR should be defined not by what it does but by what it delivers.</description>
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<title>Three Skills Every 21st-Century Manager Needs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/01/three-skills-every-21st-century-manager-needs</link>
<description>The world of work has changed dramatically over the past decade. Companies are more global and employee groups more diverse than ever before. Organizational structures are less hierarchical and more collaborative. And today’s networked offices are full of technological distractions that would have been unimaginable to the 20th-century manager. We asked experts in cross-cultural communication, […]</description>
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<title>If You Can’t Take a Vacation, Get the Most Out of Minibreaks</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/07/if-you-cant-take-a-vacation-get-the-most-out-of-minibreaks</link>
<description>At least as a short-term solution.</description>
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<title>7 Factors of Great Office Design</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/7-factors-of-great-office-design</link>
<description>Evaluate your space, or imagine a new one.</description>
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<title>How to Hang On to Your High Potentials</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/10/how-to-hang-on-to-your-high-potentials</link>
<description>Emerging best practices in managing your company’s future leaders</description>
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<title>Keep Your Name Off That Layoff List</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/10/keep-your-name-off-that-layoff-list</link>
<description>New research suggests you can predict who’ll be on it.</description>
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<title>Crowdsource Your Performance Reviews</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/06/crowdsource-your-performance-r</link>
<description>Forty-five percent of human resources (HR) leaders don’t think annual performance reviews are an accurate appraisal for employees’ work. And 42 percent don’t think employees are rewarded fairly for their job performance. These stats, from a recent survey by Globoforce and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), show that HR has lost confidence in […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Less-Confident People Are More Successful</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/07/less-confident-people-are-more-su</link>
<description>There is no bigger cliché in business psychology than the idea that high self-confidence is key to career success. It is time to debunk this myth. In fact, low self-confidence is more likely to make you successful. After many years of researching and consulting on talent, I’ve come to the conclusion that self-confidence is only […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1998/03/the-set-up-to-fail-syndrome</link>
<description>How bosses create their own poor performers.</description>
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<title>Why My Former Employees Still Work for Me</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1994/01/why-my-former-employees-still-work-for-me</link>
<description>Rather than just cut jobs, Ricardo Semler set up workers as private entrepreneurs—in his own factories.</description>
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<title>Picking the Right Insider for CEO Succession</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/01/picking-the-right-insider-for-ceo-succession</link>
<description>GlaxoSmithKline’s daring decision to let three internal candidates very publicly compete to become CEO generated a lot of chatter last year, but the media overlooked a part of the transition process that has important implications for succession at big companies. As reported, all three candidates were well qualified to run the business. So GSK arranged […]</description>
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<title>Grooming Leaders to Handle Ambiguity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/07/grooming-leaders-to-handle-ambiguity</link>
<description>How would you identify the up-and-coming leaders in a company about which you knew nothing? You’d likely start by pinpointing the executives who control the most employees or revenues. You might give bonus points to relatively young mangers. If you had consulting DNA you might create a sophisticated ratio combining the span of control and […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Get Immediate Value from Your New Hire</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/04/make-your-new-hire-immediately.html</link>
<description>There are many theories on how to correctly “onboard” someone to an organization or a team. Most focus on how to provide the new hire with the information and skills she needs to succeed. But that can only take her so far. She will need connections and an understanding of the inner workings and culture […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>When a New Manager Takes Charge</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/01/when-a-new-manager-takes-charge</link>
<description>Managers who take the helm of new businesses or large divisions must go through predictable stages before they’ve truly mastered the job.</description>
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<title>Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1992/03/managers-and-leaders-are-they-different-2</link>
<description>Business leaders have much more in common with artists than they do with managers.</description>
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<title>Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/keeping-it-professional-when-you-work-in-a-family-business</link>
<description>It can be done.</description>
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<title>How to Survive in an Unhappy Workplace</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/11/how-to-survive-in-an-unhappy-w.html</link>
<description>When you don’t like your job, going to work every day can be a challenge. Your problem might be with a bad manager, that you constantly feel stretched to the breaking point, or that you are resentful about taking a pay cut. Or, the whole environment may just feel toxic. You might need to stay […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Employee Recognition and Reward When Times Are Tough</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/employee-recognition-and-rewar-1.html</link>
<description>In this economic climate, it is more critical than ever to make your staff feel recognized for their contributions. Harvard Management Update sought the advice of best-selling author and employee motivation expert Bob Nelson, who has worked with such companies as FedEx, Time Warner, and IBM, on how to best handle this. 1.What’s so important […]</description>
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<title>How One Company Went Smokeless</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1987/11/how-one-company-went-smokeless</link>
<description>Some 36% of American companies have decided to control or prohibit employee smoking. Implementing that decision has proven difficult, as most managers quickly find they do not understand the best methods for or the consequences of such control. No one method has proven satisfactory in all cases. Some companies ban smoking outright; others try to […]</description>
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<title>Is Management Still a Science?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1992/11/is-management-still-a-science</link>
<description>As every manager knows, new technologies are transforming products, markets, business processes, and entire industries, revolutionizing the business environment. Yet the more technology looms as a factor of competition, the more the emphasis in managerial books, executive education classes, and corporate training seminars is on the “soft” arts of leadership, change management, and employee motivation. […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Ace an Internal Interview</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/07/how-to-ace-an-internal-intervi</link>
<description>It’s trickier than you think.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Stress Can Be a Good Thing If You Know How to Use It</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/stress-can-be-a-good-thing-if-you-know-how-to-use-it</link>
<description>A three-step approach.</description>
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<title>Leadership Is a Conversation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/06/leadership-is-a-conversation</link>
<description>How to improve employee engagement and alignment in today’s flatter, more networked organizations</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Manager’s Job: Folklore and Fact</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1990/03/the-managers-job-folklore-and-fact</link>
<description>The classical view says that the manager organizes, coordinates, plans, and controls; the facts suggest otherwise.</description>
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<title>Leadership That Gets Results</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2000/03/leadership-that-gets-results</link>
<description>New research suggests that the most effective executives use a collection of distinct leadership styles—each in the right measure, at just the right time. Such flexibility is tough to put into action, but it pays off in performance. And better yet, it can be learned.</description>
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<title>Accenture’s CEO on Leading Change</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2015/12/accentures-ceo-on-leading-change.html</link>
<description>Pierre Nanterme discusses the forces changing consulting, and other knowledge-intensive industries.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Ace the Assessment</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/07/ace-the-assessment</link>
<description>More employers are using tests as part of the hiring process. Here’s how to prepare for them.</description>
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<title>Presenteeism: At Work—But Out of It</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/10/presenteeism-at-work-but-out-of-it</link>
<description>As companies struggle to rein in health care costs, most overlook what may be a $150 billion problem: the nearly invisible drain on worker productivity caused by such common ailments as hay fever, headaches, and even heartburn.</description>
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<title>Does the New York Times Know How to Fire Someone?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/does-the-new-york-times-know-how-to-fire-someone</link>
<description>Difficult employees deserve a chance to improve.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How Deloitte Made Learning a Game</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/01/how-deloitte-made-learning-a-g</link>
<description>To get employees to actually use your learning program, make it fun.</description>
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<title>The New Road to the Top</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/01/the-new-road-to-the-top</link>
<description>The route to the executive suite and the attributes of the individuals who get there have changed over the past 20 years, even in the largest and most stable companies.</description>
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<title>Google Wave Decision Shows Strong Innovation Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/08/google-wave-decision-shows-str.html</link>
<description>Some tech pundits were surprised that Google decided to shut down Wave yesterday just a year after its launch and chastised the company for its decision. But I’m not surprised and I applaud the company’s decision to pull the plug after it was clear the market wasn’t interested in Wave. From my vantage point as […]</description>
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<title>Financial Rewards Make People Suggest Fewer but Better Ideas</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/financial-rewards-make-people-suggest-fewer-but-better-ideas</link>
<description>What one company learned about crowdsourcing innovation.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Organization of Your Dreams</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/building-the-organization-of-your-dreams</link>
<description>It’s easy to describe, but takes hard work to create.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Compensation and Benefits for Startup Companies</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1989/01/compensation-and-benefits-for-startup-companies</link>
<description>You’ve decided to start a company. Your business plan is based on sound strategy and thorough market research. Your background and training have prepared you for the challenge. Now you must assemble the quality management team that venture investors demand. So you begin the search for a topflight engineer to head product development and a […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Facing Ambiguous Threats</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/11/facing-ambiguous-threats</link>
<description>Firms often ignore small signs that may—or may not—portend danger to their markets or reputations. Here is a systematic way to analyze and respond to weak signals.</description>
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<title>What Matters More to Your Workforce than Money</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/01/what-matters-more-to-your-workforce-than-money</link>
<description>It depends on how much they earn.</description>
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<title>Should You Hire an Overqualified Candidate?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/03/should-you-hire-an-overqualifi.html</link>
<description>As politicians and economists puzzle over America’s jobless recovery, managers who have started to hire again face another problem: how to handle all the overqualified candidates coming through their doors. The prevailing wisdom is to avoid such applicants. But the unprecedented availability of top talent created by this recession and new research on the success […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Every Leader Needs a Laugh</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/12/every-leader-needs-a-laugh</link>
<description>One of my favorite parts of the Harvard Business Review is the cartoon section. Of course, the articles make the magazine distinguished, but the cartoons make me laugh. Every month the aptly named “Strategic Humor” section is what I turn to first. In these tough times I enjoy cartoons that regularly puncture the self-inflated bubble […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Control in an Age of Empowerment</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1995/03/control-in-an-age-of-empowerment</link>
<description>How can managers promote innovation while avoiding unwelcome surprises?</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Imbalance of Power</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/07/imbalance-of-power</link>
<description>Management has usurped control from boards—and the directors themselves are to blame.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Heard in the C-Suite</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2006/12/harvard-business-ideacast-20-h.html</link>
<description>Ken Denman, CEO of iPass.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Managing Police Departments Post-Ferguson</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/managing-police-departments-post-ferguson</link>
<description>Officers want fairness and transparency from their bosses.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How Architecture Wins Technology Wars</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1993/03/how-architecture-wins-technology-wars</link>
<description>Inventing—and reinventing—the proprietary architectures for open systems is critical to competitive success.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Eight Ways to Communicate Your Strategy More Effectively</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/08/eight-ways-to-energize-your-te</link>
<description>A frustrated CEO recently shared with me that her employees had lost their edge. They were internally focused, their speed-to-market was down, and they couldn’t find a good balance between serving customers well while making healthy margins. The result was slow progress against the company strategy and an inability to profitably deliver on the value […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Mining Your Company’s Talent</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/06/mining-your-companys-talent</link>
<description>Have you ever worked with someone who made your own job difficult? Someone who forced you to pick up the slack, or who had “personality issues”? Such people make you feel like you’re working two jobs — theirs and yours. Such an experience makes you appreciate their rarer opposites — those who do their jobs […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Managing as if Tomorrow Mattered</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1982/05/managing-as-if-tomorrow-mattered</link>
<description>Few economic decisions are as difficult as those involving the choice between present and future consumption. Some people, unable to place much faith in the future, happily borrow to fund present pleasures; others, with longer time horizons, are wary of such “fly now, pay later” policies. They fear that the required payments, when viewed up […]</description>
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<title>How to Engage Employees Who Are About to Lose Their Jobs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/how-to-engage-employees-who-are-about-to-lose-their-jobs</link>
<description>Successful mergers and acquisitions require transformative, empathetic leaders.</description>
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<title>How to Deal with a Boss Who Behaves Unpredictably</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/11/how-to-deal-with-a-boss-who-behaves-unpredictably</link>
<description>Look for triggers and patterns.</description>
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<title>How to Win the Blame Game</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2001/07/how-to-win-the-blame-game</link>
<description>People are often more concerned about avoiding blame than achieving results. But blame can actually be a potent positive force in the workplace. The trick, says this former Major League Baseball pitcher, is knowing how to use it.</description>
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<title>What Executive Assistants Know About Managing Up</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/what-executive-assistants-know-about-managing-up</link>
<description>Don’t wait to have duties assigned.</description>
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<title>Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/why-strategy-execution-unravelsand-what-to-do-about-it</link>
<description>Focus on coordinating across silos and adapting to change on the front lines.</description>
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<title>Even Experienced Executives Avoid Conflict</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/03/even-experienced-executives-avoid-conflict</link>
<description>But avoiding hard issues won’t make them go away.</description>
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<title>What Effective General Managers Really Do</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1999/03/what-effective-general-managers-really-do</link>
<description>They chat about hobbies, hold spur-of-the-moment meetings, and seek out people far from their chain of command—all to combat the uncertainty and resistance inherent in their work.</description>
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<title>Quality Control in a Service Business</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1975/07/quality-control-in-a-service-business</link>
<description>As earlier HBR articles have emphasized, quality control is a crucial function in an organization that markets services. But is quality control the same thing in a service company as in a manufacturing concern? And what does management have to do to establish it in operations? Little has been written on these questions, though valuable […]</description>
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<title>Great Communicators Are Great Explainers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/06/great-communicators-are-great</link>
<description>In the months since Barack Obama has taken office, a curious thing has occurred in his communication style. He has toned down the rhetoric and geared up the details. As Don Baer who once worked for President Bill Clinton put it, Obama is now “the Great Explainer.” In doing so, Obama is following in the […]</description>
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<title>Leadership Run Amok: The Destructive Potential of Overachievers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/06/leadership-run-amok-the-destructive-potential-of-overachievers</link>
<description>If you believe too many executives think, “It’s all about me,” you’re right: Research shows that an ethos celebrating individual achievement has been shoving aside other motivations, such as the drive to empower people, that are essential for successful leadership.</description>
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<title>Six IT Decisions Your IT People Shouldn’t Make</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/11/six-it-decisions-your-it-people-shouldnt-make</link>
<description>Top executives often feel uncomfortable making hard choices about information technology. But when they abdicate responsibility, they set their companies up for wasted investments and missed opportunities.</description>
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<title>How to Translate Training into Results</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/06/how-to-translate-training-into.html</link>
<description>Most everyone would agree that the training and development of managers is a critical component of success for organizations — especially if you believe that a stronger leadership team makes a competitive difference. Yet despite its importance, when times are tough management training and development budgets are among the first to be cut. More often […]</description>
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<title>Acquisitions: The Process Can Be a Problem</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1986/03/acquisitions-the-process-can-be-a-problem</link>
<description>The use of acquisitions to redirect and reshape corporate strategy has never been greater. Many managers today regard buying a company for access to markets, products, technology, resources, or management talent as less risky and speedier than gaining the same objectives through internal efforts. Although we’re seeing more acquisitions on a larger scale more often […]</description>
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<title>Let Your Frontline Workers Be Creative</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/12/let-your-frontline-workers-be-creative</link>
<description>Good ideas are everyone’s job.</description>
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<title>How to Document a Performance Review</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/how-to-document-a-performance-review</link>
<description>Use examples and be objective.</description>
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<title>Desperately Seeking Synergy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1998/09/desperately-seeking-synergy</link>
<description>A healthy dose of skepticism can help executives distinguish real opportunities from mirages.</description>
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<title>Leadership Lessons from Abraham Lincoln</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/04/leadership-lessons-from-abraham-lincoln</link>
<description>In January 2008, CBS anchor Katie Couric asked Barack Obama which one book he would take with him to the White House, apart from the Bible. The eventual winner of the presidential election singled out Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin’s 2005 best-selling account of President Abraham Lincoln’s leadership during the Civil War. In the […]</description>
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<title>How High Is Your Return on Management?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1998/01/how-high-is-your-return-on-management</link>
<description>Virtually every manager has a story about a brilliant strategy that got away. Everyone supported the strategy, so the story goes, but somehow it was never implemented. Or maybe the strategy was implemented—but only haphazardly. These stories always seem to end in the same way: frustration, lost opportunity, occasionally crisis—and often utter confusion. Why is […]</description>
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<title>Creating and Sustaining a Winning Culture</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/creating-and-sustaining-a-winn-1</link>
<description>by Paul Meehan, Darrell Rigby, and Paul Rogers</description>
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<title>Organizing for Empowerment: An Interview with AES’s Roger Sant and Dennis Bakke</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1999/01/organizing-for-empowerment-an-interview-with-aess-roger-sant-and-dennis-bakke</link>
<description>Few management topics have received as much attention recently as empowerment. In the past four years alone, nearly 30,000 articles about empowerment have appeared in a wide variety of print media, from the Wall Street Journal to Nation’s Restaurant News. By and large, the press is positive: executives and factory workers alike have extolled the […]</description>
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<title>Your Coaching Is Only as Good as Your Follow-Up Skills</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/your-coaching-is-only-as-good-as-your-follow-up-skills</link>
<description>What happens after you leave the room is most crucial.</description>
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<title>Are Business Schools Creating Higher-Ambition Leaders?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/09/business-school-higher-ambition</link>
<description>For over 30 years I worked as a business school professor educating thousands of MBAs and executives. Even though I’m now retired from the faculty of Harvard Business School, I still have the opportunity as a consultant to learn from the CEOs I work with — especially those who believe a company should create both […]</description>
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<title>7 Tips for Managing Freelancers and Independent Contractors</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/7-tips-for-managing-freelancers-and-independent-contractors</link>
<description>Start by understanding what they want.</description>
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<title>Blogging as Management, not Marketing</title>
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<description>Most “how-to” guides for company blogging focus on marketing and PR objectives: positioning your organization as a thought leader, or using it as a “free” channel to get company news out there. We have a blog like this at our RISD, but we also have another, behind-the-firewall blog that is used for management, not marketing. […]</description>
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<title>The Hidden Cost of Moving Patients</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/09/providing-better-care-at-a-low</link>
<description>A good example of a program that improves patient care, enhances the work environment, and reduces costs — all in an area of medical care that is often overlooked — is one that I lead: Intermountain Healthcare’s Integrated Safe Patient Handling Program. It focuses on reducing injuries to patients and employees due to transfers, lifting, […]</description>
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<title>The Coming of the New Organization</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1988/01/the-coming-of-the-new-organization</link>
<description>The typical large business 20 years hence will have fewer than half the levels of management of its counterpart today, and no more than a third the managers. In its structure, and in its management problems and concerns, it will bear little resemblance to the typical manufacturing company, circa 1950, which our textbooks still consider […]</description>
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<title>Facebook’s Privacy Debate Misses the Point</title>
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<description>The ongoing media and blogospherian outrage about Facebook’s behavior, and purported misbehaviors around the social network’s privacy policies and practices intrigues me. (Disclosure: My brother, Elliot Schrage, is a top Facebook executive; I’ve been an occasional resource for him on these issues). My intrigue comes not from the unsurprising intensity of response or the elegiac […]</description>
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<title>How Israeli Startups Can Scale</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/how-israeli-startups-can-scale</link>
<description>Be global from the beginning.</description>
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<title>Grow as a Leader Now</title>
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<description>Looking for the next great opportunity to build your leadership capacity? It’s right in front of you. by Cynthia D. McCauley If you’re like many leaders, you’re constantly on the lookout for a new job to expand your leadership ability. And there’s nothing wrong with that; new positions typically offer many opportunities to learn and […]</description>
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<title>How to Deal with a Passive-Aggressive Colleague</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/how-to-deal-with-a-passive-aggressive-colleague</link>
<description>Don’t lose your cool.</description>
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<title>How Zappos Infuses Culture Using Core Values</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/05/how-zappos-infuses-culture-using-core-values</link>
<description>Tony Hsieh is the CEO of Zappos.com, Inc. During the past 10 years, the company has grown from almost no sales to more than $1 billion in annual gross merchandise sales, driven primarily by repeat customers and word of mouth. Below is an excerpt from Tony’s forthcoming book that describes the beginning of Zappos. Even […]</description>
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<title>What Inspiring Leaders Do</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/06/what-inspiring-leaders-do</link>
<description>Inspiration is what people want. Here’s how to give it to them.</description>
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<title>Develop the Leaders You’ve Been Overlooking</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/02/develop-the-leaders-youve-been-overlooking</link>
<description>The case for training non-managers to lead.</description>
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<title>How Mindfulness Improves Executive Coaching</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/how-mindfulness-improves-executive-coaching</link>
<description>They work better together.</description>
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<title>What Doesn’t Motivate Creativity Can Kill It</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/04/balancing-the-four-factors-tha-1</link>
<description>Management is widely viewed as a foe of innovation. The thinking goes that too much management strangles innovation (just let a thousand flowers bloom!). But we have found a much more nuanced picture. You really can manage for innovation, but it starts by knowing what drives creativity in the people who generate and develop the […]</description>
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<title>From Affirmative Action to Affirming Diversity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1990/03/from-affirmative-action-to-affirming-diversity</link>
<description>Diversity is what makes America different. Why don’t we turn it to our advantage?</description>
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<title>The Trickle-Down Effect of Good (and Bad) Leadership</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/the-trickle-down-effect-of-good-and-bad-leadership</link>
<description>Engagement is contagious.</description>
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<title>Great Leaders Who Make the Mix Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/09/great-leaders-who-make-the-mix-work</link>
<description>Twenty-four CEOs on creating diverse and inclusive organizations</description>
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<title>Four Lessons on Culture and Customer Service from Zappos CEO, Tony Hsieh</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/07/four-lessons-on-culture-and-cu</link>
<description>Zappos, the online shoe retailer, is legendary for its employee culture and customer service. Paying employees to quit; offering customers free shipping both ways and a year to make returns; and hiring 24/7 phone reps who are as courteous, kind, and upbeat as Four Seasons concierges are all part of the Zappos formula. When I […]</description>
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<title>Muscle-Build the Organization</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1987/07/muscle-build-the-organization</link>
<description>Most top managers know they should be doing a better job of building the superior organization they want. They may not, however, know what more successful managers are doing—or how to do it themselves. And while most would agree that their business’s success hinges on the quality of its people, very few executives are willing […]</description>
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<title>How the Best Global Employers Convince Workers to Join and Stay</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/how-the-best-global-employers-convince-workers-to-join-and-stay</link>
<description>Based on a survey of more than 1,000 companies.</description>
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<title>Managing 3 Types of Bad Bosses</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/managing-3-types-of-bad-bosses</link>
<description>Strategies for dealing with their weaknesses.</description>
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<title>Learning to Speak Up When You’re from a Culture of Deference</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/07/learning-to-speak-up-when-youre-from-a-culture-of-deference/</link>
<description>A less hierarchical environment isn’t easy for everyone to navigate.</description>
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<title>Does the Apple Watch Have a Pricing Problem? - Bloomberg</title>
<link>http://s.hbr.org/1NZYvIi</link>
<description>April 10 -- Rafi Mohammed, author of &#8221;The 1% Windfall,&#8221; and Bloomberg Pursuits&#8216; Stephen Pulvirent discuss Apple&#8216;s marketing strategy for the Apple Watch with Bloomberg&#8216;s Cory Johnson on &#8221;Bloomberg West.&#8221;</description>
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<title>CEOs Need Mentors Too</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/ceos-need-mentors-too</link>
<description>Research reveals the type of advice top executives require and how they get it.</description>
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<title>Creating the Living Brand</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/05/creating-the-living-brand</link>
<description>Any company can deliver outstanding customer service—even convenience stores, where low pay and high turnover supposedly make service a problem. The secret: generating a bond between employees and the brand.</description>
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<title>Double Loop Learning in Organizations</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1977/09/double-loop-learning-in-organizations</link>
<description>Why are employees reluctant to report to the top that one of their company’s products is a “loser” and why can’t the vice presidents of another company reveal to their president the spectacular lack of success of one of the company’s divisions? The inability to uncover errors and other unpleasant truths arises from faulty organizational […]</description>
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<title>How Spotify Balances Employee Autonomy and Accountability</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/02/how-spotify-balances-employee-autonomy-and-accountability</link>
<description>The whole company is organized around it.</description>
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<title>Crime and Management: An Interview with New York City Police Commissioner Lee P. Brown</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1991/05/crime-and-management-an-interview-with-new-york-city-police-commissioner-lee-p-brown</link>
<description>As commissioner of the New York City Police Department, Lee P. Brown faces two enormous challenges. The first is crime. In 1989 in New York City, 712,419 crimes were reported, including 1,905 murders, 93,377 robberies, and 3,254 rapes. As Brown is quick to point out, the situation has grown so severe that people in cities […]</description>
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<title>Sleep Deprivation’s True Workplace Costs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/01/sleep-deprivations-true-workpl.html</link>
<description>Getting plenty of sleep each night has never been high on my list of healthy living strategies. Results from a survey of employees at several large U.S. corporations are prompting me to rethink my irregular sleep schedule. A few years ago, pharmaceutical giant sanofi-aventis sponsored an anonymous, Web-based survey of 4,200 workers at four health […]</description>
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<title>Selling the Brand Inside</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/01/selling-the-brand-inside</link>
<description>You tell customers what makes you great. Do your employees know?</description>
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<title>HBR Classics on Leadership Transitions</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/01/hbr-classics-on-leadership-transitions</link>
<description>Throughout its 87-year history, Harvard Business Review has published articles to assist leaders in times of transition. If our special issue on that theme whets your appetite for more, we invite you to enjoy free online access during January 2009 to the articles summarized here. The Leadership Journey Leonard D. Schaeffer October 2002 When HBR […]</description>
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<title>Why We Misread Motives</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/01/why-we-misread-motives</link>
<description>We think other people are more mercenary than they really are.</description>
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<title>Creating an Effective Peer Review System</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/creating-an-effective-peer-review-system</link>
<description>It should reflect your company’s values.</description>
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<title>When Two of Your Coworkers Are Fighting</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/07/when-two-of-your-coworkers-are-fighting</link>
<description>Try to keep the boss out it.</description>
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<title>4 Factors That Predict Startup Success, and One That Doesn’t</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/4-factors-that-predict-startup-success-and-one-that-doesnt</link>
<description>Evidence from more than 300 venture capital investments.</description>
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<title>Measure Employee Productivity Accurately</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/03/measure-employee-productivity.html</link>
<description>Francesca Gino, author of the HBR Press book Sidetracked, explains how managers can work around input bias to get a real picture of performance in their companies.</description>
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<title>Skills of an Effective Administrator</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1974/09/skills-of-an-effective-administrator</link>
<description>Although the selection and training of good administrators is widely recognized as one of American industry’s most pressing problems, there is surprisingly little agreement among executives or educators on what makes a good administrator. The executive development programs of some of the nation’s leading corporations and colleges reflect a tremendous variation in objectives. At the […]</description>
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<title>Think Carefully About Where You Put the Office Bathroom</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/07/think-carefully-about-where-yo</link>
<description>Why the placement of your office bathroom matters, and why most companies don’t value reasoned debate. These stories and more in this week’s scouting report on provocative ideas for business.</description>
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<title>Reinventing Your Personal Brand</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/03/reinventing-your-personal-brand</link>
<description>How to change your image and create exciting new opportunities</description>
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<title>How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/how-facebook-tries-to-prevent-office-politics</link>
<description>Five tactics to keep company culture healthy.</description>
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<title>How to Build a Passionate Company</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/how-to-build-a-passionate-company</link>
<description>It’s not about making people happy.</description>
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<title>Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1995/05/leading-change-why-transformation-efforts-fail-2</link>
<description>Over the past decade, I have watched more than 100 companies try to remake themselves into significantly better competitors. They have included large organizations (Ford) and small ones (Landmark Communications), companies based in the United States (General Motors) and elsewhere (British Airways), corporations that were on their knees (Eastern Airlines), and companies that were earning […]</description>
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<title>How to Manage Forced Sales Rankings</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/07/forced-rankings-salespeople</link>
<description>A vice president of sales recently told us that he drives sales growth by publishing a monthly forced sales ranking of all salespeople. “Salespeople love the competition. They like to see where they stand, what it takes to be #1, and who they beat. Ranking really drives the competitive juices!” But one of the VP’s […]</description>
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<title>Three Keys to Getting an Overseas Assignment Right</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/10/three-keys-to-getting-an-overseas-assignment-right</link>
<description>How to tackle a management role in a new cultural and regulatory environment.</description>
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<title>In the Company of Givers and Takers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/04/in-the-company-of-givers-and-takers</link>
<description>Your organization’s success depends on the generosity of your employees. What do you do to support that?</description>
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<title>Office Politics for the Pros</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2013/08/office-politics-for-the-pros.html</link>
<description>Karen Dillon, author of the “HBR Guide to Office Politics,” talks with Dorie Clark, author of “Reinventing You.”</description>
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<title>The Zombie Workplace Survival Guide</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/10/the-zombie-workplace-survival.html</link>
<description>Max Brooks’ cult classic, The Zombie Survival Guide, a New York Times bestseller, chronicles a series of (hopefully) fictitious zombie outbreaks and attacks throughout human history, then shares best practices on how to survive them. The book is perhaps a leading indicator of increased cultural and academic interest in the topic. For instance, there’s a […]</description>
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<title>Why Middle Managers Are So Unhappy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/why-middle-managers-are-so-unhappy</link>
<description>The problem is often their bosses.</description>
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<title>Expressing Your Vulnerability Makes You Stronger</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/07/expressing-your-vulnerability-makes-you-stronger</link>
<description>Apologizing or seeking help can turn a loss into a win.</description>
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<title>The Most Productive Way to Develop as a Leader</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/the-most-productive-way-to-develop-as-a-leader</link>
<description>Think of self-improvement as play, not work.</description>
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<title>There’s a Proven Link Between Effective Leadership and Getting Enough Sleep</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/theres-a-proven-link-between-effective-leadership-and-getting-enough-sleep</link>
<description>A warning for the sleep-deprived.</description>
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<title>What Airbnb Gets About Culture that Uber Doesn’t</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/what-airbnb-gets-about-culture-that-uber-doesnt</link>
<description>The two companies are inventing a new organization form, and going about it very differently.</description>
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<title>The Truth About CSR</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-truth-about-csr</link>
<description>Most of these programs aren’t strategic—and that’s OK.</description>
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<title>Research: Why Best Practices Don’t Translate Across Cultures</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/research-why-best-practices-dont-translate-across-cultures</link>
<description>And what to do about it.</description>
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<title>Smart Managers Don’t Compare People to the “Average”</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2016/04/smart-managers-dont-compare-people-to-the-average.html</link>
<description>Todd Rose, the Director of the Mind, Brain, &amp; Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the author of “The End of Average: How to Succeed in a World That Values Sameness,” explains why we should stop using averages to understand individuals.</description>
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<title>Why Executive Teams Shouldn’t Write “Culture Decks”</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/06/why-executive-teams-shouldnt-write</link>
<description>Real culture is organic, not imposed top-down.</description>
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<title>The Existential Necessity of Midlife Change</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/the-existential-necessity-of-midlife-change</link>
<description>Roll up your sleeves—midlife is your best and last chance to become the real you.</description>
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<title>What to Do Before You Fire a Pivotal Employee</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/what-to-do-before-you-fire-a-pivotal-employee</link>
<description>Map the impact on your company’s network.</description>
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<title>HSN’s CEO on Fixing the Shopping Network’s Culture</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/12/hsns-ceo-on-fixing-the-shopping-networks-culture</link>
<description>Photography: Getty ImagesThe Idea: When Mindy Grossman became HSN’s eighth CEO in 10 years, she encountered dirty offices and downtrodden employees. Her solution? White paint, new chairs, and a strategy to reinvent the brand and re-engage the workforce. In 2006 I’d been working at Nike for six years, and I loved it. I worshipped that […]</description>
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<title>Reverse Engineering Google’s Innovation Machine</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/04/reverse-engineering-googles-innovation-machine</link>
<description>Every piece of the business plays a part, every part is indispensable, every failure breeds success, and every success demands improvement.</description>
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<title>Employees Who Identify with the Company Boost Financial Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/12/employees-who-identify-with-th</link>
<description>This post is part of the HBR Forum, The Future of Retail. Executives spend a lot of time worrying about their companies’ products and prices, but they don’t spend nearly enough time worrying about corporate character. Why would they? A lot of them don’t believe companies even have a character, and others don’t see what […]</description>
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<title>The Emotions That Make Us More Creative</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/the-emotions-that-make-us-more-creative</link>
<description>It’s the intensity of the emotion that matters.</description>
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<title>Why Good Managers Are So Rare</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/03/why-good-managers-are-so-rare</link>
<description>Gallup data shows they have a combination of hard-to-teach traits.</description>
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<title>Post-Project Appraisals Pay</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1987/03/post-project-appraisals-pay</link>
<description>If your company is like most, you spend thousands of hours planning an investment, millions of dollars implementing it—and nothing evaluating and learning from it. As a result, you may not have answers for the most basic questions: Was the investment successful? What made it go according to plan? Did it go according to plan […]</description>
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<title>How GE Is Attracting, Developing, and Retaining Global Talent</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/02/how-ge-is-attracting-and-devel</link>
<description>We recently convened a team of 21 millennials from various GE businesses and functions around the world for a special three-month assignment: identify ways to attract, develop, and retain talent in the future. We named the effort “Global New Directions,” and we knew we’d picked the right people almost immediately when they told us that […]</description>
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<title>Reigniting Growth</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/03/reigniting-growth</link>
<description>How to reverse a sudden slowdown.</description>
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<title>Great Salespeople Are Born, but Great Sales Forces Are Made</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/great-salespeople-are-born-but-great-sales-forces-are-made</link>
<description>Even natural sellers need training, support, and a strategy.</description>
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<title>Positioning Yourself for Career Advancement</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/01/positioning-yourself-for-caree</link>
<description>It’s no secret that promotion rates in most industries have slowed during the extended recession. The good news, at least in the United States, is that with the current glimmers of economic growth the “ice floes” surrounding upward movement are beginning to break up. The bad news: competition for the C-suite positions that will open […]</description>
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<title>Tailor Incentive Compensation to Strategy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1973/03/tailor-incentive-compensation-to-strategy</link>
<description>One of the tools top management has to influence policy-level executives’ pursuit of corporate goals is the incentive compensation structure. So the structure must be made consistent with strategy. In evaluating whether it is consistent, this article says, top management should think of it in terms of four aspects of corporate policy: short run versus […]</description>
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<title>How an Olympic Gold Medalist Learned to Perform Under Pressure</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/02/how-an-olympic-gold-medalist-learned-to-perform-under-pressure</link>
<description>Don’t go it alone.</description>
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<link>https://hbr.org/1985/09/mrp-jit-opt-fms</link>
<description>Managers of manufacturing companies are being suddenly confronted these days with an array of new systems to improve production efficiency. Will it be materials requirements planning, kanban, or optimized production technology? Or how about the latest approach—flexible manufacturing systems? As in many areas of business, choosing the best operations management technique making trade-offs. MRP allows […]</description>
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<title>Women and the Labyrinth of Leadership</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/09/women-and-the-labyrinth-of-leadership</link>
<description>When you put all the pieces together, a new picture emerges for why women don’t make it into the C-suite. It’s not the glass ceiling, but the sum of many obstacles along the way.</description>
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<title>Giving Effective Feedback When You’re Short on Time</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/giving-effective-feedback-when-youre-short-on-time</link>
<description>Three ways to make coaching more efficient.</description>
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<title>Research: Middle Managers Have an Outsized Impact on Innovation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/09/research-middle-managers-innovation</link>
<description>Project management isn’t boring. It’s where the action is.</description>
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<title>How Good Was Steve Jobs, Really?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/10/how-good-was-steve-jobs-really</link>
<description>Steve Jobs landed the number one spot in our ranking of the best CEOs in the world, published in HBR in January 2010. Unlike most rankings, it was based on a systematic analysis of stock-market performance among nearly 2,000 CEOs of the world’s largest companies. It wasn’t based on perceived popularity or some other subjective […]</description>
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<title>How Women Can Show Passion at Work Without Seeming “Emotional”</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/how-women-can-show-passion-at-work-without-seeming-emotional</link>
<description>Tips to minimize miscommunication.</description>
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<title>How Social Digital Is Your Company?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/10/how-social-digital-is-your-com</link>
<description>Recently, the CEO of Edelman wrote a blog post celebrating a company milestone. In it, he referenced our efforts in the non-analog world as “social digital.” To most, this may seem insignificant because the word “social” is often overused in professional circles. But the addition of “social” to the “digital” is immensely significant because it […]</description>
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<title>Increase Your Team’s Motivation Five-Fold</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/04/increase-your-teams-motivation</link>
<description>In a famous experiment, researchers ran a lottery with a twist. Half the participants were randomly assigned a lottery number. The remaining half were given a blank piece of paper and a pen and asked to write down any number they would like as their lottery number. Just before drawing the winning number, the researchers […]</description>
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<title>You Don’t Need Charisma to Be an Inspiring Leader</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/10/you-dont-need-charisma-to-be-an-inspiring-leader</link>
<description>And neuroscience proves it.</description>
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<title>Up and Down the Communications Ladder</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1974/09/up-and-down-the-communications-ladder</link>
<description>Effective interpersonal communication has long been recognized as basic to any successful human enterprise. In fact, the problem of communicating has become the number-one cliché of our time. Satirist Tom Lehrer became so weary of hearing about the problem of communicating between young and old, rich and poor, black and white, that he said, “It […]</description>
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<title>The Balanced Scorecard: Measures That Drive Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/07/the-balanced-scorecard-measures-that-drive-performance</link>
<description>The balanced scorecard tracks all the important elements of a company’s strategy—from continuous improvement and partnerships to teamwork and global scale. And that allows companies to excel.</description>
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<title>Find the Coaching in Criticism</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/find-the-coaching-in-criticism</link>
<description>The right ways to receive feedback</description>
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<title>Making Differences Matter: A New Paradigm for Managing Diversity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1996/09/making-differences-matter-a-new-paradigm-for-managing-diversity</link>
<description>What will it take for organizations to reap the real and full benefits of a diverse workforce? A radically new understanding of the term, for starters.</description>
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<title>The Best-Performing CEOs in the World</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/01/the-best-performing-ceos-in-the-world</link>
<description>The knock on most business leaders is that they don’t take the long view—that they’re fixated on achieving short-term goals to lift their pay. So which global CEOs actually delivered solid results over the long run? The 2013 version of the CEO Scorecard provides an objective answer.</description>
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<title>How to Keep A Players Productive</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/09/how-to-keep-a-players-productive</link>
<description>Just because they think they’re great doesn’t mean they’re not.</description>
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<title>The Blue-Collar Green-Building Boom</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/05/the-blue-collar-green-building-boom</link>
<description>Few dispute the benefits of green workplaces: They use less energy and water, have lower greenhouse gas emissions, and provide a healthier work environment than conventional buildings. But in the United States, most of the green buildings constructed over the past decade have been primarily white-collar workplaces, including office buildings, schools, and R&amp;D facilities. The […]</description>
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<title>Managing Away Bad Habits</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2000/09/managing-away-bad-habits</link>
<description>We all know of star performers who are held back by a seemingly fatal personality flaw. But there are proven tactics that managers can use to help these otherwise valuable people get beyond their psychological limitations.</description>
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<title>Why No One Uses the Corporate Social Network</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/why-no-one-uses-the-corporate-social-network.</link>
<description>If leaders don’t use it, no one will.</description>
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<title>Fear of Feedback</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/04/fear-of-feedback</link>
<description>If you’re nervous about asking the boss how you’re doing, you’re not alone. Getting the guidance you need requires recognizing your fears, countering them with adaptive techniques, and gathering comments before your annual review.</description>
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<title>How GE Gives Leaders Time to Mentor and Reflect</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/03/how-ge-trains-its-future-leaders</link>
<description>A new “leader in residence” program is central to Crotonville.</description>
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<title>Accept the Job Offer or Walk Away?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/03/accept-the-job-offer-or-walk-a</link>
<description>The hiring manager calls with great news: the job is yours. Phew, the hard part is over, right? Maybe not. Determining whether to take a job offer can — and should — be a difficult decision. In a bad economy or if you’re eager to get out of your current job, it can be tempting […]</description>
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<title>Office Depot’s President on How “Mystery Shopping” Helped Spark a Turnaround</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/11/office-depots-president-mystery-shopping-turnaround</link>
<description>Peters (in the middle) with Office Depot employees Photography: Courtesy of Office DepotThe Idea: The office products retailer was measuring customer service using metrics— such as the cleanliness of bathrooms—that didn’t drive sales. Its new president is trying to fix that by retraining the staff and transforming the company. When I became the leader of […]</description>
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<title>Is It Time to Quit Your Job?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/01/is-it-time-to-quit-your-job</link>
<description>How to know if you’re truly ready to move on.</description>
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<title>Explain Your New Strategy By Emphasizing What It Isn’t</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/explain-your-new-strategy-by-emphasizing-what-it-isnt</link>
<description>Contrasts will help your team understand how to prioritize.</description>
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<title>Just How Valuable Is Google’s “20% Time”?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/08/just-how-valuable-is-googles-2-1</link>
<description>Google is growing up.</description>
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<title>Feedback Backlash</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/10/feedback-backlash</link>
<description>Managers have a rep for being stingy with feedback. Sometimes, though, they’re way too generous. In their hopes of lifting performance with a flood of constructive comments, these well-meaning managers end up depressing productivity by drowning the beneficiaries in a sea of unwanted input. Alain Gosselin, a professor of human resources management at HEC Montréal, […]</description>
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<title>Signs That You Lack Emotional Intelligence</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/signs-that-you-lack-emotional-intelligence</link>
<description>And four ways to improve it.</description>
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<title>How to Handle Layoffs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/03/how-to-communicate-layoffs</link>
<description>Letting people go is an emotional event — not just for those being laid off but for those who remain. Of course those who are let go need help with the transition to new employment. But the employees who survive the cutbacks also need reassurance about their own future — and an understanding of the […]</description>
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<title>Causes and Effects</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/07/causes-and-effects</link>
<description>Companies are putting their names and resources to work fighting breast cancer and child hunger. But they need to figure out how to meet their business objectives at the same time. Usually, the answer isn’t obvious.</description>
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<title>Defend Your Research: It’s Not “Unprofessional” to Gossip at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/09/defend-your-research-its-not-unprofessional-to-gossip-at-work</link>
<description>The finding: Gossip can benefit individuals and organizations, though managers often consider all of it to be derogatory and tend to punish gossipers with lower performance ratings. The study: With Travis J. Grosser and Virginie Lopez-Kidwell, both doctoral candidates in management, Joe Labianca examined the social interactions in a branch of a U.S. company, surveying […]</description>
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<title>What Millennials Want from a New Job</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/what-millennials-want-from-a-new-job</link>
<description>It’s not a ping-pong table.</description>
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<title>Market Share—a Key to Profitability</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1975/01/market-share-a-key-to-profitability</link>
<description>The March–April 1974 issue of HBR carried an article that reported on Phases I and II of a project sponsored by the Marketing Science Institute and the Harvard Business School. The basic purpose of the project is to determine the profit impact of market strategies (PIMS). The earlier article established a link between strategic planning […]</description>
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<title>As Work Changes, Leadership Development Has to Keep Up</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/as-work-changes-leadership-development-has-to-keep-up</link>
<description>Three ways to do it.</description>
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<title>Steps to Take When You’re Starting to Feel Burned Out</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/steps-to-take-when-youre-starting-to-feel-burned-out</link>
<description>First, make a doctor’s appointment.</description>
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<title>Breakthrough ideas for 2006</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/02/breakthrough-ideas-for-2006</link>
<description>Our annual survey of emerging ideas considers the single most important trait of future leaders, the marketing potential of digitally split personalities, a challenge tougher than managing risk, and the best hope for oil-importing countries.</description>
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<link>https://hbr.org/2004/02/breakthrough-ideas-for-2004</link>
<description>From the fields of biology, neuroscience, economics, positive psychology, network science, marketing, management theory, and more—here are the emergent ideas that are changing the way business is done.</description>
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<title>Peanut- Finance: Swaps as Strategy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/12/swaps-as-strategy-the-potentia.html</link>
<description>The news that health care in Zimbabwe can be paid for with peanuts (and sometimes corn and goats) made the front page of the New York Times. This peanut-finance system, which turned the peanuts into food for hospital patients, seems quaint, like tales from 19th century America of rural doctors taking chickens for treating chicken […]</description>
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<title>What Would Make You More Satisfied and Productive at Work?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/11/what-would-make-you-more-satisfied-and-productive-at-work</link>
<description>Your quality of life at work matters. Take this assessment to learn where the gaps are.</description>
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<title>How to Finally Kill the Useless, Recurring Meeting</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/how-to-finally-kill-the-useless-recurring-meeting</link>
<description>A three-step plan.</description>
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<title>Your Least Engaged Employees Might Be Your Top Performers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/04/your-least-engaged-employees-m</link>
<description>New research points to a horrifying possibility: your low performers may be the ones who love their jobs the most.</description>
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<title>Should You Share a Room on a Business Trip?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/05/should-you-share-a-room-on-a-b</link>
<description>The good and the bad.</description>
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<title>Stop Trying to Delight Your Customers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/07/stop-trying-to-delight-your-customers</link>
<description>To really win their loyalty, forget the bells and whistles and just solve their problems.</description>
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<title>A Fairer Way to Make Hiring and Promotion Decisions</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/08/a-fairer-way-to-make-hiring-an</link>
<description>There are straightforward ways to overcome bias.</description>
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<title>Evaluate Your Leadership Development Program</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/evaluate-your-leadership-development-program</link>
<description>Three criteria to consider.</description>
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<title>Are the People Who Take Vacations the Ones Who Get Promoted?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/are-the-people-who-take-vacations-the-ones-who-get-promoted</link>
<description>Research makes a new case for using your paid time off.</description>
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<title>Death by Information Overload</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/09/death-by-information-overload</link>
<description>New research and novel techniques offer a lifeline to you and your organization.</description>
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<title>The Very Real Dangers of Executive Coaching</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/06/the-very-real-dangers-of-executive-coaching</link>
<description>In some companies, having an executive coach is a badge of honor. But many top managers are finding that the advisers hired to solve their performance problems only make matters worse.</description>
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<title>What to Measure If You’re Mission Driven</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/07/what-to-measure-if-youre-mission-driven</link>
<description>A progressive church is learning to gauge engagement.</description>
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<title>Why Integrity Is Never Easy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/02/why-integrity-is-never-easy.html</link>
<description>Browse through the mission, vision, or value statements that corporations post on their websites, and you’ll notice that almost every company includes a statement about integrity. And if you Google the following examples, you’ll find that many companies use these stock phrases: “We combine integrity with excellence…” “We act with integrity in all we do.” […]</description>
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<title>What to Do After a Bad Performance Review</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/10/what-to-do-after-a-bad-performance-review</link>
<description>Be sure to reflect before you react.</description>
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<title>Why “Fair Value” Is the Rule</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/03/why-fair-value-is-the-rule</link>
<description>How a controversial accounting approach gained support</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Alternative Workplace: Changing Where and How People Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1998/05/the-alternative-workplace-changing-where-and-how-people-work</link>
<description>From sharing desks to telecommuting, more employees than ever before are working in nontraditional ways, and organizations are beginning to reap the benefits.</description>
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<title>The Importance of Organizational Design and Structure</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/02/the-importance-of-organization</link>
<description>One of the wonderful things about being a coach is that I meet hundreds of executives who freely share their business and leadership challenges with me. As well as helping me understand how hard it is to run an organization, they show me how they are managing to adapt — or not — to changing […]</description>
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<title>The Abrasive Personality</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1978/05/the-abrasive-personality</link>
<description>The corporate president stared out the window of his skyscraper office. His forehead was furrowed in anger and puzzlement. His fingers drummed the arm of his chair with a speed that signified intense frustration. The other executives in the room waited expectantly. Each had said his piece. Each had come to his and her own […]</description>
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<title>The Key to Adaptable Companies Is Relentlessly Developing People</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/the-key-to-adaptable-companies-is-relentlessly-developing-people</link>
<description>Lessons from three companies.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Your Late-Night Emails Are Hurting Your Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/your-late-night-emails-are-hurting-your-team</link>
<description>So stop it.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Racing for Growth</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2000/11/racing-for-growth</link>
<description>How do you turn a sluggish government contractor into a high-growth business in record time? PerkinElmer, a company that got its start building nuclear detonators for the Manhattan Project, ought to know: ruthless decisions about strategy—and meticulous attention to people.</description>
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<title>Developing Your Leadership Pipeline</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/12/developing-your-leadership-pipeline</link>
<description>Succession planning and leadership development ought to be two sides of the same coin. So why do many companies manage them as if they had nothing to do with each other?</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Who Are You Online? A 360-Degree View</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/01/who-are-you-online-a-360-degre/</link>
<description>Who are you when you go online? That’s a question that goes way beyond how you feel in your own virtual skin, and affects how we perceive and relate to one another in the world of social media. I recently gave a TEDx talk based on my HBR post, 10 Reasons to Stop Apologizing for […]</description>
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<title>It’s Not HR’s Job to Be Strategic</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/10/its-not-hrs-job-to-be-strategic</link>
<description>Splitting the function into two doesn’t go far enough.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How Leaders Should React When Someone Disappoints</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/how-leaders-should-react-when-someone-disappoints</link>
<description>Four things to do before you lose your temper.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Future of Talent Is Potential</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2014/07/the-future-of-talent-is-potential.html</link>
<description>Linda Hill, Harvard Business School professor, and Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, senior adviser at Egon Zehnder, on the talent strategies that set up a company for long-term success.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Rebounding from Career Setbacks</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/10/rebounding-from-career-setbacks</link>
<description>How well do you rebound from career setbacks? Take this self-assessment to find out.  Brian was a rising star at his company. He advanced through several senior management roles and was soon tapped to head a business unit, reporting directly to the CEO. But after about two years in the job, despite his stellar financial […]</description>
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<title>Breakthrough in On-the-Job Training</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1966/07/breakthrough-in-on-the-job-training</link>
<description>In this article we shall describe and analyze the results of an unusual study just completed at Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). The study dealt with the relationship between organization climate and job performance. One of the objectives was to find out what would happen in a large manufacturing department if the causes of anxiety among […]</description>
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<title>What You Can Learn from Family Business</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/11/what-you-can-learn-from-family-business</link>
<description>Focus on resilience, not short-term performance.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Tough Work of Turning Around a Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2000/11/the-tough-work-of-turning-around-a-team</link>
<description>Even the most talented teams can fall into a habit of poor performance. If you want to break that habit, says one of the NFL’s winningest coaches, you’d better be prepared to get in people’s faces.</description>
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<title>The Best Way to Hire from Inside Your Company</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/the-best-way-to-hire-from-inside-your-company</link>
<description>Research shows that formal postings can trump other methods.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Teamwork Works Best When Top Performers Are Rewarded</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/03/teamwork-works-best-when-top-performers-are-rewarded</link>
<description>Otherwise, people free-ride.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Succeed at Work When Your Boss Doesn’t Respect You</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/how-to-succeed-at-work-when-your-boss-doesnt-respect-you</link>
<description>You need to foster a sense of thriving.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Six Myths About Venture Capitalists</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/05/six-myths-about-venture-capitalists</link>
<description>Photography: Courtesy of the artist and Gow Langsford Gallery Artwork: Sara Hughes, Millions of Colours 3 (detail), 2003, acrylic paint on linen Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin: We celebrate these entrepreneurs for their successes, and often equally extol the venture capitalists who backed their start-ups and share in their glory. Well-known VC firms such […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Staying Motivated After a Major Achievement</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/staying-motivated-after-a-major-achievement</link>
<description>You can’t really avoid burnout. You can only treat it.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Right to Management Competence</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/04/the-right-to-management-compet.html</link>
<description>Imagine that you’re conducting a performance appraisal with one of your people. You’re discussing a major project that didn’t turn out as hoped and you’ve just asked him why. “Why did it fail?” he says. “Lots of reasons, but mostly because we didn’t get what we needed from you. We were depending on other groups, […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How Low-Paying Retailers Can Adapt to Higher Minimum Wages</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/08/how-low-paying-retailers-can-adapt-to-higher-minimum-wages</link>
<description>Key questions investors will ask.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Team Building in the Cafeteria</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/12/team-building-in-the-cafeteria</link>
<description>Research shows that eating together enhances group performance.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Most People Don’t Want to Be Managers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/09/most-people-dont-want-to-be-managers</link>
<description>But if you’re young, gay, black, or a man, the odds are higher that you do.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Rise of Compassionate Management (Finally)</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/09/the-rise-of-compassionate-management-finally</link>
<description>Why years of research are finally making a dent.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How Language Shapes Your Organization</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/07/how-language-shapes-your-organization</link>
<description>The language that emanates from the executive suite creates “cultural permission” that can be the seeds of greatness…or destruction.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Managing Yourself: Bringing Out the Best in Your People</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/05/managing-yourself-bringing-out-the-best-in-your-people</link>
<description>Some bosses stifle their employees—and some make them shine. Which kind are you?</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>3 Improv Exercises That Can Change the Way Your Team Works</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/3-improv-exercises-that-can-change-the-way-your-team-works</link>
<description>Ideas business can steal from Second City.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Ten Clues It’s Time to Replace Your Head of HR</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/09/ten-clues-its-time-to-replace</link>
<description>If you’re a CEO, can the wrong head of HR cause you to lose your job? Absolutely. Ask the ex-CEO of Pfizer or the ex-CEO of Schwab, who both were fired by their boards in part for poor judgment regarding the head of HR. Astonishingly, it was the same woman, Mary McLeod. Called “Neutron Mary” […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Redeeming Yourself After a Leadership Disaster</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/07/redeeming-yourself-after-a-leadership-disaster</link>
<description>Editor’s Note: The following case is based on real events observed by the author in his profession. Some of the details have been changed to protect the identities of those involved. It could happen to anyone. A mercurial client e-mails her long-time account coordinator, issuing new demands and intimating repercussions. Seeking guidance, the coordinator copies […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Employees Will Use Tools They Helped Build</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/employees-will-use-tools-they-helped-build</link>
<description>If your frontline isn’t using new technology, maybe they don’t trust it.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Debunking Four Myths About Employee Silence</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/06/debunking-four-myths-about-employee-silence</link>
<description>If you’re like a lot of managers, you pride yourself on your open door and all the other ways you signal to employees that you welcome their input. And you probably believe that you’re actually hearing what’s on most people’s minds—after all, workers speak up in meetings, chat with you in the hall, and copy […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Finding the Profit in Fairness</title>
<link>http://hbr.org/2012/09/finding-the-profit-in-fairness/ar/1</link>
<description>In an industry widely viewed as exploitative, Germany’s TeamBank has built a brand on being equitable.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Do Rewards Really Create Loyalty?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1995/05/do-rewards-really-create-loyalty</link>
<description>They do—if a company understands how to share value.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>3 Reasons Why Talent Management Isn’t Working Anymore</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/07/3-reasons-why-talent-management-isnt-working-anymore</link>
<description>It reinforces the status quo instead of bringing real change.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>A Working from Home Experiment Shows High Performers Like It Better</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/a-working-from-home-experiment-shows-high-performers-like-it-better</link>
<description>And other lessons from a study of China’s largest travel agency.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Volatile Exchange Rates Can Put Operations at Risk</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1986/07/volatile-exchange-rates-can-put-operations-at-risk</link>
<description>Most senior executives understand that volatile exchange rates can affect the dollar value of their companies’ assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies. Not many, however, understand that exchange rates can have a serious impact on operating profit. Fewer corporations have given managers responsibility for overseeing this operating exposure. Nevertheless, operating exposure is often a […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Tell a Great Story</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/07/how-to-tell-a-great-story</link>
<description>It’s a skill every leader needs to master.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Coping with the Emotional Fallout After an Act of Terror</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/04/coping-with-the-emotional-fall/</link>
<description>How we can help each other through.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Barriers Big Companies Face When They Try to Act Like Lean Startups</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/08/the-barriers-big-companies-face-when-they-try-to-act-like-lean-startups</link>
<description>According to a survey of executives.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>CEOs, Stop Trying to Manage the Board</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/ceos-stop-trying-to-manage-the-board</link>
<description>Focus on building trust instead.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Is Technology Really Helping Us Get More Done?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/is-technology-really-helping-us-get-more-done</link>
<description>The dark side of Metcalfe’s Law.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Three Questions You Need to Ask About Your Brand</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/09/three-questions-you-need-to-ask-about-your-brand</link>
<description>Conventional wisdom says creating a brand is about differentiating your product. Think again.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Sharpening the Intangibles Edge</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/06/sharpening-the-intangibles-edge</link>
<description>Neither markets nor managers accurately value investments in intangibles like R&amp;D, studies show. The result: misallocated resources. The solution: read on.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>5 Myths of Great Workplaces</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/5-myths-of-great-workplaces</link>
<description>A look at the research calls some popular assumptions into question.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>5 Career Development Lessons From…A Baby?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/01/5-career-development-lessons-f</link>
<description>Fair warning, this post is sappy. We’ve had a baby and instantly I’m no longer the guy at the bar telling you how many tequila shots I had in Prague*; now I’m the guy next to you on the plane insisting you look at photos of my son. *The number of shots is uncertain. However, […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Keeping Your People Engaged in Tough Times</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/04/keeping-your-people-engaged-in</link>
<description>This week’s question for Ask the Coach: Keeping employees’ committed and motivated during tough economic times seems like a tall task, especially after downsizing or program cutbacks. What should I do to keep our employees ‘in the game’? Marshall: I hear this concern every where I travel these days. Who doesn’t? My friend Joe Wheeler, […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/11/solve-the-succession-crisis-by-growing-inside-outside-leaders</link>
<description>The most successful CEOs, on balance, are those who are developedinside the company—but manage to retain an outside perspective.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Harper Lee and Dr. Seuss Won’t Save Publishing</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/07/harper-lee-and-dr-seuss-wont-save-publishing</link>
<description>Finding lost manuscripts is not a business strategy.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Plan Your Professional Development for the Year</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/plan-your-professional-development-for-the-year</link>
<description>Three ways to get started.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>A Good Way to Change a Corporate Culture</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/06/the-best-way-to-change-a-corpo</link>
<description>“I’d like to talk to you about a big project,” the woman told me on the phone. “We need to change our culture.” She was a senior leader in a professional services firm, where people really are their most important asset. Only it turns out the people weren’t so happy. Theirs was a very successful […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Managing and Motivating Employees in Their Twenties</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/01/managing-employees-in-their-tw</link>
<description>I’ve been lucky to work with some awesome employees in their twenties. While that formative decade is long and dynamic for each person; in a companion post I’ve offered some observations on the differences between Generation Z and Generation After-Lehman; there are some consistencies in how best to manage and motivate excellent twenty-somethings. Younger people […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How a Fast Casual Chain Shows Employees Their Work Matters</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/11/how-a-fast-casual-chain-shows-employees-their-work-matters</link>
<description>Visibility and values.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Managing for Organizational Integrity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1994/03/managing-for-organizational-integrity</link>
<description>By supporting ethically sound behavior, managers can strengthen the relationships and reputations their companies depend on.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Why Facebook Messenger Is a Big Deal for Customer Service</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/why-facebook-messenger-is-a-big-deal-for-customer-service</link>
<description>It’s more effective than Twitter or Kik.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Get the Most Out of Executive Coaching</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/08/get-the-most-out-of-executive</link>
<description>Hiring a coach won’t help unless you’re actually willing to change. Are you?</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Drive Performance by Focusing on Routine Decisions</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/to-drive-performance-focus-on-routine-decisions</link>
<description>Searching for process improvements in the knowledge economy.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Your Company’s Secret Change Agents</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/05/your-companys-secret-change-agents</link>
<description>Somewhere in your organization, groups of people are already doing things differently and better. To create lasting change, find these areas of positive deviance and fan their flames.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Cyber Security Depends on Education</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/06/cyber-security-depends-on-educ</link>
<description>You can’t protect your company if your employees don’t even know they’re engaging in risky behavior that could cause a major security breach.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Managing Yourself: How to Cultivate Engaged Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/09/how-to-cultivate-engaged-employees</link>
<description>Successful managers depend on the capabilities of their subordinates: George’s marketing skills, Maria’s ability to run the numbers, Michael’s local knowledge, Dimitra’s IT expertise. Shelves and shelves of books offer managers’ advice on how to mobilize their people to achieve overall performance targets. Although most upwardly mobile managers know that an empowered team enhances their […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2001/12/primal-leadership-the-hidden-driver-of-great-performance</link>
<description>We’ve known for years that emotional intelligence improves results—often by an order of magnitude. Now, new research shows that a leader’s mood plays a key role in that dynamic—a discovery that should redefine what leaders do first and best.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Evaluating the CEO</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/10/evaluating-the-ceo</link>
<description>How I got the board to give me real feedback once I became CEO.</description>
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<title>Why Sky-High CEO Pay Is Bad Business</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/06/why-high-ceo-pay-is-bad-business</link>
<description>Steve Kaplan misses an important point when he posits that only the “external equity” or the market should determine how much a CEO is paid. If companies don’t also focus on “internal equity”–how the highest paid executive’s pay compares with that of everyone else in the organization–they risk losing their own staff’s dedication and focus. […]</description>
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<title>The Internet of Things Is Changing How We Manage Customer Relationships</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/the-internet-of-things-is-changing-how-we-manage-customer-relationships</link>
<description>Getting beyond CRM.</description>
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<title>Micromanage at Your Peril</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/micromanage-at-your-peril.html</link>
<description>by Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay</description>
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<title>“Companies Don’t Go Global, People Do”: An Interview with Andy Molinsky</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/10/companies-dont-go-global-people-do</link>
<description>The international management expert Andy Molinsky advises us to get past abstractions about cultural differences.</description>
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<title>The Process Audit</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/04/the-process-audit</link>
<description>A new framework, as comprehensive as it is easy to apply, is helping companies plan and execute process-based transformations.</description>
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<title>Hire Slow, Fire Fast</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/03/hire-slow-fire-fast</link>
<description>How to avoid a bozo explosion.</description>
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<title>Negotiating with Emotion</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/01/negotiating-with-emotion</link>
<description>High-stakes deal making is fraught with feeling. Should we really ignore that?</description>
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<title>A 6-Part Structure for Giving Clear and Actionable Feedback</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/a-6-part-structure-for-giving-clear-and-actionable-feedback</link>
<description>Simple questions to drive change.</description>
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<title>How’s Your Return on People?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/03/hows-your-return-on-people</link>
<description>Companies that invest in employee development can outperform the market. Just ask their shareholders.</description>
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<title>Introducing T-Shaped Managers: Knowledge Management’s Next Generation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2001/03/introducing-t-shaped-managers-knowledge-managements-next-generation</link>
<description>The knowledge economy demands a new kind of executive, one who freely shares ideas and expertise across the company while remaining fiercely committed to business unit performance. But T-shaped managers must be carefully cultivated. Here’s how.</description>
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<title>Most HR Data Is Bad Data</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/most-hr-data-is-bad-data</link>
<description>Managers are terrible at rating people’s performance.</description>
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<title>The Competitive Advantage of Nations</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1990/03/the-competitive-advantage-of-nations</link>
<description>National prosperity is created, not inherited. It does not grow out of a country’s natural endowments, its labor pool, its interest rates, or its currency’s value, as classical economics insists. A nation’s competitiveness depends on the capacity of its industry to innovate and upgrade. Companies gain advantage against the world’s best competitors because of pressure […]</description>
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<title>A Better Way to Map Brand Strategy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/a-better-way-to-map-brand-strategy</link>
<description>Figure out where you are on the distinctiveness-centrality spectrum.</description>
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<title>Global Capitalism at Risk: What Are You Doing About It?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/09/global-capitalism-at-risk-what-are-you-doing-about-it</link>
<description>Business must confront the new challenges to the free market.</description>
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<title>How to Give a Robot a Job Review</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/03/how-to-give-a-robot-a-job-review</link>
<description>The leadership skill of the 21st century.</description>
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<title>There’s a “Calc” for That</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/04/theres-a-calc-for-that</link>
<description>When instant answers are required, Google, Bing, or Facebook are there…unless you’re part of the computational cognoscenti who’d rather frequent Wolfram’s Alpha. (Drawing on Wolfram’s brilliant Mathematica sensibility, WolframAlpha aspires to be the global platform for computation.) Search and friendship only go so fast and so far. They may be terrific tools for information, but […]</description>
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<title>Innovation Isn’t an Idea Problem</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/07/innovation-isnt-an-idea-proble</link>
<description>Your company is teeming with good ideas. But can you recognize them?</description>
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<title>The Condensed January-February 2014 Magazine</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2013/12/the-condensed-january-february.html</link>
<description>Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.</description>
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<title>What to Do First When Managing Former Peers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/what-to-do-first-when-managing-former-peers</link>
<description>And common challenges to watch out for.</description>
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<title>Support Your Team… Quietly</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/11/helping-people-deal-with-emoti</link>
<description>Don’t let on when you’re helping out.</description>
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<title>The Ideal Work Schedule, as Determined by Circadian Rhythms</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-ideal-work-schedule-as-determined-by-circadian-rhythms</link>
<description>Why you should answer all your emails at 3PM.</description>
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<title>What to Do If You’re Smarter than Your Boss</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/what-to-do-if-youre-smarter-than-your-boss</link>
<description>Find something to respect.</description>
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<title>The Benefits of Peer-to-Peer Praise at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/the-benefits-of-peer-to-peer-praise-at-work</link>
<description>Companies like JetBlue are finding new ways to increase engagement.</description>
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<title>Making Sense of Zappos’ War on Managers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/making-sense-of-zappos-war-on-managers</link>
<description>The promise and perils of self-management.</description>
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<title>Using Derivatives: What Senior Managers Must Know</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1995/01/using-derivatives-what-senior-managers-must-know</link>
<description>How much can you actually delegate?</description>
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<title>Team Camaraderie: Can You Have Too Much?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/team-camaraderie-can-you-have-1.html</link>
<description>Fostering closer relationships can help boost performance. But too much affiliation can drag you down. by Judith A. Ross</description>
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<title>How to Engage Your Customers and Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/05/how-to-engage-your-customers-a</link>
<description>Most customers now ignore targeted marketing campaigns, avoid responding to offers, and provide minimal feedback when asked. Instead, potential customers interact with each other, bypassing sanitized corporate messages devoid of meaning or value. Meanwhile, employees increasingly look beyond compensation to non-monetary factors such as advancement, recognition, and corporate social responsibility in choosing where to work. […]</description>
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<title>Ditch Performance Reviews? How About Learn to do Them Well?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/06/ditch-performance-reviews-how</link>
<description>Few activities in a workplace polarize like performance reviews. Some see them as subjective and ungrounded, one-sided and boss-dominated and something we should do away with entirely, an opinion put forth most recently in a Wall Street Journal article. Others find them an invaluable tool to develop employees and move the company forward. Our view? […]</description>
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<title>Blue Ocean Leadership</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/blue-ocean-leadership</link>
<description>Are your employees engaged in moving your company forward? Here’s how to release their untapped talent and energy.</description>
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<title>Forget Mentors: Employ a Personal Board of Directors</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/10/forget-mentors-employ-a-person</link>
<description>Like avocado colored appliances, mentoring is something you don’t see much anymore. Yes, corporate-sponsored mentorship programs — whether you are the mentor or the protégé — will always improve personal exposure and connections. But the career strategy of hitching your future to some rising manager is rapidly becoming outdated. But hasn’t mentoring always been the […]</description>
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<title>The Three Rules Every Manager Forgets</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/the-three-rules-every-manager</link>
<description>Managers know what it takes to motivate and retain good people, but almost every manager forgets from time to time, usually in moments of stress. Here’s a quick refresher on what every manager should remember: Employees want to perform. Douglas MacGregor, the Harvard psychologist, taught generations of managers that how employees are treated makes a […]</description>
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<title>Are You Using Recognition Effectively?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/01/are-you-using-recognition-effe</link>
<description>Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay is the editor of Harvard Management Update. She can be reached at cduvernay@hbsp.harvard.edu. Recognition gets paid great lip service. Ask three managers if they consider it important to recognize the value their teams deliver, and chances are very good that you’ll get three positive responses. But probe a little bit, and you’ll discover […]</description>
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<title>The Danger of Wellness Programs: Don’t Become the Next Penn State</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/08/attention-human-resources-exec</link>
<description>All employers that have or are considering establishing wellness programs should take notice of an employee backlash at Penn State University.</description>
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<title>Why Radical Transparency Is Good Business</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/10/why-radical-transparency-is-good-business</link>
<description>Giving everybody in a company access to everybody else’s stats can boost performance.</description>
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<title>The Truth About Customer Experience</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/09/the-truth-about-customer-experience</link>
<description>Touchpoints matter, but it’s the full journey that really counts.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Problem with Being Too Nice</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/04/the-problem-with-being-too-nice</link>
<description>Don’t confuse being liked with being a good leader.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>You Can Teach Someone to Be More Creative</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/you-can-teach-someone-to-be-more-creative</link>
<description>Genetics is only 10% of it, so there’s room to improve.</description>
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<title>Good Bosses Create More Wellness than Wellness Plans Do</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/04/good-bosses-create-more-wellness-than-wellness-plans-do</link>
<description>Take the direct route to stress reduction.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Handing the Keys to Gen Y</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/05/handing-the-keys-to-gen-y</link>
<description>In recent years, many have focused on the challenges of Gen Y, the latest generation of workers to arrive in and begin to reshape the workplace. For me, they aren’t of merely academic interest. I live in a country where Gen Y represents nearly 40% of the population. I work in a company where the […]</description>
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<title>To Make Virtual Teams Succeed, Pick the Right Players</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/to-make-virtual-teams-succeed-pick-the-right-players</link>
<description>Size, skills, and structure help determine a group’s success.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Is Corporate Culture Still Important?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/06/is-corporate-culture-still-imp</link>
<description>For your consideration, a new entry into the management lexicon: “dis-integration.” The term aims to describe the slow but steady breaking apart of the traditional Western company and how it’s managed. Thanks to a combination of factors, including globalization, outsourcing, and increased reliance on strategic partnerships, scores of activities and services companies once performed as […]</description>
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<title>Do Something—He’s About to Snap</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/07/do-something-hes-about-to-snap</link>
<description>Max’s coworkers are convinced he’s losing his grip on reality, and they’re begging management to take action. There’s only one problem: He’s done nothing wrong.</description>
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<title>Are Your Best Female Employees a Flight Risk?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/10/smart-women-stronger-companies</link>
<description>One of your company’s most powerful competitive weapons may at this very moment be cleaning out her desk — or contemplating doing so. Can you afford to let her go? In researching my forthcoming book, Top Talent: Keeping Performance Up When Business Is Down, we found that in the wake of last year’s financial crash, […]</description>
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<title>If You’re Too Busy to Meditate, Read This</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/10/if-youre-too-busy-to-meditate.html</link>
<description>Doing nothing for 20 minutes a day actually increases your productivity.</description>
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<title>How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/how-to-transform-a-traditional-giant-into-a-digital-one</link>
<description>A short list for every CEO.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Office Politics: A Skill Women Should Lean Into</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/02/office-politics-a-skill-women-should-lean-into</link>
<description>Don’t shoot yourself in the foot by avoiding them.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Harnessing Your Staff’s Informal Networks</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/03/harnessing-your-staffs-informal-networks</link>
<description>At many companies, employees form groups to share knowledge and attack common problems. These communities of practice can be a powerful management tool.</description>
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<title>Blogging as Management, not Marketing</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/08/blogging-as-management-not-mar.html</link>
<description>Most “how-to” guides for company blogging focus on marketing and PR objectives: positioning your organization as a thought leader, or using it as a “free” channel to get company news out there. We have a blog like this at our RISD, but we also have another, behind-the-firewall blog that is used for management, not marketing. […]</description>
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<title>The Innovation Mindset in Action: 3M Corporation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/08/the-innovation-mindset-in-acti-3</link>
<description>How 3M has consistently powered itself through innovation.</description>
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<title>Rapid Onboarding at Capital One</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/rapid-onboarding-at-capital-on.html</link>
<description>by Lauren Keller Johnson</description>
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<title>How to Reward Your Stellar Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/08/how-to-reward-your-stellar-tea</link>
<description>Recognizing people for collaboration can be tricky.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Research: Millennials Can’t Afford to Job Hop</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/08/research-millennials-cant-afford-to-job-hop</link>
<description>They’re ready to commit to their employers — and want the same in return.</description>
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<title>What Happens When All Employees Work When They Feel Like It</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/what-happens-when-all-employees-work-when-they-feel-like-it</link>
<description>Any job can be done part-time.</description>
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<title>The Making of a Corporate Athlete</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2001/01/the-making-of-a-corporate-athlete</link>
<description>Some executives thrive under pressure. Others wilt. Is the reason all in their heads? Hardly. Sustained high achievement demands physical and emotional strength as well as a sharp intellect. To bring mind, body, and spirit to peak condition, executives need to learn what world-class athletes already know: recovering energy is as important as expending it.</description>
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<title>How Artificial Intelligence Will Redefine Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/11/how-artificial-intelligence-will-redefine-management</link>
<description>Based on a survey of 1,770 managers in 14 countries.</description>
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<title>The Productivity Payoff of Mobile Apps at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/the-productivity-payoff-of-mobile-apps-at-work</link>
<description>After all, we interact with our phones 150 times a day.</description>
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<title>Let’s Abolish Self-Appraisal</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/07/lets-abolish-self-appraisal.html</link>
<description>Asking an employee to write a self-appraisal using the company’s appraisal form is a common performance management practice. It’s a deceptively attractive technique. An employee’s self-appraisal and rating should give the manager valuable data on the quality of an individual’s performance. It previews what to expect when the two sit down to discuss the manager’s […]</description>
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<title>Making the Deal Real: How GE Capital Integrates Acquisitions</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1998/01/making-the-deal-real-how-ge-capital-integrates-acquisitions</link>
<description>The work starts well before the ink is dry.</description>
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<title>Break Your Addiction to Meetings</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/02/break-your-addiction-to-meetin</link>
<description>Retrain your brain, and your team, to work more efficiently.</description>
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<title>Convincing Skeptical Employees to Adopt New Technology</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/convincing-skeptical-employees-to-adopt-new-technology</link>
<description>Use both the carrot and the stick.</description>
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<title>What Counts Most in Motivating Your Sales Force?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1980/07/what-counts-most-in-motivating-your-sales-force</link>
<description>For decades the difficulty of motivating salespeople has been frustrating sales and marketing managers. To the most effective ones, two things are clear: one, the job is difficult; two, there is no one simple solution. Believing that “good salespeople are born, not made,” many managers recognize that recruiting is important. Others holding that “if you […]</description>
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<title>The Best Way to Measure Company Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/03/the-best-way-to-measure-compan.html</link>
<description>Most Wall Street analysts and investors tend to focus on return on equity as their primary measure of company performance. Many executives focus heavily on this metric as well, recognizing that it is the one that seems to get the most attention from the investor community. But is it the best metric? Even though more […]</description>
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<title>The Productivity Paradox: How Sony Pictures Gets More Out of People by Demanding Less</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/06/the-productivity-paradox-how-sony-pictures-gets-more-out-of-people-by-demanding-less</link>
<description>Artwork: Antony Gormley, Capacitor, 2001. Mild steel tubes: 12 mm (o/d), 5.5 mm (i/d). Mild steel rod: 5 mm x various lengths. Body form: 190 x 48 x 35 cm. Fully extended work: 271 x 242 x 229 cm. The way most of us work isn’t working. Study after study has shown that companies are […]</description>
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<title>The Happiness Dividend</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/06/the-happiness-dividend</link>
<description>Nearly every company in the world gives lip service to the idea that “our people are our greatest asset.” Yet when the Conference Board Survey came out earlier this year, employees were the unhappiest they have been in their 22 years of tracking job satisfaction rates. Around the same time, CNNMoney reported a survey that […]</description>
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<title>Digital Transformation Doesn’t Have to Leave Employees Behind</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/digital-transformation-doesnt-have-to-leave-employees-behind</link>
<description>Managers can help create more winners than losers.</description>
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<title>ABCs of Job Interviewing</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1989/07/abcs-of-job-interviewing</link>
<description>Preparation, via a scenario, is the key.</description>
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<title>3 Ways to Encourage Smarter Teamwork</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/3-ways-to-encourage-smarter-teamwork</link>
<description>No one person has all the answers.</description>
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<title>Hiring for Smarts</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/11/hiring-for-smarts</link>
<description>It’s all very well to be kind, compassionate, and charismatic. But the most crucial predictor of executive success has nothing to do with personality or style. It’s brainpower. Here’s how to find those people with the sheer intelligence to become business stars.</description>
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<title>New Research: A Supportive Culture Buffers Women from the Negative Effects of Long Hours</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/02/new-research-a-supportive-culture-buffers-women-from-the-negative-effects-of-long-hours</link>
<description>Good news for women in jobs that demand supersized time commitments.</description>
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<title>The Right Way to Close an Operation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/05/the-right-way-to-close-an-operation</link>
<description>It pays to go the extra mile for employees, customers, and suppliers.</description>
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<title>A Film Director’s Approach to Managing Creativity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1977/03/a-film-directors-approach-to-managing-creativity</link>
<description>When someone mentions a film unit, most people think of location shooting—depending on their generation it’s either Robert Shaw duelling the shark off Martha’s Vineyard or John Wayne and the U.S. cavalry charging through Death Valley! But, in fact, most major films are made in a series of predictable phases, of which shooting is only […]</description>
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<title>How Leaders Create and Use Networks</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/01/how-leaders-create-and-use-networks</link>
<description>Successful leaders have a nose for opportunity and a knack for knowing whom to tap to get things done. These qualities depend on a set of strategic networking skills that nonleaders rarely possess.</description>
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<title>Making the Toughest Calls</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2016/09/making-the-toughest-calls</link>
<description>Joseph Badaracco, Harvard Business School professor, explains what to do when no decision feels like a good decision. He is the author of “Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work.”</description>
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<title>Stop Being a People-Pleaser</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/10/stop-being-a-people-pleaser</link>
<description>Defend your time as carefully as you’d defend someone else’s.</description>
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<title>Every Manager Needs to Practice Two Types of Coaching</title>
<link>http://s.hbr.org/2dK07iy</link>
<description>Give better feedback more often.</description>
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<title>Lead for Loyalty</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2001/07/lead-for-loyalty</link>
<description>New research shows that companies with faithful employees, customers, and investors share one key attribute: leaders who stick to six bedrock principles.</description>
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<title>On Being a Middle-Aged Manager</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1969/07/on-being-a-middle-aged-manager</link>
<description>Crisis stage brings significant change in health, work style, point of view, family relationships, and personal goals.</description>
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<title>Get the Right Fit</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/get-the-right-fit-1</link>
<description>For creativity to flourish, companies need more than just good ideas. First, understand your company’s innovation culture, then institute appropriate processes and procedures. by Sarabjit Singh Baveja and Steve Ellis</description>
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<title>The Fantasy Preventing Us from Becoming Better Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/11/the-fantasy-preventing-us-from</link>
<description>by Marshall Goldsmith When I teach executive education courses on leadership, I finish by asking attendees–all of whom received 360-degree feedback before the class–to follow up repeatedly with their coworkers and ask for ideas about how they can sustain their growth as leaders. This ongoing follow-up is one of the most effective ways around for […]</description>
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<title>Fixing Salespeople’s Biggest Complaint: My Territory is Too Small</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/04/fixing-salespeoples-biggest-co</link>
<description>If you spend much time around salespeople, it won’t take long before you hear them griping about the issue that is the profession’s biggest trouble spot: disagreement over the market potential of a group of accounts or a territory. Consider just a few examples. A regional sales director says: “The Pittsburgh territory is vacant again. […]</description>
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<title>Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/excess-management-is-costing-the-us-3-trillion-per-year</link>
<description>Here’s the math.</description>
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<title>The New Era of Empowered Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2010/09/the-new-era-of-empowered-emplo.html</link>
<description>Josh Bernoff, senior vice president of idea development at Forrester Research and coauthor of “Empowered.”</description>
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<title>The Big Idea: The New M&amp;A Playbook</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/03/the-big-idea-the-new-ma-playbook</link>
<description>Why you should pay top dollar for a “killer deal”—and other new rules for making acquisitions</description>
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<title>Do You Have a Manager’s Mindset?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/10/do-you-have-a-managers-mindset</link>
<description>If you’re trying to do your team’s work for them, probably not.</description>
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<title>The Incentive Bubble</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/03/the-incentive-bubble</link>
<description>Outsourcing pay decisions to financial markets has skewed compensation and, with it, American capitalism.</description>
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<title>Break Through Your Mental Bureaucracy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/02/break-though-your-mental-burea.html</link>
<description>To what extent do you compartmentalize? Or rather, do you ever put things into categories to understand them? Psychologists define compartmentalization as a defense mechanism that we use to avoid the anxiety that arises from the clash of contradictory values or emotions. For example, a manager can think of himself as nurturing and sensitive at […]</description>
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<title>Does Your Sales Team Know Your Strategy?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/10/does-your-sales-team-know-your-strategy</link>
<description>Frank Cespedes, HBS professor and author of “Aligning Strategy and Sales,” explains how to get the front line on board.</description>
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<title>The Power of Meeting Your Employees’ Needs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/the-power-of-meeting-your-employees-needs</link>
<description>They feel and perform better when the four basics are met.</description>
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<title>9 Habits That Lead to Terrible Decisions</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/09/9-habits-that-lead-to-terrible-decisions</link>
<description>And how you can avoid them.</description>
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<title>The Connection Between Pride and Persistence</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/08/the-connection-between-pride-and-persistence</link>
<description>Emotions don’t always erode self-control.</description>
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<title>Profit Sharing Boosts Employee Productivity and Satisfaction</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/12/profit-sharing-boosts-employee-productivity-and-satisfaction</link>
<description>Research dispels common myths.</description>
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<title>How to Pick a Good Fight</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/12/how-to-pick-a-good-fight</link>
<description>Strong leaders create the kind of conflict that can spark creativity and innovation.</description>
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<title>Social Media’s Next Important Job</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/09/social-medias-next-important-j</link>
<description>Here’s a breath of fresh social media air: a few forward-thinking companies have begun exploring ways to use blogs and online communities for diversity training.Already web communities exist to connect companies with job candidates from underrepresented ethnic groups: African American lawyers or Latino engineers, for example. But in the coming months, we could see the […]</description>
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<title>Keep Your Top Talent from Defecting</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/05/keep-your-top-talent-from-defe.html</link>
<description>Jean Martin and Conrad Schmidt, executive directors of the Corporate Executive Board’s Corporate Learning Council based in Washington, DC.</description>
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<title>How Gen Y &amp; Boomers Will Reshape Your Agenda</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/07/how-gen-y-boomers-will-reshape-your-agenda</link>
<description>Your oldest and youngest talent cohorts demand many of the same things in a workplace—and have the numbers to get their way.</description>
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<title>Putting the Service-Profit Chain to Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/07/putting-the-service-profit-chain-to-work</link>
<description>Editor’s Note: This article sets out a simple, elegant, and ultimately tough-minded way to build profitability in a service business. Originally published in 1994, it offers as much today as it did then and is a perennial best seller. ♦ UPDATE: Learn about companies that are applying this timeless advice today. Top-level executives of outstanding […]</description>
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<title>Getting 360 Degree Reviews Right</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/09/getting-360-degree-reviews-right</link>
<description>Before you claim they never work, check how well you’re executing them.</description>
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<title>Win Over an Opponent by Asking for Advice</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/win-over-an-opponent-by-asking-for-advice</link>
<description>Asking for help can be a form of conversational judo.</description>
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<title>Project Manage Your Life</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/project-manage-your-life</link>
<description>With a Kanban board and weekly check-ins.</description>
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<title>They’re Not Employees, They’re People</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/02/theyre-not-employees-theyre-people</link>
<description>Two fast-moving trends are changing the way companies manage talent. If you don’t pay attention, you’ll lose your competitive edge before you know it.</description>
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<title>Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/07/using-the-balanced-scorecard-as-a-strategic-management-system</link>
<description>Editor’s Note: In 1992, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton’s concept of the balanced scorecard revolutionized conventional thinking about performance metrics. By going beyond traditional measures of financial performance, the concept has given a generation of managers a better understanding of how their companies are really doing. These nonfinancial metrics are so valuable mainly […]</description>
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<title>It’s Not All About You</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/04/its-not-all-about-me-its-all-a.html</link>
<description>Scholarly journals and business publications are filled with accounts of organizations moving from traditional bureaucratic structures to new, flatter forms. They require new leadership practices that rely less on the individual efficacy of a few “great men” and more on the collective efficacy of formal and informal networks–a shift that, in the words of CISCO […]</description>
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<title>What We Miss When We Judge a Decision by the Outcome</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/what-we-miss-when-we-judge-a-decision-by-the-outcome</link>
<description>New research on taking intentions into account.</description>
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<title>Is It OK to Yell at Your Employees?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/11/is-it-ok-to-yell-at-your-employees</link>
<description>Raising your voice isn’t necessarily a bad thing.</description>
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<title>Make Your Company a Talent Factory</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/06/make-your-company-a-talent-factory</link>
<description>Stop losing out on lucrative business opportunities because you don’t have the talent to develop them.</description>
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<title>Why Retail Workers (Like Me) Drive Customer Experience</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/04/why-retail-workers-like-me-dri</link>
<description>[This post is part of Creating a Customer-Centered Organization.] Few managers would have hired me into the job, at $11-per-hour with no commission, as a retail sales associate at a suburban mall. I had no retail experience. I was 50 years old and my last job as a staff reporter for the New York Daily […]</description>
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<title>Four Motivation Mistakes Most Leaders Make</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/10/four-motivation-mistakes-most</link>
<description>Irrationality is a basic part of being human. A classic example is buying something we would never otherwise have spent money on — and will never use — simply because it’s a great deal. So when it comes to motivating employees to change, it should be no surprise that leaders who rely on rationality typically […]</description>
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<title>Greener B-Schools, Greener Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2008/06/harvard-business-ideacast-98-8.html</link>
<description>Andrew Winston, founder of Winston Eco-Strategies and coauthor of “Green to Gold.”</description>
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<title>Managing Price, Gaining Profit</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1992/09/managing-price-gaining-profit</link>
<description>The fastest and most effective way for a company to realize its maximum profit is to get its pricing right. The right price can boost profit faster than increasing volume will; the wrong price can shrink it just as quickly. Yet many otherwise tough-minded managers shy away from initiatives to improve price for fear that […]</description>
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<title>Who’s Your Most Valuable Salesperson?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/whos-your-most-valuable-salesperson</link>
<description>How to forecast performance—and then tailor training and incentives</description>
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<title>When Your Employee Doesn’t Take Feedback</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/11/when-your-employee-doesnt-take-feedback</link>
<description>Start by understanding the problem.</description>
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<title>Winning in the Aftermarket</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/05/winning-in-the-aftermarket</link>
<description>Companies realize the importance of providing spare parts and after-sales services, but most could make far more money in the aftermarket than they do. Here’s how.</description>
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<title>Hierarchy Is Overrated</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/11/hierarchy-is-overrated</link>
<description>Flat structures work, and work better.</description>
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<title>Tips for Energizing Your Exhausted Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/11/tips-for-energizing-your-exhausted-employees</link>
<description>Start by showing them how essential their work is to the organization’s mission.</description>
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<title>First, Let’s Fire All the Managers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/12/first-lets-fire-all-the-managers</link>
<description>Morning Star, a leading food processor, demonstrates how to create an organization that combines managerial discipline and market-centric flexibility—without bosses, titles, or promotions.</description>
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<title>Sometimes Negative Feedback is Best</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/01/sometimes-negative-feedback-is</link>
<description>Positive feedback is better for novices. Negative, for experts.</description>
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<title>A Minimum-Wage Hike Could Help Employers, Too</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/a-minimum-wage-hike-would-help-employers-too</link>
<description>Investing in people forces companies to make smarter operational choices.</description>
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<title>Should Leaders Focus on Results, or on People?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/should-leaders-focus-on-results-or-on-people</link>
<description>It’s a trick question.</description>
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<title>The End of “Results Only” at Best Buy Is Bad News</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/03/goodbye-to-flexible-work-at-be</link>
<description>Why the demise of the original “Results-Only Work Environment” is worse news than Yahoo’s remote-worker roundup.</description>
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<title>How to Manage Someone You Don’t Like</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/08/how-to-manage-someone-you-dont</link>
<description>First off, don’t assume your dislike is a bad thing.</description>
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<title>What It Means to Work Here</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/03/what-it-means-to-work-here</link>
<description>Every company needs a “signature experience” that sets it apart. By explicitly communicating what makes your firm unique, you can dramatically improve employee engagement and performance.</description>
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<title>Every Fast-Growing Company Has to Combat Overload</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/every-fast-growing-company-has-to-combat-overload</link>
<description>Here’s how Norwegian Cruise Line did it.</description>
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<title>Having Trouble with Your Strategy? Then Map It</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2000/09/having-trouble-with-your-strategy-then-map-it</link>
<description>The key to executing your strategy is to have people in your organization understand it—including the crucial but perplexing processes by which intangible assets will be converted into tangible outcomes. Strategy maps can help chart this difficult terrain.</description>
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<title>The Dirty Secret of Effective Sales Coaching</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/01/the-dirty-secret-of-effective</link>
<description>Most sales and service organizations have invested more time and effort in the past five years in improving managers’ coaching of reps than they did in the previous 50. This makes perfect sense: research by the Sales Executive Council shows that no other productivity investment comes close to coaching in improving reps’ performance. But not […]</description>
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<title>How to Design a Winning Business Model</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/01/how-to-design-a-winning-business-model</link>
<description>Smart companies’ business models generate cycles that, over time, make them operate more effectively.</description>
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<title>How Strategy Shapes Structure</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/09/how-strategy-shapes-structure</link>
<description>Instead of letting the environment define your strategy, craft a strategy that defines your environment, say the authors of Blue Ocean Strategy.</description>
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<title>Decoding Resistance to Change</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/04/decoding-resistance-to-change</link>
<description>Strong leaders can hear and learn from their critics.</description>
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<title>How to Build Trust in a Virtual Workplace</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/10/how-to-build-trust-in-virtual</link>
<description>Research suggests four strategies can help.</description>
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<title>Values Make the Company: An Interview with Robert Haas</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1990/09/values-make-the-company-an-interview-with-robert-haas</link>
<description>As chairman and CEO of Levi Strauss &amp; Co., Robert D. Haas has inherited a dual legacy. Ever since its founding in 1850, the San Francisco-based apparel manufacturer has been famous for combining strong commercial success with a commitment to social values and to its work force. Achieving both goals was relatively easy throughout much […]</description>
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<title>Becoming Powerful Makes You Less Empathetic</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/becoming-powerful-makes-you-less-empathetic</link>
<description>Have you crossed a line?</description>
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<title>Sales Teams Need More (and Better) Coaching</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/a-high-percentage-move-to-increase-revenue</link>
<description>Here’s how to get started.</description>
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<title>Workers Don’t Have the Skills They Need – and They Know It</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/09/workers-dont-have-the-skills-they-need-and-they-know-it</link>
<description>But more schooling isn’t the answer.</description>
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<title>How to Manage People in 15 Minutes a Day</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/02/the-31-coach</link>
<description>Virtually all of the young executives I work with want to be good managers and mentors. They just don’t have the time — or so they believe. “I could either make a sale, or I could take one of my guys out for lunch to talk about his career,” a financial services leader told me […]</description>
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<title>Manage Your Sales Force as a System</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1975/03/manage-your-sales-force-as-a-system</link>
<description>Sales managers, according to their critics, are not sufficiently “scientific” in their decision making. They pursue volume instead of profit, make piecemeal decisions instead of comprehensive plans, rely on instinct and hunch rather than on methodical decision-making processes. Sales managers might well reply—and often do—that they are dealing with salesmen and customers who are capricious […]</description>
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<title>The Case of the Team-Spirit Tailspin</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1991/01/the-case-of-the-team-spirit-tailspin</link>
<description>Century Airlines had made it—so far. In the decade following airline deregulation, every month seemed to usher in a new crisis—whether over the availability of landing slots and gates or over the cost of equipment leases and fuel. But under the skillful leadership of its long-time president and CEO, the $300 million regional carrier struggled […]</description>
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<title>What Makes a Start-up an Employer of Choice?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/12/what-makes-a-start-up-an-employer-of-choice</link>
<description>The nonfinancial attributes that attract potential hires</description>
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<title>How One Company Contained Health Care Costs and Improved Morale</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/03/how-one-company-contained-health-care-costs-and-improved-morale</link>
<description>It doesn’t have to be a trade-off.</description>
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<title>Red Auerbach on Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1987/03/red-auerbach-on-management</link>
<description>Former Boston Celtics star Bob Cousy calls him “Arnold.” But most diehard basketball fans know him as “Red.” Hanging from the rafters of the Boston Garden are 16 green-and-white championship banners, testimony to his managerial genius. He is Arnold “Red” Auerbach—inspiration and leader of the most successful sports franchise in America. For 36 years, as […]</description>
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<title>10 Rules for Managing Global Innovation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/10/10-rules-for-managing-global-innovation</link>
<description>Traditional best practices won’t work. You need a stricter, more top-down playbook.</description>
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<title>To Get Promoted, Get Feedback from Your Critics</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/11/to-get-promoted-get-feedback-from-your-critics</link>
<description>Include them in your personal board of directors.</description>
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<title>Accelerating Corporate Transformations (Don’t Lose Your Nerve!)</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/01/accelerating-corporate-transformations-dont-lose-your-nerve</link>
<description>Six mistakes that can derail your company’s attempts to change.</description>
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<title>How You Make Decisions Is as Important as What You Decide</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/how-you-make-decisions-is-as-important-as-what-you-decide</link>
<description>So get your process right.</description>
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<title>What Your Boss Needs to Know About Engagement</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/11/on-october-28-gallup-posted</link>
<description>On October 28, Gallup posted an article with the sobering headline “Majority of American Workers Not Engaged in Their Jobs.” This should disturb every American worker and business leader. In an earlier report, Gallup estimated that worker disengagement accounts for more than $300 billion annually in lost productivity in the U.S. alone. In fact, according […]</description>
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<title>Get More Value Out of Busywork</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/06/get-value-out-of-busywork</link>
<description>The other day a senior executive with whom I was working told me that one thing he strove to do was turn “make work” projects into “make work for you” activities. One example: the performance review. For too many organizations, performance reviews are onerous activities that managers and direct reports go through because they have […]</description>
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<title>Special Friends</title>
<link>http://hbr.org/2007/06/special-friends/</link>
<description>One of the constants of office life is the difficult person: the one who rubs you the wrong way, who takes the different view, or disagrees with everything you think or say. Often, but not always, they are subordinates, so managers and leaders can rationalize them away: “It’s only one person, so why should I […]</description>
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<title>When the Customer Is Stressed</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/10/when-the-customer-is-stressed</link>
<description>Anxious consumers need special attention. Providers of cancer care show how to build loyalty by designing “high-emotion” services.</description>
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<title>Firing Someone the Right Way</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/03/firing-someone-the-right-way</link>
<description>Perhaps the most difficult part of any manager’s job is telling a subordinate that he can no longer stay with the company — that he’s been “fired,” “let go,” “dismissed,” or otherwise taken off the payroll. It’s a gut-wrenching conversation, knowing how this simple act affects a person’s career, self-esteem, and livelihood. Firing an employee […]</description>
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<title>CRM Done Right</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/11/crm-done-right</link>
<description>Early adopters of customer relationship management systems were often disappointed by high costs and elusive benefits. Now some companies are reaping strong returns on their CRM investments.</description>
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<title>Creativity and the Role of the Leader</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/10/creativity-and-the-role-of-the-leader</link>
<description>Your organization could use a bigger dose of creativity. Here’s what to do about it.</description>
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<title>To Encourage Innovation, Make It a Competition</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/to-encourage-innovation-make-it-a-competition</link>
<description>Four tips for designing an internal contest.</description>
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<title>The Toxic Handler: Organizational Hero—and Casualty</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1999/07/the-toxic-handler-organizational-hero-and-casualty</link>
<description>When 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.</description>
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<title>Master Chef, Coach, Russian Dolls: How Leaders Spark and Sustain Change, Part 2</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/10/master-chef-coach-russian-doll</link>
<description>In the November issue of HBR, my co-author Richard Badham and I talk about four metaphors we use as prompts to help leaders spark and sustain change in their organizations and their own lives: fire (representing ambition), snowball (accountability), movie (reflection) and mask (authenticity). We developed these as part of a doctoral research project involving […]</description>
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<title>Make Projects the School for Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1994/09/make-projects-the-school-for-leaders</link>
<description>Leadership is the key to developing great products. What’s a great product? One that surprises and delights its customers. To achieve that goal, all the technical elements of the product must work well together as a system, the manufacturing process must produce everything that the design requires, and the product must be delivered to customers […]</description>
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<title>How to Frame Your Messages for Maximum Impact</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/04/leaders-frame-your-messages-fo.html</link>
<description>A manager’s job is, quite simply, to motivate people toward achieving a common goal. Succeeding at this job requires an array of communication skills, ranging from delivering a prepared talk to helping team members negotiate the best way to move ahead on a project. No communication skill, however, is more critical to the manager than […]</description>
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<title>The Right Way to Check Someone’s References</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/07/the-right-way-to-check-someones-references</link>
<description>How to uncover what you really want to know.</description>
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<title>Make Your Team Feel Powerful</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/make-your-team-feel-powerful</link>
<description>Increased control leads to higher engagement.</description>
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<title>Nine Ways Successful People Defeat Stress</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/12/nine-ways-successful-people-de</link>
<description>Proven tactics from research psychologists.</description>
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<title>Nonprofits Need to Compete for Top Talent</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/03/nonprofits-need-to-compete-for</link>
<description>Faced with a massive talent shortfall, the sector needs to change its hiring and retention tactics.</description>
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<title>How One Polish Shipyard Became a Market Competitor</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1995/11/how-one-polish-shipyard-became-a-market-competitor</link>
<description>In 1990, the Szczecin shipyard was engulfed in financial crisis; today it’s the world’s dominant producer of midsize container ships.</description>
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<title>Do You Know Who Holds Your Office Together?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/3-steps-to-giving-office-housework-its-proper-due</link>
<description>Find them and reward them.</description>
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<title>Recruiting Today: What Are You Promising Top Job Candidates?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/04/recruiting-today-what-are-you</link>
<description>Even as the economy continues to show signs of softening in many sectors, competition for top talent remains intense. And, as I’ve discussed before, just as in consumer marketing, one of the keys to attracting talent is to offer elements of the employee experience that match the values and priorities of the individual being recruited. […]</description>
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<title>How to Keep Your Cool During a Performance Review</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/01/how-to-receive-feedback</link>
<description>While the holiday season may be behind us, the peak season for exchanging gifts and messages is not over. Not by a long shot. For many companies, it’s salary and performance review time. It’s bonus time. It’s profit-sharing time.These anxiety-provoking milestones are filling your organization’s calendar even as you read this, and they will continue […]</description>
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<title>Define Your Personal Leadership Brand in Five Steps</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/03/define-your-personal-leadershi</link>
<description>You probably already have a personal leadership brand. But do you have the right one? The question is not trivial. A leadership brand conveys your identity and distinctiveness as a leader. It communicates the value you offer. If you have the wrong leadership brand for the position you have, or the position you want, then […]</description>
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<title>The Right Way to Hire Your Customers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/07/hire-your-customers</link>
<description>If all your customers are doing to build your business is paying you money, you’re leaving a lot of value on the table.</description>
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<title>Who’s Liable for Stress on the Job?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1985/03/whos-liable-for-stress-on-the-job</link>
<description>Managers can no longer choose whether to recognize and deal with the symptoms of stress on the job—it has become a legal obligation. The enormous rise in employee compensation suits that cite stress as the source of emotional or physical disabilities is due not to an act of Congress or a ruling of the Supreme […]</description>
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<title>Be a Work/Life-Friendly Boss</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2016/05/be-a-worklife-friendly-boss.html</link>
<description>Managers play a huge role in their employees’ personal lives, which in turn affects productivity, morale, and turnover at work. Professor Scott Behson, author of “The Working Dad’s Survival Guide,” and professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, gives practical tips for being a leader who is flexible, fair, and effective.</description>
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<title>Diversity as Strategy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/09/diversity-as-strategy</link>
<description>IBM expanded minority markets dramatically by promoting diversity in its own workforce. The result: a virtuous circle of growth and progress.</description>
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<title>The Case of the Floundering Expatriate</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1995/07/the-case-of-the-floundering-expatriate</link>
<description>Bert Donaldson was a star performer in the States. What’s going wrong in Europe?</description>
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<title>Worse Than Enemies: The CEO’s Destructive Confidant</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/02/worse-than-enemies-the-ceos-destructive-confidant</link>
<description>CEOs nearly always need an intimate counselor. But unless leaders examine their own motives—and those of their confidants—these relationships will almost certainly be dangerous, and sometimes even catastrophic.</description>
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<title>Authentic Workplaces Don’t Try to Make Everyone the Same</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/11/authentic-workplaces-dont-try-to-make-everyone-the-same</link>
<description>They value people as their best selves.</description>
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<title>Evidence-Based Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/01/evidence-based-management</link>
<description>Executives routinely dose their organizations with strategic snake oil: discredited nostrums, partial remedies, or untested management miracle cures. In many cases, the facts about what works are out there—so why don’t managers use them?</description>
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<title>Mindfulness Helps You Become a Better Leader</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/10/mindfulness-helps-you-become-a</link>
<description>To keep your equilibrium, practice meditation (or something like it) every day.</description>
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<title>Your complete guide to acing this year’s performance review — Quartz</title>
<link>http://s.hbr.org/1QjYHXe</link>
<description>Why is it so hard to have a useful year-end review? In one survey, more than half of employees said their review was inaccurate or unfair. One in four employees say they dread their review more than anything else in their working lives. Too often, reviews only seem to seem lower morale, increase anxiety, or...</description>
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<title>How Networks Reshape Organizations—for Results</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1991/09/how-networks-reshape-organizations-for-results</link>
<description>In a world of increasing global competition and unrelenting change, many companies have been strong on crafting vision and strategy and weak on delivering results. As they struggle to improve their capacity to execute, senior managers use words like trust, teamwork, and boundaryless cooperation to describe the organizations they aspire to build. Recently a new […]</description>
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<title>How to Give a Killer Presentation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/06/how-to-give-a-killer-presentation</link>
<description>Lessons from TED</description>
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<title>Changing the Way We Change</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1997/11/changing-the-way-we-change</link>
<description>How leaders at Sears, Shell, and the U.S. Army transformed attitudes and behavior—and made the changes stick.</description>
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<title>Three Ways to Actually Engage Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/three-ways-to-actually-engage-employees</link>
<description>Start by talking about impact, not financial performance.</description>
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<title>What Maslow’s Hierarchy Won’t Tell You About Motivation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/what-maslows-hierarchy-wont-tell-you-about-motivation</link>
<description>Leaders need to focus on three basic psychological needs.</description>
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<title>“Dear White Boss…”</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/11/dear-white-boss</link>
<description>What it’s really like to be a black manager.</description>
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<title>A Simple Yet Powerful Way to Handle a Stress Episode</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/a-simple-yet-powerful-way-to-handle-a-stress-episode</link>
<description>Four steps to shift your perspective.</description>
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<title>Diversity Is Useless Without Inclusivity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/diversity-is-useless-without-inclusivity</link>
<description>Tolerating difference is not the same as embracing it.</description>
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<title>The HBR Interview: “What Is It That Only I Can Do?”</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/01/the-hbr-interview-what-is-it-that-only-i-can-do</link>
<description>He’s been a grocer and a CEO for 32 years now. Lately, Whole Foods Market cofounder and co-CEO John Mackey, with his controversial utterances on health care reform and climate change, has been in the news as much for what he says as for what he sells. But in this edited interview with HBR’s Justin […]</description>
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<title>How Certainty Transforms Persuasion</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/how-certainty-transforms-persuasion</link>
<description>The more certain people are of their opinions, the more likely they are to act.</description>
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<title>A Dispassionate Review of Reviews</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/05/a-dispassionate-review-of-revi</link>
<description>It’s the thing we all love to hate. It strikes fear into the hearts of managers and employees alike. It provides a convenient excuse to bash the HR department. But despite its flaws, the performance review remains one of the most powerful ways to improve individual and organization effectiveness. You may never love it, but […]</description>
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<title>Stop Telling Your Employees What to Do</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/04/stop-telling-your-employees-wh</link>
<description>Autonomy and a clear purpose are key ingredients for worker effectiveness.</description>
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<title>New Thinking on How to Link Executive Pay with Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1999/03/new-thinking-on-how-to-link-executive-pay-with-performance</link>
<description>Under current compensation schemes, senior managers are rewarded even when their companies underperform. But there’s a way for boards to align executive pay with shareholder expectations.</description>
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<title>Surviving Matrix Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/06/surviving-matrix-management</link>
<description>Matrix management has been around for 40 years, but there have been few challenges to its efficacy and viability. Most writers and management theorists remain convinced that a matrix approach is superior to a hierarchy, but is it really the only alternative? Are there different ways to manage – for example, a truly integrated hierarchical/matrix […]</description>
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<title>Drive Engagement and Retention Using Social Platforms</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/12/drive-engagement-and-retention-using-social</link>
<description>An award-winning initiative at Baldwin-Wallace University has much to teach about mentoring, engagement, and retention in the social era.</description>
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<title>To Build Trust, Competence is Key</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/03/to-build-trust-competence-is-k</link>
<description>In our last blog , we discussed the importance of trust. It’s the foundation of all you do as a leader and manager. Your ability to influence others, which is your fundamental task, begins with people’s willingness to be influenced by you. And their willingness begins with their trust in you — their confidence that […]</description>
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<title>Putting Your Company’s Whole Brain to Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1997/07/putting-your-companys-whole-brain-to-work</link>
<description>Conflict is essential to innovation. The key is to make the abrasion creative.</description>
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<title>Developing Employees’ Strengths Boosts Sales, Profit, and Engagement</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/developing-employees-strengths-boosts-sales-profit-and-engagement</link>
<description>Seven ways to do it.</description>
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<title>Flex Time Doesn’t Need to Be an HR Policy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/flex-time-doesnt-need-to-be-an-hr-policy</link>
<description>Keep it informal.</description>
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<title>Where Will We Find Tomorrow’s Leaders?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/01/where-will-we-find-tomorrows-leaders</link>
<description>We might not recognize the leaders we really need because of who they are, where they’re from, or how they behave.</description>
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<title>The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/12/the-competitive-advantage-of-corporate-philanthropy</link>
<description>Most companies feel compelled to give to charity. Few have figured out how to do it well.</description>
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<title>Does Money Really Affect Motivation? A Review of the Research</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/04/does-money-really-affect-motiv</link>
<description>We all need to get paid. But the evidence suggests it undermines our intrinsic motivations.</description>
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<title>In a Recession, Put Everyone in Marketing</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/04/in-a-recession-put-everyone-in.html</link>
<description>Are you facing falling customer orders? Slower renewals? Cancellations? Requests for ever-deeper discounts? Those are silly questions. Of course you are experiencing these recession symptoms. And you have probably cut budgets and jobs more than you like. So now what? When you can’t (and shouldn’t) cut any further, you can leverage the creativity of the […]</description>
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<title>Redesigning Knowledge Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/01/redesigning-knowledge-work</link>
<description>How to free up high-end experts to do what they do best</description>
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<title>4 Tips for Efficient Succession Planning</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/05/change-succession-planning-to</link>
<description>One of the most common leadership development questions that I hear from executives is, “Why does succession planning feel like such a waste of time?” I do a lot of work on executive coaching and succession with my good friend, Jim Moore. Jim is the former CLO of three major companies. Here are some of […]</description>
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<title>Cultural Change That Sticks</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/07/cultural-change-that-sticks</link>
<description>Start with what’s already working</description>
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<title>Why Change Programs Don’t Produce Change</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1990/11/why-change-programs-dont-produce-change</link>
<description>Effective corporate renewal starts at the bottom, through informal efforts to solve business problems.</description>
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<title>When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Do Maintenance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/10/when-the-going-gets-tough-the</link>
<description>Employee morale falters when the workplace shows signs of disrepair.</description>
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<title>Learning to Act Like a Leader</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/06/learning-to-act-like-a-leader</link>
<description>This Week’s Question for Ask the Coach: In many ways leaders need to learn how to act. What can leaders learn from actors? My friend Cindy Ventrice is doing some fascinating work in using improv techniques to help leaders do a better job in providing recognition to their employees. I love how her work directly […]</description>
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<title>Leadership in a (Permanent) Crisis</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2009/07/leadership-in-a-permanent-cris.html</link>
<description>Ron Heifetz, founder of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and coauthor of “The Practice of Adaptive Leadership.”</description>
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<title>It’s Time to Acknowledge CEO Loneliness</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/02/its-time-to-acknowledge-ceo-lo</link>
<description>From extravagant compensation packages to heated boardroom clashes to dramatic exits, misbehaving chief executive officers dominated management headlines in 2011. Few people are feeling particularly sorry for CEOs right now, and that’s unlikely to change. CEOs have power, prestige, influence, and wealth — the general perception is that they have it made. So I imagine […]</description>
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<title>Supervisor Work/Life Training Gets Results</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/11/supervisor-worklife-training-gets-results</link>
<description>Teaching managers to be more supportive of their direct reports’ work/life issues can be a simple and effective route to improving employee health and satisfaction, according to our multiyear study of hundreds of frontline workers and dozens of supervisors in middle-America supermarkets. Supervisors are eager for such help: Many want to be supportive, but with […]</description>
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<title>Asinine Attitudes Toward Motivation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1973/01/asinine-attitudes-toward-motivation</link>
<description>What this noted psychologist calls “the great jackass fallacy” is an unconscious managerial assumption about people and how they should be motivated. It results in the powerful treating the powerless as objects and in the perpetuation of anachronistic organizational structures that destroy the individual’s sense of worth and accomplishment. And it is responsible for the […]</description>
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<title>Get What You Need from Your Hands-Off Boss</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/get-what-you-need-from-your-hands-off-boss</link>
<description>Having a passive manager doesn’t have to be a frustrating experience.</description>
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<title>How to Turn an Interim Role into a Permanent Job</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/01/how-to-turn-an-interim-role-into-a-permanent-job</link>
<description>It’s going to be a marathon, not a sprint.</description>
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<title>Use Your Staff Meeting for Peer-to-Peer Coaching</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/use-your-staff-meeting-for-peer-to-peer-coaching</link>
<description>Because you win or lose as a team.</description>
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<title>How IBM, Intuit, and Rich Products Became More Customer-Centric</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/how-ibm-intuit-and-rich-products-became-more-customer-centric</link>
<description>There is no one right way.</description>
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<title>First, Lead Yourself</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/05/first-lead-yourself</link>
<description>If I were to choose one thing that leaders and managers complain about most, it would be lack of time. Time is a constant pressure, the silent stalker in busy lives. There is too little time to hit their targets, to manage their staff, to spend with their families, or to reflect on their lives. […]</description>
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<title>To Succeed in Tech, Women Need More Visibility</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/to-succeed-in-tech-women-need-more-visibility</link>
<description>Especially when it comes to assignments, networks, and skills.</description>
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<title>How to Build Trust on Your Cross-Cultural Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/how-to-build-trust-on-your-cross-cultural-team</link>
<description>One tactic: Address conflict immediately.</description>
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<title>Do Women Lack Ambition?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/04/do-women-lack-ambition</link>
<description>For women—far more than for men—the decision to pursue an interest is reconsidered repeatedly and often abandoned. To realize their dreams, women need to understand why they are willing to walk away from them.</description>
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<title>What It Takes to Be a Great Employer</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/01/what-it-takes-to-be-a-great-em.html</link>
<description>One of the primary definitions of the word “engagement” is “a hostile encounter; a battle.” Another is “a specific, often limited period of employment.” In the corporate world, however, engagement has come to signify just the opposite: some blend of an employee’s commitment, passion, focus, motivation, morale and job satisfaction. It’s what every company wants, […]</description>
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<title>Saving Your Rookie Managers from Themselves</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/04/saving-your-rookie-managers-from-themselves</link>
<description>You’ve promoted your star performer into management. Now help him avoid the classic errors that beginners so often make.</description>
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<title>How Should You Organize Manufacturing?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1978/01/how-should-you-organize-manufacturing</link>
<description>Among the characteristics of a company that shape corporate and therefore manufacturing strategy are its dominant orientation (market or product), pattern of diversification (product, market, or process), attitude toward growth (acceptance of low growth rate), and choice between competitive strategies (high profit margins versus high output volumes). Once the basic attitudes or priorities are established, […]</description>
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<title>Strengths-Based Coaching Can Actually Weaken You</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/strengths-based-coaching-can-actually-weaken-you</link>
<description>It’s time for this management fad to end.</description>
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<title>Mark Zuckerberg and Misery as Motivation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/11/mark-zuckerberg-and-misery-as.html</link>
<description>Did Mark Zuckerberg start Facebook friending because he was unable to make friends? That’s the main theme of the hit film The Social Network. Zuckerberg didn’t care about money, several say; he was compensating for a lack of friends. Did Evan Williams, who just stepped aside as CEO of Twitter, jump on the bandwagon of […]</description>
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<title>The 5 Leadership Essentials</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/06/the-5-leadership-essentials.html</link>
<description>Dave Ulrich, cofounder of the RBL Group and coauthor of “The Leadership Code: Five Rules to Lead By.”</description>
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<title>How to Get Feedback as a Freelancer</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/how-to-get-feedback-as-a-freelancer</link>
<description>You’ll lose business without it.</description>
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<title>Stop Working All Those Hours</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/06/stop-working-all-those-hours</link>
<description>“He’s one of my best employees. He always puts in ten-hour days, sometimes much more.” Is this how your boss judges you and your colleagues? Probably yes, according to a 2010 study published in Human Relations. In the study, a group of researchers led by business professor Kimberly Elsbach conducted extensive interviews of 39 corporate […]</description>
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<title>How to Work with Someone You Hate</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/01/how-to-work-with-someone-you-h</link>
<description>Working with someone you hate can be distracting and draining. Pompous jerk, annoying nudge, or incessant complainer, an insufferable colleague can negatively affect your attitude and performance. Instead of focusing on the work you have to do together, you may end up wasting time and energy trying to keep your emotions in check and attempting […]</description>
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<title>The Dangers of Linking Pay to Customer Feedback</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/09/the-dangers-of-linking-pay-to</link>
<description>If you’re serious about creating a customer-driven culture, then you will certainly tie incentive compensation to customer feedback. Right? Wrong. Everyone knows incentive compensation can really focus people’s attention. Done right, it can reinforce a company’s values. It can spur creativity and accelerate actions designed to meet important goals. When it’s done wrong, however, the […]</description>
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<title>Management Women and the New Facts of Life</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1989/01/management-women-and-the-new-facts-of-life</link>
<description>Two facts matter to business: only women have babies and only men make rules.</description>
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<title>Three Signs of a Miserable Job</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/08/harvard-business-ideacast-58-t.html</link>
<description>Patrick Lencioni, founder and president of The Table Group and author of “The Three Signs of a Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers.”</description>
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<title>How to Disarm Combative Conversations</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/05/how-to-disarm-combative-conver</link>
<description>At a bank that had recently doubled in size as the result of a merger, Jackie prepared to review Ross, one of her new reports. Through the grapevine, Jackie had heard that Ross was a skilled auditor but that he tended to talk down to others, a trait that especially rankled with the managers of […]</description>
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<title>Making Business Personal</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/04/making-business-personal</link>
<description>Companies that turn employees’ struggles into growth opportunities are discovering a new kind of competitive advantage.</description>
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<title>How Incentives Can Demotivate Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/07/how-incentives-can-demotivate-employees</link>
<description>When a commercial laundry implemented a program aimed at reducing workers’ tardiness, it ended up decreasing productivity by 1.4% and costing the company nearly $1,500 a month, according to a study conducted by Ian Larkin, of Harvard Business School, and Lamar Pierce and Timothy Gubler, of Olin Business School. By entering employees with perfect attendance […]</description>
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<title>Develop Strategic Thinkers Throughout Your Organization</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/02/develop-strategic-thinkers-throughout-your-organization</link>
<description>It’s the single most important skill a leader needs.</description>
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<title>Where Financial Reporting Still Falls Short</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/07/where-financial-reporting-still-falls-short</link>
<description>Even after a raft of reforms, corporate accounting remains murky. Here’s what you need to know to evaluate a company accurately.</description>
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<title>Picking the Right Transition Strategy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/01/picking-the-right-transition-strategy</link>
<description>Here’s a tool to help you match your leadership strategy to your new business environment.</description>
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<title>Discovering Your Authentic Leadership</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/02/discovering-your-authentic-leadership</link>
<description>We all have the capacity to inspire and empower others. But we must first be willing to devote ourselves to our personal growth and development as leaders.</description>
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<title>Nobody Trusts the Boss Completely—Now What?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1989/03/nobody-trusts-the-boss-completely-now-what</link>
<description>How to overcome the limits of trust and the fear of candor</description>
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<title>How to Conduct an Internal Interview</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/07/how-to-conduct-an-internal-int</link>
<description>Organizations spend the majority of their hiring resources on finding and screening external candidates. But when you need to fill a position, the most cost-effective and practical thing you can do is hire someone from within. In fact, most hiring in companies is done internally. Still, the internal interview is often thought of as something […]</description>
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<title>Choosing Strategies for Change</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1979/03/choosing-strategies-for-change-2</link>
<description>In a rapidly changing world managers need to increase their skills at diagnosing resistance to change and at choosing the appropriate methods for overcoming it.</description>
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<title>Most People Have No Idea Whether They’re Paid Fairly</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/10/most-people-have-no-idea-whether-theyre-paid-fairly</link>
<description>And it has implications for engagement and likelihood of leaving.</description>
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<title>The “Sandwich Approach” Undermines Your Feedback</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/04/the-sandwich-approach-undermin</link>
<description>If you have criticism to deliver, just cut to the chase.</description>
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<title>Change Through Persuasion</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/02/change-through-persuasion</link>
<description>Leaders can make change happen only if they have a coherent strategy for persuasion. The impressive turnaround at a world-renowned teaching hospital shows how to plan a change campaign—and carry it out.</description>
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<title>When You Have to Coach Remotely</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/when-you-have-to-coach-remotely</link>
<description>Get as much context as you can.</description>
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<title>Get the Boss to Buy In</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/get-the-boss-to-buy-in</link>
<description>Learn to sell your ideas up the chain of command.</description>
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<title>What Inexperienced Leaders Get Wrong (Hint: Management)</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/11/what-inexperienced-leaders-get-wrong-hint-management</link>
<description>Let’s not become so infatuated with vision that we forget process.</description>
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<title>Act Like an Entrepreneur Inside Your Organization</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/07/act-like-an-entrepreneur-inside-your-organization</link>
<description>How to upset the status quo, in four steps.</description>
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<title>Do You Have an Excessive Need to Be Yourself?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/07/do-you-have-an-excessive-need</link>
<description>One of the 20 annoying habits discussed in my book, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, is “an excessive need to be me.” What do we mean by “an excessive need to be me?” Each of us has a pile of behaviors that we define as “me.” These are the behaviors, both positive […]</description>
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<title>How to Job Hunt With a Strike Against You</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/11/how-to-job-hunt-with-a-strike</link>
<description>On May 28, 2011, the Boston Globe reported that Carney Hospital President Bill Walczak fired its entire staff of 29 health care delivery employees from a 14-bed locked unit for troubled teens. It appears that the hospital had violated patient safety in serious ways. Not all 29 employees were identified as having performed poorly. The […]</description>
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<title>Why Compassion Is a Better Managerial Tactic than Toughness</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/why-compassion-is-a-better-managerial-tactic-than-toughness</link>
<description>How to respond when an employee messes up.</description>
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<title>Why Is Micromanagement So Infectious?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/08/why-is-micromanagement-so-infectious</link>
<description>Stop it before it spreads.</description>
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<title>Confessions of a Trusted Counselor</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/09/confessions-of-a-trusted-counselor</link>
<description>Few jobs in business are as exciting as that of adviser to the CEO. But those who sit at the right hand of power learn that the influence game has to be played by the rules.</description>
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<title>How to Motivate Yourself When Your Boss Doesn’t</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/how-to-motivate-yourself-when-your-boss-doesnt</link>
<description>You have more control than you realize.</description>
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<title>Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/09/women-rising-the-unseen-barriers</link>
<description>Persistent gender bias too often disrupts the learning process at the heart of becoming a leader. Here’s how to correct the problem.</description>
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<title>Five Ways to Retain Employees Forever</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/11/five-ways-to-retain-employees</link>
<description>To keep would-be job-hoppers from hopping, good employers find ways to reward commitment.</description>
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<title>Giving Feedback Across Cultures</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/02/giving-feedback-across-cultures</link>
<description>What works in Stuttgart won’t work in Shanghai.</description>
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<title>Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/why-leadership-development-isnt-developing-leaders</link>
<description>And how to fix it.</description>
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<title>How to Get Feedback When You’re the Boss</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/05/how-to-get-feedback-when-youre</link>
<description>The higher up in the organization you get, the less likely you’ll receive constructive feedback on your ideas, performance, or strategy. No one wants to offend the boss, right? But without input, your development will suffer, you may become isolated, and you’re likely to miss out on hearing some great ideas. So, what can you […]</description>
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<title>The New 21st Century Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/04/the-new-21st-century-leaders-1.html</link>
<description>(Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future. The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana, and Scott Snook.) During the last half of the […]</description>
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<title>Treat Employees Like Business Owners</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/12/treat-employees-like-business-owners</link>
<description>Giving them a real stake improves loyalty, engagement, and performance.</description>
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<title>Stop Overdoing Your Strengths</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/02/stop-overdoing-your-strengths</link>
<description>The conventional wisdom in leadership development circles is that you should discover and capitalize on your strengths, assuming that they are aligned with some organizational need. No matter how hard you work on certain weaknesses, the logic goes, chances are you’ll make only marginal progress. Don’t waste too much time overcoming flaws; better to focus […]</description>
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<title>The Right Kind of Conflict Leads to Better Products</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/12/the-right-kind-of-conflict-leads-to-better-products</link>
<description>Even alliances with outside partners benefit from a little friction.</description>
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<title>Making Green Work – Andrew Winston at The Harvard Club NYC</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/webinar/2010/04/making-green-work-andrew-win</link>
<description>When the economy turns rough, many companies sideline their green business initiatives. That’s a big mistake. No company can afford to wait for the downturn to ease before going green. Green initiatives ratchet up your company’s resource efficiency, creativity, and employee motivation. They save energy, waste, and money, preserving precious capital—and give precise focus to […]</description>
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<title>The CEO as Coach: An Interview with AlliedSignal’s Lawrence A. Bossidy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1995/03/the-ceo-as-coach-an-interview-with-alliedsignals-lawrence-a-bossidy</link>
<description>“At the end of the day, you bet on people, not on strategies.”</description>
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<title>Getting Employees Excited About a New Direction</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/11/getting-employees-excited-about-a-new-direction</link>
<description>The story of Royal Bank of Canada.</description>
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<title>A Small Firm’s Response to Higher Health Care Costs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/a-small-firms-response-to-higher-health-care-costs</link>
<description>It required creative problem-solving.</description>
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<title>Lost in Matrix Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/06/lost-in-matrix-management</link>
<description>One theme has emerged loud and clear from executives I have been coaching this year: the utter frustration of operating in complex and shifting matrix management systems. The complaints are legion: multiple and complex reporting lines, confusion over accountability, competing geographical and functional targets, lack of role clarity, too many people involved in decisions, lack […]</description>
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<title>Making Green Work – Andrew Winston at The Harvard Club NYC</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/04/making-green-work-andrew-win</link>
<description>When the economy turns rough, many companies sideline their green business initiatives. That’s a big mistake. No company can afford to wait for the downturn to ease before going green. Green initiatives ratchet up your company’s resource efficiency, creativity, and employee motivation. They save energy, waste, and money, preserving precious capital—and give precise focus to […]</description>
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<title>If Your Boss Thinks You’re Awesome, You Will Become More Awesome</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/if-your-boss-thinks-youre-awesome-you-will-become-more-awesome</link>
<description>But watch out if your boss is a hard grader.</description>
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<title>Get Your Employees to Make Better Suggestions</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/get-your-employees-to-make-better-suggestions</link>
<description>Just asking for more input isn’t the answer.</description>
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<title>The Four Secrets to Employee Engagement</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/the-four-secrets-to-employee-engagement</link>
<description>Managers, not HR, must lead the charge.</description>
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<title>Are You a Strategist or Just a Manager?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1992/01/are-you-a-strategist-or-just-a-manager</link>
<description>Managers can measure themselves with a ten-question profile—based on a Prussian general’s strategic thinking.</description>
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<title>A Survival Guide for Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/06/a-survival-guide-for-leaders</link>
<description>Steering an organization through times of change can be hazardous, and it has been the ruin of many a leader. To avoid the perils, let a few basic rules govern your actions—and your internal compass.</description>
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<title>How Cisco Gets Brutally Honest Feedback to Top Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/12/how-cisco-gets-brutally-honest-feedback-to-top-leaders</link>
<description>Regular assessments have four major benefits.</description>
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<title>The Right Way to Answer “What’s Your Greatest Weakness?”</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/the-right-way-to-answer-whats-your-greatest-weakness</link>
<description>Don’t turn it into a positive.</description>
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<title>What to Do When You Get a New Boss Every Few Months</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/07/what-to-do-when-you-get-a-new-boss-every-few-months</link>
<description>It’s on you to adapt.</description>
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<title>How Counseling About Work Reduces Depression</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/how-counseling-about-work-reduces-depression</link>
<description>And cuts rates of absenteeism and presenteeism.</description>
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<title>Can Employees Really Speak Up Without Retribution?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/can-employees-really-speak-up-without-retribution</link>
<description>Advice for both managers and workers.</description>
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<title>The Secret to Delighting Customers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/the-secret-to-delighting-customers</link>
<description>How Disney made great service habitual by putting their employees first.</description>
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<title>What Leadership Looks Like in Different Cultures</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/what-leadership-looks-like-in-different-cultures</link>
<description>How decision making, communication, and dark-side tendencies vary.</description>
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<title>Fixing a Work Relationship Gone Sour</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/08/fixing-a-work-relationship-gone-sour</link>
<description>Even the most strained relationships can be repaired.</description>
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<title>A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/11/a-leaders-framework-for-decision-making</link>
<description>Wise executives tailor their approach to fit the complexity of the circumstances they face.</description>
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<title>Hackathons Aren’t Just for Coders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/04/hackathons-arent-just-for-coders</link>
<description>Companies can use them to create new products and even change culture.</description>
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<title>Rethinking Political Correctness</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/09/rethinking-political-correctness</link>
<description>Sensitivity to race, religion, or gender is a good thing, but too often it is driven by fear. Rather than walk on eggshells, managers can learn to develop more productive, meaningful relationships at work.</description>
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<title>Build a Great Company Culture with Help from Technology</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/build-a-great-company-culture-with-help-from-technology</link>
<description>Give your people the tools to work how they want to work.</description>
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<title>Ten Reasons People Resist Change</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/09/ten-reasons-people-resist-chang</link>
<description>Which ones are hurting your company?</description>
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<title>When You Criticize Someone, You Make It Harder for that Person to Change</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/when-you-criticize-someone-you-make-it-harder-for-them-to-change</link>
<description>The defensive brain is not the listening-and-learning brain.</description>
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<title>Who’s Ready for the Executive Suite?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/12/whos-ready-for-the-executive-s</link>
<description>“Nothing could be more beautiful than a June morning in Paris,” thought Alain Deronde as he descended the steps below Sacré Coeur. The streets of Montmartre were throbbing with life, as schoolchildren, young couples, tourists, and Parisians of every hue basked in the day’s warmth and their own high spirits. This neighborhood had been a […]</description>
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<title>Fit Control Systems to Your Managerial Style</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1976/01/fit-control-systems-to-your-managerial-style</link>
<description>A control system does not “control” organizational performance, but—when used correctly—it is an important tool in the manager’s kit to increase the amount of effective control that he exercises. Control is a central dimension of the manager’s job, and he has a range of strategies from which to choose. The critically important determination is for […]</description>
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<title>The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1996/11/the-questions-every-entrepreneur-must-answer</link>
<description>What are my goals? Do I have the right strategy? Can I execute the strategy?</description>
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<title>The Seasoned Executive’s Decision-Making Style</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/02/the-seasoned-executives-decision-making-style</link>
<description>New research shows that senior managers analyze and act on problems far differently than their more junior colleagues do. Those whose thinking does not evolve may not advance.</description>
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<title>How to Speak Up About Ethical Issues at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/how-to-speak-up-about-ethical-issues-at-work</link>
<description>First, decide whether you should say something at all.</description>
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<title>Why Men Still Get More Promotions Than Women</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/09/why-men-still-get-more-promotions-than-women</link>
<description>Your high-potential females need more than just well-meaning mentors.</description>
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<title>What Happens When You Really Meet People’s Needs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/09/what-happens-when-you-really-m-2</link>
<description>I arrived by taxi at the hotel gate. The security guard inquired whether I was checking in. When I said yes, he requested my name and then waved us on. A minute or two later, we arrived at the front door. Two bellmen greeted me: “Welcome to the Ritz Carlton, Mr. Schwartz.” It may sound […]</description>
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<title>Innovating for Shared Value</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/09/innovating-for-shared-value</link>
<description>Companies that deliver both social benefit and business value rely on five mutually reinforcing elements.</description>
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<title>Corporate Wellness Programs Lose Money</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/10/corporate-wellness-programs-lose-money</link>
<description>And they may not even make people healthier.</description>
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<title>Sustainability a CFO Can Love</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/04/sustainability-a-cfo-can-love</link>
<description>Artwork: Julie Dodd, Inner Beauty, 2012, 800+ pieces of recycled magazine pages As a CFO who advocates sustainability, I’ve noticed that many of my peers take a lukewarm view of the idea, perhaps because they simply don’t see how sustainability can produce returns for a business. I can relate: I, too, am always looking for […]</description>
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<title>What to Do When You Hate Your Boss</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/12/do-you-hate-your-boss</link>
<description>How to deal with it</description>
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<title>Zipcar Doesn’t Just Ask Employees to Innovate — It Shows Them How</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/02/zipcar-doesnt-just-ask-employees-to-innovate-it-shows-them-how</link>
<description>Creating an innovation culture.</description>
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<title>The Authenticity Paradox</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-authenticity-paradox</link>
<description>Why feeling like a fake can be a sign of growth</description>
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<title>How to Boost Your Team’s Productivity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/how-to-boost-your-teams-productivity</link>
<description>Set clear expectations.</description>
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<title>Embrace Your Inner Imposter</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/04/embrace-your-inner-imposter</link>
<description>The New York Times recently ran a great piece about managers and professionals who suffer from feelings of fraudulence or inadequacy at work. Imposter syndrome (also known as imposter phenomenon, imposterism and “neurotic imposture”) can be a good thing for managers, said the author. Occasionally feeling like a fraud ensures managers don’t get too egotistical: […]</description>
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<title>The Definitive Guide to Recruiting in Good Times and Bad</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/05/the-definitive-guide-to-recruiting-in-good-times-and-bad</link>
<description>When economic crisis hits and companies focus on cutting costs—or on their very survival—they slash hiring. But if history is any guide, in the first few months after the upheaval subsides, hiring quickly becomes a front-burner issue. Consider the period following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, when the economic outlook appeared dire. In […]</description>
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<title>Why Leadership Development Has to Happen on the Job</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/03/why-leadership-development-has-to-happen-on-the-job</link>
<description>Context matters today more than ever.</description>
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<title>The Hidden Advantages of Quiet Bosses</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/12/the-hidden-advantages-of-quiet-bosses</link>
<description>It’s conventional wisdom that’s supported by a decade of academic research: Extroverts make the best leaders. These people—dominant and outgoing—are favored in hiring and promotion decisions, and they’re perceived to be more effective by supervisors and subordinates alike. But our research suggests that in certain situations, an introvert may make the better boss. To be […]</description>
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<title>Lead With Your Heart, Not Just Your Head</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/11/are-you-getting-personal-as-a</link>
<description>Feeling connected emotionally is intrinsically rewarding to the brain.</description>
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<title>Where the Green Jobs Really Are</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/02/where-the-green-jobs-really-ar</link>
<description>They’re closer to home than you might think.</description>
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<title>Suggestion for Starbucks: Try This New Way of Getting Customer Feedback</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/04/suggestion-for-starbucks-try-t</link>
<description>In late March, Starbucks launched a new web site to engage its customer community in helping to chart the company’s future course. Called My Starbucks Idea, it serves as a worldwide suggestion box with the added feature of community rating of the ideas. So far, customers’ ideas seem much less varied than their drink orders. […]</description>
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<title>Control in an Age of Chaos</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1994/11/control-in-an-age-of-chaos</link>
<description>The New Economy demands new models of organization.</description>
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<title>Performance Incentives for Tough Times</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/03/performance-incentives-for-tough-times</link>
<description>In tough economic times, when there’s limited cash to reward and improve employees’ performance, managers’ praise becomes an acutely valuable corporate resource. Here’s how to put it to the best possible use. Managers should look for tasks at which an employee excels and respond with specific, timely verbal approval that will energize the individual. Excellent […]</description>
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<title>A Country Is Not a Company</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1996/01/a-country-is-not-a-company</link>
<description>Why businesspeople don’t necessarily make great economists.</description>
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<title>If Your Boss Tells You to Get a Coach, Don’t Panic</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/if-your-boss-tells-you-to-get-a-coach-dont-panic</link>
<description>Take control of the process.</description>
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<title>Making Exit Interviews Count</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/04/making-exit-interviews-count</link>
<description>This underused practice can be a powerful tool for retention.</description>
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<title>Case Study: Can an Airline Cut “Turn Times” Without Adding Staff?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/case-study-can-an-airline-cut-turn-times-without-adding-staff</link>
<description>The struggle to do more with less.</description>
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<title>Be Generous at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/06/be-generous-at-work.html</link>
<description>If you took a poll of critical skills most important to business success, you’d be hard pressed to come up with a list that didn’t include vision, leadership, drive, ambition, or intellect. You’d be equally hard pressed to find one that included, much less led with, generosity. That generosity is important and valued isn’t news […]</description>
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<title>Keeping Work Flexible, Even with Changes to U.S. Overtime Rules</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/keeping-work-flexible-even-with-changes-to-u-s-overtime-rules</link>
<description>A legal primer for managers.</description>
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<title>Delivering on the Promise of Nonprofits</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/12/delivering-on-the-promise-of-nonprofits</link>
<description>Nonprofit leaders face unique challenges in achieving results, but a growing number are showing it can be done—by rigorously confronting questions related to strategy, capital, and talent.</description>
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<title>How to Get the Bad News You Need</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/how-to-get-the-bad-news-you-ne-1</link>
<description>If your company doesn’t welcome disagreement and punishes truth tellers, you may pay a high price in customer dissatisfaction. by Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay</description>
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<title>How to Say No to More Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2016/03/how-to-say-no-to-more-work</link>
<description>Karen Dillon, author of the “HBR Guide to Office Politics”, explains how to gracefully decline excessive projects–and thankless tasks.</description>
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<title>We Don’t Shun Unethical Coworkers If They’re High Performers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/we-dont-shun-unethical-coworkers-if-theyre-high-performers</link>
<description>Even in highly ethical companies.</description>
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<title>Best Practices for Leading via Innovation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/08/best-practices-for-leading-via</link>
<description>What do General Electric (GE), Procter &amp; Gamble (P&amp;G) and IBM have in common? All three companies nurture and energize talent, carving out the necessary resources to invest in recruiting, selecting and growing the people who will become their future leaders. So it’s no surprise that GE, P&amp;G and IBM occupy the top three spots […]</description>
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<title>In Praise of the Incomplete Leader</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/02/in-praise-of-the-incomplete-leader</link>
<description>No leader is perfect. The best ones don’t try to be—they concentrate on honing their strengths and find others who can make up for their limitations.</description>
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<title>More Vacation is the Secret Sauce</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/09/more-vacation-is-the-secret-sa</link>
<description>Take more time off — you’ll actually get more done.</description>
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<title>How to Get More Value Out of Your Data Analysts</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/how-to-get-more-value-out-of-your-data-analysts</link>
<description>The more time data analysts and business people spend together, the more productive both groups become.</description>
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<title>Why You Should Watch Out for Your 5-Year Job Anniversary</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/why-you-should-watch-out-for-your-5-year-job-anniversary</link>
<description>Don’t let yourself become a prisoner.</description>
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<title>A Way to Know If Your Corporate Goals Are Too Aggressive</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/07/a-way-to-know-if-your-corporate-goals-are-too-aggressive</link>
<description>Or not aggressive enough.</description>
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<title>Great Leaders Can Think Like Each Member of Their Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/07/great-leaders-can-think-like-each-member-of-their-team</link>
<description>It’s the key to strong collaboration.</description>
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<title>What Makes Some Silicon Valley Companies So Successful</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/04/what-makes-some-silicon-valley-companies-so-successful</link>
<description>It’s not the technology.</description>
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<title>After the Layoffs, What Next?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1998/09/after-the-layoffs-what-next</link>
<description>Sales and stock prices are soaring at Delarks department stores, but morale among the survivors has hit bottom.</description>
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<title>In Praise of Followers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1988/11/in-praise-of-followers</link>
<description>Not all corporate success is due to leadership…</description>
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<title>You’ve Made A Mistake. Now What?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/04/youve-made-a-mistake-now-what</link>
<description>Anyone who has worked in an office for more than a day has made a mistake. While most people accept that slip-ups are unavoidable, no one likes to be responsible for them. The good news is that mistakes, even big ones, don’t have to leave a permanent mark on your career. In fact, most contribute […]</description>
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<title>The Coach Who Got Poached</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/03/the-coach-who-got-poached</link>
<description>He developed excellent people one by one—then watched in frustration as other divisions stole them away.</description>
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<title>The Executive as Coach</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1996/11/the-executive-as-coach</link>
<description>The goal of coaching is the goal of good management: to make the most of an organization’s valuable resources.</description>
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<title>Rethinking the Decision Factory</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/10/rethinking-the-decision-factory</link>
<description>Knowledge workers shouldn’t be managed as if they were manual workers. A new approach can boost efficiency and productivity.</description>
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<title>Creating a Culture of Quality</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/04/creating-a-culture-of-quality</link>
<description>Financial incentives don’t reduce errors. Employees must be passionate about eliminating mistakes.</description>
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<title>The Four Things a Service Business Must Get Right</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/04/the-four-things-a-service-business-must-get-right</link>
<description>Extensive study of the world’s best service companies reveals the principles on which they’re built.</description>
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<title>Winning Support for Flexible Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/12/winning-support-for-flexible-w</link>
<description>Management experts have long predicted the demise of the standard 9-to-5 workday. Thanks to internet and mobile technology, we can now work where and when we want, they argue. So, why are so many people still sticking to those traditional hours, or more likely an extended version of them? The reality is that while flexible […]</description>
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<title>A CEO’s Six Steps to Effective Feedback</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/a-ceos-six-steps-to-effective-1</link>
<description>by Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay</description>
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<title>Are You Working Too Hard?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/11/are-you-working-too-hard</link>
<description>Is stress good or bad for you? The answer is both. New research demonstrates that managers who learn to regulate stress can be more productive and happy at work—and do the same for their teams.</description>
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<title>The Power of Idealistic-Realism: How Great Leaders Inspire and Transform</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/01/the-power-of-idealistic-realis</link>
<description>Several years before I came to Campbell I worked for the CEO of Nabisco as part of his executive team. He asked his direct reports to confidentially take a test designed to provide insight into our ways of thinking. The test results identified me as an “Idealist-Realist.” I’ve used this term as a touchstone time […]</description>
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<title>To Motivate Employees, Help Them Do Their Jobs Better</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/to-motivate-employees-help-them-do-their-jobs-better</link>
<description>Results drive engagement.</description>
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<title>One Engagement Strategy Does Not Fit All</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/one-engagement-strategy-does-not-fit-all</link>
<description>Employees are not clones.</description>
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<title>Dismantling the Sales Machine</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/11/dismantling-the-sales-machine</link>
<description>Selling today requires flexibility, judgment, and a focus on results—not process.</description>
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<title>Enchant Your Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/07/enchant-your-employees</link>
<description>Enchantment defines a relationship with employees that is deep, delightful, and long-lasting. If you can enchant your employees, they will work harder, longer, and smarter for you — and, ideally, you for them too. Here are the ten best ways to enchant your employees. Provide a MAP. In Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates […]</description>
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<title>Managing Yourself: A Smarter Way to Network</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/07/managing-yourself-a-smarter-way-to-network</link>
<description>Successful executives connect with select people and get more out of them.</description>
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<title>The CEO’s Second Act</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/01/the-ceos-second-act</link>
<description>The best CEOs master the ability to reset their goals and reinvigorate their agendas every few years.</description>
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<title>To Innovate, Create “Hunch-Friendly” Environments</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/05/give-me-time-to-think</link>
<description>If you want creativity, you need to encourage it, and allow time for it to percolate. That was the focus of this year’s Front End of Innovation conference in Boston. Steve Johnson, New Media professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, talked about the importance of creating a “hunch-friendly environment.” That is, give your employees […]</description>
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<link>https://hbr.org/2012/07/how-leaders-become-self-aware</link>
<description>A plethora of people, courses, and self-help guides profess to lead you by the hand to the promised land of business success. The problem is that things are always messier than the how-to’s make them out to be. This is why it is often better to consider less the specifics and more the principles and […]</description>
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<link>https://hbr.org/2014/09/each-employees-retirement-is-unique</link>
<description>Have a process, but tailor it to each individual.</description>
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<link>https://hbr.org/2009/10/dont-let-your-strength-become</link>
<description>One of the first things I ask my new clients to do is write down three of their key strengths and three of their flaws. Typically, strengths might be attention to detail, focus, and drive; flaws can be delegation, lack of creativity, and people-management skills. I then ask clients to look carefully at what they […]</description>
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<title>The Tests of a Good Salesperson</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1990/05/the-tests-of-a-good-salesperson</link>
<description>A few years ago, I contracted to evaluate a 25-person sales force. I accompanied each person into the field to observe a full day of calls on customers and prospects. Of course, a single day may not produce typical results. Furthermore, the results of an observed day are almost certainly better than normal, because sellers […]</description>
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<title>Does Management Really Work?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/11/does-management-really-work</link>
<description>How three essential practices can address even the most complex global problems</description>
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<title>What to Do When You Don’t Trust Your Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/what-to-do-when-you-dont-trust-your-team</link>
<description>First, find out whether you’re the problem.</description>
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<title>Conflicting Roles in Budgeting for Operations</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1977/07/conflicting-roles-in-budgeting-for-operations</link>
<description>A senior design engineer for a large American automobile manufacturer recently complained to one of his colleagues. “Those marketing guys want everything. They’ve decided that what they need in the next design series is ‘The All-American Car.’ They say it’s got to be large enough for a family of five (plus dog), small enough to […]</description>
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<title>Research: Cubicles Are the Absolute Worst</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/11/research-cubicles-are-the-absolute-worst</link>
<description>A new study confirms that we hate our open offices — and that they don’t even help us collaborate.</description>
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<title>The Best Advice I Ever Got: Michelle Peluso, President and Chief Executive Officer, Travelocity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/10/the-best-advice-i-ever-got-michelle-peluso-president-and-chief-executive-officer-travelocity</link>
<description>A few months before I was born, my father founded an environmental-engineering firm. I literally grew up watching him build it. Even as a little kid, I was struck by Dad’s obsessive interest in and care for the people who worked for him. Nights when our family’s dinner-table conversation didn’t include discussion of his employees […]</description>
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<title>Problems of Matrix Organizations</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1978/05/problems-of-matrix-organizations</link>
<description>No organization design or method of management is perfect. And any form can suffer from a variety of problems that develop because of the design itself. This is particularly true when a company tries a new form. In this article we look at one relatively new organization form—the matrix—which has gained considerable popularity in recent […]</description>
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<title>Leadership Development in the Age of the Algorithm</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/06/leadership-development-in-the-age-of-the-algorithm</link>
<description>Artwork: Adam Ekberg, Pencils in Drop Ceiling, 2005, ink-jet print Listen to an interview with Marcus Buckingham. Download this podcast Log on to your Facebook page, look at the column on the right, and you will see ads that seem uniquely relevant to you. Same for me: My page has an ad directing me to […]</description>
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<title>Korn/Ferry’s CEO on Transforming the Company in Mid-Crisis</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/kornferrys-ceo-on-transforming-the-company-in-mid-crisis</link>
<description>Photography: Christina House The Idea: Gary Burnison’s faith in the strength of Korn/Ferry’s brand led him to put the firm on a new strategic path—one that would expand its sources of revenue as well as its talent management services for clients. I first bought stock in Korn/Ferry International in 2001. Over the prior 20 years I’d […]</description>
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<title>Great People Are Overrated</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/06/great-people-are-overrated</link>
<description>Last month, in an article in the New York Times on the ever-escalating “war for talent” in Silicon Valley, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a passing comment that has become the entrepreneurial equivalent of a verbal tick — something that’s said all the time, almost without thinking. “Someone who is exceptional in their role is […]</description>
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<title>Most Employees Feel Authentic at Work, but It Can Take a While</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/most-employees-feel-authentic-at-work-but-it-can-take-a-while</link>
<description>Employers can help them get there faster.</description>
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<title>Getting the Truth into Workplace Surveys</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/02/getting-the-truth-into-workplace-surveys</link>
<description>Many companies use surveys to measure employee motivation, job performance, and the effectiveness of HR programs. But more often than not, these tools miss important information and can even create new problems.</description>
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<title>Be Kind to Your Employees, but Don’t Always Be Nice</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/03/be-kind-to-your-employees-but-dont-always-be-nice</link>
<description>Great leaders favor tough love over malevolence — and make it clear that they’re doing so.</description>
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<title>The Lean Service Machine</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/10/the-lean-service-machine</link>
<description>The power of lean operations has transformed manufacturing. Jefferson Pilot Financial proves that service companies can use the same principles to push their performance to new heights.</description>
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<title>No-Nonsense Guide to Measuring Productivity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1988/01/no-nonsense-guide-to-measuring-productivity</link>
<description>A few years ago, a major manufacturing-based conglomerate asked a gifted mathematician to join its corporate staff. One of his first assignments was to design a system that senior managers could use to evaluate the operating efficiency of the company’s various divisions. He devoted many months to the assignment and also tapped the knowledge of […]</description>
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<title>Ask Three Questions to Clarify Expectations</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/08/three-questions-to-clarify</link>
<description>Leave it to a comedian to invert perceptions of the leader-follower dynamic. Jon Stewart recently asked chief White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee “Is [the President] going to impeach us?” After all, Stewart mused, might the unpopularity of the President’s health care reform be due to people’s failure to follow rather than the President’s ability […]</description>
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<title>What Separates the Strongest Salespeople from the Weakest</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/what-separates-the-strongest-salespeople-from-the-weakest</link>
<description>A new study reveals six variables.</description>
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<title>How Feedback Changed the Game for Me</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/12/how-feedback-changed-the-game</link>
<description>I’ve been writing my “Game Changer” blog posts for about four months, and as I reflect on the commentary and feedback my posts have generated, I’ve re-learned a lesson that’s easy to forget–especially for those of us who are captivated by what’s new, what’s exciting, and what’s “cutting-edge” in business. And that lesson is simply […]</description>
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<title>Law Firms Need to Take Care of Their Talent</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/07/law-firms-need-to-take-care-of</link>
<description>Lawyers today will tell you that a law firm should be “run like a business.” But what does this really mean for the profession? And for its clients? A business dependent on the intellect of its workforce ought to invest heavily in talent management and leadership development. This includes understanding employee needs and putting in […]</description>
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<title>Stop Calling People Out</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/10/stop-calling-people-out</link>
<description>It might make you feel good, but it’s probably not helping.</description>
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<title>How to Give Feedback to People Who Cry, Yell, or Get Defensive</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/how-to-give-feedback-to-people-who-cry-yell-or-get-defensive</link>
<description>Preparation is key.</description>
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<title>What Holds Leaders Back</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/05/harvard-business-ideacast-45-w.html</link>
<description>Marshall Goldsmith, executive coach and author of “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful.”</description>
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<title>4 Ways to Be More Effective at Execution</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/4-ways-to-be-more-effective-at-execution</link>
<description>It’s the thing your boss most wants from you.</description>
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<link>https://hbr.org/2012/06/making-the-most-of-a-sales-cal</link>
<description>Over the last decade, the world of business-to-business selling has changed beyond recognition. Face-to-face, transactional selling is dead; where customers want to do transactional business, it is far more effective for both buyer and seller to use the Internet or telephone. Increasingly, customers resent having to spend time in sales calls purely to make standard […]</description>
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<title>How Company Culture Shapes Employee Motivation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/11/how-company-culture-shapes-employee-motivation</link>
<description>It doesn’t happen by accident.</description>
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<title>How Many Direct Reports?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/04/how-many-direct-reports</link>
<description>Senior leaders, always pressed for time, are nonetheless broadening their span of control.</description>
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<title>How to Prioritize Your Work When Your Manager Doesn’t</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/01/how-to-prioritize-your-work-when-your-manager-doesnt</link>
<description>A 2×2 matrix will help.</description>
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<title>Cross-Culture Work in a Global Economy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/cross-culture-work-in-a-global-economy</link>
<description>Erin Meyer, affiliate professor at INSEAD and author of “The Culture Map,” on why memorizing a list of etiquette rules doesn’t work.</description>
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<title>What Leaders Really Do</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2001/12/what-leaders-really-do</link>
<description>They don’t make plans; they don’t solve problems; they don’t even organize people. What leaders really do is prepare organizations for change and help them cope as they struggle through it.</description>
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<title>How I Did It: Zappos’s CEO on Going to Extremes for Customers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/07/how-i-did-it-zapposs-ceo-on-going-to-extremes-for-customers</link>
<description>The Idea: In search of high-caliber employees to staff its call center, Zappos relocated the entire company from San Francisco to Las Vegas in 2004. Here’s why the move made sense.</description>
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<title>Get Out of Your Comfort Zone: A Guide for the Terrified</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/get-out-of-your-comfort-zone-a-guide-for-the-terrified</link>
<description>It’s not easy, but these three tips can help.</description>
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<link>https://hbr.org/1988/11/information-technology-and-tomorrows-manager</link>
<description>The year is 1958. It’s a time of prosperity, productivity, and industrial growth for U.S. corporations, which dominate the world economy. Organizations are growing bigger and more complex by the day. Transatlantic cable service, which has just been initiated, and advances in transportation are allowing companies to expand into international markets. To handle the growth, […]</description>
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<title>What We Can Learn from Japanese Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1971/03/what-we-can-learn-from-japanese-management</link>
<description>Decision by ‘consensus,’ lifetime employment, continuous training, and the godfather system suggest ways to solve U.S. problems</description>
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<title>Make Peace with Your Inner Critic</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2016/01/make-peace-with-your-inner-critic.html</link>
<description>Tara Mohr, author of Playing Big, explains how to deal with self-doubt (or help someone else manage theirs).</description>
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<link>https://hbr.org/2009/01/four-ways-to-encourage-more-pr</link>
<description>In today’s densely interconnected workplaces, working with others — closely, creatively, globally, and productively — drives organizational and personal effectiveness. Employees work in teams formed to tackle particular projects. They work in virtual teams with colleagues, suppliers, clients, and even competitors they never actually meet. They work in ad hoc combinations, in groups that emerge […]</description>
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<link>https://hbr.org/2011/09/achieving-sustained-cost-reduc</link>
<description>When companies go through boom times, they quite naturally take their eyes off costs. But to maintain profits when revenue goes downhill, most CEOs call for cost cutting. The scalpel comes out, and while it’s necessary, it usually comes at a huge cost to employee morale. For example Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan recently […]</description>
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<title>Managers Can Motivate Employees with One Word</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/08/managers-can-motivate-employees-with-one-word</link>
<description>“Together.”</description>
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<title>Managers Can Avoid Wasting Time</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1982/05/managers-can-avoid-wasting-time</link>
<description>The news lately has been filled with reports of the need to improve workers’ productivity if the United States is going to compete successfully with the Japanese and the West Germans. Seldom, however, is managers’ productivity mentioned, although the problem of managerial time wasting was recognized as enormous long before anyone thought of quality circles. […]</description>
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<title>How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Companies</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/10/how-smart-connected-products-are-transforming-companies</link>
<description>Their impact on the value chain and organizational structure. The second in a two-part series.</description>
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<title>How SAP Labs India Became An Innovation Dynamo</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/04/how-sap-labs-india-became-an-i</link>
<description>They empowered employees to experiment with bold new ideas.</description>
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<title>The Mistake Most Managers Make with Cross-Cultural Training</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-mistake-most-managers-make-with-cross-cultural-training</link>
<description>Just focusing on differences isn’t enough.</description>
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<title>A Manager’s Job Is Making Sure Employees Have a Life Outside Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/03/a-managers-job-is-making-sure-employees-have-a-life-outside-work</link>
<description>It’s a more human way of leading.</description>
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<title>How IBM Is Changing Its HR Game</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/08/how-ibm-is-changing-its-hr-gam</link>
<description>As IBM celebrates its 100th birthday, many observers are rightly calling attention to the many strategic changes the company put itself through to remain relevant amidst dramatic technological and economic change. But one of the biggest transformations IBM went through is less about computers and more about culture. Over the last decade and a half, […]</description>
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<title>4 Steps to Beating Burnout</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/11/beating-burnout</link>
<description>How to tell if you have it and what to do about it.</description>
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<title>Long CEO Tenure Can Hurt Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/03/long-ceo-tenure-can-hurt-performance</link>
<description>It’s a familiar cycle: A CEO takes office, begins gaining knowledge and experience, and is soon launching initiatives that boost the bottom line. Fast-forward a decade, and the same executive is risk-averse and slow to adapt to change—and the company’s performance is on the decline. The pattern is so common that many refer to the […]</description>
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<title>What New Team Leaders Should Do First</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/09/what-new-team-leaders-should-do-first</link>
<description>Your agenda for the first few weeks.</description>
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<title>Bad Writing Is Destroying Your Company’s Productivity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/bad-writing-is-destroying-your-companys-productivity</link>
<description>It wastes everyone’s time.</description>
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<title>What Work Email Can Reveal About Performance and Potential</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/what-work-email-can-reveal-about-performance-and-potential</link>
<description>People who send more messages are often higher performers.</description>
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<title>Every Leader’s Real Audience</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/every-leaders-real-audience</link>
<description>Whether you’re talking to the press, the public, or to investors, your employees are always listening.</description>
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<title>Luxury’s Talent Factories</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/luxurys-talent-factories</link>
<description>How companies like LVMH, Kering, and Richemont groom designers and managers</description>
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<title>Strategies to Attract Superpower Marketing Talent</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/07/strategies-to-attract-superpower-marketing-talent</link>
<description>Think of recruiting as a marketing challenge, not an HR issue.</description>
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<title>The End of Customer Service Heroes</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/02/the-end-of-customer-service-he</link>
<description>Frances Frei and Anne Morriss, authors of “Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business.”</description>
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<title>Ten Essential Tips for Hiring Your Next CEO</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/ten-essential-tips-for-hiring-your-next-ceo</link>
<description>Have a plan in place before you actually need to use it.</description>
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<title>Goldman Sachs Decides Restructuring Work Is Possible, After All</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/10/goldman-sachs-decides-restructuring-work-is-possible-after-all</link>
<description>But will their work-life reforms go far enough?</description>
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<title>To Grow as a Leader, Seek More Complex Assignments</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/07/to-grow-as-a-leader-seek-more-complex-assignments</link>
<description>Don’t just build your leadership muscle — find new muscles.</description>
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<title>Why “Good Jobs” Are Good for Retailers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/01/why-good-jobs-are-good-for-retailers</link>
<description>Some companies are investing in their workers and reaping healthy profits.</description>
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<title>Difficult Conversations: 9 Common Mistakes</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/10/difficult-conversations-9-common-mistakes</link>
<description>A whimsical, practical look at what derails us.</description>
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<title>Rethinking Performance Assessment</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/04/assessing-performance-from-ind</link>
<description>Here’s another assumption that is deeply embedded in much of our organizational behavior, but sadly out-of-date: If I keep my head down and do my own task well, I’ll be fine. This assumes that an individual’s responsibility is simply to do a “good job.” In hierarchical organizations, the standard for gauging an individual’s performance is […]</description>
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<title>Inside Procter &amp; Gamble’s New Values-Based Strategy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/09/fall-like-a-lehman-rise-like-a.html</link>
<description>On the anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ fall, the question remains: What, if anything, has changed in the mentality of the financial community? While Wall Street wallows in tales of the fallen, a different, more promising approach to capitalism is rising. Procter &amp; Gamble, the world’s largest consumer products company, has just announced a stunning new […]</description>
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<title>When You Force Employees to Work on Holidays, Everyone Suffers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/11/why-gray-thursday-is-a-bad-ide</link>
<description>It remains to be seen whether retailers really benefit from Thanksgiving Day sales.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Ideal Praise-to-Criticism Ratio</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/03/the-ideal-praise-to-criticism</link>
<description>It’s the secret to high-performing teams — and strong marriages.</description>
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<title>The Contradictions That Drive Toyota’s Success</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/06/the-contradictions-that-drive-toyotas-success</link>
<description>Stable and paranoid, systematic and experimental, formal and frank: The success of Toyota, a pathbreaking six-year study reveals, is due as much to its ability to embrace contradictions like these as to its manufacturing prowess.</description>
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<title>Like It or Not, You Are Always Leading by Example</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/like-it-or-not-you-are-always-leading-by-example</link>
<description>So make sure you know what it means.</description>
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<title>Cultural Intelligence</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/10/cultural-intelligence</link>
<description>Knowing what makes groups tick is as important as understanding individuals. Successful managers learn to cope with different national, corporate, and vocational cultures.</description>
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<title>Managing People from 5 Generations</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/09/managing-people-from-5-generations</link>
<description>How to cross the age divide.</description>
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<title>The Quest for Resilience</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/09/the-quest-for-resilience</link>
<description>In a turbulent age, the only dependable advantage is a superior capacity for reinventing your business model before circumstances force you to. Achieving such strategic resilience isn’t easy. Four tough challenges stand in the way.</description>
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<title>Managing Authenticity: The Paradox of Great Leadership</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/12/managing-authenticity-the-paradox-of-great-leadership</link>
<description>To attract followers, a leader has to be many things to many people. The trick is to pull that off while remaining true to yourself.</description>
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<title>A Xerox Cost Center Imitates a Profit Center</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1985/05/a-xerox-cost-center-imitates-a-profit-center</link>
<description>Organizations serving as cost centers in large bureaucracies all too often operate as if their survival were assured. They hide in the bureaucracy and hang on parasitically. Lacking clear goals or recognition for achievement, they offer no incentive to seek more productive ways of doing their job. Since such cost centers possess few or no […]</description>
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<title>Managing People on a Sinking Ship</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/11/managing-people-on-a-sinking-ship</link>
<description>Help your team stay focused and engaged no matter how bad things get.</description>
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<title>The Gender Gap in Feedback and Self-Perception</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/08/the-gender-gap-in-feedback-and-self-perception</link>
<description>A study of MBA students.</description>
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<title>Bring Nomadic Employees Back to the Mothership</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/11/bring-nomadic-employees-back-t</link>
<description>There’s still a place for the office in an increasingly virtual workplace.</description>
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<title>Why I Appreciate Starbucks</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/04/why-i-appreciate-starbucks</link>
<description>Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks, is not an empty suit. It’s not just that Schultz doesn’t favor suits (at the talk I heard him give last week, he was wearing a cardigan sweater) but also that he has a heart, which he is willing to wear on his sleeve, and a mission in life […]</description>
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<title>HR Chiefs Who Propel Organizational Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/01/hallmarks-of-hr-chiefs-who-pro</link>
<description>You might think that the corporate human resources function doesn’t have much of a role in improving business processes, such as product development, operations, customer service, or distribution. But I’ve found that it does. HR can propel or inhibit process improvement because it has an outsized influence on people: how they are recruited, rewarded, and […]</description>
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<title>What Every CEO Should Know About Creating New Businesses</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/07/what-every-ceo-should-know-about-creating-new-businesses</link>
<description>Decades of research agrees—growth ultimately means starting new businesses. That’s not easy, more for cultural than economic reasons.</description>
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<title>Strategies That Fit Emerging Markets</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/06/strategies-that-fit-emerging-markets</link>
<description>Fast-growing economies often provide poor soil for profits. The cause? A lack of specialized intermediary firms and regulatory systems on which multinational companies depend. Successful businesses look for those institutional voids and work around them.</description>
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<title>Who Wants to Manage a Millionaire?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2000/07/who-wants-to-manage-a-millionaire</link>
<description>They can be demanding. Fickle. Uncommitted. Not to mention hungry for ever more money. Could it be that the millions of millionaire employees at work today are the best thing that ever happened to American business?</description>
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<title>Mentoring Millennials</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/05/mentoring-millennials</link>
<description>Delivering the feedback Gen Y craves is easier than you think.</description>
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<title>Why Accountability Is So Muddled, and How to Un-Muddle It</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/11/why-accountability-is-so-muddled</link>
<description>Three reasons almost every organization is so bad at holding people responsible.</description>
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<title>Why Your Passion for Work Could Ruin Your Career</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/08/why-your-passion-for-work-coul</link>
<description>Every business wants workers who passionately love their work. And for good reason: workers who are inspired are more productive, and passion can provide the energy necessary to fuel engagement, amidst obstacles and setbacks. But while passion seems clearly desirable, recent psychological research suggests that not all forms are adaptive. In fact, some forms can […]</description>
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<title>The Young and the Clueless</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/12/the-young-and-the-clueless</link>
<description>He’s a rising star. He’s also arrogant and unseasoned. Denying him that promotion might be the best thing you could do for his career—and your company.</description>
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<title>25 Stretch Goals for Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/02/25-stretch-goals-for-managemen</link>
<description>Preview Gary Hamel’s February 2009 article in the Harvard Business Review, Moon Shots for Management. In May 2008, a group of renowned scholars and business leaders gathered in Half Moon Bay, California, with a simple goal: to lay out an agenda for reinventing management in the 21st century. The two-day event, organized by the Management […]</description>
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<title>The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2001/01/the-ten-deadly-mistakes-of-wanna-dots</link>
<description>All kinds of traditional businesses are declaring themselves born-again dot-coms, but the truth is, most avoid the deep change required to really compete. Here are their ten favorite ways to fail—and two stories to show there’s still hope for companies that want to cross the digital divide.</description>
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<title>To Be a Fly on the Wall at Facebook on IPO Day</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/05/facebooks-ipo-what-might-be-ha</link>
<description>Facebook “goes public” Friday, May 18th. Imagine what it might be like inside the company right now. Soon, paper stock option agreements tucked into employee compensation folders could erupt into cascades of real dollars. Maybe employees will soon barge through the doors and board shuttle busses to the BMW dealerships, software bugs be damned. Or […]</description>
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<title>Why Good People Skills Matter in a Recession</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/02/why-good-people-skills-matter</link>
<description>I spend a great deal of my time coaching executives on how to become more effective leaders and managers. An important part of this work is to help them develop good relationships with their key staff and stakeholders. We explore different ways of influencing, motivating, and leading people and by extending their skills — I […]</description>
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<title>Don’t End a Meeting Without Doing These 3 Things</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/04/dont-end-a-meeting-without-doing-these-3-things</link>
<description>Make sure everyone’s on the same page.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Marketers Flunk the Big Data Test</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/08/marketers-flunk-the-big-data-test</link>
<description>The big-data explosion is driving a shift away from gut-based decision making. Marketing in particular is feeling the pressure to embrace new data-driven customer intelligence capabilities. No wonder a strong appetite for data is one of the most sought-after qualities in new marketers. And yet, a recent CEB study of nearly 800 marketers at Fortune […]</description>
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<title>What Anonymous Feedback Will (and Won’t) Tell You</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/06/confidential-surveys-undermine</link>
<description>Asking your team for confidential feedback might create the very problem you want to avoid.</description>
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<title>Improving Management at Google</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2013/11/improving-management-at-google.html</link>
<description>Eric Clayberg, Google software-engineering manager, talks with Harvard Business School professor David Garvin about the feedback and training that he and others at the company receive through Project Oxygen.</description>
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<title>The Sales Learning Curve</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/07/the-sales-learning-curve</link>
<description>Because new-product launches often take longer and cost more than expected, many promising offerings are prematurely aborted. Smart companies give themselves time and money enough to climb the sales learning curve before ramping up the sales force.</description>
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<title>New Research: Flexibility Versus Face Time</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/07/new-research-flexibility-versu</link>
<description>One finding: men use flexible work arrangements just as much as women.</description>
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<title>Computerized Sales Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1983/03/computerized-sales-management</link>
<description>Sales managers should not be recruiters and cheerleaders but business managers of territories, districts, and regions, with all the problems of scarce resources, government regulation, and shrinking profits. This article illustrates how microcomputers can help sales managers at all levels deal with the pressure and overcome the problems. These computers can help them plan sales […]</description>
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<title>Dealing with the Real Reasons People Leave</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/dealing-with-the-real-reasons</link>
<description>by Judith A. Ross</description>
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<title>When Flextime Isn’t Working</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/04/when-flextime-isnt-working</link>
<description>Governor Ted Strickland of Ohio recently took away most flexible work arrangements for state government workers, a move that was endorsed by the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He eliminated the four-day workweek, severely limited telecommuting, and stated that exceptions to a standard 8-to-5 workday are to be made only at management’s discretion. According to a memo […]</description>
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<title>A Simpler Way to Get Employees to Share</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/12/a-simpler-way-to-get-employees-to-share.html</link>
<description>You don’t need fancy tools to stop hoarding in its tracks.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>7 Things Leaders Do to Help People Change</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/07/7-things-leaders-do-to-help-people-change</link>
<description>Being nice isn’t enough.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Whether You’re Qualified Depends on How You’re Quantified</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/10/whether-youre-qualified-depends-on-how-youre-quantified</link>
<description>The interview question of the future.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Oprah Winfrey and Your Leadership Brand</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/11/what-oprah-can-teach-you-about</link>
<description>All leaders have a brand. Whether that term is used or not, leaders have an identifiable persona that is a reflection of what they do and how others perceive them. I call this the leadership brand. When it comes to cultivating a leadership brand, look no further than Oprah Winfrey, who recently announced that she […]</description>
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<title>Are You Sure You’re Not a Bad Boss?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/08/are-you-sure-youre-not-a-bad-b</link>
<description>It’s not what you do but what you don’t do that matters.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>What Really Works</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/07/what-really-works</link>
<description>Separate the facts from the fads: A groundbreaking, five-year study reveals the must-have management practices that truly produce superior results.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Making Onboarding Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/06/making-onboarding-work</link>
<description>With fresh faces in organizations and new interns flooding offices, it’s time to really think about what the first steps are for bringing a new employee onto your team. Originally, the process of converting a newly-hired stranger into a fully-contributing and knowledgeable employee was left to the personnel department’s most junior benefits clerk in the […]</description>
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<title>How 4 Retailers Became “Best Places to Work”</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/01/how-4-retailers-became-best-places-to-work</link>
<description>They realized culture matters as much as wages.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How Iconoclasts Think</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2010/05/how-iconoclasts-think.html</link>
<description>Gregory Berns, the Distinguished Chair of Neuroeconomics at Emory University and author of “Iconoclast.”</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Why Companies Are So Bad at Treating Employees Like People</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/10/why-companies-are-so-bad-at-treating-employees-like-people</link>
<description>Restoring humanity by fiat doesn’t work.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Wilderness Leadership—on the Job</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/04/wilderness-leadership-on-the-job</link>
<description>Five principles from outdoor exploration that will make you a better manager</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>PepsiCo’s Chief Design Officer on Creating an Organization Where Design Can Thrive</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/pepsicos-chief-design-officer-on-creating-an-organization-where-design-can-thrive</link>
<description>Mauro Porcini on prototyping, building the right team, and more.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/how-to-know-if-a-spin-off-will-succeed</link>
<description>Advice for parents and children.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Succeeding at Succession</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/11/succeeding-at-succession</link>
<description>For too long, boards have relied on rules of thumb and conventional wisdom when picking CEOs. So we took a look at the numbers—and found some surprises.</description>
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<title>Why Good Boards Aren’t There When You Need Them</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/09/why-good-boards-are-never-ther.html</link>
<description>There has been a lot of talk about governance in the wake of the financial crisis. People have been wondering: where were the directors when numerous financial institutions bet the proverbial mortgage on, well, mortgages and their related products? Those directors are supposed to be there to defend the shareholders against self-interested executives trying to […]</description>
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<title>It’s All About Day One</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/06/its-all-about-day-one</link>
<description>How to give an new executive the best possible start</description>
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<title>Why Good Advice Sometimes Feels So Bad</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/12/why-good-advice-sometimes-feel</link>
<description>Consider this, from Science Daily, Dec. 1, 2010: New research by University of Minnesota psychologists shows how social support benefits are maximized when provided “invisibly” — that is, without the support recipient being aware that they are receiving it. The study, “Getting in Under the Radar: A Dyadic View of Invisible Support,” is published in […]</description>
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<title>Sentiment Analysis Can Do More than Prevent Fraud and Turnover</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/sentiment-analysis-can-do-more-than-prevent-fraud-and-turnover</link>
<description>It can signal ways to boost morale.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Managing the High-Intensity Workplace</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/managing-the-high-intensity-workplace</link>
<description>An “always available” culture breeds a variety of dysfunctional behaviors.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Using VoIP to Compete</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/09/using-voip-to-compete</link>
<description>Since Alexander Graham Bell’s day, businesses have bought telephone services the same way they’ve purchased electricity, janitorial functions, and water for the cooler—as packaged offerings defined by an outside provider. Sure, companies could choose from a menu of configuration options and service plans, but, in the end, the phone company or vendor called the shots. […]</description>
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<title>How Ritual Delivers Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/02/how-ritual-delivers-performanc</link>
<description>Great sports coaches recognize the importance of ritual. So should you.</description>
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<title>Clear Writing Means Clear Thinking Means…</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1973/01/clear-writing-means-clear-thinking-means</link>
<description>Very few people have the ability to write effortlessly and perfectly; most of us must sweat over the process of revision, drafting, and redrafting until we get it right. Equally, very few people think accurately enough so that mere transcriptions of “what they have in mind” can serve as intelligent communications. Here the author points […]</description>
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<title>New Research Shows Success Doesn’t Make Women Less Likable</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/04/leaning-in-without-hesitation</link>
<description>People like leaders who get results, no matter their gender.</description>
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<title>Driving Change: An Interview with Ford Motor Company’s Jacques Nasser</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1999/03/driving-change-an-interview-with-ford-motor-companys-jacques-nasser</link>
<description>How do you shift strategy into overdrive at a company with 340,000 employees in more than 200 countries? The answer, says Ford’s iconoclastic new leader, is teaching as you’ve never seen it before.</description>
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<title>Take Ownership of Your Actions by Taking Responsibility</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/08/take-ownership-of-your-actions</link>
<description>Help is not coming.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Battle for China’s Talent</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/03/the-battle-for-chinas-talent</link>
<description>Western multinationals are losing their luster as employers of choice. Here’s how they can regain their advantage.</description>
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<title>You Can’t Be a Great Manager If You’re Not a Good Coach</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/07/you-cant-be-a-great-manager-if-youre-not-a-good-coach</link>
<description>The most important thing is having the right kinds of conversations.</description>
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<title>How to Work for a Narcissistic Boss</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/04/how-to-work-for-a-narcissistic-boss</link>
<description>Flattery will get you everywhere.</description>
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<title>Eight Ways to Build Collaborative Teams</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/11/eight-ways-to-build-collaborative-teams</link>
<description>Even the largest and most complex teams can work together effectively if the right conditions are in place.</description>
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<title>If You Want Innovation, You Have to Invest in People</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/10/if-you-want-innovation-invest-in-people</link>
<description>Open innovation is no substitute for well-developed skill.</description>
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<title>Surviving the Boss from Hell</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/09/surviving-the-boss-from-hell-2</link>
<description>There was a gust from the overhead duct, and my project manager certification floated onto my keyboard—no amount of Fun-Tak and tape could keep it attached to the walls of my cubicle. At the same moment, a meeting invite appeared on my screen, accompanied by Outlook’s distinctive doink—another “emergency” department meeting. As the pop-up slowly […]</description>
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<title>How to Disagree with Your Boss</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/how-to-disagree-with-your-boss</link>
<description>First, be sure that your good intentions are clear.</description>
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<title>A Health Mandate That Business Can Live With</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/06/a-health-mandate-that-business</link>
<description>Whether President Obama’s health reform law lives or dies after next week’s Supreme Court decision, it won’t alter the dire fact that employee health costs have exploded to become the third-largest expense in business today, undermining the financial health of thousands of companies. Until now, most businesses have tried to deal with their surging health […]</description>
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<title>An Easy Way to Make Your Employees Happier</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/an-easy-way-to-make-your-employees-happier</link>
<description>Give them a challenge.</description>
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<title>Your Future Employer Is Watching You Online. You Should Be, Too.</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/04/your-future-employer-is-watchi</link>
<description>Welcome to the Permanent Job Search. From now on, all of us will be “looking” for a job even when we’re not actually looking for a job. Employers are researching each of us digitally 24/7/365. Our resumes are perpetually available online in various forms, some of which we control and some of which we don’t. […]</description>
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<title>Learning to Live with Complexity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/09/learning-to-live-with-complexity</link>
<description>How to make sense of the unpredictable and the undefinable in today’s hyperconnected business world</description>
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<title>Management’s Little Black Dress: Essential Practices for Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/11/the-little-black-dress-of-mana</link>
<description>Since Coco Chanel unveiled her iconic black dress in Paris in 1926, that little black dress has become a clothing essential in every woman’s wardrobe. In a similar vein I have been working with an international research team for the last decade to discover the essentials of management. This team — from the Harvard Business […]</description>
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<title>Inner Work Life: Understanding the Subtext of Business Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/05/inner-work-life-understanding-the-subtext-of-business-performance</link>
<description>The first comprehensive look at what employees are thinking and feeling as they go about their work, why it matters, and how managers can use this information to improve job performance.</description>
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<title>Keep Learning Once You Hit the C-Suite</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/keep-learning-once-you-hit-the-c-suite</link>
<description>Four strategies to keep your skills sharp.</description>
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<title>We Need a Better Way to Visualize People’s Skills</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/we-need-a-better-way-to-visualize-peoples-skills</link>
<description>The “competency grid” is a promising new tool.</description>
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<title>The Importance of Giving Credit</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/03/the-importance-of-giving-credit</link>
<description>Assigning credit correctly is a key to motivating people and driving performance.</description>
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<title>Jack Welch’s Approach to Breaking Down Silos Still Works</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/jack-welchs-approach-to-breaking-down-silos-still-works</link>
<description>“Work-Outs” have only become more useful.</description>
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<title>Business and Labor—from Adversaries to Allies</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1982/11/business-and-labor-from-adversaries-to-allies</link>
<description>America’s economic problems reflect more than a business slowdown. They mirror an inability to cope with broad changes in social values or the labyrinth of international relationships and a breakdown in the systems traditionally used to manage the workplace. A lasting solution to these problems requires not only new macroeconomic schemes but also a revision […]</description>
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<title>Learning Is the Most Celebrated Neglected Activity in the Workplace</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/learning-to-lead-takes-courage-not-just-time</link>
<description>It takes courage, as well as time.</description>
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<title>Etsy’s Hackathon for Good</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/11/etsys-hackathon-for-good</link>
<description>How the online shopping platform becomes a certified B Corporation.</description>
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<title>Connecting with Your Foreign-Born Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/05/connecting-with-your-foreign-born-emp</link>
<description>They’re polite. They’re hardworking. So what do you do when your management methods just aren’t working?</description>
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<title>Why Employees Are Afraid to Speak</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/05/why-employees-are-afraid-to-speak</link>
<description>What would you think if you overheard an employee confiding in another, “If I tell the director…what customers are saying, my career will be shot”? We actually heard this, verbatim, in the course of our research on communication in a leading high-technology corporation. Our study suggests that this type of self-censorship is common, from the […]</description>
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<title>How to Keep Your Top Talent</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/05/how-to-keep-your-top-talent</link>
<description>One-quarter of the highest-potential people in your company intend to jump ship within the year. Here’s what you’re doing wrong.</description>
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<title>How Virtual Teams Can Create Human Connections Despite Distance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/how-virtual-teams-can-create-human-connections-despite-distance</link>
<description>Start by un-muting your conference calls.</description>
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<title>Why His Merit Raise Is Bigger Than Hers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/04/why-his-merit-raise-is-bigger-than-hers</link>
<description>Meritocratic pay systems, in which superior performers are supposed to receive higher raises and bonuses than mediocre workers, are standard in well-managed companies. Differentiated pay is thought to increase workers’ effort and boost retention of top employees. But such pay-for-performance systems may have an unrecognized downside. Research I codirected suggests that, paradoxically, managers in explicit […]</description>
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<title>Employee Engagement Depends on What Happens Outside of the Office</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/employee-engagement-depends-on-what-happens-outside-of-the-office</link>
<description>So stop only considering 9-5.</description>
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<title>Gearing Up at REI</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/05/gearing-up-at-rei</link>
<description>A chief executive reflects on what makes employees passionate and the business lessons he learned in a close call on a glacier.</description>
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<title>How Virtual Humans Can Build Better Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/07/how-virtual-humans-can-build-better-leaders</link>
<description>Avatars are teaching social skills in simulations.</description>
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<title>To Improve Performance, Audit Your Employees’ Emails</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/03/want-higher-performance-audit.html</link>
<description>Is your inbox littered with internal correspondence that narrows your pupils while raising your blood pressure? Are you cc:ed or bcc:ed on email exchanges that make you occasionally wonder what your direct reports, and their clients, actually do for a living? (My particular irk is the “forward” linking me to long spools of detailed correspondence […]</description>
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<title>Home Depot’s Blueprint for Culture Change</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/04/home-depots-blueprint-for-culture-change</link>
<description>Deep, lasting culture change requires an integrated approach that remodels a company’s social systems. The leadership team of Home Depot employed a remarkable set of tools to do that.</description>
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<title>Building a Leadership Brand</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/07/building-a-leadership-brand</link>
<description>You want your leaders to be the kind of people who embody the promises your company makes to its customers. To build this capability, follow these five principles.</description>
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<title>Mid-Year Business Book Review</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/07/harvard-business-ideacast-53-m.html</link>
<description>John Landry, HBR book reviewer.</description>
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<title>From Purpose to Impact</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/from-purpose-to-impact</link>
<description>Figure out your passion and put it to work.</description>
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<title>The Founder’s Dilemma</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/the-founders-dilemma</link>
<description>Most entrepreneurs want to make a lot of money and to run the show. New research shows that it’s tough to do both. If you don’t figure out which matters more to you, you could end up being neither rich nor king.</description>
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<title>Can You Prevent Heart Attacks?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/08/can-you-prevent-employee-heart</link>
<description>Leaders clearly contribute to a company’s health and longevity. Can they do the same for their employees? A handful of studies have shown that poor leadership — think Dilbert’s pointy-haired boss or the feckless Michael Scott of “The Office” — can boost workers’ chances of having a heart attack. Now the results of a 10-year […]</description>
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<title>Companies Like Amazon Need to Run More Tests on Workplace Practices</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/companies-like-amazon-need-to-run-more-tests-on-workplace-practices</link>
<description>The benefits of experiments are substantial.</description>
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<title>Reawakening Your Passion for Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/04/reawakening-your-passion-for-work</link>
<description>In every person’s life, the time comes to take stock. The process is almost always painful and messy—but five practical strategies can help guide you and give your life new direction and meaning.</description>
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<title>How to Negotiate Your Next Salary</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/04/how-to-negotiate-your-next-sal.html</link>
<description>Negotiating a salary can be an uncomfortable process. You want to get what you’re worth but you also don’t want to offend or scare off your future employer. This situation is only more complicated in a tough job market. When offers are few and job seekers are plenty, you might be tempted to take whatever […]</description>
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<title>The Middle Manager as Innovator</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/07/the-middle-manager-as-innovator</link>
<description>Change masters don’t sit in the executive suite, but they’re not on the margins, either. They’re consummate insiders who get things done by working through other people.</description>
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<title>How to Boost Employee Loyalty</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/09/how-to-boost-employee-loyalty</link>
<description>According to a just-released report on employee loyalty from Walker Information, 36% of U.S. workers say they plan to leave their current organization within the next two years, a spike of five percentage points from 2005. And almost a quarter more feel trapped in their jobs. Pretty alarming statistics, and it doesn’t get much better […]</description>
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How to Make Diversity and Inclusion Real
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<link>https://hbr.org/2011/07/how-to-make-diversity-and-incl</link>
<description>A few years ago, my best friend, who is gay, contracted stomach cancer. Serendipitously, the day after I learned of his condition, a member of Campbell’s OPEN network (our human resources network — a.k.a “affinity group” — which supports the LGBT community), offered me a rainbow-colored bracelet to wear in support of “gay pride.” I […]</description>
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<title>Transforming Strategy One Customer at a Time</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/03/transforming-strategy-one-customer-at-a-time</link>
<description>How B2B giant Thomson Corporation reinvented itself by embracing a P&amp;G mind-set.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Seven Types of Sales Managers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/09/seven-types-of-sales-managers-whic</link>
<description>Maybe you’ll recognize yourself.</description>
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<title>A Modest Proposal: Eliminate Email</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/a-modest-proposal-eliminate-email</link>
<description>Reasonable attempts to tame it are doomed to fail.</description>
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<title>Measure Employee Productivity Accurately</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/03/measure-employee-productivity</link>
<description>Francesca Gino, author of the HBR Press book Sidetracked, explains how managers can work around input bias to get a real picture of performance in their companies.</description>
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<title>Honeywell’s CEO on How He Avoided Layoffs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/06/honeywells-ceo-on-how-he-avoided-layoffs</link>
<description>na</description>
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<title>Understanding What Your Sales Manager Is Up Against</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/07/understanding-what-your-sales-manager-is-up-against</link>
<description>Patterns of customer behavior have changed. Today, consumers may be well along in their buying process before you get the first whiff of a lead. Consequently, sales organizations should redesign—and in some ways reinvent—the selling process.</description>
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<title>Encourage Your Employees to Talk About Other Job Offers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/encourage-your-employees-to-talk-about-other-job-offers</link>
<description>Knowing their career goals will help both of you.</description>
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<title>Network Effects Aren’t Enough</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/04/network-effects-arent-enough</link>
<description>The hidden traps in building an online marketplace</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>New Study: How Communication Drives Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/11/new-study-how-communication-dr</link>
<description>[For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.] “Courage, innovation and discipline help drive company performance especially in tough economic times. Effective internal communications can keep employees engaged in the business and help companies retain key talent, provide consistent value to customers, and deliver superior financial performance to shareholders.” Watson Wyatt 2009 According to Watson Wyatt’s […]</description>
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<title>The Decision-Driven Organization</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/06/the-decision-driven-organization</link>
<description>Forget the org chart—the secret is to focus on decisions, not structure.</description>
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<title>Fire All the Managers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/11/fire-all-the-managers</link>
<description>Gary Hamel, director of the Management Innovation eXchange and author of the HBR article “First, Let’s Fire All the Managers.”</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/building-a-software-start-up-inside-ge</link>
<description>A case study for intrapreneurs.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Lessons from Toyota’s Long Drive</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/07/lessons-from-toyotas-long-drive</link>
<description>As Toyota becomes the world’s biggest automaker, the company finds its much-heralded ways of managing for the long term to be more important—and under greater pressure—than ever before.</description>
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<title>How to Design Smart Business Experiments</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/02/how-to-design-smart-business-experiments</link>
<description>Managers now have the tools to conduct small-scale tests and gain real insight. But too many “experiments” don’t prove much of anything.</description>
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<title>Changing an Organization’s Culture, Without Resistance or Blame</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/07/changing-an-organizations-culture-without-resistance-or-blame</link>
<description>How Lear beat the odds.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Disengaged Employees? Do Something About It</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/07/disengaged-employees-do-someth</link>
<description>Pointers for helping your people bring their best selves to work.</description>
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<title>Should You Play Favorites?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/should-you-play-favorites-1</link>
<description>Yes. There are good reasons to differentiate between how you treat people. If you do it right, you’ll see the results in improved organizational performance. by Lauren Keller Johnson</description>
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<title>Break Bad Habits with a Simple Checklist</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/02/break-bad-habits-with-a-simple-checklist</link>
<description>To change your behavior, start tracking it.</description>
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<title>Sustainable Business Truths: The Least Your Employees Need to Know</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/08/sustainable-business-truths</link>
<description>In hard times, focusing your company on environmental challenges and opportunities — or “greening” your business — can be a terrific source of employee motivation. But I make the case in my new book Green Recovery that increasing engagement and knowledge around green issues isn’t just about pumping up morale — it also gives your […]</description>
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<title>LGBT-Inclusive Companies Are Better at 3 Big Things</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/lgbt-inclusive-companies-are-better-at-3-big-things</link>
<description>Why they have an edge in marketing and talent management.</description>
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<title>Work-Life Balance Is Easier When Your Manager Knows How to Assess Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/04/work-life-balance-is-easier-when-your-manager-knows-how-to-assess-performance</link>
<description>Appraisals shouldn’t focus on chair time.</description>
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<title>Meaning Is the New Money</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/03/challenging-our-deeply-held-as</link>
<description>Over the last year, I’ve been doing a lot of research on how organizations will need to evolve to meet the demands of the 21st century. The central premise of this work is that new technologies, most of which have appeared only within the last decade, greatly amplify our abilities to interact simultaneously with large […]</description>
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<title>Why Fair Bosses Fall Behind</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/07/why-fair-bosses-fall-behind</link>
<description>In management, fairness is a virtue. Numerous academic studies have shown that the most effective leaders are generally those who give employees a voice, treat them with dignity and consistency, and base decisions on accurate and complete information. But there’s a hidden cost to this behavior. We’ve found that although fair managers earn respect, they’re […]</description>
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<title>Most Managers Think of Themselves as Coaches</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/07/most-managers-think-of-themselves-as-coaches</link>
<description>Especially at more senior levels.</description>
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<title>What’s the Hard Return on Employee Wellness Programs?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/12/whats-the-hard-return-on-employee-wellness-programs</link>
<description>The ROI data will surprise you, and the softer evidence may inspire you.</description>
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<title>Employees Who Create Problems on Purpose</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/11/employees-who-create-problems</link>
<description>This article also appears in the November, 2007, issue of Harvard Business Review with the title “Munchausen at Work.” One particularly disturbing psychological disorder is Munchausen by proxy, in which a caregiver exaggerates, fabricates, or induces illness in another person in order to get praise for then helping the victim. A similar pathology occurs in […]</description>
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<title>What Motivates the Gig Economy, According to 85 Interviews with Uber and Lyft Drivers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-motivates-gig-economy-workers</link>
<description>It’s not always about money.</description>
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<title>How to Keep Good Employees in a Bad Economy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/02/how-to-keep-good-employees-in</link>
<description>As we make our way through the challenges of the global economic crisis, high-impact performers are in demand. I’m speaking here of the indispensible workers who are willing to do what it takes to help the company succeed even in the most difficult of times. Those who pick up the slack when the organization is […]</description>
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<title>Leadership Development Should Focus on Experiments</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/04/leadership-development-should-focus-on-experiments</link>
<description>Put learning into practice.</description>
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<title>Ram Charan on Leadership</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/01/harvard-business-ideacast-27-r.html</link>
<description>Ram Charan, author of “Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don’t.”</description>
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<title>Five Ways to Measure Performance - HBR Video</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/video/2851478381001/five-ways-to-measure-performance</link>
<description>Stacey Barr, performance measure specialist at Stacey Barr Pty Ltd, details the pros and cons of different performances measures and explains when to use each.</description>
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<title>Are Managers Obsolete?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1999/03/are-managers-obsolete</link>
<description>Complexity theorists argue that management counts for little in a world of radical discontinuity. So why do the best-led companies so often prevail?</description>
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<title>Editors’ Picks of the Week</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/11/editors-picks-of-the-week</link>
<description>HBR editors read top posts from HBR.org.</description>
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<title>How to Coach, According to 5 Great Sports Coaches</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/how-to-coach-according-to-5-great-sports-coaches</link>
<description>Advice from Sir Alex Ferguson, Bill Parcels, Bill Walsh, Joe Girardi, and Bela Karolyi.</description>
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<title>Internal Hires Need Orientation Too</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/11/internal-hires-need-orientation-too</link>
<description>Don’t assume they know everything already.</description>
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<title>Why a Happy Brain Performs Better</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/11/why-a-happy-brain-performs-bet</link>
<description>Shawn Achor, CEO of Aspirant and author of “The Happiness Advantage.”</description>
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<title>Want Productive Employees? Treat Them Like Adults</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/03/treat-employees-with-trust</link>
<description>A lack of trust is at the heart of the workplace issues in places like Yahoo and Best Buy.</description>
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<title>To Get More Creative, Become Less Productive</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/11/to-get-more-creative-become-less-productive</link>
<description>Managers will have to choose.</description>
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<title>The Coming Collapse of Average Managers and Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/10/the-coming-collapse-of-average.html</link>
<description>Another new study shows the disproportionate value of the best bosses; how will organizations respond?</description>
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<title>The India Way of Leading Business</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/05/the-india-way-of-leading-busin</link>
<description>(Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future. The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana, and Scott Snook. This week’s focus: cultural distinctions and […]</description>
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<title>Great Leaders Don’t Need Experience</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/10/great-leaders-dont-need-experience</link>
<description>The finding: The best leaders tend to be outsiders who don’t have a great deal of experience. The research: Gautam Mukunda studied political, business, and military leaders, categorizing them into two groups: “filtered leaders,” insiders whose careers followed a normal progression; and “unfiltered leaders,” who either were outsiders with little experience or got their jobs […]</description>
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<title>European Layoffs: Choosing Between the Young, the Weak and the Old</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/08/european-layoffs-choosing-betw</link>
<description>The first article of this series reported that, traditionally, European firms fire employees by expense categories–the most expensive first, followed by successively less expensive employees. Europeans generally did not examine productivity. This approach generates cost savings at the expense of experience, since salary is highly correlated to seniority. Socially, it may seem fairer, as well, […]</description>
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<title>Avoiding the Behaviors That Turn Nice Employees into Mean Bosses</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/dont-let-power-corrupt-you</link>
<description>How to rise to the top without losing the virtues that got you there</description>
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<title>The Ordinary Heroes of the Taj</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/12/the-ordinary-heroes-of-the-taj</link>
<description>How an Indian hotel chain’s organizational culture nurtured employees who were willing to risk their lives to save their guests</description>
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<title>Your Leadership Development Program Needs an Overhaul</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/12/your-leadership-development-program-needs-an-overhaul</link>
<description>How three big companies fixed theirs.</description>
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<title>HBR Blog Network</title>
<link>http://s.hbr.org/1a8e92I</link>
<description>HBR blog post</description>
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<title>Research: We’re Not Very Self-Aware, Especially at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/research-were-not-very-self-aware-especially-at-work</link>
<description>And it’s hurting our teams.</description>
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<title>Managing the Crisis You Tried to Prevent</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1995/11/managing-the-crisis-you-tried-to-prevent</link>
<description>A graduate of the school of hard knocks offers a painless guide to the six stages of crisis management.</description>
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<title>The Contribution Revolution: Letting Volunteers Build Your Business</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/10/the-contribution-revolution-letting-volunteers-build-your-business</link>
<description>Intuit’s cofounder challenges traditional companies to follow the lead of internet superstars—and of innovative peers such as Honda, Procter &amp; Gamble, and Hyatt—in tapping the contributions of countless people beyond their organizations.</description>
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<title>Making Diverse Teams Click</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/07/making-diverse-teams-click</link>
<description>Diverse teams are prone to dysfunction because the very differences that feed creativity and high performance can also create communication barriers. Conventional team-building activities are unreliable for such groups, because their one-size-fits-all approach to building cohesion fails to recognize team members’ idiosyncratic strengths and weaknesses and how they can be combined to make the whole […]</description>
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<title>How EMC Maintained Morale While Cutting Costs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/09/what-keeps-highperforming-empl</link>
<description>What keeps high-performing employees devoted to their jobs, even in a dismal work environment? The answer isn’t a steady salary. According to research for my upcoming book, Top Talent: Keeping Performance Up When Business Is Down , the two key levers in strengthening employee engagement are stimulating assignments and great colleagues. It’s impossible to understate […]</description>
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<title>Three Questions to Advance Your Career</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/02/three-questions-to-advance-your-career</link>
<description>Feedback only helps if you’re asking the right things to the right people.</description>
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<title>The Value of an Honest Performance Review - HBR Video</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/video/2745595547001/the-value-of-an-honest-performance-review</link>
<description>Dick Grote, president of Grote Consulting, shares his first performance appraisal and explains how the frank feedback impacted his career trajectory.</description>
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<title>Boost Your Productivity with Microbreaks</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/04/boost-your-productivity-with-m</link>
<description>Charlotte Fritz, assistant professor at Portland State University.</description>
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<title>How to Decide What Skill to Work On Next</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/how-to-decide-what-skill-to-work-on-next</link>
<description>A three-step process.</description>
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<title>What Do Millennials Really Want at Work? The Same Things the Rest of Us Do</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/04/what-do-millennials-really-want-at-work</link>
<description>The research on generational differences has been overhyped.</description>
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<title>When the Twitterverse Turns on You</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/03/when-the-twitterverse-turns-on-you</link>
<description>An airline’s social media contest backfires. How should the company respond?</description>
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<title>In Praise of Electronically Monitoring Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/10/in-praise-of-electronically-monitoring-employees</link>
<description>Controversial anti-theft software has made restaurant employees more productive.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>When a New Manager Stumbles, Who’s at Fault?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1996/03/when-a-new-manager-stumbles-whos-at-fault</link>
<description>Bulwark Securities’ new managers get a five-pound policy manual. They need a lot more.</description>
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<title>Fire, Snowball, Mask, Movie: How Leaders Spark and Sustain Change</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/11/fire-snowball-mask-movie-how-leaders-spark-and-sustain-change</link>
<description>What does it take for an ineffective manager to become a highly effective leader? Talk to 50 top CEOs, management consultants, and academics, and you’ll get a different answer from each. There are countless books, models, and formulas for success. But the truth is this: Leadership transformation is deeply dependent on context. Everyone follows his […]</description>
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<title>The Case for Lending Out Your Star Performers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-case-for-lending-out-your-star-performers</link>
<description>How trading talent helps everyone.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Escape Your Comfort Zone</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2017/02/escape-your-comfort-zone</link>
<description>Andy Molinsky, professor of organizational behavior at Brandeis International Business School, discusses practical techniques for getting outside of your comfort zone, and how that can develop new capabilities and experiences that can help your career. His new book is “Reach: A New Strategy to Help You Step Outside your Comfort Zone, Rise to the Challenge and Build Confidence.”</description>
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<title>5 Tips for New Team Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/09/5-tips-for-new-team-leaders</link>
<description>Overcommunicate, for a start.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How IT Professionals Can Embrace the Serendipity Economy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/08/how-it-professionals-can-embrace-the-serendipity</link>
<description>The principles of understanding value have changed.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Lessons from a Failed Social Entrepreneur</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/02/lessons-from-a-failed-social-e</link>
<description>Before you start something, put your ego away and get experience.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Annual Review Revolution</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/webinar/2016/09/the-annual-review-revolution</link>
<description>Featuring Wharton professor Peter Cappelli, director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources.</description>
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<title>Stop Focusing on Your Strengths</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2016/01/stop-focusing-on-your-strengths.html</link>
<description>Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, professor at University College London and Columbia University and CEO of Hogan Assessments, explains how the fad for strengths-based coaching may actually be weakening us.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Best Teams Hold Themselves Accountable</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/the-best-teams-hold-themselves-accountable</link>
<description>It’s the boss’s job to make sure they can.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>A New Tool for Boards: The Strategic Audit</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1995/07/a-new-tool-for-boards-the-strategic-audit</link>
<description>Establishing a formal process will help directors review a company’s strategy without undermining the CEO.</description>
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<title>Make It OK for Employees to Challenge Your Ideas</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/make-it-ok-for-employees-to-challenge-your-ideas</link>
<description>Advice for avoiding isolation at the top.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>You Are Not the Best Judge of You</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/11/you-are-not-the-best-judge-of</link>
<description>“To create a reliable 360 survey,” Marcus Buckingham concludes in his recent blog on this site, “The Fatal Flaws With 360 Surveys,” all you need do is…ask the rater to evaluate himself on his own feelings.” Since you are an expert on your own feelings, your responses have to be solid. That seems logical, and […]</description>
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<title>7 Ways to Improve Employee Development Programs</title>
<link>http://hbr.org/2015/07/7-ways-to-improve-employee-development-programs</link>
<description>Get the most out of your talent budget.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Why (and How) to Take a Plant Tour</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1997/05/why-and-how-to-take-a-plant-tour</link>
<description>By adopting a systematic approach to plant tours, visitors can uncover and communicate a wealth of strategic and operating information.</description>
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<title>Don’t Let Your Brain’s Defense Mechanisms Thwart Effective Feedback</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/08/dont-let-your-brains-defense-mechanisms-thwart-effective-feedback</link>
<description>Turn instinctive thoughts into productive actions.</description>
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<title>Why Appreciation Matters So Much</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/01/why-appreciation-matters-so-mu</link>
<description>I’ve just returned from an offsite with our team at The Energy Project. As we concluded, I asked each person to take a few moments to say what he or she felt most proud of accomplishing over the past year. After each of their brief recountings, I added some observations about what I appreciated in […]</description>
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<title>Why LGBT Employees Need Workplace Allies</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/06/the-power-of-out</link>
<description>Over 40 percent of LGBT workers remain closeted despite the benefits of being out.</description>
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<title>The Merger Dividend</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/07/the-merger-dividend</link>
<description>If you play it right, an acquisition can help you develop your top talent.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Leading Change When Business Is Good</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/12/leading-change-when-business-is-good</link>
<description>By the time Sam Palmisano took over as CEO in 2002, IBM had been pulled back from the brink. His challenge: finding a mandate to continue the company’s transformation. His response: a bottom-up reinvention of IBM’s venerable values.</description>
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<title>Make Sure You’re Engaging Your Top Talent</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/06/make-sure-youre-engaging-your</link>
<description>Over the past few weeks, two different research reports on employee engagement have crossed my desk – both of them surveying exactly the kinds of workers companies compete for. This week’s news came from Catalyst and the Families and Work Institute, who found that there is very little difference between men and women executives in […]</description>
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<title>Small Ponds Aren’t for Everyone</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/04/small-ponds-arent-for-everyone</link>
<description>For executives eyeing retirement or a mid-career change, the prospect of running a small company seems idyllic. What could be more exciting than building a business from humble beginnings into a powerhouse, calling all the shots and making all the rules? Over 20 years, I have counseled dozens of executives on making such career changes. […]</description>
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<title>What Bosses Gain by Being Vulnerable</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/what-bosses-gain-by-being-vulnerable</link>
<description>Trying to appear perfect can backfire.</description>
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<title>How to Give Negative Feedback Over Email</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/how-to-give-negative-feedback-over-email</link>
<description>Go out of your way to set the right tone.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Eight Archetypes of Leadership</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/the-eight-archetypes-of-leadership</link>
<description>Which kind of leader are you?</description>
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<title>The Lure of Global Branding</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1999/11/the-lure-of-global-branding</link>
<description>Brand builders everywhere think they want global brands. But global brand leadership, not global brands, should be the priority. Successful companies follow four principles to meet that goal.</description>
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<title>Management Is (Still) Not Leadership</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/01/management-is-still-not-leadership</link>
<description>After years of debate, people still confuse these ideas – at their peril.</description>
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<title>CEOs: Read this Before You Open Your Mouth</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/05/ceos-read-this-before-you-open</link>
<description>Are you a CEO preparing to give a town hall state-of-the-union talk to your employees? Whether you’re a new CEO or one who’s been sitting in the chair for some time, keep reading. An awful lot of planning, time and resources go into these town halls. They’re frequently big productions beamed via satellite to offices […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Skills Leaders Need at Every Level</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/07/the-skills-leaders-need-at-every-level</link>
<description>Fail to develop these at your peril.</description>
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<title>Resolutions for Business Executives</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/01/harvard-business-ideacast-25-r.html</link>
<description>Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Bill Taylor, Herminia Ibarra, Paul Hemp, Tammy Erickson, and Tom Davenport, suggest New Year’s resolutions for business executives.</description>
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<title>The Ethical Roots of the Business System</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1983/11/the-ethical-roots-of-the-business-system</link>
<description>What does it mean to say that someone acts ethically? For most of us, it means that someone acts according to certain standards of behavior. But what are the standards of behavior for business? The author of this article, who has been a businessman all his working life, ponders what it means to be an […]</description>
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<title>Building Resilience</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/04/building-resilience</link>
<description>What business can learn from a pioneering army program for fostering post-traumatic growth</description>
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<title>Mapping Your Competitive Position</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/11/mapping-your-competitive-position</link>
<description>A simple chart shows how much a customer will pay for a perceived benefit. This is more than a marketing aid, it’s a powerful tool for competitive strategy.</description>
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<title>In Performance Appraisals, Make Context Count</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/06/in-performance-appraisals-make</link>
<description>People don’t work in a vacuum.</description>
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<title>The Moonlighter</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/11/the-moonlighter</link>
<description>Your best programmer is taking on outside work to boost his income. It’s all on his own time—so do you have a right to complain?</description>
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<title>Recruiting for Cultural Fit</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/07/recruiting-for-cultural-fit</link>
<description>And why it’s important.</description>
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<title>Why Government Workers Are Harder to Motivate</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/why-government-workers-are-harder-to-motivate</link>
<description>Six things that get in the way – and one thing that makes it easier.</description>
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<title>Putting Leaders on the Couch</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/01/putting-leaders-on-the-couch</link>
<description>Great leaders are capable, visionary, and inspiring. That doesn’t mean they’re rational.</description>
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<title>So You Think You’re a Good Listener</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/04/so-you-think-youre-a-good-listener</link>
<description>Boss: Why is Janet leaving? Colleague: She’s been unhappy for months. Boss: Why didn’t she tell me? Colleague: She tried. Conversations like that are all too common. Why is it that bosses often seem unable to hear tough messages? A key reason, we found, is that managers have skewed perceptions about their openness to challenging […]</description>
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<title>How to Repair a Damaged Professional Relationship</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/how-to-repair-a-damaged-professional-relationship</link>
<description>Recognize your culpability.</description>
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<title>Why Corporate Functions Stumble</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/why-corporate-functions-stumble</link>
<description>IT, finance, HR, and marketing can lose their way. Here’s how to keep them focused.</description>
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<title>Engaging Doctors in the Health Care Revolution</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/engaging-doctors-in-the-health-care-revolution</link>
<description>Despite wondrous advances in medicine and technology, health care regularly fails at the fundamental job of any business: to reliably deliver what its customers need. In the face of ever-increasing complexity, the hard work and best intentions of individual physicians can no longer guarantee efficient, high-quality care. Fixing health care will require a radical transformation, […]</description>
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<title>How to Respond When Someone Takes Credit for Your Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/how-to-respond-when-someone-takes-credit-for-your-work</link>
<description>Get the praise you deserve.</description>
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<title>When Someone Asks You for a Reference</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/10/when-someone-asks-you-for-a-reference</link>
<description>How to handle the request—and what to actually say (or write) to a recruiter.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>A Consultant&#8216;s Approach to Feedback Should Depend on the Client&#8216;s Needs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/a-consultants-guide-to-difficult-client-feedback</link>
<description>Get it right and you win more work; get it wrong and the relationship is over.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Just How Useless Is the Asset-Management Industry?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/05/just-how-useless-is-the-asset</link>
<description>As consumers wise up, it could mean the end of high fees.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Research Is Clear: Long Hours Backfire for People and for Companies</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/the-research-is-clear-long-hours-backfire-for-people-and-for-companies</link>
<description>The high cost of overwork.</description>
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<title>The Greatest Barriers to Growth, According to Executives</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/the-greatest-barriers-to-growth-according-to-executives</link>
<description>They’re all the result of bureaucracy.</description>
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<title>Turn Talent Data Into Real Information</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/09/turning-talent-data-into-real</link>
<description>It’s so easy, you can do it in a spreadsheet.</description>
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<title>How to Deal with a Slacker Coworker</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/how-to-deal-with-a-slacker-coworker</link>
<description>Should you tell the boss or mind your own business?</description>
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<title>In Asia, Power Gets in the Way</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/04/in-asia-power-gets-in-the-way</link>
<description>“Siew Tian, why don’t you speak up? I know you have something to say, and you’re not saying it,” I gently nudge a junior executive in Indonesia. We have worked together on various projects for several months, so I know what she is capable of. She is smart, her client service is unparalleled, and she […]</description>
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<title>How to Choose the Right Forecasting Technique</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1971/07/how-to-choose-the-right-forecasting-technique</link>
<description>In virtually every decision they make, executives today consider some kind of forecast. Sound predictions of demands and trends are no longer luxury items, but a necessity, if managers are to cope with seasonality, sudden changes in demand levels, price-cutting maneuvers of the competition, strikes, and large swings of the economy. Forecasting can help them […]</description>
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<title>How to Get More from Your Mentor</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/09/how-to-get-more-from-your-ment-2</link>
<description>A senior publishing executive at William Morris once told me how baffled she was when an aspiring literary agent asked her to be a mentor. She looked at me and said, “She’s got to make me want to be her mentor. Isn’t she supposed to do something for me?” The answer is a definitive yes. […]</description>
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<title>It’s Time to Retire Retirement</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/03/its-time-to-retire-retirement</link>
<description>Long-standing human resource practices invest heavily in youth and push out older workers. This must change—and public policy, too—or companies will find themselves running off a demographic cliff as baby boomers age.</description>
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<title>Beyond Theory Y</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1970/05/beyond-theory-y</link>
<description>During the past 30 years, managers have been bombarded with two competing approaches to the problems of human administration and organization. The first, usually called the classical school of organization, emphasizes the need for well-established lines of authority, clearly defined jobs, and authority equal to responsibility. The second, often called the participative approach, focuses on […]</description>
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<title>Does Privatization Serve the Public Interest?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1991/11/does-privatization-serve-the-public-interest</link>
<description>For decades prior to the 1980s, governments around the world increased the scope and magnitude of their activities, taking on a variety of tasks that the private sector previously had performed. In the United States, the federal government built highways and dams, conducted research, increased its regulatory authority across an expanding horizon of activities, and […]</description>
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<title>When Small Ideas Add Up to Something Big</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/when-small-ideas-add-up-to-som</link>
<description>In pursuit of the next significant breakthrough, companies often ignore seemingly minor suggestions. Yet many can foster growth and give you a competitive edge. by Loren Gary</description>
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<title>Make Priorities Clear with Green, Yellow, and Red</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/04/winning-with-green-yellow-and</link>
<description>In communicating priorities and performance, colors have power.</description>
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<title>Focus HR on Process Improvement</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/02/focus-hr-on-process-improvemen</link>
<description>To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. As Randy MacDonald, senior vice president of HR at IBM, told me, “It’s important for HR to decide what is core and non-core. Administrative responsibilities such as getting paychecks […]</description>
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<title>Helping the Passive-Aggressive Executive</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/02/helping-the-passive-aggressive-executive</link>
<description>Understanding people who avoid direct confrontation.</description>
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<title>Want Value From Social? Add Structure</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/11/want-value-from-social-add-str</link>
<description>Many managers these days face a social dilemma. They want to use social media to get input from many different customers and employees, because they know that an organization’s judgment is improved if its ideation and decision processes incorporate insights from multiple perspectives. But they can’t bring themselves to let employees use social media at […]</description>
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<title>The Culture to Cultivate</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/07/the-culture-to-cultivate</link>
<description>A large hospital group has lots of things to worry about. One of them is sepsis, the whole-body shutdown that can occur when a virulent infection hits a weakened immune system. It’s the number one cause of death in American hospitals. Another is pressure ulcers, a sure sign that immobile patients aren’t being properly cared […]</description>
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<title>Get to Know Your Boss’s Boss</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/11/get-to-know-your-bosss-boss</link>
<description>Many people meet their boss’s boss when they are hired, and then promptly forget about her. But does your manager’s manager know what you’ve done recently? What does he think of you? If you can’t answer these questions, then getting to know this leader could advance your career. Your boss’s boss has a broader perspective […]</description>
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<title>The Defining Elements of a Winning Culture</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/the-definitive-elements-of-a-winning-culture</link>
<description>High-performing companies don’t just have fun. They get results.</description>
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<title>How Data Visualization Answered One of Retail’s Most Vexing Questions</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/how-data-visualization-answered-one-of-retails-most-vexing-questions</link>
<description>But raised a host of new ones.</description>
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<title>The Solution to the Skills Gap Could Already Be Inside Your Company</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/the-solution-to-the-skills-gap-could-already-be-inside-your-company</link>
<description>Why organizations are getting back into training.</description>
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<title>The 7 Attributes of the Most Effective Sales Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/the-7-attributes-of-the-most-effective-sales-leaders</link>
<description>Command and control are still important.</description>
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<title>Competing on Customer Journeys</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/11/competing-on-customer-journeys</link>
<description>You have to create new value at every step.</description>
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<title>How to Manage a Toxic Employee</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/how-to-manage-a-toxic-employee</link>
<description>There are ways to limit the harm they do.</description>
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<title>When Times Get Tough, What Happens to TQM?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1993/05/when-times-get-tough-what-happens-to-tqm</link>
<description>Managers may need to reconsider 1980s quality programs in the wake of 1990s downsizing.</description>
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<title>Surviving Your New CEO</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/05/surviving-your-new-ceo</link>
<description>Everybody knows turnover at the top means upheaval. But new research shows just how bad your chances of keeping your job are.</description>
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<title>Being Experienced Doesn’t Automatically Make You a Great Mentor</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/being-experienced-doesnt-automatically-make-you-a-great-mentor</link>
<description>Take a hard look at your vulnerabilities and expectations.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Chinese Walls</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/04/chinese-walls</link>
<description>China has transformed itself into a global economic power over the last 20 years, beating economists’ forecasts for growth and giving multinationals a run for their money. But its managers appear to be moving at a very different pace. Western management ideas are taking root in China, yet old traditions die hard. While the younger […]</description>
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<title>Sprints Are the Secret to Getting More Done</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/03/sprints-are-the-secret-to-getting-more-done</link>
<description>They’re not just for software development.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How Should Your Leaders Behave?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/10/how-should-your-leaders-behave</link>
<description>Anyone with responsibility for the performance of a large organization knows the value of effective leaders. Most of us are more than happy to invest in developing them. But even a cursory review of the management literature shows that there’s no consensus on how to do that. When fast growth pressured us at Amgen to […]</description>
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<title>6 Ways to Turn Managers into Coaches Again</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/6-ways-to-turn-managers-into-coaches-again</link>
<description>A busy schedule is no excuse.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Simplicity-Minded Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/12/simplicity-minded-management</link>
<description>A practical guide to stripping complexity out of your organization.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Can You Be Friends With Your Boss?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/can-you-be-friends-with-your-boss</link>
<description>The pros and cons of getting close with your manager.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Developing Your Global Know-How</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/03/developing-your-global-know-how</link>
<description>Multinationals such as Siemens, CEMEX, Walmart, and Samsung need executives with overseas prowess to manage far-flung operations. Here’s how these companies cultivate the right combination of skills.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Motivating Millennials Takes More than Flexible Work Policies</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/motivating-millennials-takes-more-than-flexible-work-policies</link>
<description>Make the work itself more engaging.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Service-Driven Service Company</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1991/09/the-service-driven-service-company</link>
<description>For more than 40 years, service companies successfully followed an industrial model based largely on the principles of traditional mass-production manufacturing. Today that model is obsolete, as dangerous a threat to the long-term health of the service sector and the U.S. economy as it has already proved to be in manufacturing. It leads inevitably to […]</description>
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<title>Use a Task Map to Improve Your Team’s Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/02/use-a-task-map-to-improve-your-teams-performance</link>
<description>A tool to help align employees’ skills with their roles.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Why Managers and HR Don’t Get Along</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/07/why-managers-and-hr-dont-get-along</link>
<description>And what both can do to fix it.</description>
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<title>How Great Coaches Ask, Listen, and Empathize</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/how-great-coaches-ask-listen-and-empathize</link>
<description>Leadership doesn’t mean having all the answers.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Toward a Theory of High Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/07/toward-a-theory-of-high-performance</link>
<description>What does it mean to be a high-performance company? Twenty-three years after In Search of Excellence, we’re still searching—and, just maybe, getting closer to answers.</description>
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<title>Attract and Keep A-Players with Nonfinancial Rewards</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/05/attract-and-keep-a-players-wit</link>
<description>Attracting and retaining top talent are perennial concerns among managers, in good times and in bad. With salaries frozen even as the scope of work expands, managers find it nearly impossible to lure A-players and compensate existing high performers without breaking the budget. The good news? They may not have to. According to the Center […]</description>
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<title>The Top Complaints from Employees About Their Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/the-top-complaints-from-employees-about-their-leaders</link>
<description>A survey shows a striking lack of emotional intelligence among executives.</description>
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<title>How Experts Gain Influence</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/07/how-experts-gain-influence</link>
<description>To increase their impact, functional leaders should develop four specific competencies.</description>
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<title>If Brands Are Built over Years, Why Are They Managed over Quarters?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/07/if-brands-are-built-over-years-why-are-they-managed-over-quarters</link>
<description>Companies become so entranced with their ability to price and sell in real time that they neglect investments in their brands’ long-term health.</description>
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<title>A Consultant’s Guide to Firing a Client</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/a-consultants-guide-to-firing-a-client</link>
<description>Valuing your time means knowing when to let go.</description>
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<title>What Facebook Knows About Engaging Millennial Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/12/what-facebook-knows-about-engaging-millennial-employees</link>
<description>Five ways it helps them grow.</description>
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<title>Why People Do — and Don’t — Participate in Wellness Programs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/why-people-do-and-dont-participate-in-wellness-programs</link>
<description>A new survey suggests that a personalized approach is key.</description>
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<title>Developing Mindful Leaders for the C-Suite</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/03/developing-mindful-leaders-for-the-c-suite</link>
<description>The use of meditation, introspection, and journaling are taking hold at successful enterprises.</description>
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<title>Succession and Failure</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/06/succession-and-failure</link>
<description>Tiverton Media has spent much time and money on its management-development and succession process. So why have the heirs apparent left the company?</description>
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<title>Ten Reasons Winners Keep Winning, Aside from Skill</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/08/ten-reasons-winners-keep-winni.html</link>
<description>Whether the game involves competing every four years in the Olympics or every day in a business, winning brings advantages that make it easier to keep winning. To understand sustainable success, I compared perpetual winners with long-term losers in professional and amateur sports and then matched the findings to business case studies for my book […]</description>
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<title>Is Your Culture Too Nice?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/08/is-your-culture-too-nice.html</link>
<description>Do you avoid conflict? If you do, you’re not alone. Conflict avoidance is one of the most common characteristics of corporate cultures. At the same time it is one of the most pernicious and dangerous sources of unintentional complexity in organizational life. The tendency to avoid conflict — albeit inconvenient — is very human. Most […]</description>
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<title>Adapt to a New Culture – but Don’t Go Too Far</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/07/adapt-to-a-new-culture-but-dont-go-too-far</link>
<description>First, you need to understand the cultural code.</description>
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<title>Relentless Idealism for Tough Times</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/06/relentless-idealism-for-tough-times</link>
<description>The Idea in Brief It’s good that a recession forces businesses to operate more efficiently, but many panic and make damaging trade-offs. Alice Waters runs a thriftier kitchen these days at Chez Panisse, but she still gives top priority to quality and sustainability, both indispensable to the brand. In contrast to the many business owners […]</description>
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<title>Building a Collaborative Enterprise</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/07/building-a-collaborative-enterprise</link>
<description>Four keys to creating a culture of trust and teamwork</description>
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<title>Three Ways Leaders Make Emotional Connections</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/10/three-ways-leaders-make-an-emo</link>
<description>There’s more to working relationships than just the job at hand.</description>
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<title>How Criticizing in Private Undermines Your Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/03/how-criticizing-in-private-und</link>
<description>To increase accountability, don’t only deliver criticism behind closed doors.</description>
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<title>Stock Market Signals to Managers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1987/11/stock-market-signals-to-managers</link>
<description>A company’s stock price is the clearest measure of market expectations about its performance. Yet in a 1984 Louis Harris poll of top executives from more than 600 companies, fewer than one-third thought the market fairly valued their company’s stock. Tellingly, only 2% thought their stock was overvalued, while a dramatic 60% said the market […]</description>
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<title>Being an Effective Global Leader</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/07/being-an-effective-global-lead</link>
<description>This week’s question for Ask the Coach: My company is stretching into areas of the world I’ve barely heard of — we are definitely broaching the unknown. As a leader, what do I need to be successful as globalization changes the rules of the game? MG: To help me answer this question, I contacted Maya […]</description>
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<title>Logistics—Essential to Strategy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1977/11/logistics-essential-to-strategy</link>
<description>Logistical considerations have always played a strategic role in business. Among retailers and wholesalers, they transcend inventory management and transportation to include one of the most critical factors in business success—location in relation to markets or sources of supply. Among manufacturers, logistics concerns itself with matters as basic as plant location, sourcing of raw materials, […]</description>
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<title>Measuring Your Employees’ Invisible Forms of Influence</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/11/measuring-your-employees-invisible-forms-of-influence</link>
<description>The results of one experiment using people analytics.</description>
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<title>3 Popular Goal-Setting Techniques Managers Should Avoid</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/01/3-popular-goal-setting-techniques-managers-should-avoid</link>
<description>Be wise, not SMART.</description>
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<title>What Motivates Us?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/02/what-motivates-us</link>
<description>Daniel Pink, author of “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.”</description>
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<title>The Best-Performing CEOs in the World</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/11/the-best-performing-ceos-in-the-world</link>
<description>The knock on most business leaders is that they don’t take the long view—that they’re fixated on achieving short-term goals to lift their pay. So which global CEOs actually delivered solid results over the long run? Our 2015 list of top performers provides an answer.</description>
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<title>How Damaging Is a Bad Boss, Exactly?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/07/how-damaging-is-a-bad-boss-exa</link>
<description>What’s the one factor that most affects how satisfied, engaged, and committed you are at work? All of our research over the years points to one answer — and that’s the answer to the question: “Who is your immediate supervisor?” Quite simply, the better the leader, the more engaged the staff. Take, for example, results […]</description>
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<title>The High Cost of Low Wages</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/12/the-high-cost-of-low-wages</link>
<description>Wal-Mart’s legendary obsession with cost containment shows up in countless ways, including aggressive control of employee benefits and wages. Managing labor costs isn’t a crazy idea, of course. But stingy pay and benefits don’t necessarily translate into lower costs in the long run. Consider Costco and Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club, which compete fiercely on low-price merchandise. […]</description>
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<title>Let’s Hear It for B Players</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/06/lets-hear-it-for-b-players</link>
<description>We all downplay average performers because they lack the luster and ambition of stars. But look again. These best supporting actors may just take the lead in saving your organization.</description>
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<title>Clusters and the New Economics of Competition</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1998/11/clusters-and-the-new-economics-of-competition</link>
<description>Paradoxically, the enduring competitive advantages in a global economy lie increasingly in local things—knowledge, relationships, and motivation that distant rivals cannot match.</description>
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<title>What’s Left Out of Most Job Interviews</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/03/whats-left-out-of-most-job-int</link>
<description>I spent some time talking to Marcus Buckingham about his latest book, Go Put Your Strengths to Work, during one of our Best Practice Briefings. Buckingham is one of the pioneers in employee engagement and has penned three best-sellers on strengths-based management prior to this one. Marcus was lamenting that one of his key measures […]</description>
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<title>Turning Goals into Results: The Power of Catalytic Mechanisms</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1999/07/turning-goals-into-results-the-power-of-catalytic-mechanisms</link>
<description>If you need help transforming your organization’s wildest dreams into reality, introduce a new managerial device that’s as simple as it is effective.</description>
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<title>Make IT Delightful, and Other Ways to Enchant Your Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/make-it-delightful-and-other-ways-to-enchant-your-employees</link>
<description>Create a meaningful experience.</description>
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<title>A 10-Year Study Reveals What Great Executives Know and Do</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/a-10-year-study-reveals-what-great-executives-know-and-do</link>
<description>You can learn all of them.</description>
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<title>How to Kill Creativity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1998/09/how-to-kill-creativity</link>
<description>Keep doing what you’re doing. Or, if you want to spark innovation, rethink how you motivate, reward, and assign work to people.</description>
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<title>Hospitals Can’t Improve Without Better Management Systems</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/10/hospitals-cant-improve-without-better-management-systems</link>
<description>Success begins with defining a clear purpose.</description>
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<title>How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/03/how-to-design-a-corporate-wellness-plan-that-actually-works</link>
<description>No more “biggest loser” contests, for one.</description>
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<title>How American Express Transformed Its Call Centers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/04/american-express-how-we-transf</link>
<description>[This post is part of Creating a Customer-Centered Organization.] In the not-so-distant past, it was standard practice in customer service to hire only those candidates who knew how to follow scripts, were familiar with the necessary technology, and had several years’ experience in another call center. But a few years ago, American Express reexamined its […]</description>
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<title>Motorola U: When Training Becomes an Education</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1990/07/motorola-u-when-training-becomes-an-education</link>
<description>At Motorola we require three things of our manufacturing employees. They must have communication and computation skills at the seventh grade level, soon going up to eighth and ninth. They must be able to do basic problem solving—not only as individuals but also as members of a team. And they must accept our definition of […]</description>
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<title>Team Leaders Need Better Data, Faster</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/team-leaders-need-better-data-faster</link>
<description>They’re the ones who have the real power to change things.</description>
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<title>Are You a Good Boss—or a Great One?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/01/are-you-a-good-boss-or-a-great-one</link>
<description>If you want to keep growing as a leader, ask yourself these key questions.</description>
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<title>How to Increase Employee Commitment</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/01/how-to-increase-employee-commi</link>
<description>What can managers do to increase employee commitment and engagement in their companies? My good friend, Judith Bardwick, just wrote a book about the answer to this question called One Foot Out The Door, How to Combat The Psychological Recession That’s Alienating Employees And Hurting American Business. I love her work and asked her respond. […]</description>
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<title>Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/01/managers-and-leaders-are-they-different</link>
<description>Business leaders have much more in common with artists than they do with managers.</description>
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<title>Who Are Your Motivated Workers?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1964/01/who-are-your-motivated-workers</link>
<description>What motivates employees to work effectively? A challenging job which allows a feeling of achievement, responsibility, growth, advancement, enjoyment of work itself, and earned recognition. What dissatisfies workers? Mostly factors which are peripheral to the job—work rules, lighting, coffee breaks, titles, seniority rights, wages, fringe benefits, and the like. When do workers become dissatisfied? When […]</description>
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<title>The Power of Product Integrity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1990/11/the-power-of-product-integrity</link>
<description>Some companies consistently develop products that succeed with customers. Other companies often fall short. What differentiates them is integrity. Every product reflects the organization and the development process that created it. Companies that consistently develop successful products—products with integrity—are themselves coherent and integrated. Moreover, this coherence is distinguishable not just at the level of structure […]</description>
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<title>Most Work Conflicts Aren’t Due to Personality</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/most-work-conflicts-arent-due-to-personality</link>
<description>Where you stand depends on where you sit.</description>
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<title>How to Handle Shared Grief at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/how-to-handle-shared-grief-at-work</link>
<description>It’s possible to do it as a team.</description>
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<title>Reinventing the Business of Government: An Interview with Change Catalyst David Osborne</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1994/05/reinventing-the-business-of-government-an-interview-with-change-catalyst-david-osborne</link>
<description>“Industrial-era bureaucracies must be restructured so that they can handle the problems of the information age.”</description>
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<title>Leading Your Boss (and Following Your Subordinates)</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2009/10/leading-your-boss-and-followin.html</link>
<description>John Baldoni, leadership consultant and author of “Lead Your Boss: The Subtle Art of Managing Up.”</description>
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<title>People Won’t Grow If You Think They Can’t Change</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/04/people-wont-grow-if-you-think-they-cant-change</link>
<description>A fixed mindset could be hurting your ability to lead.</description>
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<title>What to Do When Your Employee Asks for a Raise Too Soon</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/07/what-to-do-when-your-employee-asks-for-a-raise-too-soon</link>
<description>How to say no and keep them motivated.</description>
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<title>Manage a Difficult Conversation with Emotional Intelligence</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/manage-a-difficult-conversation-with-emotional-intelligence</link>
<description>You can’t go in expecting logic to prevail.</description>
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<title>What to Do When Your Boss Has a Favorite (and It’s Not You)</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/what-to-do-when-your-boss-has-a-favorite-and-its-not-you</link>
<description>You have options.</description>
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<title>Let Your Team Help You Manage Your Time</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/03/let-your-team-help-you-manage-your-time</link>
<description>Assess your team and delegate accordingly.</description>
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<title>Entrepreneurs Feel Closer to God Than the Rest of Us Do</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/10/entrepreneurs-feel-closer-to-god-than-the-rest-of-us-do</link>
<description>The study: Mitchell J. Neubert and three colleagues at Baylor University investigated the connection between faith and the propensity to start a business, by examining data from a survey that queried 1,714 U.S. adults about their religious habits. They found that entrepreneurs prayed more frequently than other people and were more likely to believe that […]</description>
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<title>Stop Ignoring the Stalwart Worker</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/08/stop-ignoring-the-stalwart-wor.html</link>
<description>There’s an unnoticed population of employees in business today. Strangely enough, they’re also the majority. The diagram below illustrates the labels that organizations often use (knowingly or unknowingly) to classify their employees. The y-axis focuses on how a professional is measured on meeting the organizational performance criteria that fuel the business engine. The x-axis centers […]</description>
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<title>Managing Yourself: What’s Your Personal Social Media Strategy?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/11/managing-yourself-whats-your-personal-social-media-strategy</link>
<description>The CEO of a global technology firm was invited to lecture at a local university on the future of the internet. After his presentation, a student in the audience asked him for his views on network neutrality: the idea that internet service providers shouldn’t base their prices on the content their customers access. The CEO […]</description>
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<title>Four Areas Where Senior Leaders Should Focus Their Attention</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/09/four-areas-where-senior-leader</link>
<description>Stop checking email and starting talking about what matters.</description>
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<title>Ignore Emotional Intelligence at Your Own Risk</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/10/ignore-emotional-intelligence-at-you-own-risk</link>
<description>A new debate on a classic concept.</description>
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<title>The Metrics Sales Leaders Should Be Tracking</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/11/the-metrics-sales-leaders-should-be-tracking</link>
<description>What problem are you trying to solve?</description>
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<title>To Get More Feedback, Act More Coachable</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/to-get-more-feedback-act-more-coachable</link>
<description>Put yourself in your manager’s shoes.</description>
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<title>The High Overemployment Rate</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/11/the-high-overemployment-rate</link>
<description>In this tough economy, perhaps no single economic metric has gotten as much attention as the unemployment rate, stubbornly stuck near 9.6%. As Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria, writing in the November issue of HBR, observes, “In the United States, for example, the corporate sector — judging from most companies’ earnings reports — is […]</description>
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<title>A Brief History of Decision Making</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/01/a-brief-history-of-decision-making</link>
<description>Humans have perpetually sought new tools and insights to help them make decisions. From entrails to artificial intelligence, what a long, strange trip it’s been.</description>
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<title>Change Your Employees’ Minds, Change Your Business</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/03/change-your-employees-minds-ch</link>
<description>Many business leaders don’t care why employees do anything as long as they follow the company’s rules, processes, cultural norms and laws. But we’ve found that leaders can create and sustain stronger business results if they understand — and manage — how employees approach their work every day. When employees’ thoughts, feelings, and beliefs are […]</description>
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<title>What Millennials Want from Work, Charted Across the World</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/what-millennials-want-from-work-charted-across-the-world</link>
<description>Research shows just how varied they are.</description>
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<title>The Condensed April 2015 Issue</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2015/03/the-condensed-april-2015-issue.html</link>
<description>Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.</description>
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<title>Designing High-Performance Jobs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/07/designing-high-performance-jobs</link>
<description>Improving the performance of key people is often as simple—and as profound—as changing the resources they control and the results for which they are accountable.</description>
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<title>Introverts, Extroverts, and the Complexities of Team Dynamics</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/introverts-extroverts-and-the-complexities-of-team-dynamics</link>
<description>Getting the best out of everyone requires balance.</description>
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<title>5 Strategy Questions Every Leader Should Make Time For</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/5-strategy-questions-every-leader-should-make-time-for</link>
<description>The best leaders don’t let themselves get too busy to reflect.</description>
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<title>Managing Effectively in a Matrix</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/08/become-a-stronger-matrix-leade</link>
<description>Only 31% of leaders have the right skills.</description>
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<title>How Companies Must Adapt for an Aging Workforce</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/12/how-companies-must-adapt-for-a</link>
<description>The needs of older workers may improve the workplace for their younger colleagues as well.</description>
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<title>Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/09/social-intelligence-and-the-biology-of-leadership</link>
<description>New studies of the brain show that leaders can improve group performance by understanding the biology of empathy.</description>
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<title>HBR Case Study: The Gentleman’s “Three”</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/07/hbr-case-study-the-gentlemans-three</link>
<description>No one gets a low score on this company’s performance reviews. Is there a better system for evaluating employees?</description>
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<title>Keep Your Top Talent from Defecting</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2010/05/keep-your-top-talent-from-defe</link>
<description>Jean Martin and Conrad Schmidt, executive directors of the Corporate Executive Board’s Corporate Learning Council based in Washington, DC.</description>
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<title>A Question of Color: A Debate on Race in the U.S. Workplace</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1997/09/a-debate-on-race-in-the-us-workplace</link>
<description>  More than two decades have passed since affirmative action became law, thrusting the issue of racial diversity in the workplace into the open—and often into the crossfire. Today both government statistics and anecdotal evidence suggest that people of color make up a larger percentage of senior managers than at any point in the past. […]</description>
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<title>Empowering Your Employees to Empower Themselves</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/04/empowering-your-employees-to-e</link>
<description>As a manager or leader, do you let your people assume more responsibility when they are able? Do you know when that is, or do you keep telling yourself that they aren’t ready yet? In my travels from organization to organization, I talk with thousands of people every year who want to be treated as […]</description>
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<title>Motivating Through Metrics</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/09/motivating-through-metrics</link>
<description>Getting the right people on board—and then all enthusiastically pulling in the right direction—has bedeviled organizations since the time of wooden ships, when the most popular form of motivation left lash marks. Today’s corporate helmsmen may be more enlightened, but they still face the same challenge. How can a company transform its frontline crew into […]</description>
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<title>Women as a Business Imperative</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1992/03/women-as-a-business-imperative</link>
<description>Memo to: Peter Anderson, President, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, Topform Corporation From: Felice N. Schwartz, President, Catalyst Re: Women as a Business Imperative A year ago, you asked me to analyze how Topform deals with its women and to advise you about your policies. Since then I have studied your company and talked at […]</description>
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<title>How Labor Standards Can Be Good for Growth</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/04/how-labor-standards-can-be-good-for-growth</link>
<description>The story of a soccer ball factory in Pakistan.</description>
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<title>Workers, Take Off Your Headphones</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/04/workers-take-off-your-headphon</link>
<description>Technology, for a free-lancer like me, creates a powerful and not entirely mad illusion that we work in a peopled environment of rich diversity and experience. As I sit to write each morning, I draw upon the vast network of people (many in active chat windows) with whom I’ve worked in the trenches over the […]</description>
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<title>Improve Your Ability to Learn</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/improve-your-ability-to-learn</link>
<description>It matters for your performance at work.</description>
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<title>What Gets in the Way of Listening</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/04/what-gets-in-the-way-of-listening</link>
<description>Your inner critic could be to blame.</description>
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<title>What Killed Bob Lyons?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1981/03/what-killed-bob-lyons</link>
<description>Bob Lyons serves as an extreme example of the conflicting forces in all of us. Successful, hardworking, aggressive, he drives himself relentlessly. What happens when he can no longer balance the demands of internal forces with those of external reality? What can we learn from his tragedy about the problems, pressures, and anxieties with which […]</description>
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<title>Increase Your Company’s Productivity With Social Media</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/09/increase-your-companys-productiv</link>
<description>A growing number of companies talk about the benefits of adopting web 2.0 tools inside the organization, but the list is short for companies that are using them for increased business results. Unisys, the 138-year old tech firm, has quickly made “going social” part of its culture. Here’s how they did it, and how they’re […]</description>
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<title>Pygmalion in Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/01/pygmalion-in-management</link>
<description>How can you get the best out of your employees? Expect the best.</description>
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<title>Stop Being So Positive</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/10/stop-being-so-positive</link>
<description>Optimism only works when you also understand the obstacles.</description>
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<title>Your Coworkers Should Know Your Salary</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2016/03/your-coworkers-should-know-your-salary</link>
<description>Pay transparency is actually a way better system than pay secrecy. David Burkus, professor at Oral Roberts University and author of “Under New Management,” explains why.</description>
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<title>Dealing with a Hands-Off Boss</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/dealing-with-a-hands-off-boss</link>
<description>You need the right strategy and state of mind.</description>
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<title>Managing Yourself: The Paradox of Excellence</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/06/managing-yourself-the-paradox-of-excellence</link>
<description>High achievers often undermine their leadership by being afraid to show their limitations.</description>
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<title>Forbes Welcome</title>
<link>http://s.hbr.org/29q2yly</link>
<description>Forbes Welcome page -- Forbes is a global media company, focusing on business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership, and lifestyle.</description>
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<title>Change Your Company with Better HR Analytics</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/change-your-company-with-better-hr-analytics</link>
<description>Use them to reduce workforce costs and identify revenue streams.</description>
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<title>How to Ask Better Questions</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/05/real-leaders-ask.html</link>
<description>One of your direct reports walks into your office looking for help: the rollout of the new line of Web-based products she is managing is falling behind schedule. All the prototypes have been created and beta tested, but she is having trouble getting final sign-off from the VP of IT. Deadlines have come and gone, […]</description>
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<title>When Partners Fall Out</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1986/11/when-partners-fall-out</link>
<description>When partners fall out, the ownership, control, and even survival of their company are threatened. I’m not talking about differences in judgment, which crop up regularly between partners and just as regularly get resolved through their ongoing recognition of one another’s contributions. I’m talking about far deeper disagreements when partners grow to dislike, distrust, and […]</description>
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<title>When Your Company Culture Isn’t Ready for Social Media</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/12/when-your-company-culture</link>
<description>Are you considering whether your company should use social media to connect not only with your customers, but also with your employees, partners, and suppliers? Before you decide to encourage your key executives to blog, or start looking at private social networking Enterprise 2.0 platforms, consider the following two scenarios based upon real examples and […]</description>
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<title>Let’s Put Consumers in Charge of Health Care</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/07/lets-put-consumers-in-charge-of-health-care</link>
<description>Businesses spend billions on health insurance, yet employees remain unhappy with the coverage they receive. It’s time for a radically new approach.</description>
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<title>Bringing Discipline to Project Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1998/03/bringing-discipline-to-project-management</link>
<description>Eli Goldratt’s first novel, The Goal, shook up the factory floor. Will Critical Chain do the same for projects?</description>
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<title>Lego CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp on leading through survival and growth</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/01/lego-ceo-jorgen-vig-knudstorp-on-leading-through-survival-and-growth</link>
<description>Sometimes a CEO’s most challenging leadership transition is not a matter of switching jobs but of guiding the company onto a new path. Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, a former McKinsey consultant who came to the family-owned Lego Group as an outsider in 2001 and was named CEO in 2004, learned that a series of distinct leadership […]</description>
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<title>Take the Lead at Your Next Performance Review</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/take-the-lead-at-your-next-per.html</link>
<description>Performance reviews have been one-way for too long. To get what you want, you need to manage your end of the conversation. by Angelia Herrin</description>
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<title>Seven Personality Traits of Top Salespeople</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/06/the-seven-personality-traits-o</link>
<description>If you ask an extremely successful salesperson, “What makes you different from the average sales rep?” you will most likely get a less-than-accurate answer, if any answer at all. Frankly, the person may not even know the real answer because most successful salespeople are simply doing what comes naturally. Over the past decade, I have […]</description>
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<title>Building Your Company’s Vision</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1996/09/building-your-companys-vision</link>
<description>We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets Companies that enjoy enduring success have core values and a core purpose that remain fixed while their business strategies and […]</description>
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<title>What Every Leader Should Know About Real Estate</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/11/what-every-leader-should-know-about-real-estate</link>
<description>In this article, the real estate business includes the industries and professions that design, finance, develop, construct, market, and manage land, infrastructure, and buildings. In contrast, business real estate refers to an organization’s workplaces. The choice of locations, properties, and financing methods can help or hinder a company’s strategy, raise or lower its costs, and […]</description>
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<title>The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/04/the-real-leadership-lessons-of-steve-jobs</link>
<description>Six months after Jobs’s death, the author of his best-selling biography identifies the practices that every CEO can try to emulate.</description>
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<title>The Failure-Tolerant Leader</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/08/the-failure-tolerant-leader</link>
<description>Executives know that failure is an integral part of innovation. But how do they encourage the right kinds of mistakes?</description>
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<title>The CEO of Automattic on Holding “Auditions” to Build a Strong Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/04/the-ceo-of-automattic-on-holding-auditions-to-build-a-strong-team</link>
<description>Photography: Liz Caruana The Idea: In its early years, Automattic relied on traditional résumé screening and interviews to do its hiring. But over time Mullenweg came to focus on tryouts, in which final candidates are paid to spend several weeks working on a project. Automattic employs 230 people. We’re located in 170 cities all over […]</description>
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<title>Is Management Really an Art?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1975/01/is-management-really-an-art</link>
<description>If, as many have argued, management really is an art, if leadership entails more than analytic and statistical skills, it would make sense for businessmen to look at the creative and performing arts to learn something about their own endeavors. The author investigates what he sees as three indispensable aspects of the artistic process—craft, vision, […]</description>
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<title>If Your Boss Could Do Your Job, You’re More Likely to Be Happy at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/12/if-your-boss-could-do-your-job-youre-more-likely-to-be-happy-at-work</link>
<description>Technical competence matters for managers.</description>
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<title>Are You Creating Disgruntled Employees?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/07/are-you-creating-disgruntled-e</link>
<description>You can’t make every worker happy, surely, and should a business even try? Evidence from our recent research suggests, actually, that the answer is yes. Or rather, our evidence shows that managers are giving up far too soon on their disgruntled employees, making them less productive than they could be, exposing their companies to unnecessary […]</description>
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<title>Building on Your Strengths Is Not Enough</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/11/building-on-your-strengths-is</link>
<description>Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood are the authors of Leadership Brand: Developing Customer-Focused Leaders to Drive and Build Lasting Value You can’t walk into a conference these days without bumping the door on a speaker who is trumpeting the value of building on your strengths. It’s easy to understand why this message resonates. From the […]</description>
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<title>How to Get Your Employees to Speak Up</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/10/how-to-get-your-employees-to-speak-up</link>
<description>When you’re the boss, it’s hard to get candid feedback.</description>
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<title>Simple Truths of Japanese Manufacturing</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1984/07/simple-truths-of-japanese-manufacturing</link>
<description>In the past few years many observers have offered explanations for the enormous success of Japanese manufacturers. Some analysts trace Japan’s impressive industrial performance to unique cultural and historical factors, while others point to farseeing and shrewd public policies to promote international competitiveness. The author of this article compares the management practices of five Japanese […]</description>
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<title>Why Aren’t You Delegating?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/07/why-arent-you-delegating</link>
<description>It’s time to drop the excuses.</description>
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<title>Choose the Right Words in an Argument</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/choose-the-right-words-in-an-argument</link>
<description>How to approach six tricky workplace scenarios.</description>
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<title>How to Reward (and Retain) People When Money Is Tight</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/06/how-to-reward-and-retain-peopl</link>
<description>Retaining talent is a competitive necessity, for start-ups and multinationals alike. But with global uncertainty making budgets tighter, throwing money at high-performing employees to keep them engaged and onboard is less of an option. So I put a question out to a network of consultants and authors: What are the best nonmonetary ways to motivate, […]</description>
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<title>Multiproject Control</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1968/03/multiproject-control</link>
<description>Executives can do the job more effectively with a new system of color-coded and easy-to-read progress charts.</description>
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<title>Loyalty-Based Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1993/03/loyalty-based-management</link>
<description>To build a profitable base of faithful customers, try loyal employees.</description>
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<title>The Bias Undermining Your People Analytics</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/the-bias-undermining-your-people-analytics</link>
<description>As you measure people, be sure to measure their context, too.</description>
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<title>Shut Up and Stop Whining</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/12/shut-up-and-stop-whining</link>
<description>Larry Winget bills himself as “The Pitbull of Personal Development” and travels around the world telling corporate audiences to stop complaining and take responsibility for their lot. Hundreds of companies, including Fortune 500 firms such as IBM, Merck, and McDonald’s, have invited Winget to rant at managers and employees alike, hoping that his aggressive method […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Right Way to Fire Someone</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/the-right-way-to-fire-someone</link>
<description>Be simple and to-the-point.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Managing a Negative, Out-of-Touch Boss</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/managing-a-negative-out-of-touch-boss</link>
<description>Start by understanding the neuroscience.</description>
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<title>Adapting Your Organizational Processes to a New Culture</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/adapting-your-organizational-processes-to-a-new-culture</link>
<description>Three ways to succeed.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Deal With a Passive-Aggressive Peer</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/12/how-to-deal-with-a-passive-agg</link>
<description>You’re at the weekly team meeting. Everyone around the table vigorously nods their heads and agrees to a series of action steps. Meeting ends. Three days later, you find out that one of your peers must have blacked out during the head nodding — because he went off and did his own thing. And it’s […]</description>
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<title>What to Ask the Person in the Mirror</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/01/what-to-ask-the-person-in-the-mirror</link>
<description>There comes a point in your career when the best way to figure out how you’re doing is to step back and ask yourself a few questions. Having all the answers is less important than knowing what to ask.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Understanding the Arab Consumer</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/05/understanding-the-arab-consumer</link>
<description>A growing middle class that yearns for progress and modernity has no interest in abandoning its religious traditions.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>What Amazing Bosses Do Differently</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/11/what-amazing-bosses-do-differently</link>
<description>To be a superboss, do five things well.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>A New Approach to Keeping Your Best on Board</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/a-new-approach-to-keeping-your</link>
<description>You know what entices your most talented employees to leave, but do you know what encourages them to stay? by Lauren Keller Johnson</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Prevent Experts from Hoarding Knowledge</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/how-to-prevent-experts-from-hoarding-knowledge</link>
<description>Mitigate the impact of big egos.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>What China’s Shift to a Service Economy Means for Its Managers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/07/what-chinas-shift-to-a-service-economy-means-for-its-managers</link>
<description>Motivating employees will require different incentives.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Danger from Within</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/09/the-danger-from-within</link>
<description>The biggest threat to your cybersecurity may be an employee or a vendor.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Make Unlimited Vacation Time Work at Your Company</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/how-to-make-unlimited-vacation-time-work-at-your-company</link>
<description>Netflix showed that it just takes trust.</description>
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<title>Feeling Conflicted? Get Out of Your Own Way</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2013/10/feeling-conflicted-get-out-of.html</link>
<description>Erica Ariel Fox, who teaches negotiation at Harvard Law School, discusses how to resolve inner conflict to lead wisely and live well.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Is Yours a Learning Organization?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/03/is-yours-a-learning-organization</link>
<description>Using this assessment tool, companies can pinpoint areas where they need to foster knowledge sharing, idea development, learning from mistakes, and holistic thinking.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Why Big Companies Can’t Innovate</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/09/why-big-companies-cant-innovate</link>
<description>Sticking with known knowns can stifle good ideas.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Wrestling with Jellyfish</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1984/01/wrestling-with-jellyfish</link>
<description>We have heard a lot recently about quality circles, quality of work life programs, job redesign, and other efforts to improve working conditions and productivity in our nation’s businesses. In this article we hear the personal testimony of one participant in a change effort of a different sort, the transformation of the management style of […]</description>
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<title>Emerson Electric: Consistent Profits, Consistently</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1992/01/emerson-electric-consistent-profits-consistently</link>
<description>When I meet with people outside Emerson, I’m often asked: What makes Emerson tick? That question typically reflects an interest in the company’s consistent financial performance over the past three-and-a-half decades—but my answer deals with issues that go far beyond financial statements. Simply put, what makes us “tick” at Emerson is an effective management process. […]</description>
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<title>The Power of Small Wins</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/05/the-power-of-small-wins</link>
<description>Want to truly engage your workers? Help them see their own progress.</description>
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<title>Quantify How Much Time Your Company Wastes</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/quantify-how-much-time-your-company-wastes</link>
<description>Businesses should pay as much attention to internal data as they do to customer analytics.</description>
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<title>Selecting Strategies That Create Shareholder Value</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1981/05/selecting-strategies-that-create-shareholder-value</link>
<description>In today’s fast-changing, often bewildering business environment, formal systems for strategic planning have become one of top management’s principal tools for evaluating and coping with uncertainty. Corporate board members are also showing increasing interest in ensuring that the company has adequate strategies and that these are tested against actual results. While the organizational dynamics and […]</description>
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<title>Diversity Training Doesn’t Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/03/diversity-training-doesnt-work</link>
<description>“We’ve got another lawsuit,” my friend and client Lana* told me over the phone. “Really?” I was honestly surprised. “What about all that diversity training everyone went through?” “Well, apparently we need to do it again.” Lana was the head of Human Resources for Bedia, a company in the media industry that felt, at times, […]</description>
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<title>How to Manage Scheduling Software Fairly</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/09/how-to-manage-scheduling-software-fairly</link>
<description>Research shows it can work for, not against, workers.</description>
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<title>To Succeed as a First-Time Leader, Relax</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/to-succeed-as-a-first-time-leader-relax</link>
<description>Four things to focus on.</description>
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<title>Go Ahead: Ask Your Employees If They’re Happy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/09/go-ahead-ask-your-employees-if-theyre-happy</link>
<description>It can boost their satisfaction and performance.</description>
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<title>Why We Fail to Report Sexual Harassment</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/why-we-fail-to-report-sexual-harassment</link>
<description>Three ways companies can encourage victims and bystanders to speak up.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/01/one-more-time-how-do-you-motivate-employees</link>
<description>Forget praise. Forget punishment. Forget cash. You need to make their jobs more interesting.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>You Can’t Achieve Your Goals Without the Right Support</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/you-cant-achieve-your-goals-without-the-right-support</link>
<description>Different people can help in different ways.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Eight-Minute Test That Can Reveal Your Effectiveness as a Leader</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/08/how-effective-a-leader-are-you</link>
<description>The results may surprise you.</description>
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<title>Ferguson’s Formula</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/10/fergusons-formula</link>
<description>Photography: Sean Pollack Some call him the greatest coach in history. Before retiring in May 2013, Sir Alex Ferguson spent 26 seasons as the manager of Manchester United, the English football (soccer) club that ranks among the most successful and valuable franchises in sports. During that time the club won 13 English league titles along […]</description>
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<title>Making Judgment Calls</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/10/making-judgment-calls</link>
<description>The ultimate act of leadership.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>In Pursuit of a Better Boss</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/05/in-pursuit-of-a-better-boss.html</link>
<description>Would you like a better boss? A boss who helps you obtain valuable information, win needed resources, and secure important support for your group and for you personally — in short, a boss who’s a real ally and partner? If your boss provides these benefits, you’re lucky. We hear far more complaints than praise from […]</description>
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<title>Want Success In Your Sales Org? Look to the Middle.</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/01/want-success-in-your-sales-org</link>
<description>Three ways to first-line sales managers can excel — and what pitfalls to look out for.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Behaviors that Define A-Players</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/04/what-a-players-do</link>
<description>Research suggests nine ways to get ahead of the pack.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Speeding Up Team Learning</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2001/10/speeding-up-team-learning</link>
<description>The most successful teams adapt quickly to new ways of working. Now, a study of 16 cardiac surgery teams offers intriguing insights on how to make that happen.</description>
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<title>How Business Schools Lost Their Way</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/05/how-business-schools-lost-their-way</link>
<description>Too focused on “scientific” research, business schools are hiring professors with limited real-world experience and graduating students who are ill equipped to wrangle with complex, unquantifiable issues—in other words, the stuff of management.</description>
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<title>How 1% Performance Improvements Led to Olympic Gold</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/10/how-1-performance-improvements-led-to-olympic-gold</link>
<description>An interview with the former head of British Cycling.</description>
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<title>Do Your Commitments Match Your Convictions?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/01/do-your-commitments-match-your-convictions</link>
<description>People usually reassess their priorities only after some personal upheaval—an illness, a divorce, the loss of a job. But with the right framework, you can think through your preferences long before crisis strikes.</description>
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<title>How GE Trains More Experienced Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/how-ge-trains-more-experienced-employees</link>
<description>Designing a mid-career talent development program.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Your Company Is Only as Good as Your Writing</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/07/your-company-is-only-as-good-a</link>
<description>It can make the difference between a sale and no sale.</description>
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<title>The End of Customer Service Heroes</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2012/02/the-end-of-customer-service-he.html</link>
<description>Frances Frei and Anne Morriss, authors of “Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business.”</description>
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<title>Reinvent Your Company Through Culture</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/06/reinvent-your-company-through</link>
<description>A veteran CEO who turned around several pharmaceutical companies explains how managers can build high-performance cultures.</description>
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<title>Listen to Your Employees, Not Just Your Customers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/08/listen-to-your-employees-not-just-your-customers</link>
<description>New research shows the power of feedback loops.</description>
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<title>The Kids Are All Right: Why New Graduates Should Give You Hope</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/11/the-kids-are-all-right-why-new</link>
<description>I just learned that two of the youngest people working at my company have bought houses. One man, one woman, both in their twenties. One a native-born Californian, one who immigrated with her family in recent years. They have both lived with their parents for a long time, scrimping, saving, putting half or more of […]</description>
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<title>Leadership’s Online Labs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/05/leaderships-online-labs</link>
<description>Tens of millions of people are honing their leadership skills in multiplayer online games. The tools and techniques they’re using will change how leaders function tomorrow—and could make them more effective today.</description>
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<title>Learning from Customer Defections</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1996/03/learning-from-customer-defections</link>
<description>The customers you lose hold the information you need to succeed.</description>
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<title>The One Number You Need to Grow</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/12/the-one-number-you-need-to-grow</link>
<description>If growth is what you’re after, you won’t learn much from complex measurements of customer satisfaction or retention. You simply need to know what your customers tell their friends about you.</description>
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<title>How Risky Is Overtime, Really?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/05/how-risky-is-overtime-really</link>
<description>Limits on overtime hamper many European and U.S. manufacturers in their efforts to compete effectively against low-wage overseas companies. But our empirical work with International Truck and Engine (ITEC) suggests that across-the-board limitations on the length of the workweek are too simplistic. Such limits are based on the assertion that long work hours are harmful […]</description>
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<title>The Best-Laid Incentive Plans</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/01/the-best-laid-incentive-plans</link>
<description>Rainbarrel Products knew what it needed from its workforce and created a performance management system to get it. Now, it’s living with the consequences—most of them unintended.</description>
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<title>Putting the Service-Profit Chain to Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1994/03/putting-the-service-profit-chain-to-work-2</link>
<description>When service companies put employees and customers first, a radical shift occurs in the way they manage and measure success.</description>
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<title>Make It a Habit to Give Thanks</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/11/make-it-a-habit-to-give-thanks.html</link>
<description>We should appreciate our employees — and our companies — all year round.</description>
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<title>New Research: What Yahoo Should Know About Good Managers and Remote Workers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/02/what-yahoo-doesnt-realize-abou</link>
<description>Employees’ perceptions play a powerful role in the productivity of mixed teams.</description>
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<title>Recognizing Employees Is the Simplest Way to Improve Morale</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/recognizing-employees-is-the-simplest-way-to-improve-morale</link>
<description>Eight ways to address the recognition deficit.</description>
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<title>2004 Reader’s Guide</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/12/2004-readers-guide</link>
<description>Index of Articles, by Author Index of Articles, by Subject Executive Summaries January February March April May June July–August September October November December 2004 Index of Articles, by Author A Anand, Bharat How Market Smarts Can Protect Property Rights December Reprint R0412D Anderson, Steven R. Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing November Reprint R0411J Apgar, Mahlon, IV New […]</description>
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<title>How Your State of Mind Affects Your Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/how-your-state-of-mind-affects-your-performance</link>
<description>Ways to move from frustrated to energized.</description>
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<title>Leadership—Warts and All</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/01/leadership-warts-and-all</link>
<description>If you look through the academic literature on leadership, you might conclude that every leader is good, or at least well intentioned. We could all benefit from a dose of realism.</description>
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<title>Know What Kind of Careerist You Are</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/03/know-what-kind-of-careerist-you-are</link>
<description>Are you motivated by advancement, security, freedom, engagement, or all of the above?</description>
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<title>The Higher-Ambition Leader</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/09/the-higher-ambition-leader</link>
<description>How a new breed of CEO delivers extraordinary economic and social value</description>
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<title>Lift Outs: How to Acquire a High-Functioning Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/12/lift-outs-how-to-acquire-a-high-functioning-team</link>
<description>By hiring away whole teams from a competitor, companies can quickly gain capacity without all the headaches of a merger or acquisition. It’s a high-risk, high-reward move.</description>
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<title>How One Fast-Food Chain Keeps Its Turnover Rates Absurdly Low</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/how-one-fast-food-chain-keeps-its-turnover-rates-absurdly-low</link>
<description>Hire for attitude, and train (a lot) for skill.</description>
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<title>Leadership Lessons from India</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/03/leadership-lessons-from-india</link>
<description>How the best Indian companies drive performance by investing in people.</description>
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<title>Managing the “Invisibles”</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/managing-the-invisibles</link>
<description>Many of your best people aren’t seeking status. They take pleasure in the work itself. Here’s how to create a culture that engages them.</description>
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<title>To Stay Focused, Manage Your Emotions</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/to-stay-focused-manage-your-emotions</link>
<description>Three practical steps for leaders.</description>
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<title>The Isolation Instinct</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/07/isolation-instinct.html</link>
<description>Mike Martin (not his real name) was one of the most gifted traders on Wall Street. Morgan Stanley, where I was working at the time, hired him away from a leading bank. A month after he was hired, Martin called me on the phone. He said, “Tom, I’ve come back home,” referring to his return […]</description>
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<title>Employee Happiness Isn’t Enough to Satisfy Customers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/04/employee-happiness-isnt-enough-to-satisfy-customers</link>
<description>To win customers’ hearts, a service business needs engaged employees who actively transmit their enthusiasm to customers. The idea that employee satisfaction simply rubs off and benefits the company is wishful thinking. The assertion that happy workers equal happy customers pops up in the marketing and mission statements of a lot of service providers, from […]</description>
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<title>Where Boards Fall Short</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/where-boards-fall-short</link>
<description>New data shows that most directors don’t understand the company’s strategy.</description>
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<title>Coaching the Toxic Leader</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/04/coaching-the-toxic-leader</link>
<description>Four pathologies that can hobble an executive and bring misery to the workplace—and what to do about them.</description>
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<title>The Making of a French Manager</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1991/07/the-making-of-a-french-manager</link>
<description>While the eyes of the world have been focused on Japan’s economic success story, France too has been showing a level of progress that makes it essential for the global executive to understand how French managers are molded. Consider this: In 1989, France made one-third of all acquisitions in Western Europe, adding more in 1990. […]</description>
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<title>What It’s Like To Be a Black Manager</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1973/07/what-its-like-to-be-a-black-manager</link>
<description>Equal job opportunity is more than putting a black man in a white man’s job</description>
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<title>Good Managers Don’t Make Policy Decisions</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1984/07/good-managers-dont-make-policy-decisions</link>
<description>This article was first published in the September–October 1967 issue. The editors have chosen it as an “HBR Classic” because it has passed the test of time with flying colors. Requests for reprints still come in at an impressive rate. The article’s continued success is all the more remarkable because in the 1960s its precepts […]</description>
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<title>Signs That You’re a Micromanager</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/signs-that-youre-a-micromanager</link>
<description>And four strategies to help you reform.</description>
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<title>Making the Most of the Best</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1996/03/making-the-most-of-the-best</link>
<description>How can an organization’s capabilities exceed the sum of its parts?</description>
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<title>Vision Statement: High-Performance Office Space</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/09/high-performance-office-space</link>
<description>What are the costs of using 20th-century spaces to do 21st-century knowledge work? Lost productivity, higher capital expenses, and inaccessible managers. Here’s how the pharmaceutical company Lilly remedied those problems at its headquarters, by radically redesigning 470,000 square feet of space for 3,300 employees. Before: The Tyranny of the Cubicle Watch a slideshow of different […]</description>
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<title>Why Curious People Are Destined for the C-Suite</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/why-curious-people-are-destined-for-the-c-suite</link>
<description>Curiosity and open-mindedness are getting their due.</description>
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<title>Are Leaders Portable?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/05/are-leaders-portable</link>
<description>Stock prices spike when companies hire new CEOs from talent generators like GE, but longer term, these executives may not deliver. Even the best management talent won’t transfer unless it maps to the challenges of the new environment.</description>
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<title>Time-and-Motion Regained</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1993/01/time-and-motion-regained</link>
<description>With workers defining their own job standards, quality and productivity at the Fremont plant went from worst to best.</description>
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<title>CEOs Need to Pay Attention to Employer Branding</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/ceos-need-to-pay-attention-to-employer-branding</link>
<description>It matters for attracting the best talent.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The End of Solution Sales</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/07/the-end-of-solution-sales</link>
<description>The old playbook no longer works. Star salespeople now seek to upend the customer’s current approach to doing business.</description>
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<title>13 Signs That Someone Is About to Quit, According to Research</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/13-signs-that-someone-is-about-to-quit-according-to-research</link>
<description>Dressing up more than usual isn’t one of them.</description>
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<title>Avoid the Coaching Niche</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/08/avoid-the-coaching-niche</link>
<description>One of the first questions I was asked when I started out as a coach was “What’s your niche?” The “correct” answer, it seems, was “top team,” “high potentials,” “leaders,” “women,” or “board members.” But with little experience of coaching any of these clients, I was unable honestly to answer that question. Seven years on, […]</description>
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<title>How to Give Your Boss Feedback</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/03/how-to-give-your-boss-feedback</link>
<description>Working closely with anyone gives you useful insight into her performance. This is especially true of your boss, who you likely see in a variety of settings: client meetings, presentations, one-on-ones, negotiations, etc. But even if that insight could be helpful to your boss, is it your place to share it with her? Could you […]</description>
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<title>To Win Customers, Get Out of the Way</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/11/to-win-customers-get-out-of-th</link>
<description>Superior operational excellence cannot be achieved or maintained with an iron fist. It needs to be organically grown and fostered throughout the company. I oversee all aircraft, flight and customer service operations at Hawaiian Airlines. For any company, and especially any airline, operational excellence and customer service go hand in glove. I’m thankful that those […]</description>
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<title>Do Managers and Leaders Really Do Different Things?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/do-managers-and-leaders-really-do-different-things</link>
<description>Or do they just think differently?</description>
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<title>The Transparency Trap</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/10/the-transparency-trap</link>
<description>Too much openness can be counterproductive. Privacy is just as important to performance.</description>
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<title>Keep Employees from Leaving by Emphasizing Teamwork</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/11/keep-employees-from-leaving-by-emphasizing-teamwork</link>
<description>People don’t do their best work with one foot out the door.</description>
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<title>Unplug Your Ears and Listen</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/01/leaders-unplug-your-ears-and-l</link>
<description>How to sort through feedback for what really matters.</description>
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<title>Five Good Reasons to Champion Auto-Analytics in Your Organization</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/01/five-good-reasons-to-champion</link>
<description>How do you quantify your life? Philosophers and poets have long suggested the benefits of quantification. In heeding their advice today you can do a lot more than simply measure out your life with coffee spoons, to borrow a line from T.S. Eliot. For instance, millions of consumers now use NikePlus devices to carefully track […]</description>
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<title>Would Amazon’s 30-Hour-Week Experiment Work in Your Company?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/would-amazons-30-hour-week-experiment-work-in-your-company</link>
<description>Why it’s different from other flex time arrangements.</description>
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<title>The Long-Term Effects of Tracking Employee Behavior</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/07/the-long-term-effects-of-tracking-employee-behavior</link>
<description>A study of hand washing in hospitals shows how it can backfire.</description>
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<title>Leading People When They Know More than You Do</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/leading-people-when-they-know-more-than-you-do</link>
<description>Four ways to avoid being derailed.</description>
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<title>Europe Can Find Better Ways to Get Refugees into Workforces</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/10/europe-can-find-better-ways-to-get-refugees-into-workforces</link>
<description>Some countries have solutions in place, but too many don’t.</description>
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<title>Good Enough Can Be Great</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/08/good-enough-can-be-great</link>
<description>Good enough? Is that the best you can do? In our culture, with its focus on excellence and perfection, good enough is usually considered not enough. While that may be the conventional wisdom, good enough is sometimes exactly what you need. Take our earliest interpersonal relationships, for example. In psychological theory, the “good enough mother” […]</description>
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<title>The Best Ways Your Organization Can Support Working Parents</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/01/the-best-ways-your-organization-can-support-working-parents</link>
<description>Start with the data.</description>
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<title>How to Tell Someone They’re Being Laid Off</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/how-to-tell-someone-theyre-being-laid-off</link>
<description>Don’t talk about how difficult the decision was for you.</description>
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<title>The Power of Preventive Assessment</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/05/the-power-of-preventive-assess</link>
<description>I just returned from Toronto where I spent some time in the hands of an amazing corps of health care professionals at Medcan, North America’s biggest preventive health clinic. I heard more than one story of how Medcan’s preventive assessments saved lives — and enormous medical cost. Medcan’s CEO, Shaun Francis, is an alumnus of […]</description>
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<title>Case Study: When the CEO’s Personal Crusade Drives Decisions</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/06/case-study-when-the-ceos-personal-crusade-drives-decisions</link>
<description>The CEO wants to focus his CSR efforts on finding a cure for his daughter’s disease. Is he acting in the company’s best interests?</description>
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<title>Advice and Dissent: Rating the Corporate Governance Compact</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1991/11/advice-and-dissent-rating-the-corporate-governance-compact</link>
<description>The July–August 1991 HBR presented “A New Compact for Owners and Directors,” the first public statement of the Working Group on Corporate Governance and a major contribution to the ongoing debate over the governance of public corporations. In this issue, we continue the debate with reactions to the Compact from three prominent business experts. The […]</description>
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<title>Respect Employees: Be Tough on Them</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/11/respect-employees-be-tough-on</link>
<description>There’s a painful new-employee moment in the PBS documentary “Circus,” and it really resonated for me. A veteran clown at the Big Apple Circus is showing a recent hire the extremely subtle difference between the wrong and right ways to remove a hat in front of an audience. “It can’t be this; it has to […]</description>
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<title>I Wasn’t Hiding From You, Boss. I Was Just Being Productive.</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/11/i-wasnt-hiding-from-you-boss-i-was-just-being-productive</link>
<description>Another blow to open offices, the management challenges of eradicating polio, and what might be the greatest interoffice email ever.</description>
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<title>Tough Love Performance Reviews, in 10 Minutes</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/tough-love-performance-reviews-in-10-minutes</link>
<description>It can be done.</description>
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<title>Let’s Not Kill Performance Reviews Yet</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/11/lets-not-kill-performance-evaluations-yet</link>
<description>Facebook’s experience shows why they can still be valuable.</description>
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<title>28 Years of Stock Market Data Shows a Link Between Employee Satisfaction and Long-Term Value</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/03/28-years-of-stock-market-data-shows-a-link-between-employee-satisfaction-and-long-term-value</link>
<description>Another reason why employee morale matters.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Best Cover Letter I Ever Received</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/06/the-best-cover-letter</link>
<description>In my last post I talked about how to make your résumé more likely to catch the attention of a hiring manager. As a follow up, I’d like to discuss cover letters. Here’s my basic philosophy on them: don’t bother. That’s because the cover letters I see usually fall into one of three categories: The […]</description>
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<title>Why Google, Target, and General Mills Are Investing in Mindfulness</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/12/why-google-target-and-general-mills-are-investing-in-mindfulness</link>
<description>The bottom-line benefits of meditation.</description>
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<title>Moon Shots for Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/02/moon-shots-for-management</link>
<description>What great challenges must we tackle to reinvent management and make it more relevant to a volatile world?</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Most Empathetic Companies, 2016</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/12/the-most-and-least-empathetic-companies-2016</link>
<description>Four tech companies top the list.</description>
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<title>Bring in Outside Experts to Mentor Your Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/01/bring-in-outside-experts-to-mentor-your-team</link>
<description>Make them part of the brain trust.</description>
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<title>Muting Unwanted Noise in an Open Office</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/12/muting-unwanted-noise-in-an-open-office</link>
<description>Counteract it with better sounds.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>What Makes Great Boards Great</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/09/what-makes-great-boards-great</link>
<description>It’s not rules and regulations. It’s the way people work together.</description>
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<title>Is Your Employee Ready to Be a Manager?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/is-your-employee-ready-to-be-a-manager</link>
<description>How to measure their potential.</description>
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<title>The Why, What, and How of Management Innovation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/02/the-why-what-and-how-of-management-innovation</link>
<description>Over the past century, breakthroughs such as brand management and the divisionalized organization structure have created more sustained competitive advantage than anything that came out of a lab or focus group. Here’s how you can make your company a serial management innovator.</description>
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<title>How Hardwired Is Human Behavior?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1998/07/how-hardwired-is-human-behavior</link>
<description>Evolutionary psychology suggests where—and why—managers may be working against our inner circuitry.</description>
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<title>Ten Fatal Flaws That Derail Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/06/ten-fatal-flaws-that-derail-leaders</link>
<description>Poor leadership in good times can be hidden, but poor leadership in bad times is a recipe for disaster. To find out why leaders fail, we scrutinized results from two studies: In one, we collected 360-degree feedback data on more than 450 Fortune 500 executives and then teased out the common characteristics of the 31 […]</description>
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<title>Corporate Writing Doesn’t Have to Sound Like It’s Written by Committee</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/corporate-writing-doesnt-have-to-sound-like-its-written-by-committee</link>
<description>Clarify your feedback process.</description>
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<title>Even When Women Ask for a Raise, They Don’t Ask for Enough</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/07/even-when-women-ask-for-a-raise-they-dont-ask-for-enough</link>
<description>They need to up their expectations.</description>
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<title>Will This Open Space Work?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1999/05/will-this-open-space-work</link>
<description>The CEO wants to increase collaboration and cut costs with an open-plan work space, but the knowledge workers say they need their walls, their doors, and their privacy.</description>
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<title>Must Success Cost So Much?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1980/03/must-success-cost-so-much</link>
<description>Undeniably, many people who reach executive levels in organizations do so at the expense of their personal lives. They spend long hours at difficult and tension-filled jobs and retreat to their homes not for comfort and sustenance but for a place to hide or to vent feelings left over from a bad day at the […]</description>
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<title>Why People Thrive in Coworking Spaces</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/why-people-thrive-in-coworking-spaces</link>
<description>They may make people happier and more productive.</description>
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<title>Selling into Micromarkets</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/07/selling-into-micromarkets</link>
<description>How to use big data to uncover lucrative new hot spots</description>
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<title>A Story About Motivation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/02/a-story-about-motivation.html</link>
<description>I was walking back to our apartment in Manhattan, the hood of my jacket pulled tight to keep the rain out, when I saw an older man with a walker struggle to descend the slippery stairs of his building. When he almost fell, I and several others went over to help. There was an Access-A-Ride […]</description>
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<title>How to Pay Your Sales Force</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1978/07/how-to-pay-your-sales-force</link>
<description>Using the results of a survey of 380 companies in 34 industries, this author examines three basic types of compensation plans: salary, commission, and combination (salary plus commission). Most companies in the study favored a combination plan, but such plans have some disadvantages to offset their obvious attractiveness. The author sets out the possible reasons […]</description>
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<title>HBR Case Study: The Flight of the Boomerang Employee</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/04/hbr-case-study-the-flight-of-the-boomerang-employee</link>
<description>When is it a good idea to return to your old company?</description>
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<title>Convincing Employees to Use New Technology</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/09/convincing-employees-to-use-new-technology</link>
<description>Leaders need to focus on adoption, not just deployment.</description>
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<title>Remembering Andy Grove, the Teacher</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/03/remembering-andy-grove-the-teacher</link>
<description>For a quarter century, he was a fixture at Stanford’s GSB.</description>
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<title>Are We More Productive When We Have More Time Off?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/are-we-more-productive-when-we-have-more-time-off</link>
<description>An inquiry.</description>
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<title>How to Get Involved Without Micromanaging People</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/03/how-to-get-involved-without-mi.html</link>
<description>One of the more vexing problems most managers face every day is how to get involved in the work of their people without doing the work themselves or micromanaging those doing it. You can resolve this challenge with the same approach that we described in our previous blog — the technique we call Prep-Do-Review. In […]</description>
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<title>Ending Gender Discrimination Requires More than a Training Program</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/10/ending-gender-discrimination-requires-more-than-a-training-program</link>
<description>Awareness is only a first step.</description>
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<title>The Brand Report Card</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2000/01/the-brand-report-card</link>
<description>The world’s strongest brands share ten attributes. How does your brand measure up?</description>
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<title>Nice or Tough: Which Approach Engages Employees Most?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/09/nice-or-tough-what-engages-emp</link>
<description>Neither, actually.</description>
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<title>How Age and Gender Affect Self-Improvement</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/how-age-and-gender-affect-self-improvement</link>
<description>A survey shows that gaining confidence makes you more open to change.</description>
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<title>How to Get an Employee to Work Faster</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/01/how-to-get-an-employee-to-work-faster</link>
<description>Find the source of their sluggishness.</description>
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<title>To Build a Winning Team: An Interview with Head Coach Bill Walsh</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1993/01/to-build-a-winning-team-an-interview-with-head-coach-bill-walsh</link>
<description>For starters, the coach must sidestep his ego.</description>
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<title>How to Really Motivate Salespeople</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/how-to-really-motivate-salespeople</link>
<description>New research challenges conventional wisdom about the best ways to pay your team.</description>
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<title>Nonprofits Can’t Keep Ignoring Talent Development</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/12/nonprofits-cant-keep-ignoring-talent-development</link>
<description>It’s causing a costly game of musical chairs.</description>
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<title>This Weekly Meeting Took Up 300,000 Hours a Year</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/04/how-a-weekly-meeting-took-up-300000-hours-a-year</link>
<description>Time is a company’s most precious resource.</description>
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<title>The Seven Skills You Need to Thrive in the C-Suite</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/03/the-seven-skills-you-need-to-thrive-in-the-c-suite</link>
<description>The traits companies prize most.</description>
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<title>When One Team Member Is Ruining Your Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/10/when-one-team-member-is-ruinin</link>
<description>This week’s question for Ask the Coach: I need feedback on how to deal with a team member who is poisoning my other team members. I manage this group but feel I am disconnected from this person. In the past, we have got along fine but this year has been bad and I am feeling […]</description>
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<title>The Relationship You Need to Get Right</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/10/the-relationship-you-need-to-get-right</link>
<description>A guide to being an effective sponsor—and a good protege—throughout your career</description>
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<title>How Customers Can Rally Your Troops</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/06/how-customers-can-rally-your-troops</link>
<description>End users can energize your workforce far better than your managers can.</description>
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<title>How to Play to Your Strengths</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/01/how-to-play-to-your-strengths</link>
<description>You may have more to gain by developing your gifts and leveraging your natural skills than by trying to repair your weaknesses. Here is a systematic way to discover who you are at your very best.</description>
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<title>The Best-Performing CEOs in the World</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/the-best-performing-ceos-in-the-world</link>
<description>The knock on most business leaders is that they don’t take the long view—that they’re fixated on achieving short-term goals to lift their pay. So which global CEOs actually delivered solid results over the long run? Our 2014 list of top performers provides an objective answer. Adi Ignatius A few years ago I sat down […]</description>
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<title>How Smart Business Travelers Get More from Hotels</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/how-smart-business-travelers-get-more-from-hotels</link>
<description>Tips from an industry insider.</description>
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<title>The Cure for the Common Corporate Wellness Program</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/the-cure-for-the-common-corporate-wellness-program</link>
<description>HR departments should ask employees what they want.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Strategic Management for Competitive Advantage</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1980/07/strategic-management-for-competitive-advantage</link>
<description>For the better part of a decade, strategy has been a business buzzword. Top executives ponder strategic objectives and missions. Managers down the line rough out product/market strategies. Functional chiefs lay out “strategies” for everything from R&amp;D to raw-materials sourcing and distributor relations. Mere planning has lost its glamor; the planners have all turned into […]</description>
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<title>Let Employees Choose When, Where, and How to Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/let-employees-choose-when-where-and-how-to-work</link>
<description>Why freedom works.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Be Yourself, but Carefully</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/10/be-yourself-but-carefully</link>
<description>How to be authentic without oversharing</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Good Leadership Is Contagious - HBR Video</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/video/4762338922001/good-leadership-is-contagious</link>
<description>And so is bad leadership.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Research: We Drop People Who Give Us Critical Feedback</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/research-we-drop-people-who-give-us-critical-feedback</link>
<description>But affiliating with only admirers is a mistake.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Do CEOs Really Have the Power to Raise Wages?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/do-ceos-really-have-the-power-to-raise-wages</link>
<description>How the market for labor really works.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Are You Ready to Rebound?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/03/are-you-ready-to-rebound/ar/1</link>
<description>Seven questions to ask.</description>
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<title>When It’s Safe to Rely on Intuition (and When It’s Not)</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/when-its-safe-to-rely-on-intuition-and-when-its-not</link>
<description>Three factors all deciders should consider.</description>
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<title>Learning to Lead at Toyota</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/05/learning-to-lead-at-toyota</link>
<description>Toyota’s famous production system makes great cars—and with them great managers. Here’s how one American hotshot learned to replicate Toyota’s DNA.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Best Morale Boost $3 Million Can Buy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/the-best-morale-boost-3-million-can-buy</link>
<description>A brief history of the corporate musical — with soundbites.</description>
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<title>In the Best Sales Teams, About Half of the People Are in Support Roles</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/in-the-best-sales-teams-about-half-of-the-people-are-in-support-roles</link>
<description>Free your customer-facing staff to do their work.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Get the Feedback You Need</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/how-to-get-the-feedback-you-need</link>
<description>What to do if your boss is stingy with pointers and advice.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Obama’s First 90 Days</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/06/obamas-first-90-days-2</link>
<description>Early wins and a strong team mean a successful start for the U.S. president.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Managing Our Way to Higher Service-Sector Productivity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1997/07/managing-our-way-to-higher-service-sector-productivity</link>
<description>It’s astonishing what happens when senior executives pay attention to how work actually gets done.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Sparking Creativity at Ferrari</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/04/sparking-creativity-at-ferrari</link>
<description>Ferrari is best known for its cutting-edge cars. Less well known are its creative approaches to creativity. HBR asked Mario Almondo, the Italian automaker’s director of human resources and organization, how the company inspires its nearly 3,000 employees. Many companies invest in employee training. What does Ferrari do that’s different? Four years ago, we launched […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Become an Extraordinary Leader</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/10/become-extraordinary</link>
<description>Here’s a short quiz: When you brought your report card home in high school did your parents: A) zero in on the C’s and say, “What’s the matter here?” B) focus the A-minuses, pat you on the back, and say, “Great job, now let’s push these up to A’s”? If you’re typical of the high-potential […]</description>
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<title>Are Robots Really Coming for Our Jobs?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2015/06/are-robots-really-coming-for-our-jobs.html</link>
<description>James Bessen, economist and former software executive, on what we can learn from 19th century mill workers about innovation, wages, and technology.</description>
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<title>Demystifying Mentoring</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/02/demystifying-mentoring.html</link>
<description>When people think of mentoring, they often think of an older executive counseling a young upstart. The senior leader advises the junior employee on his career, how to navigate the world of work, and what he needs to do to get ahead. But mentoring has changed a lot in the last few decades. Just as […]</description>
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<title>Why Good Companies Go Bad</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1999/07/why-good-companies-go-bad</link>
<description>When business conditions change, the most successful companies are often the slowest to adapt. To avoid being left behind, executives must understand the true sources of corporate inertia.</description>
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<title>When Should a Leader Apologize—and When Not?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/04/when-should-a-leader-apologize-and-when-not</link>
<description>For a leader, a public apology is always a high-risk move. Understanding what apologies can and cannot do will help you avoid both foolhardy stonewalling and unnecessary contrition.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>What’s It Worth?: A General Manager’s Guide to Valuation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1997/05/whats-it-worth-a-general-managers-guide-to-valuation</link>
<description>Valuation used to be the province of finance specialists. That’s no longer true.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Sometimes Colleagues Are the Best Coaches</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/sometimes-colleagues-are-the-best-coaches</link>
<description>Get your top team on the same page.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Make Your Work Resolutions Stick</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/make-your-work-resolutions-stick</link>
<description>Start by setting realistic goals.</description>
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<title>How to Handle the Pessimist on Your Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/09/how-to-handle-the-pessimist-on.html</link>
<description>Turning Negativity into Productivity Dealing with a pessimist on your team can be a frustrating and time-consuming experience. Attempts to ignore or counter frequent negative comments may simply incite further negativity. Good news: by being proactive you can help the pessimist change his behavior and enable your team to achieve greater productivity. What the Experts […]</description>
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<title>Match the Perk to the Person If You Want Great Talent</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/11/match-the-perk-to-the-person-i</link>
<description>Eight-seven percent of candidates ask for benefits beyond the original offer (and other surprising survey results).</description>
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<title>Where Leadership Starts</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2001/11/where-leadership-starts</link>
<description>Jumping into a new job is hard enough. It’s harder still when you don’t know the customers, the competition, or the team. Where to begin? The new CEO of Mattel suggests a visit to the company cafeteria.</description>
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<title>The Power of Predictability</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1995/07/the-power-of-predictability</link>
<description>How can people concentrate on creating value if they can’t understand the rules of the game?</description>
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<title>How to Hang On to Your High Potentials</title>
<link>http://hbr.org/2011/10/how-to-hang-on-to-your-high-potentials/ar/1</link>
<description>Emerging best practices in managing your company’s future leaders</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Fire All the Managers</title>
<link>http://blogs.hbr.org/ideacast/2011/11/fire-all-the-managers.html</link>
<description>Gary Hamel, director of the Management Innovation eXchange and author of the HBR article “First, Let’s Fire All the Managers.”</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Strategic Sourcing: To Make or Not To Make</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1992/11/strategic-sourcing-to-make-or-not-to-make</link>
<description>Make or buy decisions can be a catalyst for industrial renewal.</description>
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<title>Older Women Are Being Forced Out of the Workforce</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/03/older-women-are-being-forced-out-of-the-workforce</link>
<description>It’s harder for them to find jobs, too.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Creating the Best Workplace on Earth</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/05/creating-the-best-workplace-on-earth</link>
<description>What employees really require to be their most productive</description>
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<title>Coaching Your Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/09/coaching-your-employees</link>
<description>When you’re swamped with your own work, how can you make time to coach your employees—and do it well? It’s a common problem. But if you don’t build your people’s own skills and capabilities, they’ll come to you for answers instead of finding their own solutions. Hand-holding kills productivity and creativity, and you can’t sustain […]</description>
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<title>You Are What Your Employees Eat</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/09/you-are-what-your-employees-eat</link>
<description>How food experiences can impact your corporate community.</description>
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<title>How to Tell Your Boss You Have Too Much Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/01/how-to-tell-your-boss-you-have-too-much-work</link>
<description>Don’t suffer in silence.</description>
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<title>How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1990/11/how-i-learned-to-let-my-workers-lead</link>
<description>I wanted employees who would fly like geese. What I had was a company that wallowed like a herd of buffalo.</description>
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<title>Fixing Performance Appraisal Is About More than Ditching Annual Reviews</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/fixing-performance-appraisal-is-about-more-than-ditching-annual-reviews</link>
<description>Focus on outcome rather than on activity.</description>
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<title>Health Care’s Service Fanatics</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/05/health-cares-service-fanatics</link>
<description>How the Cleveland Clinic leaped to the top of patient-satisfaction surveys</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Four Lessons From the Best Bosses I Ever Had</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/09/four-lessons-from-the-best-bo</link>
<description>Having a great boss shouldn’t be such an unusual experience.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Reputation and Its Risks</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/02/reputation-and-its-risks</link>
<description>Identify, quantify, and manage the risks to your company’s reputation long before a problem or crisis strikes.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Appraising Employee Performance in a Downsized Organization</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/04/appraising-employee-performanc</link>
<description>The experts call it “ghost work”; it’s what’s left for the survivors to do when layoffs have cut an organization’s staff to a bare-bones minimum. Work that still has to get done is reassigned to people who may not have the skills — and certainly don’t have the time — to do it. The strain […]</description>
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<title>In a Difficult Conversation, Listen More Than You Talk</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/02/in-a-difficult-conversation-listen-more-than-you-talk</link>
<description>You don’t need the last word.</description>
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<title>Why Companies Overlook Great Internal Candidates</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/why-companies-overlook-great-internal-candidates</link>
<description>Not everyone wants to be a job hopper.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1983/09/moral-mazes-bureaucracy-and-managerial-work</link>
<description>Corporate leaders often tell their charges that hard work will lead to success. Indeed, this theory of reward being commensurate with effort has been an enduring belief in our society, one central to our self-image as a people where the “main chance” is available to anyone of ability who has the gumption and the persistence […]</description>
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<title>How to Navigate Bonus Season</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/12/how-to-navigate-bonus-season.html</link>
<description>Bonus season can be a tough time for managers. They have to make difficult decisions about who to reward and how to best reward them. Recent years have been especially challenging. Many companies have slashed or even eliminated year-end perks. But surviving bonus season doesn’t mean simply grinning and bearing it. With the right understanding […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Five Stages of Small Business Growth</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1983/05/the-five-stages-of-small-business-growth</link>
<description>Categorizing the problems and growth patterns of small businesses in a systematic way that is useful to entrepreneurs seems at first glance a hopeless task. Small businesses vary widely in size and capacity for growth. They are characterized by independence of action, differing organizational structures, and varied management styles. Yet on closer scrutiny, it becomes […]</description>
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<title>Leapfrogging RandD</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/10/leapfrogging-randd</link>
<description>Herb Baum understands why companies choose to be fast followers. But that strategy is not for him. He didn’t like it when he was CEO of Quaker State in the 1990s, and he doesn’t like it now that he’s president and CEO of Dial, the $1.3 billion maker of soaps, detergents, and other products. (Dial, […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Being a New Manager in a New Culture Is Twice as Hard</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/becoming-a-manager-in-a-new-country</link>
<description>Learning to lead is especially difficult in a different culture.</description>
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<title>When Your Culture Needs a Makeover</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2001/06/when-your-culture-needs-a-makeover</link>
<description>Every company needs to refresh its culture now and then, but Alberto-Culver—maker of consumer product mainstays such as Alberto VO5, St. Ives, and Mrs. Dash—needed a complete reinvention.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Why Top Young Managers Are in a Nonstop Job Hunt</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/07/why-top-young-managers-are-in-a-nonstop-job-hunt</link>
<description>You might suspect that your best young managers are looking for a better gig—and you’re probably right. Research shows that today’s most-sought-after early-career professionals are constantly networking and thinking about the next step, even if they seem fully engaged. And employee-development programs aren’t making them happy enough to stay. We reached these conclusions after conducting […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Making of an Expert</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/07/the-making-of-an-expert</link>
<description>New research shows that outstanding performance is the product of years of deliberate practice and coaching, not of any innate talent or skill.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Why We Pay All Our Employees a Commission</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/03/why-we-pay-all-our-employees-a</link>
<description>Tying pay directly to company revenue forces employees to focus on what matters.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Teach Your Team to Expect Success</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/teach-your-team-to-expect-success</link>
<description>They’ll be more likely to achieve it.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Women and the Vision Thing</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/01/women-and-the-vision-thing</link>
<description>Women are judged to be less visionary than men in 360-degree feedback. It may be a matter of perception, but it stops women from getting to the top.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Employee Motivation: A Powerful New Model</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/07/employee-motivation-a-powerful-new-model</link>
<description>Getting people to do their best work, even in trying circumstances, is one of managers’ most enduring and slippery challenges. Indeed, deciphering what motivates us as human beings is a centuries-old puzzle. Some of history’s most influential thinkers about human behavior—among them Aristotle, Adam Smith, Sigmund Freud, and Abraham Maslow—have struggled to understand its nuances […]</description>
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<title>How Good Leaders Correct Mistakes</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/07/how-good-leaders-correct-mista</link>
<description>Carlos Gomez, the rookie centerfielder for the Minnesota Twins, scooped up the ball and threw so hard to second base that the throw ended up being fielded in the dugout by Ron Gardenhire, his manager. So what did Gardenhire do when the rookie returned to the dugout? He asked him to autograph the ball. Gomez […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Hay Fever and the Hidden Corporate Health Care Crisis</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/04/hay-fever-and-the-hidden-corpo</link>
<description>If you’re a manager, you want productive employees. Yet you’re probably blind to one of the most serious drains on their productivity – the aches and pains, both physical and emotional, that people bring with them to work. You’re probably also unaware of something even more surprising. The cost of health-related productivity loss may actually […]</description>
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<title>Managing Big Egos So the Entire Team Wins</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/02/managing-big-egos-so-the-entir</link>
<description>Can you have a team comprised of too many smart people? “Sometimes too many geniuses is a problem,” said New York Times columnist David Brooks, speaking in early February on PBS’s Charlie Rose. Brooks noted that some of the difficulties that the Obama administration was having initially on his economic and foreign policy teams was […]</description>
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<title>A Scorecard for Making Better Hiring Decisions</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/a-scorecard-for-making-better-hiring-decisions</link>
<description>Measure your success rate over time.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Listening Begins at Home</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/11/listening-begins-at-home</link>
<description>Procter &amp; Gamble practically wrote the book on market research. But when the company used those techniques to learn how its employees felt, it discovered a whole new way to improve morale—and profits, too.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Paradox of High Potentials</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/04/the-paradox-of-high-potentials</link>
<description>To retain high-potential employees, the conventional wisdom is deceptively simple: Identify, develop, and nurture them. By paying special attention to the very best people, they will stay with the firm and eventually emerge as key leaders. But translating this into action is much more difficult. As the former head of executive development at GE used […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How the Right Measures Help Teams Excel</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1994/05/how-the-right-measures-help-teams-excel</link>
<description>A multifunctional team’s measurement system must empower the team instead of empowering top managers.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Navigating the Transition from Friend to Boss</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/navigating-the-transition-from-friend-to-boss</link>
<description>It’s complicated, but not impossible to manage.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Productivity Pointers — From a Poet?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/12/productivity-can-be-poetry</link>
<description>I remember starting a new job abut 10 years ago and being introduced to an employee who was plugging away in his cubicle. As we moved out of earshot, the manager who was showing me around remarked, “Good guy, but a bit of a poet.” “I’m not sure I follow you,” I replied, bristling internally […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Why Remote Work Thrives in Some Companies and Fails in Others</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/why-remote-work-thrives-in-some-companies-and-fails-in-others</link>
<description>It’s about technology and process.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>When Treating Workers Well Leads to More Innovation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/11/when-treating-workers-well-leads-to-more-innovation</link>
<description>Perks help, but long-term incentives matter more.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Questions Good Coaches Ask</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/the-questions-good-coaches-ask</link>
<description>Make them open-ended.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Three Imperatives for Good Project Managers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/03/three-imperatives-for-good-project-managers</link>
<description>Interviews with effective herders-of-cats yielded these common themes.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Give a Meaningful “Thank You”</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/02/how-to-give-a-meaningful-thank</link>
<description>Expressing gratitude in a world of “Tks!”</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Competing on the Eight Dimensions of Quality</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1987/11/competing-on-the-eight-dimensions-of-quality</link>
<description>U.S. managers know that they have to improve the quality of their products because, alas, U.S. consumers have told them so. A survey in 1981 reported that nearly 50% of U.S. consumers believed that the quality of U.S. products had dropped during the previous five years; more recent surveys have found that a quarter of […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Collaboration Will Drive the Next Wave of Productivity Gains</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/05/collaboration-will-drive-the-n</link>
<description>Increasing productivity — making more with less — is at the core of any company or any economy’s economic progress. From a societal view, productivity drives higher living standards and increases shared resources — for example, providing a government with more resources to invest back into its citizens. For a company, increasing productivity has the […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Company Cultures That Help (or Hinder) Digital Transformation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/the-company-cultures-that-help-or-hinder-digital-transformation</link>
<description>The five toughest obstacles.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Price of Incivility</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/01/the-price-of-incivility</link>
<description>Lack of respect hurts morale—and the bottom line.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Brief and Fascinating History of What You’re Wearing and Where It Gets Made</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/the-brief-and-fascinating-history-of-what-youre-wearing-and-where-it-gets-made</link>
<description>On Bangladesh and the T-shirt, and other provocative business stories from the past week.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Robots Seem to Be Improving Productivity, Not Costing Jobs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/robots-seem-to-be-improving-productivity-not-costing-jobs</link>
<description>A first look at the economic data.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Leadership Team: Complementary Strengths or Conflicting Agendas?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/04/the-leadership-team-complementary-strengths-or-conflicting-agendas</link>
<description>Senior leadership teams whose members play complementary roles have been chronicled as far back as Homer’s oral history of the Trojan War. Though the Greeks were led in their quest for retribution against Troy by the powerful King Agamemnon, their victory would not have been possible without Achilles, the mighty warrior; Odysseus, the wily tactician; […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Use Microblogging to Increase Productivity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/04/use-microblogging-to-increase</link>
<description>Are you using Twitter to reach your customers and followers? Do you update your status on Facebook several times a day? Maybe you daily ask questions of one of your specialized LinkedIn groups? You can replicate this experience inside your organization. There are a number of internal solutions that allow employees to share messages and […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Four Ways to Adapt to an Aging Workforce</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/04/four-ways-to-adapt-to-an-aging-workforce</link>
<description>Firms that make these changes have seen improvements in productivity, organizational culture, and the bottom line.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Future of Knowledge Workspaces</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/08/the-future-of-knowledge-worksp</link>
<description>Here’s a next big thing: companies will need to redesign their workplaces to better fit the needs of knowledge workers. The idea that we should spend our workdays in boring cubicles — either in big downtown buildings or suburban office parks — is increasingly out of kilter with the way people actually work and how […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>What Is Organizational Culture? And Why Should We Care?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/05/what-is-organizational-culture</link>
<description>What leaders need to know to change orgs for the better.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Start Your Customer Surveys by Asking What Went Right</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/01/the-power-of-positive-surveying</link>
<description>Nudging customers to reflect on good experiences gooses sales.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Respond When Your Employee Asks for a Raise</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/how-to-respond-when-your-employee-asks-for-a-raise</link>
<description>Buy time and ask questions.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Discipline Without Punishment—At Last</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1985/07/discipline-without-punishment-at-last</link>
<description>It was a particularly nasty incident involving a foreman that triggered Tampa Electric Company’s decision to switch to a nonpunitive approach to discipline. The labor relations manager recalled the 1977 confrontation between the foreman and a lineman this way: “The lineman’s confrontational behavior caused the working foreman to grab the lineman by his shirt collar […]</description>
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<title>How to Quit Your Job Without Burning Bridges</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/how-to-quit-your-job-without-burning-bridges</link>
<description>Keep important relationships intact and the rumor mill at bay.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How GE Applies Lean Startup Practices</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/04/how-ge-applies-lean-startup-practices</link>
<description>They’re reinventing their appliance business with rapid prototyping.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How Managers Become Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/06/how-managers-become-leaders</link>
<description>The seven seismic shifts of perspective and responsibility</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Multicultural Leadership Starts from Within</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/01/multicultural-leadership-starts-fr</link>
<description>This post is part of the HBR Insight Center, The Next Generation of Global Leaders. The world is getting smaller. As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it’s more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and […]</description>
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<title>How GE Teaches Teams to Lead Change</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/01/how-ge-teaches-teams-to-lead-change</link>
<description>In October 2007 I attended the four-day program Leadership, Innovation, and Growth (LIG) at General Electric’s famed management development center in Crotonville, New York. LIG was the first effort in the center’s 51-year history to bring all the senior members of a business’s management team together for training. Launched in 2006, the program had a […]</description>
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<title>Getting Offshoring Right</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/12/getting-offshoring-right</link>
<description>It’s not easy to make money by offshoring business processes, many CEOs are discovering. Companies benefit only when they pick the right processes, calculate both the operational and structural risks, and match organizational forms to needs.</description>
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<title>Twitter, Travel, and the Power of the Engaged Employee</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/09/twitter-travel-and-the-power-o</link>
<description>I travel a lot, as do many of the executives I talk to. So when I give a speech and ask audience members to describe the last time they told their friends to avoid doing business with a company, airlines provide a reliable source of horror stories. I have my own horror stories, of course. […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Find the Reverse Leaders in Your Midst</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/05/find-the-reverse-leaders-in-yo</link>
<description>In the spirit of reverse innovation, and reverse mentoring, I submit to you that the next trend to watch out for in leadership is, you guessed it — reverse leadership. You’ve likely seen reverse leadership in action. It happens when someone not in a formal leadership role demonstrates great leadership ability: when a field service […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Ask for a Raise</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/how-to-ask-for-a-raise</link>
<description>Avoid complaints and ultimatums.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>GE’s Culture Challenge After Welch and Immelt</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/ges-culture-challenge-after-welch-and-immelt</link>
<description>How the 130-year-old company is learning from Silicon Valley.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Huawei: A Case Study of When Profit Sharing Works</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/huawei-a-case-study-of-when-profit-sharing-works</link>
<description>It’s a plan based on equity—but it still faces challenges.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Handle a Raise Request</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/06/how-to-deal-with-a-raise-reque</link>
<description>“Can I have a raise?” Five little words cause a lot of stress and frustration. In many smaller organizations — and even some larger ones — there’s no formal compensation policy. There may not even be an HR professional available to consult on merit increases and other pay issues. In these companies, you are likely […]</description>
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<title>What Should Unions Do?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1991/05/what-should-unions-do</link>
<description>By any standard, the 1980s have been a difficult decade for the American worker. When inflation is taken into account, average weekly earnings have dropped more than 30% since 1969. Dislocations caused by takeovers, shutdowns, and downsizings have pushed mistrust of corporations to new heights. Disgruntled employees are filing record numbers of wrongful discharge suits […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Coming Commoditization of Processes</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/06/the-coming-commoditization-of-processes</link>
<description>Business processes—from making a mousetrap to hiring a CEO—are being analyzed, standardized, and quality checked. That work, as it progresses, will lead to commoditization and outsourcing on a massive scale.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How Resilience Works</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/05/how-resilience-works</link>
<description>Confronted with life’s hardships, some people snap, and others snap back.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Discipline of Listening</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/06/the-discipline-of-listening</link>
<description>As the up-and-coming vice president and CEO candidate for a Fortune 500 technology corporation sat before the CEO for his annual review, he was baffled to discover that the feedback from his peers, customers, direct reports, and particularly from board members placed unusual emphasis on one potentially devastating problem: his listening deficit. This executive was […]</description>
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<title>Reaching Your Potential</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/07/reaching-your-potential</link>
<description>Fulfillment doesn’t come from clearing hurdles others set for you; it comes from clearing those you set for yourself.</description>
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<title>Execution Without Excuses</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/03/execution-without-excuses</link>
<description>Dell’s sustained competitive advantage is due to more than its famous business model. Consistent execution requires real-time P&amp;L management, an emphasis on ingenuity rather than on investment, and a culture of accountability.</description>
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<title>A Simple Way to Test Your Company’s Strategic Alignment</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/a-simple-way-to-test-your-companys-strategic-alignment</link>
<description>Are you winning, or boldly going nowhere?</description>
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<title>Creating Shared Value</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/01/the-big-idea-creating-shared-value</link>
<description>How to reinvent capitalism—and unleash a wave of innovation and growth.</description>
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<title>Dealing with Your Incompetent Boss</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/06/dealing-with-your-incompetent</link>
<description>Everyone complains about his or her boss from time to time. In fact, some consider it a national workplace pastime. But there’s a difference between everyday griping and stressful frustration, just as there is a clear distinction between a manager with a few flaws and one who is incompetent. Dealing with the latter can be […]</description>
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<title>Seven Communication Mistakes Managers Make</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/03/seven-communication-mistakes-m</link>
<description>1. Making controversial announcements without doing groundwork first Any controversial decision can engender rumors, anxiety, and resistance. So rather than announcing a controversial decision to an entire group, prep people one-on-one. Learn who will object, and why. Decisions about change are the most charged — reorganizations, changing goals, and the departure of key employees create […]</description>
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<title>Knowing When to Pull the Plug</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1987/03/knowing-when-to-pull-the-plug</link>
<description>Last year you authorized the expenditure of $500,000 for what you thought was a promising new project for the company. So far, the results have been disappointing. The people running the project say that with an additional $300,000 they can turn things around. Without extra funding, they cry, there is little hope. Do you spend […]</description>
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<title>The Key to Performance Reviews Is Preparation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/the-key-to-performance-reviews-is-preparation</link>
<description>Ask these five questions before giving feedback.</description>
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<title>Just Hearing Your Phone Buzz Hurts Your Productivity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/07/just-hearing-your-phone-buzz-hurts-your-productivity</link>
<description>New research on the distracting nature of phone notifications.</description>
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<title>The Peril of Untrained Entry-Level Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/the-peril-of-untrained-entry-level-employees</link>
<description>Relying on “sink-or-swim” approaches is expensive – and irresponsible.</description>
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<title>How CEOs Manage Growth Agendas</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/07/how-ceos-manage-growth-agendas</link>
<description>Perspectives from Kenneth W. Freeman, George Nolen, John Tyson, Kenneth D. Lewis, and Robert Greifeld. Five executives write candidly about their strategies, struggles, and successes in pursuit of top-line growth.</description>
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<title>Building Morale When Times Are Bad</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/12/building-morale-when-times-are</link>
<description>Kevin P. Coyne (kevin@kevincoynepartners.com) is Senior Teaching Professor at the Goizueta Business School of Emory University, and the founder of Kevin Coyne Partners, an executive counseling firm. Many managers will soon face the challenge of retaining and motivating their best people in the midst of layoffs and downsizing. For them, this will be the leadership […]</description>
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<title>How to Hire More Top Performers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/how-to-hire-more-top-performers</link>
<description>Avoiding headhunters is a good way to start.</description>
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<title>The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/the-5-requirements-of-a-truly-innovative-company</link>
<description>You can’t build a systemic capability without a systematic approach.</description>
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<title>Women in the Workplace: A Research Roundup</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/09/women-in-the-workplace-a-research-roundup</link>
<description>We all expect to be judged on our merits at work—to be recognized for our accomplishments and our unique talents, insights, and efforts. But does that actually happen? A variety of recent research by business, psychology, and sociology scholars offers a window into women’s collective experiences in the workplace, confirming some intuitive notions (that men […]</description>
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<title>Signs You’re Secretly Annoying Your Colleagues</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2015/01/signs-youre-secretly-annoying-your-colleagues.html</link>
<description>Muriel Maignan Wilkins, coauthor of “Own the Room,” on the flaws everyone’s too polite to point out.</description>
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<title>Why Individuals No Longer Rule on Sales Teams</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/why-the-individual-no-longer-rules-in-sales</link>
<description>Today, the best players are team players.</description>
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<title>There Is No Career Ladder</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/02/there-is-no-career-ladder</link>
<description>Reaching the apex of the career ladder by gradually getting promoted to the top is a thing of the past. From my experience as a career coach, career ladders in most organizations have not existed for at least fifteen years. Career ladders are an artifact of the Mad Men era, when you signed onto an […]</description>
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<title>Coming Up Short on Nonfinancial Performance Measurement</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/11/coming-up-short-on-nonfinancial-performance-measurement</link>
<description>Tracking things like customer satisfaction and employee turnover can powerfully supplement traditional bookkeeping. Unfortunately, most companies botch the job.</description>
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<title>Why Supervisors Resist Employee Involvement</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1984/09/why-supervisors-resist-employee-involvement</link>
<description>In 1941 many of the nation’s factory supervisors, unhappy with the changing climate in the workplace, banded together to create a union, the Foreman’s Association of America. Today, as the climate in the workplace is again very much in flux, resistance by supervisors is once more making itself felt. In general, when managers initiated employee […]</description>
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<title>Mumbai’s Models of Service Excellence</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/11/mumbais-models-of-service-excellence</link>
<description>What the city’s dabbawalas can teach your company about quality</description>
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<title>The Secrets of Great Teamwork</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/the-secrets-of-great-teamwork</link>
<description>Collaboration has become more complex, but success still depends on the fundamentals.</description>
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<title>Kick-Ass Customer Service</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/01/kick-ass-customer-service</link>
<description>Consumers want results—not sympathy.</description>
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<title>How to Make Employees Feel Like They Own Their Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/12/how-to-make-employees-feel-like-they-own-their-work</link>
<description>A sense of control leads to engagement.</description>
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<title>The Best Ways to Discuss Ethics</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/03/talking-about-ethics-how-we</link>
<description>[For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.] How we communicate about values and good conduct is a challenging task in the best of circumstances. And recent corporate history — Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, Parmalat, Andersen — has not provided us with the best of circumstances. In addition to the big scandals, there’s a long and easily […]</description>
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<title>Managers, What’s Your Plan For Climate Change?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/11/managers-whats-your-plan-for-c</link>
<description>It’s time for every manager to think concretely about how they’d handle the fallout from a major weather event.</description>
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<title>Zero Dark Thirty and Organizational Culture</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/12/zero-dark-thirty-and-corporate</link>
<description>A handful of controversies have sprung up around the movie Zero Dark Thirty, a fictionalized depiction of the hunt for and killing of Osama bin Laden. Criticisms range from the argument that it served as pre-election boosterism for the Obama Administration to accusations of leaked sensitive or classified material to arguments that the movie is […]</description>
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<title>The Globe: Singapore Airlines’ Balancing Act</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/07/the-globe-singapore-airlines-balancing-act</link>
<description>Asia’s premier carrier successfully executes a dual strategy: It offers world-class service and is a cost leader.</description>
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<title>The Powerful Effect of Noticing Good Things at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/the-powerful-effect-of-noticing-good-things-at-work</link>
<description>End each day by writing down three positives.</description>
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<title>How Fleet Bank Fought Employee Flight</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/04/how-fleet-bank-fought-employee-flight</link>
<description>You acquire a company, then watch helplessly as some of your most valued employees resign. What Fleet learned about why its people left allowed the bank to reverse the trend.</description>
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<title>Trouble with the Curve? Why Microsoft is Ditching Stack Rankings</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/11/dont-rate-your-employees-on-a-curve</link>
<description>The problem with common performance ratings.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Four Simple Ways to Make Your Employees Happier</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/07/four-simple-ways-to-make-your</link>
<description>There is a very simple secret to long-term employee loyalty and retention and it is not money, perks, or stock options. It’s giving them meaningful roles. This is not an idealistic motherhood-and-apple pie dream, but rather a basic condition of human behavior and psychology that many businesses and leaders often forget: people are driven as […]</description>
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<title>The Job No CEO Should Delegate</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2001/03/the-job-no-ceo-should-delegate</link>
<description>How does Larry Bossidy explain the turnaround of AlliedSignal? He never let go of a grueling job that many CEOs simply delegate—finding and developing great leaders.</description>
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<title>Huawei’s Culture Is the Key to Its Success</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/huaweis-culture-is-the-key-to-its-success</link>
<description>The company’s founder opens up.</description>
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<title>A New Way to Rate Retailers on Providing Good Jobs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/a-new-way-to-rate-retailers-on-providing-good-jobs</link>
<description>Identifying the best companies takes the right data.</description>
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<title>Manage Your Human Sigma</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/07/manage-your-human-sigma</link>
<description>When the Gallup Organization applied Six Sigma principles to sales and service groups at several companies, it learned how much performance variation exists between seemingly similar work groups. Managing that variability can raise overall performance by orders of magnitude and can create organic growth.</description>
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<title>How to Build the Social Ties You Need at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/how-to-build-the-social-ties-you-need-at-work</link>
<description>It’s not OK to eat lunch alone every day.</description>
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<title>What Great Managers Do to Engage Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/what-great-managers-do-to-engage-employees</link>
<description>New research from Gallup.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Staying Power of the Public Corporation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1990/01/the-staying-power-of-the-public-corporation</link>
<description>Reports of the “eclipse of the public corporation” underestimate its institutional staying power and unique capacity for renewal. In his recent HBR article, Michael C. Jensen, a distinguished scholar of corporate finance and governance, argues for a revolution in the structure of ownership and control in the U.S. economy.1 I share many of his criticisms […]</description>
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<title>Three ways Jeff Bezos keeps improving Amazon’s workforce — Quartz</title>
<link>http://s.hbr.org/1euCoIU</link>
<description>Jeff Bezos has some very well-defined opinions and strategies about management, including keeping teams small and being confrontational when needed. That doesn&#8216;t mean he&#8216;s not up for trying something new. In his annual shareholder letter, Bezos outlined a few specific initiatives and techniques that the company uses to get the most out of its employees. Make...</description>
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<title>How to Deliver Bad News to Your Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/how-to-deliver-bad-news-to-your-employees</link>
<description>Even when you don’t agree with the decision.</description>
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<title>What Can Coaches Do for You?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/01/what-can-coaches-do-for-you</link>
<description>The coaching field is filled with contradictions. Coaches themselves disagree over why they’re hired, what they do, and how to measure success. Here’s what you should know.</description>
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<title>Are You a Collaborative Leader?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/07/are-you-a-collaborative-leader</link>
<description>How great CEOs keep their teams connected</description>
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<title>Can Jeff Bezos and John Henry Teach Old Media New Tricks?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/08/can-jeff-bezos-and-john-henry.html</link>
<description>Transformationally speaking, technological innovation is easy. Culture change is not. Jeff Bezos knows this. If he wants to kindle his newly-acquired Washington Post into Amazon Prime, he’s free to do so. Technically enhancing the Post will be a digital snap. Getting his paper — pun intended — to adopt, adapt to or embrace an authentically […]</description>
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<title>Why Raising Retail Pay Is Good for the Gap</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/02/why-raising-retail-pay-is-good-for-the-gap</link>
<description>The retailer’s move isn’t about fairness, it’s about strategy.</description>
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<title>What to Do If Your Team Is in a Rut</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/08/what-to-do-if-your-team-is-in-a-rut</link>
<description>Reignite your team’s creative spark.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Biology of Corporate Survival</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/the-biology-of-corporate-survival</link>
<description>Natural ecosystems hold surprising lessons for business.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>What Top Sales Teams Have in Common, in 5 Charts</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/what-top-sales-teams-have-in-common-in-5-charts</link>
<description>New research shows what differentiates the best sales organizations.</description>
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<title>What Is Wikinomics?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/02/harvard-business-ideacast-31-w.html</link>
<description>Don Tapscott, CEO of New Paradigm and coauthor of “Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything.”</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>When Your Boss Is Younger than You</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/10/when-your-boss-is-younger-than-you</link>
<description>Don’t dwell on your differences.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>You Get What You Expect From Performance Assessment</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/06/you-get-what-you-expect-from-p</link>
<description>Does your organization grade on a curve? In other words, when assessing employee performance, does your process force you to produce a bell curve with roughly 10% high performers and 10% poor performers, with everyone else falling in the middle? If that’s the case, then you’re not alone. Ever since GE popularized the notion of […]</description>
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<title>Five Questions Every Leader Should Ask About Organizational Design</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/five-questions-every-leader-should-ask-about-organizational-design</link>
<description>They’ll help your company enable strategy instead of just defining it.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Defuse Discord on Your Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/06/defuse-differences-that-threat</link>
<description>Last week in Cairo President Barack Obama stated, “So long as our relationship is defined by differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, and who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end.” While […]</description>
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<title>Mentoring Millennials</title>
<link>http://hbr.org/2010/05/mentoring-millennials</link>
<description>Delivering the feedback Gen Y craves is easier than you think.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Big Idea: Leadership in the Age of Transparency</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/04/the-big-idea-leadership-in-the-age-of-transparency</link>
<description>Companies have long prospered by ignoring what economists call “externalities.” Now they must learn to embrace them.</description>
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<title>Stop Trying to Predict Which New Products Will Succeed</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/stop-trying-to-predict-which-new-products-will-succeed</link>
<description>Focus instead on recognizing as soon as possible whether it is actually succeeding.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Creating Project Plans to Focus Product Development</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1992/03/creating-project-plans-to-focus-product-development</link>
<description>With an “aggregate project plan,” companies map out and manage a set of strategic development projects.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Creating the Most Frightening Company on Earth</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2000/09/creating-the-most-frightening-company-on-earth</link>
<description>At one of Europe’s most daring and experimental companies, the people who take nothing for granted have taken over. The results are impressive.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Stop Comparing Management to Sports</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/stop-comparing-management-to-sports</link>
<description>Business isn’t zero-sum.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Participate in Your Employee’s Coaching</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/how-to-participate-in-your-employees-coaching</link>
<description>Even if you’re not the coach, you still have a role.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Forget About That Cash Bonus</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/03/forget-about-that-cash-bonus</link>
<description>Thoughtful gifts are better motivators.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Get Your Idea Approved</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/11/how-to-get-their-approval.html</link>
<description>When you have an idea, proposal, or recommendation that you believe in, it’s easy to presume that getting it approved will be a breeze. If you see how great the idea is, won’t everyone else? However, whether an audience accepts an idea is often less about the idea itself than about how you present it. […]</description>
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<title>Leading by Feel</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/01/leading-by-feel</link>
<description>Empathy, intuition, and self-awareness are essential to good leadership, but they can be tricky to hone and dangerous to use. Eighteen leaders and scholars explore how to manage emotional intelligence.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>What Really Motivates Workers in Their 20s</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/what-really-motivates-workers-in-their-20s</link>
<description>Twenty years of research reveals the young to be diligent (mostly).</description>
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<title>The Globe: The Paradox of Samsung’s Rise</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/07/the-globe-the-paradox-of-samsungs-rise</link>
<description>Samsung’s unlikely success in mixing Western best practices with an essentially Japanese business system holds powerful lessons for today’s emerging giants.</description>
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<title>Seven Transformations of Leadership</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/04/seven-transformations-of-leadership</link>
<description>Leaders are made, not born, and how they develop is critical for organizational change.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Give Your Team More-Effective Positive Feedback</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/give-your-team-more-effective-positive-feedback</link>
<description>It’s one of the primary ways to keep employees engaged.</description>
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<title>Personalize Your Management Development</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/03/personalize-your-management-development</link>
<description>Companies typically use one-size-fits-all management training programs. But Nationwide Financial has found an individualized approach to be far more effective.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Who Needs Budgets?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/02/who-needs-budgets</link>
<description>Modern companies reject centralization, inflexible planning, and command and control. So why do they cling to a process that reinforces those things?</description>
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<title>Quality Circles After the Fad</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1985/01/quality-circles-after-the-fad</link>
<description>On the face of it, it makes sense. If you want to involve your employees more in decision making and shift the organization toward a more participative culture, starting suggestion groups called quality circles seems to be a risk-free way to begin. Having studied many quality circles in different organizations, the authors of this article […]</description>
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<title>Virgin Atlantic Tested 3 Ways to Change Employee Behavior</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/08/virgin-atlantic-tested-3-ways-to-change-employee-behavior</link>
<description>Results from a field experiment.</description>
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<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/sodexos-ceo-on-smart-diversification</link>
<description>The Idea: Landel uses four basic rules to decide what services to offer and where. The overarching goal is to improve people’s lives, whether they work for client companies or for Sodexo itself.</description>
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<description>Toyota is famous for its Toyota Production System, an approach that effectively engages front-line workers in improving their work. As I argued in my last post, “pulling” improvement from the front line is critical to continually improve operations, and Toyota does it very well. Companies that “push” work improvements from the top usually generate tepid […]</description>
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<title>Rapid Onboarding at Capital One</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/rapid-onboarding-at-capital-on</link>
<description>by Lauren Keller Johnson</description>
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<title>The HBR Interview: How eBay Developed a Culture of Experimentation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/03/the-hbr-interview-how-ebay-developed-a-culture-of-experimentation</link>
<description>Listen to the interview this article is based on.Download this podcast John Donahoe had big shoes to fill in 2008 when he took over from Meg Whitman, eBay’s celebrated longtime CEO. He also had work to do. The company’s core business was slipping, and a major acquisition, Skype, had gone wrong. In this edited interview […]</description>
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<title>A Strategic Approach to Managing Product Recalls</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1996/09/a-strategic-approach-to-managing-product-recalls</link>
<description>Do you think your company is prepared to handle a recall? Think again.</description>
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<title>Why Corporate Leaders Won’t Abolish Performance Reviews</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/09/why-corporate-leaders-wont-abo</link>
<description>Let me pose a not-so-hypothetical question. Assume there was a corporate practice that damaged the relationship between bosses and their subordinates, kept employees from speaking honestly about themselves and company practices, helped bad managers be bad managers and hindered good managers from being good managers, and ultimately hurt the bottom line. Further assume that there […]</description>
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<title>How to Discuss Pay With Your Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/04/how-to-discuss-pay-with-your-employees</link>
<description>Communicate fairness and how much you value their work.</description>
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<title>The Battle Against Executive Attrition</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/07/the-battle-against-executive-a</link>
<description>During the last one month, I have met with 70 senior managers in a variety of organizations. 64 of them (over 90%) have been in their jobs for less than a year. Attrition is not a new phenomenon and people will continue looking for greener pastures. The scale of what is happening, however, is rather […]</description>
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<title>Rejecting Ideas Doesn’t Have to Cause Resentment</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/rejecting-ideas-doesnt-have-to-cause-resentment</link>
<description>Preserve your organization’s innovative culture.</description>
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<title>3 Emerging Alternatives to Traditional Hiring Methods</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/3-emerging-alternatives-to-traditional-hiring-methods</link>
<description>Behavioral analytics, web scraping, and gamification.</description>
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<title>Getting Virtual Teams Right</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/getting-virtual-teams-right</link>
<description>Anna Parini “Virtual” teams—ones made up of people in different physical locations—are on the rise. As companies expand geographically and as telecommuting becomes more common, work groups often span far-flung offices, shared workspaces, private homes, and hotel rooms. When my firm, Ferrazzi Greenlight, recently surveyed 1,700 knowledge workers, 79% reported working always or frequently in […]</description>
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<title>Managers Are Wasting Time and Money on People Problems - HBR Video</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/video/5178435802001/managers-are-wasting-time-and-money-on-people-problems</link>
<description>Don&#8216;t fall into these five traps.</description>
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<title>The (New) Skills You Need to Succeed in Sales</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/08/the-changing-face-of-sales</link>
<description>Sales training programs need to emphasize a fuller range of competencies to manage increasingly complex markets and business relationships.</description>
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<title>What Business Can Learn from Organized Crime</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/11/what-business-can-learn-from-organized-crime</link>
<description>Global criminals are now sophisticated managers of technology and talent. A guide to their best practices</description>
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<title>4 Reasons Managers Should Spend More Time on Coaching</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/4-reasons-managers-should-spend-more-time-on-coaching</link>
<description>It’s essential, not optional.</description>
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<title>Rewrite Your Invisible Resume</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/09/rewrite-your-invisible-resume</link>
<description>Most of us spend more time honing our written resume than our invisible one. Yet the latter has far more influence on career prospects. When prospective employers call your references, they are trying to get a read on your “invisible resume.” So are the decision-makers who might be considering you for a promotion. Your invisible […]</description>
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<title>Three Steps to a High-Performance Culture</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/01/three-steps-to-a-high-performa</link>
<description>Senior executives tend to think about corporate culture as a topic that’s hard to measure and hard to change. As a result, many choose not to invest in it despite all the evidence that, when skillfully managed, culture can be a powerful and enduring source of competitive advantage. ANZ Bank offers an example: a decade […]</description>
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<title>Column: The Responsible Manager</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/01/column-the-responsible-manager</link>
<description>The global financial crisis of the past two years has triggered an unprecedented debate about managers’ roles. While discussions about managerial performance, CEO pay, and the role of boards have been fierce, scant attention has been paid to managers’ responsibilities. For the past 33 years, I have ended all my MBA and executive education courses […]</description>
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<title>The Micromanager</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/09/the-micromanager</link>
<description>George Latour bends over backward to coach his marketing director, but she considers his management style oppressive. Can they find a way to cooperate?</description>
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<title>Making Yourself Indispensable</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/10/making-yourself-indispensable</link>
<description>If you want to get to the top, develop skills that complement what you already do best.</description>
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<title>Award Your Own Genius Grants</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/09/award-your-own-genius-grants</link>
<description>The MacArthur Foundation has just named its new crop of MacArthur Fellows, 23 creative achievers who have each been given a half-million-dollar “genius grant.” The Foundation has been giving such awards for 30 years now, and every year’s announcement seems to garner more attention than the last. If you’re like many people hearing about the […]</description>
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<title>The Office of Strategy Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/10/the-office-of-strategy-management</link>
<description>Strategy at many companies is almost completely disconnected from execution. Establishing a dedicated unit to orchestrate both will help to bridge the divide.</description>
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<title>Building a Feedback-Rich Culture</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/building-a-feedback-rich-culture</link>
<description>You’ll need four key elements.</description>
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<title>Climbing the Corporate Ladder: Whom to Impress? And How?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/06/climbing-the-corporate-ladder</link>
<description>This is a true story. I swear it is. Nearly 30 years ago, when I was a (very) young and upcoming professional, I was invited to a dinner party attended by many of the senior vice presidents of the firm (all male) and their wives. Despite their graciousness, it soon became clear that I was […]</description>
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<title>Masters of the Multicultural</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/10/masters-of-the-multicultural</link>
<description>Chief diversity officers (CDOs) proliferated in the 1990s, as business responded to litigation and public pressure to show a more heterogeneous face. But in a few forward-thinking companies today, the diversity officer has assumed a new role: overseeing innovation efforts and generating revenues. Business leaders know that heterogeneous workforces are rich seedbeds for ideas. Yet […]</description>
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<title>How Microsoft Used an Office Move to Boost Collaboration</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/how-microsoft-used-an-office-move-to-boost-collaboration</link>
<description>The cumulative effects of shorter walks to meetings.</description>
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<title>Hiring for Emotional Intelligence</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/11/hiring-for-emotional-intellige</link>
<description>by Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay Making a hire can be a hit-or-miss affair. A promising candidate can turn out to be a disaster, leaving frustrated colleagues and tattered client relationships in his wake. Sooner than anyone planned, the new hire and the organization part ways, with recrimination and regret on both sides. To increase their chances of […]</description>
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<title>Three Rules for Making a Company Truly Great</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/04/three-rules-for-making-a-company-truly-great</link>
<description>A quest for reliable data on organizational excellence yields surprisingly simple guidelines.</description>
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<title>Millennials Are Actually Workaholics, According to Research</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/08/millennials-are-actually-workaholics-according-to-research</link>
<description>And it’s changing the way Americans take vacation.</description>
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<title>How to Stop Micromanaging Your Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/how-to-stop-micromanaging-your-team</link>
<description>You don’t have to do it all at once.</description>
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<title>Leading Through Rough Times: An Interview with Novell’s Eric Schmidt</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2001/05/leading-through-rough-times-an-interview-with-novells-eric-schmidt</link>
<description>Downturns happen in every business, and the way executives respond often provides the truest test of their leadership. In four short years, Eric Schmidt has brought Novell back from the brink of extinction only to see it falter once again. Here’s what he’s learned about facing adversity.</description>
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<title>The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2010</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/01/the-hbr-list-breakthrough-ideas-for-2010</link>
<description>When the business community supports an idea, change can happen fast. HBR’s annual ideas collection, compiled in cooperation with the World Economic Forum, offers 10 fresh solutions we believe would make the world better. Ranging from productivity boosting to nation building, from health care to hacking, any of the ideas presented in the following pages […]</description>
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<title>Closing the Customer Feedback Loop</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/12/closing-the-customer-feedback-loop</link>
<description>In a resource-challenged economy, empower your frontline employees to respond fast.</description>
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<title>Get Self-Organized</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/09/get-self-organized</link>
<description>How top-down businesses exploit the power of bottom-up self-organization.</description>
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<title>What’s Your Excuse for Not Using JIT?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1986/03/whats-your-excuse-for-not-using-jit</link>
<description>Just-in-time production, or JIT, has probably received more attention in a short time than any other new manufacturing technique. The main reason is that JIT gets the credit for much of Japan’s manufacturing success. Despite the extensive publicity and interest, few companies have implemented JIT in their manufacturing operations. If JIT provides all the benefits […]</description>
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<title>How to Sustain Front Line Process Improvement Activities</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/08/even-though-its-what-keeps</link>
<description>Even though it’s what keeps companies operationally in shape, front-line process improvement is hard to sustain. Why? Consider the story of Technicolor. The manufacturer of DVDs was featured in a book on front-line suggestion system, All You Gotta Do Is Ask by Norman Bodek and Chuck Yorke (which I mentioned in a previous post on […]</description>
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<title>What Resilience Means, and Why It Matters</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/what-resilience-means-and-why-it-matters</link>
<description>Five great reads on the art of bouncing back.</description>
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<title>We Learn More When We Learn Together</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/we-learn-more-when-we-learn-together</link>
<description>Relationships matter.</description>
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<title>The Tools of Cooperation and Change</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/10/the-tools-of-cooperation-and-change</link>
<description>Managers can use a variety of carrots and sticks to encourage people to work together and accomplish change. Their ability to get results depends on selecting tools that match the circumstances they face.</description>
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<title>Building a Learning Organization</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1993/07/building-a-learning-organization</link>
<description>Beyond high philosophy and grand themes lie the gritty details of practice.</description>
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<title>Does Your Company Have Enough Sales Managers?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/04/does-your-company-have-enough-sales-managers</link>
<description>A company needs enough to ensure that all key tasks get executed well.</description>
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<title>How Much Does Customer Social Media Angst Really Matter?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/how-much-does-customer-social-media-angst-really-matter</link>
<description>The true cost of angry tweets.</description>
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<title>5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/5-questions-that-will-help-you-stay-ahead-of-your-disruptors</link>
<description>You have to keep customers front-of-mind.</description>
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<title>How We Rewrote Our Company’s Mental Health Policy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/07/how-we-rewrote-our-companys-mental-health-policy</link>
<description>A five-step process other companies can use.</description>
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<title>The Dark Side of High Employee Engagement</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/08/the-dark-side-of-high-employee-engagement</link>
<description>Burnout, for one thing.</description>
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<title>What if Performance Management Focused on Strengths?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/what-if-performance-management-focused-on-strengths</link>
<description>A do-it-yourself guide to building a strengths-based performance management system.</description>
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<title>Even Good Employees Hoard Great Ideas</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/04/even-good-employees-hoard-great-ideas</link>
<description>The right incentives are not obvious.</description>
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<title>Succeeding Quietly in Our Recognition-Obsessed Culture</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/succeeding-quietly-in-our-recognition-obsessed-culture</link>
<description>David Zweig, author of “Invisibles,” on employees who value good work over self-promotion.</description>
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<title>How to Manage a Team of B Players</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/07/how-to-manage-a-team-of-b-players</link>
<description>You’ll have to be an A+ leader.</description>
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<title>Control with Fairness in Transfer Pricing</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1983/11/control-with-fairness-in-transfer-pricing</link>
<description>Editor’s note: All references are listed at the end of the article. Imagine the following conversation in a company president’s office. He is talking with the general manager of a division selling products internally (seller), the general manager of a division buying these products (buyer), and a professor who has read everything that has ever […]</description>
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<title>Doubts About Pay-for-Performance in Health Care</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/10/doubts-about-pay-for-performance-in-health-care</link>
<description>There’s scant evidence that these programs improve outcomes.</description>
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<title>Five Questions to Identify Key Stakeholders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/03/five-questions-to-identify-key-stakeholders</link>
<description>Because you don’t have the resources to do everything for everyone.</description>
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<title>Listen to Your Frontline Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/04/listen-to-your-frontline-emplo.html</link>
<description>A basic prerequisite for business success is to know — really know — your customers. There’s a variety of traditional research methods aimed at better understanding customers: usage analysis, conjoint analysis, cluster analysis, roundtables, panels. But there are a few reasons why traditional research sometimes fails to deliver: 1) Customers don’t always say what is […]</description>
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<title>The Bonus Employees Really Want, Even If They Don’t Know It Yet</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/10/the-bonus-employees-really-want-even-if-they-dont-know-it-yet</link>
<description>Research shows that prosocial bonuses improve performance and make us happier.</description>
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<title>When Your Team Turns on You</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/10/when-your-team-turns-on-you.html</link>
<description>It can happen to even the most competent leaders. Your team members disengage or stop coming to meetings. They refuse to, or simply don’t do, what you ask of them. They begin meeting without you. When these things happen, it may be that your team has turned against you. For a leader, this can be […]</description>
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<title>Needed: Experienced Workers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2001/07/needed-experienced-workers</link>
<description>In recent years, 20-somethings with business plans and VCs’ checks have gotten all the attention. It’s time to shift the focus to a forgotten generation of older workers.</description>
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<link>https://hbr.org/2012/04/leadership-teams-why-two-are-b</link>
<description>The concept of “two-in-a-box” leadership has been examined extensively over the past few years. One of the most thorough discussions is in the HBR article The Leadership Team: Complementary Strengths or Conflicting Agendas. CEO/COO teams or “Office of the President” arrangements can offer great strengths, but may also introduce some sizeable risks, as Stephen A. […]</description>
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<title>New Managers: Embrace Your Rookie Status</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/10/new-managers-embrace-your-rookie-status</link>
<description>Learn before you lead.</description>
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<title>The Smart Way to Influence Your Boss</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/10/the-smart-way-to-influence-you</link>
<description>How can I sell this idea to my boss? This is something that executive coaches hear regularly. It usually comes from someone seeking to lead from the middle. To begin to answer this question, let me tell you a story. Ronald Reagan is credited with hastening the end of Cold War between the USSR and […]</description>
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<title>Teaching Smart People How to Learn</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1991/05/teaching-smart-people-how-to-learn</link>
<description>Every company faces a learning dilemma: the smartest people find it the hardest to learn.</description>
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<title>Build Your Bench Strength Without Breaking the Bank</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/02/build-your-bench-strength-with</link>
<description>Even social enterprises with small budgets can have big-sized talent.</description>
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<title>Why Chief Human Resources Officers Make Great CEOs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/why-chief-human-resources-officers-make-great-ceos</link>
<description>New research recognizes leadership potential that’s waiting to be tapped.</description>
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<title>Managers in the Digital Age Need to Stay Human</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/managers-in-the-digital-age-need-to-stay-human</link>
<description>Engagement will always matter.</description>
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<title>What to Do If You Already Hate Your New Job</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/what-to-do-if-you-already-hate-your-new-job</link>
<description>Making the most of a bad career move.</description>
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<title>Your Problem Isn’t Motivation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/01/your-problem-isnt-motivation.html</link>
<description>“Peter,” my friend Byron emailed me a few days ago. “I haven’t been diligent about working out over the past five years and I’m trying to get back in the gym and get myself into a healthier state. I’ve found that on my quest for a Mind, Body, Spirit balance, my body has been neglected. […]</description>
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<title>How Your Leadership Has to Change as Your Startup Scales</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/how-your-leadership-has-to-change-as-your-startup-scales</link>
<description>Being a visionary is no longer enough.</description>
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<title>Flextime Is Declining, But “Flex Around the Edges” Is Up</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/flextime-is-declining-but-flex-around-the-edges-is-up</link>
<description>You can sneak off to that afternoon doctor’s appointment, just don’t ask for a sabbatical.</description>
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<title>Do You Get Paid for Your Time?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/05/do-you-get-paid-for-your-time</link>
<description>In the face of global implosion of markets, we’ve been rethinking everything from executive compensation to the business schools to trust to the future of capitalism itself. Here’s one small step in a better direction: pay me for my time. In most companies, anyone can send anyone else a request to do something for the […]</description>
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<title>Raising Haier</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/02/raising-haier</link>
<description>Twenty-two years ago, the Qingdao Refrigerator Factory was a dump, its workers were unpaid, and its products were shoddy. Today it’s called Haier. The home-appliance giant is China’s best-known global company—and its CEO has proved that he is one of the world’s experts in leading and surviving change.</description>
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<title>How a Culture of Silence Eats Away at Your Company</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/12/how-a-culture-of-silence-eats-away-at-your-company</link>
<description>What to do instead of complaining or getting angry.</description>
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<title>How to Fire Someone Without Destroying Them</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/how-to-fire-someone-without-destroying-them</link>
<description>Making a tough conversation easier.</description>
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<title>Manufacturing Companies Need to Sell Outcomes, Not Products</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/manufacturing-companies-need-to-sell-outcomes-not-products</link>
<description>It’s not straightforward, but technology will get you there.</description>
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<title>Every Manager Needs to Practice Two Types of Coaching</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/every-manager-needs-to-practice-two-types-of-coaching</link>
<description>Give better feedback more often.</description>
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<title>What Good Are Shareholders?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/07/what-good-are-shareholders</link>
<description>Investors should provide money, information, and discipline. They often fall short.</description>
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<title>Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit–And You Should Too</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/05/why-zappos-pays-new-employees</link>
<description>I spend a lot of time visiting with companies and figuring out what ideas they represent and what lessons we can learn from them. I usually leave these visits underwhelmed. There are plenty of companies with a hot product, a hip style, or a fast-rising stock price that are, essentially, one-trick ponies–they deliver great short-term […]</description>
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<title>Job Seekers: Get HR on Your Side</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/11/job-seekers-get-hr-on-your-sid</link>
<description>Employers are dealing with more job applicants than ever. With thousands of submissions for a single vacancy, companies must be more diligent when sorting the wheat from the chaff. Many rely on HR managers to screen out applicants who aren’t qualified for the job or a good fit for the company. This step may feel […]</description>
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<title>The Decision to Trust</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/09/the-decision-to-trust</link>
<description>A new model explains the mental calculations people make before choosing to trust someone.</description>
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<title>The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1995/09/the-power-of-talk-who-gets-heard-and-why</link>
<description>We all know what confidence, competence, and authority sound like. Or do we?</description>
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<title>A/B Testing and the Benefits of an Experimentation Culture</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/02/ab-testing-and-the-benefits-of-an-experimentation-culture</link>
<description>What happens when all ideas are suddenly on equal footing.</description>
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<title>Board Members Benefit from Becoming Mentors</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/board-members-benefit-from-becoming-mentors</link>
<description>Get the board involved in the leadership pipeline.</description>
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<title>$152,000 for Your Thoughts</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/04/152000-for-your-thoughts</link>
<description>To draw out employees’ creativity, get tougher on them. Don’t let them get away with summarizing their ideas on simple forms. Make them prove their concepts’ viability, right from the start. That advice may sound counterproductive, considering the dearth of worthwhile innovations that are emerging from the rank and file. In our interviews over the […]</description>
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<title>When Company Values Backfire</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/11/when-company-values-backfire</link>
<description>Employees can put their own spin on your vision, and that can be disastrous.</description>
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<title>Chronic Time Abuse</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/06/chronic-time-abuse</link>
<description>Ordinary time-management techniques simply don’t help some people. But if you understand the four distinct varieties of time abusers and the inner conflicts that distress them, you can find ways to work more productively together.</description>
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<title>Strategic Leadership: The Essential Skills</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/01/strategic-leadership-the-esssential-skills</link>
<description>The storied British banker and financier Nathan Rothschild noted that great fortunes are made when cannonballs fall in the harbor, not when violins play in the ballroom. Rothschild understood that the more unpredictable the environment, the greater the opportunity—if you have the leadership skills to capitalize on it. Through research at the Wharton School and […]</description>
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<title>Everything You Need to Know About Giving Negative Feedback</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/everything-you-need-to-know-about-negative-feedback</link>
<description>We’ve published a lot about it.</description>
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<title>Finding the Balance Between Coaching and Managing</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/finding-the-balance-between-coaching-and-managing</link>
<description>It’s essential to motivating employees.</description>
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<title>Leaders, Choose Your Words Wisely</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/07/leaders-choose-your-words-wise</link>
<description>At a critical moment, a few words can make a big difference.</description>
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<title>How Do I Provide Meaningful Recognition?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/09/how-do-i-provide-meaningful-re</link>
<description>Do you have any suggestions to help me do a better job of providing positive recognition? One of my clients taught me a simple, yet effective system for getting better at providing positive recognition. The first year I reviewed this executive’s 360º feedback report (feedback from his direct reports and co-workers), he scored the sixth […]</description>
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<title>The Competitive Imperative of Learning</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/07/the-competitive-imperative-of-learning</link>
<description>Today’s central managerial challenge is to inspire and enable knowledge workers to solve, day in and day out, problems that cannot be anticipated.</description>
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<title>The Ultimate Marketing Machine</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/07/the-ultimate-marketing-machine</link>
<description>Most marketing organizations are stuck in the last century. Here’s how the best meet the challenges of the digital age.</description>
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<title>Giving a High Performer Productive Feedback</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/12/giving-a-high-performer-produc</link>
<description>Giving 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 […]</description>
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<title>5 Signs It’s Time for a New Job</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/5-signs-its-time-for-a-new-job</link>
<description>If you’re paralyzed with indecision, consider this list.</description>
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<title>Maximize Your Learning in Short-Term Assignments</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/07/maximize-your-learning-in-short-term-assignments</link>
<description>The potential for development is still there.</description>
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<title>The Neurochemistry of Positive Conversations</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/the-neurochemistry-of-positive-conversations</link>
<description>And what managers need to know about negative ones.</description>
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<title>Black Hawk Down at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/01/black-hawk-down-at-work</link>
<description>When your most motivated employees can’t do their jobs, get ready for an exodus.</description>
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<title>The Anxiety of Learning</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/03/the-anxiety-of-learning</link>
<description>Everyone touts learning organizations, but few actually exist. World-renowned psychologist Edgar H. Schein draws on decades of pioneering research to explain why.</description>
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<title>Manage Stress by Knowing What You Value</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/manage-stress-by-knowing-what-you-value</link>
<description>Start with self-reflection.</description>
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<title>How Do You Engage Employees?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/06/how-do-you-engage-employees</link>
<description>While I was taking a prospective customer on a tour of my company’s beverage-can plant in Golden, Colorado, some years ago, I suddenly found that I was talking to myself. I turned around and saw the customer staring at an employee. The worker was placing paper sleeves over can ends and placing the filled sleeves […]</description>
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<title>Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1993/09/putting-the-balanced-scorecard-to-work</link>
<description>What do companies like Rockwater, Apple Computer, and Advanced Micro Devices have in common? They’re using the scorecard to measure performance and set strategy.</description>
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<title>What Being an “Authentic Leader” Really Means</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/12/what-being-an-authentic-leader-really-means</link>
<description>It doesn’t mean “just do whatever you want, as soon as it occurs to you.”</description>
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<title>For the Last Time: Stock Options Are an Expense</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/03/for-the-last-time-stock-options-are-an-expense</link>
<description>Stock options are not recorded as an expense on companies’ books. But the arguments for this special treatment don’t stand up. Let’s end the charade.</description>
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<title>The Polar Vortex Has Made You More Productive</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/the-polar-vortex-has-made-you-more-productive</link>
<description>We’re more focused when the weather is bad.</description>
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<title>Rethinking Rewards</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1993/11/rethinking-rewards</link>
<description>What role—if any—should incentives play in the workplace?</description>
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<title>How App Management Can Give You An Edge at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/06/app-management.html</link>
<description>Your boss calls you into her office for your annual performance review. In the course of discussing your impact on the enterprise, she asks a series of simple questions: What two apps do you use that have most increased your productivity, effectiveness, and impact over the past year? What two apps have most improved and […]</description>
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<title>How to Frame Your Messages for Maximum Impact</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/04/leaders-frame-your-messages-fo</link>
<description>A manager’s job is, quite simply, to motivate people toward achieving a common goal. Succeeding at this job requires an array of communication skills, ranging from delivering a prepared talk to helping team members negotiate the best way to move ahead on a project. No communication skill, however, is more critical to the manager than […]</description>
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<title>Breakthrough in Organization Development</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1964/11/breakthrough-in-organization-development</link>
<description>A large-scale program that implements behavioral science concepts.</description>
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<title>What People Are Really Doing When They’re on a Conference Call</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/08/what-people-are-really-doing-when-theyre-on-a-conference-call</link>
<description>47% of Americans go to the bathroom, for example.</description>
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<title>The Power of Teamwork</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/09/the-power-of-teamwork</link>
<description>Few people realize that a group can accomplish what an individual alone cannot do — even when it comes to individual advancement. If you want the next promotion, you have to elbow that hardworking colleague next to you out of the way, right? Wrong. Here’s a true story that shows you why. It started when […]</description>
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<title>Send a Message to the Women in Your Company</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/03/send-a-message-to-the-women-in</link>
<description>Every day, of course, is a good day to work on improving the way that you engage and communicate with your people. But it never hurts to have a special reason to start (or to restart) a conversation with employees — the sort of conversation that builds real connections with them, the sort of conversation […]</description>
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<title>Managing Demographic Risk</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/managing-demographic-risk</link>
<description>An aging workforce will compel businesses to change how they operate and could even threaten some companies’ viability. How vulnerable is your business?</description>
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<title>The ‘Centrally Decentralized’ IS Organization</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1990/07/the-centrally-decentralized-is-organization</link>
<description>The death of the corporate mainframe has been greatly exaggerated. After a period in which many companies experimented with decentralizing their information systems (IS) organization, the pendulum is swinging back once again. Companies are consolidating data centers, beefing up the authority of their central IS staffs, and establishing companywide technical standards and work procedures. There […]</description>
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<title>Are You Spending Your Time the Right Way?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/are-you-spending-your-time-the-1.html</link>
<description>Here’s a three-step plan for allocating your time wisely–and strategically. by Melissa Raffoni</description>
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<title>East Meets West: Who Has Better Leaders?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/02/east-meets-west-who-has-better</link>
<description>I recently returned from a trip to Beijing where I was working with senior managers to develop leadership skills in one of the largest companies in the world. This is a truly global firm, with headquarters in China and the U.S., and most of its leaders are native to their respective countries. As part of […]</description>
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<title>Coaching the Alpha Male</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/05/coaching-the-alpha-male</link>
<description>Bold, self-confident, and demanding, alpha males get things done. But the traits that make them so productive can also drive their coworkers crazy.</description>
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<title>How Younger Managers Are Perceived, Perceptions of Younger Managers Aren&#8216;t Always Accurate</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/what-younger-managers-should-know-about-how-theyre-perceived</link>
<description>The good and the bad.</description>
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<title>Are You Using Recognition Effectively?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/are-you-using-recognition-effe-1.html</link>
<description>by Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay</description>
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<title>Appraising Boardroom Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1998/01/appraising-boardroom-performance</link>
<description>How you do it is less important than that you do it.</description>
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<title>When You Find Out a Coworker Makes More Money than You Do</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/03/when-you-find-out-a-coworker-makes-more-money-than-you-do</link>
<description>Get more information before you react.</description>
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<title>Leadership on the Brain</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/04/leadership-on-the-brain</link>
<description>(Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future.) Want to be a leadership researcher? All you need are eyes and ears, and the ability to notice and describe patterns. Or if you want to test your theories, you might need to know how to […]</description>
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<title>Do Your Employees Make You a Better Manager?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/10/do-your-employees-make-you-a-b.html</link>
<description>Which employee had the biggest positive impact on who you are today?</description>
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<title>Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/07/managements-three-eras-a-brief-history</link>
<description>We’ve entered the age of empathy.</description>
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<title>The Attributes of an Effective Global Leader</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/the-attributes-of-an-effective-global-leader</link>
<description>Four skills to master.</description>
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<title>IDEO’s Employee Engagement Formula</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/12/ideos-employee-engagement-formula</link>
<description>Four elements that make workers happier.</description>
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<title>Watch Out for Stress in Your People</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/05/watch-out-for-your-people</link>
<description>The man took his job very seriously. He worked hard and rose to the top ranks of his company. When hard times hit, he doubled down his effort and was appointed interim CFO. But as the pressures outside of his company grew, they seemed to affect him personally. He continued to put in long hours. […]</description>
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<title>It’s Hard to Be Good</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/11/its-hard-to-be-good</link>
<description>But it’s worth it. Here are five companies whose success is built on responsible business practices.</description>
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<title>Why More and More Companies Are Ditching Performance Ratings</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/why-more-and-more-companies-are-ditching-performance-ratings</link>
<description>They’re no longer relevant to the ways we work.</description>
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<title>Are You Giving Your Top Performers a Reason to Stay?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/are-you-giving-your-top-perfor</link>
<description>Regular career-development discussions are critical to keeping employees committed and engaged. by Anne Field</description>
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<title>In Praise of Face Time</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/12/physical-teams-in-an-increasin</link>
<description>In a virtual world, does physically getting together still matter? In a word: yes.</description>
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<title>The Big Idea: The Age of Hyperspecialization</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/07/the-big-idea-the-age-of-hyperspecialization</link>
<description>The work of the future will be atomized, with many workers doing pieces of what is todaya single job. Here’s what thatmeans for your company—and you.</description>
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<title>Hispanic Talent Is the Future for Big Companies</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/hispanic-talent-is-the-future-for-big-companies</link>
<description>By 2050, Hispanics will represent over half of the U.S. workforce.</description>
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<title>When Crossing Cultures, Don’t Forget Praise</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/03/when-crossing-cultures-dont-forget-praise</link>
<description>Everyone likes appreciation for a job well-done. But how you say it matters.</description>
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<title>Predict What Employees Will Do Without Freaking Them Out</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/09/predict-what-employees-will-do-without-freaking-them-out</link>
<description>What HR needs to know about analytics.</description>
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<title>Our Readers Respond to “12 Steps to Stop Scapegoating in Your Company”</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/03/our-readers-respond-to-12-step</link>
<description>In February I wrote about scapegoating at work after noticing that the issue was coming up more and more with my coaching clients. It struck me that scapegoating had become a widespread and growing problem which was posing significant career implications for the victim. What I hadn’t realised was just how endemic the phenomenon appears […]</description>
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<title>Are You a High Potential?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/06/are-you-a-high-potential</link>
<description>Leaders at your company are constantly wondering that about you, whether they own up to it or not. Here’s how to get them to answer yes.</description>
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<title>Capitalizing on Capabilities</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/06/capitalizing-on-capabilities</link>
<description>Assets like leadership, talent, and speed are what produce superior market value. A capabilities audit can show you how you measure up—and how to build on your intangible strengths.</description>
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<title>How to Keep a Job Search Discreet</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/03/how-to-keep-a-job-search-discr</link>
<description>Looking for a job while you already have one can be stressful, especially in the age of social media when privacy is scarce. You don’t want to rock the boat at your current company but you want to find the next great opportunity. Should you tell your boss you’re looking? How do you handle references? […]</description>
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<title>The Case of the Omniscient Organization</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1990/03/the-case-of-the-omniscient-organization</link>
<description>The following is an excerpt from Dominion-Swann Industries’ 1995 Employee Handbook. DS is a $1 billion diversified company, primarily in the manufacture of electrical components for automobiles. This section of the handbook was prepared by the corporate director of personnel, in consultation with the human resource management firm SciexPlan Inc. Dominion-Swann’s New Workplace: Hope for […]</description>
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<title>Leading with Humor</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/leading-with-humor</link>
<description>The workplace needs laughter. According to research from institutions as serious as Wharton, MIT, and London Business School, every chuckle or guffaw brings with it a host of business benefits. Laughter relieves stress and boredom, boosts engagement and well-being, and spurs not only creativity and collaboration but also analytic precision and productivity. And yet, as […]</description>
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<title>For Women Leaders, Likability and Success Hardly Go Hand-in-Hand</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/04/for-women-leaders-likability-a</link>
<description>The data clearly show that women are less liked as they get more successful.</description>
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<title>How to Give Tough Feedback That Helps People Grow</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/how-to-give-tough-feedback-that-helps-people-grow</link>
<description>Think of yourself as a coach.</description>
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<title>When People Don’t Want to Change</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/04/when-people-dont-want-to-chang</link>
<description>Your job is to help people achieve positive, lasting change in behavior. How do you deal with people who have no desire to change? I don’t. Have you ever tried to change the behavior of an adult who had absolutely no interest in changing? How much luck did you have with your attempts at this […]</description>
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<title>How to Be Good at Managing Both Introverts and Extroverts</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/11/how-to-be-good-at-managing-both-introverts-and-extroverts</link>
<description>Regardless of which one you are.</description>
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<title>How To Run a Meeting</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1976/03/how-to-run-a-meeting</link>
<description>Why have a meeting anyway? Why indeed? A great many important matters are quite satisfactorily conducted by a single individual who consults nobody. A great many more are resolved by a letter, a memo, a phone call, or a simple conversation between two people. Sometimes five minutes spent with six people separately is more effective […]</description>
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<title>How to Deal with a Mean Colleague</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/10/how-to-deal-with-a-mean-colleague</link>
<description>Don’t be afraid to call out bad behavior.</description>
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<title>Tips for Coaching Someone Remotely</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/tips-for-coaching-someone-remotely</link>
<description>Getting the most out of each virtual session.</description>
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<title>How Microsoft Uses a Growth Mindset to Develop Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/how-microsoft-uses-a-growth-mindset-to-develop-leaders</link>
<description>It’s emphasizing learning and creativity.</description>
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<title>5 Examples of Great Health Care Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/5-examples-of-great-health-care-management</link>
<description>Where health care providers are working brilliantly together.</description>
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<title>After Layoffs, Help Survivors Be More Effective</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/06/after-layoffs-help-survivors-be-more-effective</link>
<description>If your firm has downsized recently, you’re now managing a bunch of survivors—the lucky ones who didn’t get laid off. But good fortune doesn’t make for good performance—at least not in this situation. Chances are, you’re presiding over a heightened level of employee dysfunction, even if you don’t see it yet. Here are areas to […]</description>
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<title>What High Performers Want at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/what-high-performers-want-at-work</link>
<description>Money.</description>
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<title>Tomorrow’s Talent Networks</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/03/tomorrows-talent-networks.html</link>
<description>It might seem a peculiar time to talk about talent. Aren’t most people these days happy just to have their jobs? Aren’t employers more concerned about outplacement than recruiting? And what company has the budget to fund expensive training programs? Even these questions indicate a dated view of where talent is and how to get […]</description>
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<title>Why I Tell My Employees to Bring Their Kids to Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/04/why-i-tell-my-employees-to-bring-their-kids-to-work</link>
<description>Forget foosball and give them a perk they actually want.</description>
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<title>Women in Management: Delusions of Progress</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/03/women-in-management-delusions-of-progress</link>
<description>New research shows we’re a lot further from achieving parity than we thought. What went wrong?</description>
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<title>Performance Management and the Pony Express</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/11/performance-management-and-the-pony-express</link>
<description>Our feeble process for evaluating employees is badly in need of disruption.</description>
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<title>4 Organizational Mistakes That Plague Modern Knowledge Workers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/4-organizational-mistakes-that-plague-modern-knowledge-workers</link>
<description>Starting with open offices.</description>
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<title>Evidence That Minorities Perform Worse Under Biased Managers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/01/evidence-that-minorities-perform-worse-under-biased-managers</link>
<description>It’s not because of explicit discrimination.</description>
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<title>The Powerful Way Onboarding Can Encourage Authenticity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/11/the-powerful-way-onboarding-can-encourage-authenticity</link>
<description>It’s an overlooked opportunity.</description>
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<title>The Employee-Customer-Profit Chain at Sears</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1998/01/the-employee-customer-profit-chain-at-sears</link>
<description>Behind “the softer side of Sears” is a set of rigorous leading indicators that measure attitudes, impressions, and future performance.</description>
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<title>Will Working Mothers Take Your Company to Court?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/09/will-working-mothers-take-your-company-to-court</link>
<description>Increasingly, juries are taking the side of women who face workplace discrimination.</description>
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<title>Make Acquisitions Sing, with Harmony</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/06/make-acquisitions-sing-with-harmony</link>
<description>Paul is an old friend who, until his recent retirement, worked as a senior scientist at a pharmaceutical company, where he managed a group of innovative researchers. After reading The Progress Principle, which describes our discovery that progress in meaningful work drives employee motivation, Paul was eager to share his own story with us. When […]</description>
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<title>Ethical Breakdowns</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/04/ethical-breakdowns</link>
<description>Good people often let bad things happen. Why?</description>
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<title>Why Organizations Don’t Learn</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/11/why-organizations-dont-learn</link>
<description>Our traditional obsessions—success, taking action, fitting in, and relying on experts—undermine continuous improvement.</description>
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<title>Quality on the Line</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1983/09/quality-on-the-line</link>
<description>Hard new evidence on American product quality underscores the task head for management</description>
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<title>Implementing New Technology</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1985/11/implementing-new-technology</link>
<description>For all the dollars spent by American companies on R&amp;D, there often remains a persistent and troubling gap between the inherent value of the technology they develop and their ability to put it to work effectively. At a time of fierce global competition, the distance between technical promise and genuine achievement is a matter of […]</description>
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<title>The Three Rules of Employee Engagement</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/03/the-three-rules-of-employee-en</link>
<description>“I’m just going to sit there!” was how my 15-year-old niece explained her pending summer job as a receptionist in her father’s photo studio. While that line will generate a smile from understanding adults, it would produce a grimace if it were uttered by one of your employees. Yet so often many employees feel the […]</description>
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<title>Speed, Simplicity, Self-Confidence: An Interview with Jack Welch</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1989/09/speed-simplicity-self-confidence-an-interview-with-jack-welch</link>
<description>John F. Welch, Jr., chairman and CEO of General Electric, leads one of the world’s largest corporations. It is a very different corporation from the one he inherited in 1981. GE is now built around 14 distinct businesses—including aircraft engines, medical systems, engineering plastics, major appliances, NBC television, and financial services. They reflect the aggressive […]</description>
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<title>Leadership Summits That Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/leadership-summits-that-work</link>
<description>How to stop putting your top people to sleep</description>
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<title>Getting 360-Degree Feedback Right</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2001/01/getting-360-degree-feedback-right</link>
<description>360-degree feedback is all the rage in companies big and small. But it is frequently bureaucratic, politically charged, and agonizing. The good news is that by understanding four paradoxes inherent to peer appraisal, managers can take some of the pain out of the process—and get better results in.</description>
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<title>What It Will Take to Fix HR</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/07/what-it-will-take-to-fix-hr</link>
<description>The CHRO role is where the CFO role was 30 years ago.</description>
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<title>How to Manage Urban School Districts</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/11/how-to-manage-urban-school-districts</link>
<description>Big-city school systems aren’t businesses and can’t be managed like them. They need their own framework for creating successful strategies and coherent organizations.</description>
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<title>How CEO Pay Became a Massive Bubble</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/02/how-ceo-pay-became-a-massive-b</link>
<description>Mihir Desai, Harvard Business School professor and author of the HBR article “The Incentive Bubble.”</description>
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<title>If You’re Not Helping People Develop, You’re Not Management Material</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/if-youre-not-helping-people-develop-youre-not-management-material</link>
<description>Facilitating employee learning should be a non-negotiable competency.</description>
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<title>You Can’t Delegate Talent Management to the HR Department</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/you-cant-delegate-talent-management-to-the-hr-department</link>
<description>Developing people is every manager’s responsibility.</description>
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<title>Better Marketing at the Point of Purchase</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1983/11/better-marketing-at-the-point-of-purchase</link>
<description>The retail point of purchase represents the time and place at which all the elements of the sale—the consumer, the money, and the product—come together. By using various communications vehicles, including displays, packaging, sales promotions, in-store advertising, and salespeople, at the point of purchase (POP), the marketer hopes to influence the consumer’s buying decision. Partly […]</description>
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<title>Moments of Greatness: Entering the Fundamental State of Leadership</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/07/moments-of-greatness-entering-the-fundamental-state-of-leadership</link>
<description>Leaders are at the top of their game when they act from their deepest values and instincts. Usually they tap into these fundamental qualities during a crisis, but it’s possible to do so anytime—in the right frame of mind.</description>
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<title>How to Avoid Hiring a Toxic Employee</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/how-to-avoid-hiring-a-toxic-employee</link>
<description>Keeping out bad apples matters more than wooing stars.</description>
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<title>To Optimize Talent Management, Question Everything</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/to-optimize-talent-management-question-everything</link>
<description>Rethink even the most fundamental ideas, such as “employment” and “organization.”</description>
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<title>Is Silence Killing Your Company?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/05/is-silence-killing-your-company</link>
<description>Faced with organizational or interpersonal problems at work, people often decide not to speak up. “It’s not worth it,” they say, and soldier on. But disturbing new research shows that the price of silence is much greater than we realize.</description>
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<title>Help! I’m an Underperformer.</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/10/help-im-an-underperformer</link>
<description>No one likes to be an underperformer. It can be embarrassing, discouraging, and bewildering. Yet, many of us have at times failed to meet expectations. The good news is that poor performance isn’t incurable. It’s possible to turn it around and save your reputation with awareness, a sincere approach, and the right support. What the […]</description>
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<title>A Question of Style</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/05/a-question-of-style</link>
<description>Some years ago I read an article about a top New York stylist who was asked how he would restyle leading business people of the day. His suggestions:a full makeover for eBay’s Meg Whitman; a designer haircut and beard trim for Virgin’s Richard Branson; a new wardrobe for Bill Gates. Two people needed no help […]</description>
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<title>Two-Thirds of Managers Are Uncomfortable Communicating with Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/03/two-thirds-of-managers-are-uncomfortable-communicating-with-employees</link>
<description>And they fear giving feedback.</description>
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<title>Breakthrough Ideas for 2008</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/breakthrough-ideas-for-2008</link>
<description>Our annual snapshot of the emerging shape of business.</description>
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<title>Help Your Overwhelmed, Stressed-Out Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/help-your-overwhelmed-stressed-out-team</link>
<description>Focus people on the things that matter.</description>
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<title>Transforming Giants</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/01/transforming-giants</link>
<description>What kind of company makes it its business to make the world a better place?</description>
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<title>The Multiunit Enterprise</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/06/the-multiunit-enterprise</link>
<description>Retail chains, banks, hotels, restaurants—these are all multiunit enterprises. The first comprehensive study of this ubiquitous structure finds that how they design their organizations and assign roles and responsibilities has a big impact on their effectiveness.</description>
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<title>Design Thinking</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/06/design-thinking</link>
<description>Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products, services, processes—and even strategy.</description>
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<title>Signs You’re Being Passive-Aggressive</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/signs-youre-being-passive-aggressive</link>
<description>And how to get over it.</description>
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<title>Employers Need to Recognize That Our Wellness Starts at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/11/employers-need-to-recognize-that-our-wellness-starts-at-work</link>
<description>Companies just need the right programs.</description>
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<title>Ask the Coach</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/01/harvard-business-ideacast-77-a.html</link>
<description>Marshall Goldsmith, executive coach and author of “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful.”</description>
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<title>Get Your Team to Do What It Says It’s Going to Do</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/get-your-team-to-do-what-it-says-its-going-to-do</link>
<description>How to close the gap between knowing and doing</description>
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<title>An Open Office Experiment That Actually Worked</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/10/an-open-office-experiment-that-actually-worked</link>
<description>It took a lot of planning.</description>
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<title>HR for Neophytes</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/10/hr-for-neophytes</link>
<description>Line managers are taking on duties that once belonged to human resources. Here’s what they need to know.</description>
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<title>How to Give Constructive Feedback</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2016/02/how-to-give-constructive-feedback.html</link>
<description>Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman have administered thousands of 360-degree assessments through their consulting firm, Zenger/Folkman. This has given them a wealth of information about who benefits from criticism, and how to deliver it.</description>
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<title>When Followers Become Toxic</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/01/when-followers-become-toxic</link>
<description>Few leaders realize how susceptible they are to their followers’ influence. A good set of values, some trusted friends, and a little paranoia can prevent them from being led astray.</description>
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<title>For a Better Career Outlook, Look Inward</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/09/for-a-better-career-outlook-lo</link>
<description>Here’s an idea for your next performance review: Do what the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies do for their annual evaluation by the board of directors — write a self-assessment that helps guide the conversation. What you write will be a valuable tool for the performance review and, even better, a custom guide for your […]</description>
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<title>Letting Go</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1986/09/letting-go</link>
<description>If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times: to overcome the stresses and strains of a fast-growing organization, the chief executive must delegate responsibility. I’ve been to seminars on the subject. I’ve read business books that deal with it. But somehow the people talking and writing about delegating fail to deal with […]</description>
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<title>“Both/And” Leadership</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/both-and-leadership</link>
<description>Don’t worry so much about being consistent.</description>
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<title>Doing Less, Leading More</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/doing-less-leading-more</link>
<description>Stop trying to be the “Doer-in-Chief.” It can hold you back.</description>
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<title>Six Basics for General Managers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1989/07/six-basics-for-general-managers</link>
<description>Great coaches stress fundamentals—the basic skills and plays that make a team a consistent winner. Great general managers do the same thing. They know that sustained superior performance can’t be built on one-shot improvements like restructurings, massive cost reductions, or reorganizations. Sure, they’ll take such sweeping actions if they’re in a situation where that’s necessary […]</description>
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<title>Why Read Peter Drucker?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/11/why-read-peter-drucker</link>
<description>Because a manager can profit both from the ideas and from the discipline of mind by which they are formulated.</description>
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<title>Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/mary-barra-brings-teaming-to-general-motors</link>
<description>How her long history of collaboration catapulted her to the top, and will help GM.</description>
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<title>Get Your Team to Stop Fighting and Start Working</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/06/get-your-team-to-stop-fighting.html</link>
<description>The conflicts that often arise in teams can make you want to throw up your arms in despair, retreat to your office, and live out your career in team-less bliss. But collaboration is here to stay, and while it isn’t easy, putting more minds on the job usually yields better results. If your team has […]</description>
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<title>Retaining Employees When Money Is Tight</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/06/harvard-business-ideacast-99-r.html</link>
<description>Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay, editor of Harvard Management Update.</description>
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<title>Why Leaders Don’t Brag About Successfully Managing Stress</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/10/why-leaders-dont-brag-about-successfully-managing-stress</link>
<description>Only 20% share what works.</description>
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<title>Why an Identity Crisis Might Be Just What Your Brain Needs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/11/why-an-identity-crisis-might-b</link>
<description>At the 2011 Neuroleadership Summit in San Francisco this month, attendees learned how allowing your brain to have an identity crisis may be just the thing to improve personal and company performance. A simple model for understanding the link between identity, brain, and their effect on performance goes something like this: 1) identity drives motivation, […]</description>
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<title>Foster a Culture of Gratitude</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/04/foster-a-culture-of-gratitude</link>
<description>“Thank you” is only the start. You have to make employees feel appreciated in order to get their best work.</description>
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<title>Hacking Tech’s Diversity Problem</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/10/hacking-techs-diversity-problem</link>
<description>To bring more women into the sector, companies should try a lean start-up approach.</description>
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<title>Coaching an Employee Who Doesn’t Want Help</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/09/coaching-an-employee-who-doesnt-want-help</link>
<description>Even star performers can shy away from advice.</description>
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<title>Smart Rules: Six Ways to Get People to Solve Problems Without You</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/09/smart-rules-six-ways-to-get-people-to-solve-problems-without-you</link>
<description>Artwork: Jen Stark, Tri Angular, 2010, Acrylic paint on wood, 35″ x 35″ x 25″ Companies face an increasingly complex world. Globalization and technology have opened up new markets and enabled new competitors. With an abundance of options to choose from, customers are harder to please—and more fickle—than ever. Each day competitive advantage seems more […]</description>
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<title>Overcome Your Biases and Build a Great Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/overcome-your-biases-and-build-a-great-team</link>
<description>A CEO shares what he’s learned about diversity.</description>
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<title>Get Over Your Fear of Conflict</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/get-over-your-fear-of-conflict</link>
<description>The costs of being nice are too significant.</description>
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<title>Working Too Hard Makes Leading More Difficult</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/working-too-hard-makes-leading-more-difficult</link>
<description>Decision-making and managing emotions both suffer.</description>
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<title>How to Run a Meeting of People from Different Cultures</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/12/how-to-run-a-meeting-of-people-from-different-cultures</link>
<description>Help them step outside their comfort zones.</description>
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<title>How a Game Got Our Global Employees to Collaborate</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/02/how-a-game-got-our-global-empl</link>
<description>They’re separated by 8,000 miles, but connected by a smart incentive structure.</description>
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<title>21st-Century Talent Spotting</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/21st-century-talent-spotting</link>
<description>Why potential now trumps brains, experience, and “competencies.”</description>
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<title>Big Business Increasingly Supports Gay Rights</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/09/big-business-increasingly-supp</link>
<description>Why alienate an important, influential segment of your customers or talent base?</description>
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<title>Five Ways Pixar Makes Better Decisions</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/07/how-to-make-good-decisions-les</link>
<description>I’m writing a new book with Larry Prusak and Brook Manville. If we had to name it today, we’d call it Judgment Days: How Great Organizations Make Great Decisions. It’s about how organizations — rather than individuals — build their capacity for good judgment and decision making. We’re going to try to show how individual […]</description>
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<title>To Stay Relevant, Your Company and Employees Must Keep Learning</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/03/to-stay-relevant-your-company-and-employees-must-keep-learning</link>
<description>The digital economy compels you.</description>
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<title>Impress Your Foreign Boss</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/05/impressing-your-foreign-boss</link>
<description>Your cultural norms may not be enough when working abroad.</description>
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<title>With Change Agents, One Size Does Not Fit All</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/03/with-change-agents-one-size-does-not-fit-all</link>
<description>The kind of change you need should determine how you identify and train your leaders.</description>
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<title>When to Bring in a Professional Coach</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/when-to-bring-in-a-professional-coach</link>
<description>Four scenarios that require more than a manager.</description>
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<title>The New Productivity Challenge</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1991/11/the-new-productivity-challenge</link>
<description>The single greatest challenge facing managers in the developed countries of the world is to raise the productivity of knowledge and service workers. This challenge, which will dominate the management agenda for the next several decades, will ultimately determine the competitive performance of companies. Even more important, it will determine the very fabric of society […]</description>
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<title>VW’s Problem Is Bad Management, Not Rogue Engineers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/10/vws-problem-is-bad-management-not-rogue-engineers</link>
<description>The tone at the top let roguery take root.</description>
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<title>Your Desire to Get Things Done Can Undermine Your Effectiveness</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/03/your-desire-to-get-things-done-can-undermine-your-effectiveness</link>
<description>Don’t use all your energy on mundane tasks.</description>
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<title>What’s Your Primary Focus: Leadership or Effectiveness?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/05/whats-your-primary-focus-leade.html</link>
<description>(Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future. The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana, and Scott Snook. This week’s focus: leaders for the […]</description>
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<title>Your Work-Life Balance Should Be Your Company’s Problem</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/your-work-life-balance-should-be-your-companys-problem</link>
<description>Why system-wide approaches work better than individual solutions.</description>
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<title>Some Companies Are Banning Email and Getting More Done</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/some-companies-are-banning-email-and-getting-more-done</link>
<description>Email is a form of knowledge pollution.</description>
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<title>To Investigate Culture, Ask the Right Questions</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/05/to-investigate-culture-ask-the</link>
<description>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. A few were skeptical. I believe you can learn about culture, even in the early stages. Here are suggestions about how […]</description>
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<title>How to Get Employees Excited to Do Their Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/how-to-get-employees-excited-to-do-their-work</link>
<description>Sometimes persuasion is better than direction.</description>
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<title>Why Some Factories Are More Productive Than Others</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1986/09/why-some-factories-are-more-productive-than-others</link>
<description>The battle for attention is over. The time for banging drums is long past. Everyone now understands that manufacturing provides an essential source of competitive leverage. No longer does anyone seriously think that domestic producers can outdo their competitors by clever marketing only—“selling the sizzle” while cheating on quality or letting deliveries slip. It is […]</description>
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<title>Air Pollution Is Making Office Workers Less Productive</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/air-pollution-is-making-office-workers-less-productive</link>
<description>Suddenly, environmental regulations seem a lot more business-friendly.</description>
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<title>Values in Tension: Ethics Away from Home</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1996/09/values-in-tension-ethics-away-from-home</link>
<description>When is different just different, and when is different wrong?</description>
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<title>What HR Can Do to Fix the Gender Pay Gap</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/what-hr-can-do-to-fix-the-gender-pay-gap</link>
<description>Six practices that actually work.</description>
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<title>If You Want to Get Promoted, Say So</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/01/if-you-want-to-get-promoted-say-so</link>
<description>Don’t assume your boss knows your ambitions.</description>
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<title>Narcissistic Leaders: The Incredible Pros, the Inevitable Cons</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/01/narcissistic-leaders-the-incredible-pros-the-inevitable-cons</link>
<description>Many leaders dominating business today have what psychoanalysts call a narcissistic personality. That’s good news for companies that need passion and daring to break new ground. But even productive narcissists can be dangerous for organizations. Here is some advice on avoiding the dangers.</description>
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<title>Develop Leaders the Montessori Way</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/01/develop-leaders-the-montessori</link>
<description>When it comes to employee development, most companies traditionally follow the 10/80/10 rule: The top 10 percent are promoted, the middle 80 percent are nurtured and the bottom 10 percent are let go. At my company, Mu Sigma, we followed this advice at first too. But we found that we were losing too many from […]</description>
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<title>Recovering from an Emotional Outburst at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/recovering-from-an-emotional-outburst-at-work</link>
<description>Treat yourself with compassion and curiosity.</description>
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<title>Dave Eggers Wrote the Best Business Book of the Year</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/11/dave-eggers-wrote-the-best-business-book-of-the-year</link>
<description>His new novel synthesizes all that is unsettling in the knowledge economy.</description>
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<title>What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1999/03/whats-your-strategy-for-managing-knowledge</link>
<description>Some companies automate knowledge management; others rely on their people to share knowledge through more traditional means. Emphasizing the wrong approach—or trying to pursue both at the same time—can quickly undermine your business.</description>
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<title>Women of the Workplace, Uniting</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/11/women-of-the-workplace-unite</link>
<description>Between waves of layoffs and evaporating job opportunities, we’re in a climate that naturally breeds an every-woman-for-herself mentality. A recent study by the Workplace Bullying Institute found that female bullies were alive — and, more than 70 percent of the time, kicking other women. But I’ve also seen companies encouraging their smart women to help […]</description>
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<title>Social Tools Can Improve Employee Onboarding</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/12/social-tools-can-improve-e</link>
<description>Integrate new hires into your company faster by ditching the email trail.</description>
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<title>Managing Multiple Bosses</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/08/managing-multiple-bosses.html</link>
<description>In the movie Office Space — a comedy about work life in a typical 1990s software company — the protagonist, Peter Gibbons, has eight different bosses. All of them, seemingly unaware of each other, pass by his desk and tell him what to do. While the film is most certainly a satire, for some, it […]</description>
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<title>Growing Talent as if Your Business Depended on It</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/10/growing-talent-as-if-your-business-depended-on-it</link>
<description>In companies where leadership development really works, it is not a stand-alone activity. It is a core process of the business, dyed into its very fabric.</description>
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<title>What Marissa Mayer Got Wrong (and Right) About Stack Ranking Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/what-marissa-mayer-got-wrong-and-right-about-stack-ranking-employees</link>
<description>A company isn’t a college.</description>
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<title>4 Reasons to Kill the Office Holiday Party—and One Reason to Save It</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/4-reasons-to-kill-the-office-holiday-partyand-one-reason-to-save-it</link>
<description>The research sides with Scrooge.</description>
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<title>To Lead, Create a Shared Vision</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/01/to-lead-create-a-shared-vision</link>
<description>Being forward-looking—envisioning exciting possibilities and enlisting others in a shared view of the future—is the attribute that most distinguishes leaders from nonleaders. We know this because we asked followers. In an ongoing project surveying tens of thousands of working people around the world, we asked, “What do you look for and admire in a leader […]</description>
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<title>Being Happy at Work Matters</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/being-happy-at-work-matters</link>
<description>Just trying to get through the day isn’t enough.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/how-google-sold-its-engineers-on-management</link>
<description>Hint: It’s all about the data.</description>
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<title>Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2000/03/meeting-the-challenge-of-disruptive-change</link>
<description>It’s no wonder that innovation is so difficult for established firms. They employ highly capable people—and then set them to work within processes and business models that doom them to failure. But there are ways out of this dilemma.</description>
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<title>Grooming Top Performers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/03/harvard-business-ideacast-86-g.html</link>
<description>Boris Groysberg, Harvard Business School professor.</description>
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<title>Managing Change, One Day at a Time</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/07/managing-change-one-day-at-a-time</link>
<description>Leaders trying to transform company culture can learn from an unexpected source: addiction treatment programs.</description>
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<title>Are You Getting the Information You Need When You Need It?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/05/are-you-getting-the-informatio</link>
<description>How fast do you really need your information? Working with Jim Hagemann Snabe, co-CEO of SAP, I did a study of what kind of information managers need and how quickly they need it delivered. We interviewed both senior executives (15 current or former CEOs and business unit heads) as well as managers who are charged […]</description>
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<title>Useful But Still Resisted</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1975/05/useful-but-still-resisted</link>
<description>Although top management defines it as strictly a development technique, performance appraisal is infused with goals of salary justification, elimination of low performers, and, obviously, the important correlation of employee behavior with actual results. These purposes are often frustrated, however, by obstacles: difficulties in gathering adequate information in the first place, keeping it up to […]</description>
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<title>Competing on Talent Analytics</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/10/competing-on-talent-analytics</link>
<description>What the best companies know about their people—and how they use that information to outperform rivals.</description>
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<title>How to Keep Your Action Plan on Track</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/01/how-to-keep-your-action-plan-o</link>
<description>Four days into 2010 I received an email from a client, Erik, updating me on the progress he had made with his action plan since our last meeting in October. Back then, we had identified a number of things he needed to work on — including listening more effectively and being politically aware. The plan […]</description>
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<title>Patterns of Organization Change</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1967/05/patterns-of-organization-change</link>
<description>Today many top managers are attempting to introduce sweeping and basic changes in the behavior and practices of the supervisors and the subordinates throughout their organizations. Whereas only a few years ago the target of organization change was limited to a small work group or a single department, especially at lower levels, the focus is […]</description>
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<title>Make Results Matter More than Face Time</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/11/make-results-matter-more-than</link>
<description>How one company shed its sweatshop reputation.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Lessons from the Giant Slayers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/lessons-from-the-giant-slayers</link>
<description>Upstarts can face daunting odds when they challenge incumbents. Those that succeed know there’s a method to their disruption. And it’s one any company can replicate. by Chris Harrop and Barney Hamilton</description>
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<title>Encourage Foreign-Born Employees to Participate More in Meetings</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/encourage-foreign-born-employees-to-participate-more-in-meetings</link>
<description>A few small, specific steps can help you foster communication.</description>
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<title>Reinvent Your Business Before It’s Too Late</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/01/reinvent-your-business-before-its-too-late</link>
<description>Watch Out for Those S Curves</description>
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<title>How to Implement a New Strategy Without Disrupting Your Organization</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/03/how-to-implement-a-new-strategy-without-disrupting-your-organization</link>
<description>Strategic dreams often turn into nightmares if companies start engaging in expensive and distracting restructurings. It’s far more effective to choose a design that works reasonably well, then develop a strategic system to tune the structure to the strategy.</description>
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<title>Superman Was a Reporter. Now He Owns the Newspaper.</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/08/superman-was-a-reporter-now-he</link>
<description>That guy who bought a newspaper, yet another company that’s going management-free, and how Netflix knows you don’t actually watch foreign films. These stories and more in this week’s scouting report on provocative ideas for business.</description>
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<title>How to Get Promoted in China</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/02/how-to-get-promoted-anywhere-i</link>
<description>Michael Black is an American employee working in China for one of the country’s oldest and most traditional consumer products manufacturers. Michael has been in China for two years and has done quite well. He’s mastered the local language, been very successful in meeting his performance goals, and believes that he deserves a promotion. Michael […]</description>
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<title>Use Humility to Improve Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/11/use-humility-to-improve-perfor</link>
<description>I’ve written before about the importance of humility as a leadership trait. But, as was recently pointed out to me, humility is an important trait in employees, too. When people act humbly, they are acknowledging their limitations and accepting that they cannot go it alone. This mindset is valuable to a team because it serves […]</description>
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<title>How to Be a Family-Friendly Boss</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/how-to-be-a-family-friendly-boss</link>
<description>A well-meaning supervisor can do a lot to accommodate — and keep — good people trying to balance work and family.</description>
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<title>The Uncompromising Leader</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/07/the-uncompromising-leader</link>
<description>Leaders of high-commitment, high-performance organizations refuse to choose between people and profits.</description>
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<title>How Southwest Airlines Hires Such Dedicated People</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/12/how-southwest-airlines-hires-such-dedicated-people</link>
<description>It invests time in finding them.</description>
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<title>Think Strategically About Your Career Development</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/12/think-strategically-about-your-career-development</link>
<description>You can’t leave your professional growth to chance.</description>
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<title>Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/10/manage-your-energy-not-your-time</link>
<description>The science of stamina has advanced to the point where individuals, teams, and whole organizations can, with some straightforward interventions, significantly increase their capacity to get things done.</description>
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<description>The business news is full of stories about the fact that large corporations are expanding at breakneck speed outside the U.S. while the domestic economy stagnates. And the best and brightest employees are seeking opportunities to work overseas in order to accelerate their upward trajectory. But for most rising executives, leading successfully in global markets […]</description>
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<title>How to Overcome Executive Isolation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/02/how-to-overcome-executive-isolation</link>
<description>It doesn’t have to be lonely at the top.</description>
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<link>https://hbr.org/2007/06/employees-get-an-earful</link>
<description>Randall Gressett, an EMC technology executive, uses his video iPod to catch up on company news while flying home from meetings with clients. “After a long day, it’s nice to watch a video instead of reading some white paper or going to headquarters for a training session,” he says. He’s not alone: Worldwide, thousands of […]</description>
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<title>Don’t Offer Employees Big Rewards for Innovation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/dont-offer-employees-big-rewards-for-innovation</link>
<description>You’ll end up with impractical ideas and a clogged pipeline.</description>
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<title>How Employees Shaped Strategy at the New York Public Library</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/12/how-employees-shaped-strategy-at-the-new-york-public-library</link>
<description>An inside look at the organization’s radical approach.</description>
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<title>How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition</title>
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<description>Information technology is revolutionizing products. Once composed solely of mechanical and electrical parts, products have become complex systems that combine hardware, sensors, data storage, microprocessors, software, and connectivity in myriad ways. These “smart, connected products”—made possible by vast improvements in processing power and device miniaturization and by the network benefits of ubiquitous wireless connectivity—have unleashed […]</description>
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<title>Bouncing Back from a Negative 360-Degree Review</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/07/bouncing-back-from-a-negative.html</link>
<description>Unlike traditional reviews and other types of feedback, 360-degree reviews include input from a comprehensive set of people: peers, managers, direct reports, and sometimes customers. One of the most valuable aspects of this tool is that the opinions are voiced anonymously, which encourages a higher level of honesty than you might normally get. However, the […]</description>
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<title>The Condensed July-August 2015 Issue</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2015/06/the-condensed-july-august-2015-issue.html</link>
<description>Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.</description>
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<title>New Research: How Employee Engagement Hits the Bottom Line</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/11/creating-sustainable-employee.html</link>
<description>A new study shows a direct connection between how we feel at work and how we perform.</description>
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<title>A Step-by-Step Plan to Improve CMO-COO Collaboration</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/a-step-by-step-plan-to-improve-cmo-coo-collaboration</link>
<description>You can’t serve customers if this relationship is dysfunctional.</description>
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<title>The Men Who Mentor Women</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/12/the-men-who-mentor-women</link>
<description>Women know who they are.</description>
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<title>Making Bad Analytics Good in China</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/02/making-bad-analytics-good-in-c</link>
<description>The virtues of analytics are well known. From supply chain to marketing and even employees, if you can measure, you can improve. But how do you proceed when you have bad data? Recently, I sat in a meeting in the adidas offices in Shanghai, listening to our market research firm present some puzzling information. We’d […]</description>
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<title>Envy at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/04/envy-at-work</link>
<description>If left unchecked, this deadly sin can sabotage your company’s performance—and your own.</description>
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<title>The Discipline of Teams</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1993/03/the-discipline-of-teams-2</link>
<description>What makes the difference between a team that performs and one that doesn’t?</description>
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<title>Inside Procter &amp; Gamble’s New Values-Based Strategy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/09/fall-like-a-lehman-rise-like-a</link>
<description>On the anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ fall, the question remains: What, if anything, has changed in the mentality of the financial community? While Wall Street wallows in tales of the fallen, a different, more promising approach to capitalism is rising. Procter &amp; Gamble, the world’s largest consumer products company, has just announced a stunning new […]</description>
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<title>The Self-Tuning Enterprise</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/the-self-tuning-enterprise</link>
<description>How Alibaba uses algorithmic thinking to constantly reinvent itself</description>
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<title>Why Leadership Training Fails—and What to Do About It</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/why-leadership-training-fails-and-what-to-do-about-it</link>
<description>Companies spend billions on programs that don’t pay off. Here’s how to fix that.</description>
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<title>Runaway Capitalism</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/01/runaway-capitalism</link>
<description>When the wrong measures of success drive decisions, strengths can mutate into serious liabilities. Just look at the peacock.</description>
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<title>How to Schedule Time for Meaningful Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/08/how-to-schedule-time-for-meani</link>
<description>Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen, coauthors of the HBR article “Make Time for the Work that Matters.”</description>
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<title>Why Does Criticism Seem More Effective than Praise?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/04/why-does-criticism-seem-more-e.html</link>
<description>When you coach someone or conduct a performance appraisal, where do you tend to focus? Probably on “opportunities for improvement,” right? Sure, you mention some positive things, but we’ll bet you spend much more time talking about faults and shortcomings. If you do, you’re only human. Paying more attention to what’s wrong isn’t wrong-headed or […]</description>
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<title>Tackling Business Problems</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/01/tackling-business-problems</link>
<description>Stop Tying Pay to Performance The evidence is overwhelming: It doesn’t work. by Bruno S. Frey and Margit Osterloh Time frame: next week | Degree of difficulty: operationally easy, psychologically hard | Barrier: greed, economic theory We’ve talked about this since the financial meltdown. Now it’s time to do it: Unlink pay from performance. The […]</description>
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<title>How to Manage Your Former Peers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/12/how-to-manage-your-former-peer</link>
<description>Congrats on the promotion. Now comes the tough part.</description>
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<title>A Market-Driven Approach to Retaining Talent</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2000/01/a-market-driven-approach-to-retaining-talent</link>
<description>Traditional strategies for employee retention are unsuited to a world where talent runs free. It’s time for some fresh thinking.</description>
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<title>Impact of Strategic Planning on Profit Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1974/03/impact-of-strategic-planning-on-profit-performance</link>
<description>One of the most significant research projects undertaken by the Marketing Science Institute is the ongoing profit impact of market strategies (PIMS) study. The basic idea behind PIMS is to provide corporate top management, divisional management, marketing executives, and corporate planners with insights and information on expected profit performance of different kinds of businesses under […]</description>
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<title>Why Remote Workers Are More (Yes, More) Engaged</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/08/are-you-taking-your-people-for</link>
<description>Distance does make the heart grow fonder.</description>
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<title>We Need Better Managers, Not More Technocrats</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/09/we-need-better-managers-not-more-technocrats</link>
<description>Building digital organizations is ultimately about leadership.</description>
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<title>Welcome to Ask the Coach</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/09/welcome-to-ask-the-coach</link>
<description>Welcome to Ask the Coach. In this blog, I will try to provide you with the best answers I can to your questions about individual behavior, leadership, teamwork, organizational life, and career planning. My professional mission is to help successful leaders achieve positive, lasting change in behavior: for both themselves and their people. The three […]</description>
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<title>Research: Using a Smartphone After 9 pm Leaves Workers Disengaged</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/research-using-a-smartphone-after-9-pm-leaves-workers-disengaged</link>
<description>Put the device down.</description>
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<title>Research: Insecure Managers Don’t Want Your Suggestions</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/research-insecure-managers-dont-want-your-suggestions</link>
<description>But there are ways to make your boss more open to listening.</description>
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<title>Paid Family Leave Pays Off in California</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/01/paid-family-leave-pays-off-in</link>
<description>In July 2004, California became the first state in the nation to implement a program that enables most working Californians to receive up to 6 weeks of partial wage replacement — 55 percent of their usual weekly wage, up to a maximum benefit of $987 — when they need to take time off to bond […]</description>
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<title>The Darwinian Workplace</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/05/the-darwinian-workplace</link>
<description>New technology is helping employers systematically shift more work to their best employees.</description>
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<title>The Surprising Economics of a “People Business”</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/06/the-surprising-economics-of-a-people-business</link>
<description>People-intensive companies and business units ought to be managed and measured in ways that reflect their unique economics. Some standard practices can lead you dangerously astray.</description>
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<title>The Best-Performing CEOs in the World</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/11/the-best-performing-ceos-in-the-world</link>
<description>Which 100 executives delivered top results over the long term? HBR’s 2016 ranking provides the answer.</description>
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<title>A New Vision for Retirement: Productive and Meaningful</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/02/a-new-vision-for-retirement-pr</link>
<description>Instead of retiring, baby boomers can fill the talent gap in social enterprises.</description>
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<title>Want to Be an Outstanding Leader? Keep a Journal.</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/want-to-be-an-outstanding-leader-keep-a-journal</link>
<description>Commit to daily reflection.</description>
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<title>Get Your Passion Project Moving Without Quitting Your Day Job</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/get-your-passion-project-moving-without-quitting-your-day-job</link>
<description>Don’t be sneaky.</description>
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<title>The Ways Chief Executive Officers Lead</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1996/05/the-ways-chief-executive-officers-lead</link>
<description>New research suggests there aren’t as many as you might think.</description>
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<title>Global Business Speaks English</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/05/global-business-speaks-english</link>
<description>Why you need a language strategy now</description>
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<title>Stop Paying Executives for Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/stop-paying-executives-for-performance</link>
<description>The case against bonuses and stock options.</description>
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<title>How Big Companies Can Save Innovation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/09/how-big-companies-can-save-inn</link>
<description>Stop squelching your corporate catalysts.</description>
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<title>When Stability Breeds Instability</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/12/when-stability-breeds-instability</link>
<description>It seems to be a natural law that strength creates vulnerability. When an asteroid smacked the earth 65 million years ago, it was little rodents, not T. rex, that survived; and certainly the notion is woven through the events of September 11. Today, everyone knows that social capital—the relationships that bind communities—makes organizations strong. Well, […]</description>
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<title>What Separates Great HR Leaders from the Rest</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/what-separates-great-hr-leaders-from-the-rest</link>
<description>And what the bad ones do poorly.</description>
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<title>The Very Model of a Modern Senior Manager</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/01/the-very-model-of-a-modern-senior-manager</link>
<description>Should all executives be cut from the same cloth? The head of HR thinks so—she’s already creating a competency model for the organization—but the rest of the leadership team isn’t so sure.</description>
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<title>Flex Time: A Recession Triple Win</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/08/time-as-currency</link>
<description>Tough times are the right time to formalize flexible work schedules. Remote work options, staggered hours, reduced schedules and mini-sabbaticals are often seen as work perks for the fat years, one of the first targets of corporate belt-tightening. But as research in my forthcoming book Top Talent: Keeping Performance Up When Business Is Down (Harvard […]</description>
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<title>Few Executives Are Self-Aware, But Women Have the Edge</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/05/few-executives-are-self-aware.html</link>
<description>A new study by Hay Group shows that female leaders tend to have better interpersonal skills.</description>
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<title>In Defense of Corporate Wellness Programs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/02/in-defense-of-corporate-wellness-programs</link>
<description>Nurturing employee health is good for productivity — and workers.</description>
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<title>The One Skill All Leaders Should Work On</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/03/the-one-skill-all-leaders-shou</link>
<description>If I had to pick one skill for the majority of leaders I work with to improve, it would be assertiveness. Not because being assertive is such a wonderful trait in and of itself. Rather, because of its power to magnify so many other leadership strengths. Assertiveness gets a bad rap when people equate it […]</description>
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<title>The New Corporate Philanthropy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1994/05/the-new-corporate-philanthropy</link>
<description>More and more companies are supporting movements for social change while advancing their business goals.</description>
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<title>Five Coaching Strengths that Produce Champions</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/08/five-coaching-strengths</link>
<description>This summer’s Olympics got us thinking: how do we as managers and leaders become coaches who elicit greatness in others? A study of the coach-athlete relationships that yield successful performance, released by the Canadian Olympic Committee in 2010, has some findings worth adapting to the coaching of corporate performers. Authored by Penny Werthner, an Olympic […]</description>
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<title>Build Your Team Like an Executive</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/09/build-your-team-like-an-execut</link>
<description>Virtually all leaders espouse the benefits of a strong management team. However, they use starkly different levers to build one. These differences in philosophy and approach frequently differentiate those who advance to and succeed at the executive level — and those who stay in the ranks of middle management. When you ask leaders how they […]</description>
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<title>The Cost of Closeted Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/07/the-cost-of-closeted-employees</link>
<description>This post was written with Karen Sumberg, a senior vice president at the Center for Work-Life Policy. Erika Karp vividly remembers the secrecy and subterfuge that colored every workday before she told her colleagues that she was a lesbian. “You have to devote a huge amount of psychic energy to being closeted — changing pronouns, […]</description>
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<title>Measuring Investment Center Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1978/05/measuring-investment-center-performance</link>
<description>A spate of articles and books about return on investment has appeared during the past two or three years. Improving company earnings in relation to the capital used to generate those earnings has become a matter of great concern to many top financial and general managers. Their concern is not surprising. About three years ago, […]</description>
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<title>When Leadership Coaching Works (And When It Doesn’t)</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/07/when-leadership-coaching-works</link>
<description>This week’s question for Ask the Coach: When does leadership coaching work? When is it a waste of time? Download this podcast In my work as an executive coach, I only get paid if my clients achieve a positive, lasting change in behavior – not as judged by themselves, but as determined by their key […]</description>
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<title>Do You Have a Well-Designed Organization?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/03/do-you-have-a-well-designed-organization</link>
<description>Creating a new organizational structure is one of the toughest—and most politically explosive—challenges that an executive faces. Here are nine tests to guide the way.</description>
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<title>Six Lessons for the Corporate Classroom</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1988/09/six-lessons-for-the-corporate-classroom</link>
<description>This year, U.S. businesses will spend at least $30 billion to provide 17.6 million formal training and development courses for their employees, and a good portion of that investment will be thrown away. Training and development (T&amp;D) can take a variety of useful forms—from 30-minute welcome sessions for new hires to two-year MBA programs for […]</description>
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<title>5 Ways to Become More Self-Aware</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/5-ways-to-become-more-self-aware</link>
<description>To be a good leader, you have to know yourself.</description>
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<title>Creating Corporate Advantage</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1998/05/creating-corporate-advantage</link>
<description>How can you tell if your company is really more than the sum of its parts?</description>
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<title>The Kind of Homework That Helps Coaching Stick</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/the-kind-of-homework-that-helps-coaching-stick</link>
<description>Career development takes practice.</description>
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<title>31 Innovation Questions (and Answers) To Kick Off the New Year</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/12/31-innovation-questions</link>
<description>One of the simple ways that I try to make experimentation an everyday activity is to always try at least one new thing each time I give a presentation. One such recent experiment I called “choose your own presentation.” I looked back at the 20 or so talks that I’d given this past year, and […]</description>
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<title>Change Management and Leadership Development Have to Mesh</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/change-management-and-leadership-development-have-to-mesh</link>
<description>If you’re struggling with one, you’re probably struggling with both.</description>
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<title>Managing Two People Who Hate Each Other</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/managing-two-people-who-hate-each-other</link>
<description>How to minimize the drama and keep your team on track.</description>
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<title>How to Avoid Catastrophe</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/04/how-to-avoid-catastrophe</link>
<description>Failures happen. But if you pay attention to near misses, you can predict and prevent crises.</description>
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<title>The EU Privacy Ruling Won’t Hurt Innovation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/the-eu-privacy-ruling-wont-hurt-innovation</link>
<description>It may open a new market for privacy services.</description>
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<title>When a New Manager Takes Charge</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1985/05/when-a-new-manager-takes-charge-2</link>
<description>When some managers take over a new job, things seem to go swimmingly. They get along with their bosses and subordinates, learn the ropes, and after a certain length of time, gain their own credibility and “own” the job. Other new managers don’t do so well. Some fail miserably. In a study of 14 persons […]</description>
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<title>How to Screen for Motivated Workers Who Are Drawn to Your Social Mission: Offer Low Pay</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/how-to-find-motivated-workers-who-are-drawn-to-social-missions-offer-low-pay</link>
<description>Providing employees with a social “mission” in their jobs doesn’t increase their effort: In an experiment in which workers could generate donations to NGOs of their choice, people whose jobs had a mission made no more effort than purely self-interested workers, say Sebastian Fehrler of the University of Zurich and Michael Kosfeld of Goethe University […]</description>
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<title>Avoid the Traps That Can Destroy Family Businesses</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/01/avoid-the-traps-that-can-destroy-family-businesses</link>
<description>An emerging set of best practices can turn the age-old problem of generational succession into an opportunity to thrive.</description>
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<title>The Benefits of Virtual Mentors</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/04/the-benefits-of-virtual-mentors</link>
<description>A new way to build productivity, engagement, and loyalty.</description>
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<title>The Case Against ROI Control</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1969/05/the-case-against-roi-control</link>
<description>The use of some form of return on investment (ROI) as a management control device in evaluating the profit performance of division managers has been widely adopted in many decentralized companies. Yet the evidence shows that this control system has serious limitations, which result from the inability to use ROI to make correct evaluations. The […]</description>
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<title>Innovation at Procter &amp; Gamble</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/06/harvard-business-ideacast-100.html</link>
<description>A.G. Lafley, chairman and CEO of Procter &amp; Gamble.</description>
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<title>5 Tips for Managing Successful Overseas Assignments</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/03/5-tips-for-managing-successful-overseas-assignments</link>
<description>Stay in constant touch and have a plan for their return.</description>
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<title>Employers Should Offer Free Screenings for Depression</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/12/employers-should-offer-free-screenings-for-depression</link>
<description>The stakes are high for both people and companies.</description>
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<title>Do You Play to Win—or to Not Lose?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/03/do-you-play-to-win-or-to-not-lose</link>
<description>Know what really motivates you.</description>
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<title>The Underlying Psychology of Office Politics</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/the-underlying-psychology-of-office-politics</link>
<description>And how to manage it.</description>
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<title>Research: Vague Feedback Is Holding Women Back</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/04/research-vague-feedback-is-holding-women-back</link>
<description>“Great job!” is not helpful.</description>
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<title>How to Boost Your (and Others’) Emotional Intelligence</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/01/how-to-boost-your-and-others-emotional-intelligence</link>
<description>It’s possible to change your baseline.</description>
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<title>How People Learn to Become Managers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/01/how-people-learn-to-become-man</link>
<description>An Interview with Linda A. Hill In contrast to management treatises that concentrate on tasks and responsibilities, Harvard Business School professor Linda A. Hill’s classic book, Becoming a Manager: Mastery of a New Identity (Harvard Business Press, 2003), describes the profound psychological adjustment involved in morphing from star individual performer to competent manager. In the […]</description>
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<title>A 2x2 Matrix Explains Good vs. Great Leadership - HBR Video</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/video/5205037593001/a-2x2-matrix-explains-good-vs-great-leadership</link>
<description>The relationship between the two is not a continuum.</description>
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<title>Make Sure Your Employees Have Enough Interesting Work to Do</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/make-sure-your-employees-have-enough-interesting-work-to-do</link>
<description>Advice for growing firms.</description>
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<title>Stop Worrying about Your Weaknesses</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/05/why-you-should-encourage-weakn.html</link>
<description>Little Johnny comes home one day, looks down at his feet, and gives you his report card. You smile at him as you open it up and look inside. Then your smile disappears when you see the F in math. You also see an A (English) and two Bs (history and science). You look down […]</description>
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<title>Don’t Sugarcoat Negative Feedback</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/09/dont-sugarcoat-negative-feedba</link>
<description>A spoonful of sugar does not help the medicine go down.</description>
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<title>How to Give Every Employee Customized Leadership Advice</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/06/how-to-give-every-employee-cus</link>
<description>Virtually every corporate and academic leadership development program is founded on the same model — we call it the formulaic model. It tries to collect all the various approaches to leadership, shaves off the weird outliers, and packages the rest into a formula. The notion behind all this is simple: The right way to lead […]</description>
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<title>A Checklist for the Perfect Gen Y Job</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/03/a-checklist-for-the-perfect-ge</link>
<description>It’s job hunting time for thousands of soon-to-be-graduates – and these members of Generation Y are proving to have some fairly specific approaches and preferences as they go about the search. For those of you who are trying to entice them to your firm, here’s a quick overview of what they’re looking for. And for […]</description>
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<title>Advice for Dealing with a Long-Winded Leader</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/advice-for-dealing-with-a-long-winded-leader</link>
<description>Counteract rambling without getting fired.</description>
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<title>How to Handle Rebellion on Your Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/07/how-to-handle-rebellion-on-your-team</link>
<description>It’s part neuroscience, part communication.</description>
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<title>Inside Microsoft: Balancing Creativity and Discipline</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/01/inside-microsoft-balancing-creativity-and-discipline</link>
<description>When you encourage individual initiative, you often sacrifice managerial rigor. Microsoft’s former COO found a way to clean up the company’s operational mess while preserving its freewheeling culture.</description>
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<title>Budget Choice: Planning Versus Control</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1984/07/budget-choice-planning-versus-control</link>
<description>The term “budget” tends to conjure up in the minds of many managers images of inaccurate estimates, produced in tedious detail, which are never exactly achieved but whose shortfalls or overruns require explanations. And that is what budgets are like for many smaller businesses. This wasteful way of using budgets overlooks important managerial objectives that […]</description>
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<title>Vacation Policy in Corporate America Is Broken</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/vacation-policy-in-corporate-america-is-broken</link>
<description>Fixing it starts with managers.</description>
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<title>6 Keys to Putting the Crowdsourced Surveillance Genie Back in the Lamp</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/06/6-ways-to-put-the-crowdsourced</link>
<description>When outraged Vancouverites turned to blogs and Facebook to identify participants in the Stanley Cup riots, many celebrated sites like Vancouver 2011 Riot Pics and Vancouver 2011 Criminal List as examples of putting social media to concrete and constructive use. The response to concerns raised about civil liberties and civic culture (including on this site) […]</description>
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<title>Courage as a Skill</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/01/courage-as-a-skill</link>
<description>How can you know the difference between political courage and political suicide?</description>
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<title>Help Your Employees Be Themselves at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/help-your-employees-be-themselves-at-work</link>
<description>Five strategies to help people uncover, and improve performance.</description>
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<title>What Alienates Top Performers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/08/how-to-alienate-a-top-performe.html</link>
<description>When asked what factors matter most in retaining talented employees, most of us can name the big ones: pay, advancement, recognition, exciting challenges, the long-term prospects of the organization, the quality of its leadership, and so on. But like other employees, top performers spend most of their time living with the day-to-day decisions of their […]</description>
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<title>Stop Using Employee Friendships to Measure Engagement</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/stop-using-employee-friendships-to-measure-engagement</link>
<description>Other metrics are more useful.</description>
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<title>Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/02/why-good-leaders-make-bad-decisions</link>
<description>Neuroscience reveals what distorts a leader’s judgment. Here’s how you can keep your own judgment clear.</description>
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<title>Amazon Is Right That Disagreement Results in Better Decisions</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/amazon-is-right-that-disagreement-results-in-better-decisions</link>
<description>But it can be done without humiliating people.</description>
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<title>Superforecasting: How to Upgrade Your Company’s Judgment</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/superforecasting-how-to-upgrade-your-companys-judgment</link>
<description>How to dramatically improve your company’s prediction capability</description>
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<title>Zen and the Art of Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1978/03/zen-and-the-art-of-management</link>
<description>For 20 years or more students of management have labored to minimize its mystique, reduce our dependence on “gut feel,” and establish a more scientific basis for managerial behavior. All the while, practitioners have been cautious in embracing these pursuits; casting a wary eye on “textbook” solutions, they assert that management is an art as […]</description>
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<title>How to Plan a Team Offsite That Actually Works</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/how-to-plan-a-team-offsite-that-actually-works</link>
<description>Follow these dos and don’ts.</description>
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<title>Here’s How to Actually Empower Customer Service Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/07/heres-how-to-actually-empower-customer</link>
<description>A five-step process for putting power in the hands of those who need it most.</description>
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<title>The More You Energize Your Coworkers, the Better Everyone Performs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/the-energy-you-give-off-at-work-matters</link>
<description>Pep is contagious.</description>
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<title>4 Ways Leaders Can Create a Candid Culture</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/07/4-ways-leaders-can-create-a-candid-culture</link>
<description>Sometimes you need to go beyond listening.</description>
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<title>How Self-Managed Companies Help People Learn on the Job</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/08/how-self-managed-companies-help-people-learn-on-the-job</link>
<description>Here are some DIY experiments to try.</description>
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<title>Secrets of Positive Feedback</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/02/secrets-of-positive-feedback</link>
<description>[For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.] Have you ever noticed how a pat on the back makes you feel great for days? If the praise comes in handwritten or email form, maybe you frame the note and put it on your wall so it can lift you up on a tough day or help […]</description>
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<title>To Be a Better Leader, Give Up Authority</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/12/to-be-a-better-leader-give-up-authority</link>
<description>In chaotic times, an executive’s instinct may be to strive for greater efficiency by tightening control. But the truth is that relinquishing authority and giving employees considerable autonomy can boost innovation and success at knowledge firms, even during crises. Our research provides hard evidence that leaders who give in to the urge to clamp down […]</description>
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<title>Corporate Universities Should Reflect a Company’s Ideals</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/10/corporate-universities-should-reflect-a-companys-ideals/</link>
<description>Lessons from GE’s Crotonville.</description>
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<title>Intuit’s CEO on Building a Design-Driven Company</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/intuits-ceo-on-building-a-design-driven-company</link>
<description>Timothy Archibald When Scott Cook cofounded Intuit, in 1983, many other companies were already offering software to help people track their finances. In fact, at least 46 similar products launched before Quicken, the product Cook created, which is why we sometimes joke about how instead of having the first-mover advantage, Intuit had the “47th mover […]</description>
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<title>To Help People Choose, Sometimes You Have to Eliminate Choices</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/02/eliminating-choice-to-create-c</link>
<description>On a recent ski weekend in upstate New York, I got a lesson in leadership by watching a chairlift fill up with skiers. Not just any chairlift. The F-lift. There was a time, only a few years ago, when everyone happily used the F-lift. It was the one lift that went from the base of […]</description>
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<title>Getting a New Boss? Interview Again for Your Job</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/12/getting-a-new-boss-interview-a</link>
<description>It’s been a recurring phenomenon since the beginning of the recession — senior management churn. One of my clients reported to four CEOs in just eighteen months, another to three senior managers in nine months, and another to five directors in three years. What’s to blame? Mergers and acquisitions? Changes in strategic direction? Whatever the […]</description>
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<title>Look Beyond Your “Social Media Presence”</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/01/look-beyond-a-socia-media-presence</link>
<description>Seventy percent of the extra profit to be made through social technologies has nothing to do with marketing.</description>
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<title>What the Companies on the Right Side of the Digital Business Divide Have in Common</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/01/what-the-companies-on-the-right-side-of-the-digital-business-divide-have-in-common</link>
<description>A study of 344 firms.</description>
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<title>Performance Appraisal: Managers Beware</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1970/01/performance-appraisal-managers-beware</link>
<description>In their performance evaluation and feedback systems, many technology-based companies are learning that a big gap exists between good intentions and desired results. Too often, what management perceives as fair and optimal for both its supervisors and its engineers leads to widespread discouragement, cynicism, and alienation. The fallacy is that management attempts to devise one […]</description>
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<title>Why So Many Leadership Programs Ultimately Fail</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/07/why-so-many-leadership-program</link>
<description>You can’t just learn about communication. You have to do it.</description>
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<title>How to Evaluate, Manage, and Strengthen Your Resilience</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/how-to-evaluate-manage-and-strengthen-your-resilience</link>
<description>Use a balance sheet.</description>
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<title>Conditions for Manager Motivation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1966/01/conditions-for-manager-motivation</link>
<description>Here are specific findings from an intensive real-life study, covering not only the human elements but also formalized management systems.</description>
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<title>Customizing Global Marketing</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1986/05/customizing-global-marketing</link>
<description>In the best of all possible worlds, marketers would only have to come up with a great product and a convincing marketing program and they would have a worldwide winner. But despite the obvious economies and efficiencies they could gain with a standard product and program, many managers fear that global marketing, as popularly defined, […]</description>
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<title>Cultivating Ex-Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/06/cultivating-ex-employees</link>
<description>Maintaining ties to your company’s alumni can yield intelligence, new business, and superior recruiting.</description>
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<title>How Ad Agencies Can Make the Shift to Open Innovation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/03/how-ad-agencies-can-make-the-s.html</link>
<description>It’s a critical move for the future of the creative sector.</description>
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<title>The Globe: How BMW Is Defusing the Demographic Time Bomb</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/03/the-globe-how-bmw-is-defusing-the-demographic-time-bomb</link>
<description>The German car company has redesigned its factory for—and with—older workers.</description>
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<title>What Circuit City Learned About Valuing Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/10/what-circuit-city-learned-abou</link>
<description>A lasting lesson on how to get the best out of your workforce.</description>
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<title>Implementing a Stakeholder Strategy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/07/implementing-a-stakeholder-str</link>
<description>In the last couple of years, a number of HBR commentators, such as Jeffrey Pfeffer, Nathan Washburn and Dominic Barton, have made the case for greater weight to be given to the interests of non-shareholder stakeholders — employees, suppliers, customers, partners, society — in strategy development. Reinforcing these arguments is research showing that long term […]</description>
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<title>Choose Your Boss Wisely</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/04/choose-your-boss-wisely</link>
<description>Most job-seekers aren’t just looking for the right work — they’re looking for the right manager, too. To a large extent a manager will control your assignments and your work environment, so it makes sense to try to learn more about her long before you’re hired. But in an hour-long interview with a hiring manager, […]</description>
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<title>Help Employees Innovate By Giving Them the Right Challenge</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/help-employees-innovate-by-giving-them-the-right-challenge</link>
<description>Don’t set the bar too low — or too high.</description>
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<title>How to Respond to Negativity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/09/how-to-respond-to-negativity.html</link>
<description>“I’m getting to the end of my patience,” Dan,* the head of sales for a financial services firm, told me. “There is so much opportunity here — the business is growing, the work is interesting, and bonuses should be pretty good this year — but all I hear is complaining.” When he passed his employees […]</description>
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<title>How to Help Your Team Bounce Back from Failure</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/how-to-help-your-team-bounce-back-from-failure</link>
<description>Be clear about what went wrong.</description>
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<title>The CEO Hits the Road (and Other Sales Tales)</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1990/03/the-ceo-hits-the-road-and-other-sales-tales</link>
<description>My first real job was junior salesman for the Quality Park Envelope Company. When it came to training salespeople, Quality Park believed in the basics. They gave you a desk, a phone, and the key to success, a 500-page sales manual. The sales manual was short on instructional materials but long on leads. It was […]</description>
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<title>Recognizing the Role of Emotional Labor in the On-Demand Economy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/08/recognizing-the-role-of-emotional-labor-in-the-on-demand-economy</link>
<description>When everything has to be rated five stars, it takes a toll.</description>
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<title>How P&amp;G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/06/how-pg-tripled-its-innovation-success-rate</link>
<description>Inside the company’s new-growth factory</description>
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<title>Overcoming the Toughest Common Coaching Challenges</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/overcoming-the-toughest-common-coaching-challenges</link>
<description>Dealing with defensiveness, insecurity, and distrust.</description>
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<title>Management in the 1980’s</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1958/11/management-in-the-1980s</link>
<description>Over the last decade a new technology has begun to take hold in American business, one so new that its significance is still difficult to evaluate. While many aspects of this technology are uncertain, it seems clear that it will move into the managerial scene rapidly, with definite and far-reaching impact on managerial organization. In […]</description>
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<title>Managing Without Managers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1989/09/managing-without-managers</link>
<description>In Brazil, where paternalism and the family business fiefdom still flourish, I am president of a manufacturing company that treats its 800 employees like responsible adults. Most of them—including factory workers—set their own working hours. All have access to the company books. The vast majority vote on many important corporate decisions. Everyone gets paid by […]</description>
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<title>What Giving Gets You at the Office</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/07/what-giving-gets-you-at-the-of</link>
<description>The greatest metric for predicting job satisfaction and engagement is the social support perceived by the employee. And job satisfaction and engagement directly correlate with productivity. So the best and fastest way to more connected and therefore more productive is to receive more social support from others at work, right? Not so fast. Some of […]</description>
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<title>Why Japanese Factories Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1981/07/why-japanese-factories-work</link>
<description>Twenty years ago, most Americans pictured the Japanese factory as a sweatshop, teeming with legions of low-paid, low-skilled workers trying to imitate by hand, with great effort and infrequent success, what skilled American and European workers were doing with sophisticated equipment and procedures. Today, shocked and awed by the worldwide success of Japanese products, Americans […]</description>
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<title>Developing Products on Internet Time</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1997/09/developing-products-on-internet-time</link>
<description>In today’s turbulent business environments, more and more companies need a development process that embraces change—not one that resists it.</description>
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<title>Three Ways to Fish in the Global Talent Pool</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/12/tips-for-grabbing-for-great-gl</link>
<description>The world is your talent pool. We’ve been hearing that message ever since corporations started chattering about globalization. The real issue is, how well do you fish in that pool? The difference between strategically fishing and merely flailing the waters of an increasingly diverse talent pool was the top issue at the recent Hidden Brain […]</description>
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<title>Coach for Executive Presence - HBR Video</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/video/2235499274001/coach-for-executive-presence</link>
<description>Amy Jen Su, coauthor of Own the Room, offers five practical ways to cultivate your employees&#8216; leadership presence. </description>
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<title>Attacking the Sleep Conspiracy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2013/07/attacking-the-sleep-conspiracy.html</link>
<description>Russell Sanna, executive director of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School.</description>
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<title>To Reduce E-mail, Start at the Top</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/09/to-reduce-e-mail-start-at-the-top</link>
<description>The main reason our e-mail in-boxes consume so much of our time is that we have little control over how many messages we receive. But we can control how many messages we send. That seemingly obvious insight sparked a significant reduction in one company’s e-mail traffic: After the executives reduced their output, other workers followed […]</description>
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<title>Learn to Become a Less Autocratic Manager</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/learn-to-become-a-less-autocratic-manager</link>
<description>Your top talent will thank you.</description>
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<title>Moving Mountains</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/01/moving-mountains</link>
<description>How do you inspire ordinary people to do extraordinary things? A dozen leaders describe tough motivational challenges they’ve faced.</description>
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<title>Why Entrepreneurs Don’t Scale</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/12/why-entrepreneurs-dont-scale</link>
<description>The qualities that serve them well in launching businesses often bring them down as their companies grow.</description>
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<title>Increase Workplace Flexibility and Boost Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/03/increase-workplace-flexibility-and-boost-performance</link>
<description>Advice for getting started.</description>
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<title>Are Your Goals Impossible and Counterproductive?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/01/are-your-goals-impossible-and</link>
<description>Competency frameworks have become de rigueur in medium and large organizations. Those that don’t have them want them. Those that do spend millions trying to get their leaders to live up to them. But do competency frameworks make sense and are they achieving their purpose? At a time of year when organizations and leaders are […]</description>
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<title>Making Performance Reviews Less Stressful—for Everyone</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/making-performance-reviews-les-1</link>
<description>by Beverly Ballaro</description>
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<title>In Praise of Hierarchy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1990/01/in-praise-of-hierarchy</link>
<description>At first glance, hierarchy may seem difficult to praise. Bureaucracy is a dirty word even among bureaucrats, and in business there is a widespread view that managerial hierarchy kills initiative, crushes creativity, and has therefore seen its day. Yet 35 years of research have convinced me that managerial hierarchy is the most efficient, the hardiest, […]</description>
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<title>How Bayer Developed a Cross-Cultural Senior Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/how-bayer-increased-diversity-on-its-senior-team</link>
<description>The company prioritized hiring more women and a broader mix of nationalities.</description>
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<title>I’m the Boss! Why Should I Care If You Like Me?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/05/im-the-boss-why-should-i-care</link>
<description>Bad news for mean bosses.</description>
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<title>Learning in the Thick of It</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/07/learning-in-the-thick-of-it</link>
<description>After-action reviews identify past mistakes but rarely enhance future performance. Companies wanting to fully exploit this tool should look to its master: the U.S. Army’s standing enemy brigade, where soldiers learn and improve even in the midst of battle.</description>
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<title>How Google Manages Talent</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2014/09/how-google-manages-talent.html</link>
<description>Eric Schmidt, executive chairman, and Jonathan Rosenberg, former SVP of products, explain how the company manages their smart, creative team.</description>
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<title>Can Your Employees Really Speak Freely?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/can-your-employees-really-speak-freely</link>
<description>Despite their best intentions, managers tend to shut people down.</description>
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<title>Sports Sponsorship to Rally the Home Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/09/sports-sponsorship-to-rally-the-home-team</link>
<description>Companies often sponsor sports teams and events to promote their brands to the public. Increasingly, however, sponsorships are being used strategically inside companies to motivate employees or facilitate a major structural change, such as a merger. This surprising finding emerged as part of a larger study—done in collaboration with our colleague Pascale Quester, of the […]</description>
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<title>How Local Companies Keep Multinationals at Bay</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/03/how-local-companies-keep-multinationals-at-bay</link>
<description>To win in the world’s fastest-growing markets, transnational giants have to compete with increasingly sophisticated homegrown champions. It isn’t easy.</description>
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<title>Analysis Group’s CEO on Managing with Soft Metrics</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/11/analysis-groups-ceo-on-managing-with-soft-metrics</link>
<description>Instead of pay formulas, Samuelson depends on extensive discussion and what seems fair.</description>
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<title>Engaging Your Employees Is Good, but Don’t Stop There</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/12/engaging-your-employees-is-good-but-dont-stop-there</link>
<description>There’s a big difference between satisfied, engaged, and inspired.</description>
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<title>How to Give Negative Feedback When Your Organization Is “Nice”</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/03/how-to-give-negative-feedback-when-your-organization-is-nice</link>
<description>You still have to do it.</description>
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<title>Shifting from Star Performer to Star Manager</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/10/shifting-from-star-performer-to-star-manager</link>
<description>First, you have to do a little self-evaluation.</description>
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<title>The Focused Leader</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/the-focused-leader</link>
<description>How effective executives direct their own—and their organizations’—attention</description>
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<title>The Social Side of Auto-Analytics</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/09/the-social-side-of-auto-analytics.html</link>
<description>Measuring your performance doesn’t have to be a solo pursuit.</description>
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<title>Understanding When to Give Feedback</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/understanding-when-to-give-feedback</link>
<description>Some situations may not warrant a response.</description>
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<title>Want Collaboration?: Accept—and Actively Manage—Conflict</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/03/want-collaboration-accept-and-actively-manage-conflict</link>
<description>The quest for harmony and common goals can actually obstruct teamwork. Managers get truly effective collaboration only when they realize that conflict is natural and necessary.</description>
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<title>The Cost of Myopic Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/07/the-cost-of-myopic-management-2</link>
<description>Under pressure to hit immediate performance targets, many managers inflate earnings, often by cutting expenditures. In a recent survey of 401 top financial executives, 80% said they would decrease spending on “discretionary” activities like marketing and R&amp;D to meet short-term goals.1 But how discretionary can such spending be, given that cutbacks in these areas can […]</description>
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<title>Doing the Right Thing and Self-Interest</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/10/doing-the-right-thing-and-self</link>
<description>This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO’s Role in Fixing the System. CEOs must take two essential steps to fix the corporate system. They must first select the proper governing objective for their company and then gain the commitment of employees to serve that objective. In other words, the organization […]</description>
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<title>Who Strikes—and Why?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1983/11/who-strikes-and-why</link>
<description>When defense production swelled the economy in the middle 1960s, the nation experienced a rash of strikes. In the period 1967–1971 strikes averaged 5,240 per year. The number of strikes has dropped considerably since then to only 2,400 in 1982. But in the next five years the United States will spend some $1.6 trillion on […]</description>
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<title>When a Colleague’s Mistakes Affect You</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/10/when-a-colleagues-mistakes-aff</link>
<description>In an attempt to function in this increasingly complex world, organizations are becoming increasingly complex themselves. They are built on collaborative partnerships, dotted lines and matrixes, all of which mean more and more of your work depends on the work of someone else. When a colleague is making mistakes, this interconnectedness can feel like a […]</description>
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<title>What a Minor League Moneyball Reveals About Predictive Analytics</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/what-a-minor-league-moneyball-reveals-about-predictive-analytics</link>
<description>A lesson in real-world data-driven decision making.</description>
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<title>Compliance Alone Won’t Make Your Company Safe</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/compliance-alone-wont-make-your-company-safe</link>
<description>Policing employees just drives bad behavior underground.</description>
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<title>Stop Work Overload By Setting These Boundaries</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/05/stop-work-overload-by-setting</link>
<description>Reclaim your life with effective time investment.</description>
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<title>Power and Politics in Organizational Life</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1970/05/power-and-politics-in-organizational-life</link>
<description>There are few business activities more prone to a credibility gap than the way in which executives approach organizational life. A sense of disbelief occurs when managers purport to make decisions in rationalistic terms while most observers and participants know that personalities and politics play a significant if not an overriding role. Where does the […]</description>
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<title>The Right Way to Hold People Accountable</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/the-right-way-to-hold-people-accountable</link>
<description>You need to be clear in five areas.</description>
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<title>Bonuses in Bad Times</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/07/bonuses-in-bad-times</link>
<description>In a recession, how should a supermarket chain acknowledge its employees’ extra effort?</description>
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<title>How to Manage Your Team’s Vacation Requests</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/how-to-manage-your-teams-vacation-requests</link>
<description>Be fair and don’t panic.</description>
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<title>The Hard Side of Change Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/10/the-hard-side-of-change-management</link>
<description>Companies must pay as much attention to the hard side of change management as they do to the soft aspects. By rigorously focusing on four critical elements, they can stack the odds in favor of success.</description>
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<title>Fixing Japan’s White-Collar Economy: A Personal View</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1993/11/fixing-japans-white-collar-economy-a-personal-view</link>
<description>Japan built its famed economic powerhouse on blue-collar productivity. Now the overlooked white-collar sector looms as a growing threat to its global competitiveness.</description>
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<title>A Case of AIDS</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1991/11/a-case-of-aids</link>
<description>I. The Hiring Decision, 11-1-89 Greg van de Water leafed through the applications one more time. After weeks of interviewing, he had narrowed the field to two young men, both of them internal candidates seeking promotion to Greg’s sales and customer service team. Hiring, he believed, was the most important decision he made as team […]</description>
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<title>Pregnant Workers Have Rights, No Matter What the Supreme Court Says About UPS</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/pregnant-workers-have-rights-no-matter-what-the-supreme-court-says-about-ups</link>
<description>Accommodations are always cheaper than lawsuits.</description>
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<title>Every Company Needs a Growth Manager</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/every-company-needs-a-growth-manager</link>
<description>What the role is, and what makes someone qualified for it.</description>
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<title>The Upside of Downtime</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/12/the-upside-of-downtime</link>
<description>Print this out and leave it anonymously on your boss’s chair.</description>
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<title>The Fatal Flaw with 360 Surveys</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/10/the-fatal-flaw-with-360-survey</link>
<description>I should love 360 degree surveys. I really should. After all, my research, and that of many others, reveals that the best managers and leaders are aware of their strengths and weaknesses, and have taken steps to capitalize on the former and neutralize the latter. And the ubiquitous 360 degree survey — our reality check […]</description>
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<title>A Better Way to Set Strategic Priorities</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/02/a-better-way-to-set-strategic-priorities</link>
<description>It doesn’t involve rank ordering them.</description>
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<title>5 Mistakes Employees Make When Challenging the Status Quo</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/11/5-mistakes-employees-make-when-challenging-the-status-quo</link>
<description>Advice for work rebels.</description>
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<title>Turning Your Complex Career Path into a Coherent Story</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/turning-your-complex-career-path-into-a-coherent-story</link>
<description>Connect the dots for hiring managers.</description>
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<title>The Case of the Complaining Customer</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1990/05/the-case-of-the-complaining-customer</link>
<description>In an effort to improve service, Presto Cleaner installed a new computer system, designed to cut the customers’ waiting time and simplify the drop-off and pickup processes. But the system was only a few months old when Mr. J.W. Sewickley, the company president, received an angry letter from Mr. George Shelton, whose laundry had been […]</description>
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<title>Stand Out in Your Interview</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/09/stand-out-in-your-interview</link>
<description>How to ace your first meeting with a potential employer.</description>
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<title>Managing by Commitments</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/06/managing-by-commitments</link>
<description>The actions you take today can pave the way to success tomorrow. Or they can lock you into a doomed business model. The best managers know when to make commitments—and when to break them.</description>
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<title>What Everyone Should Know About Managing Up</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/what-everyone-should-know-about-managing-up</link>
<description>Different strategies for different bosses.</description>
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<title>Why a Quarter of Americans Don’t Trust Their Employers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/04/why-a-quarter-of-americans-dont-trust-their-employers</link>
<description>They don’t feel involved in or recognized by their company.</description>
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<title>Why We Love to Hate HR…and What HR Can Do About It</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/07/why-we-love-to-hate-hr-and-what-hr-can-do-about-it</link>
<description>Five smart moves that will help.</description>
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<title>How Great Managers Manage People</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/how-great-managers-manage-peop-1</link>
<description>by Paul Michelman</description>
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<title>Develop Deep Knowledge in Your Organization — and Keep It</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/develop-deep-knowledge-in-your-organization-and-keep-it</link>
<description>How one architecture and engineering firm does it.</description>
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<title>Defend Your Research: The Mere Thought of Money Makes You Feel Less Pain</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/03/defend-your-research-the-mere-thought-of-money-makes-you-feel-less-pain</link>
<description>The finding: Cash gives people an inner strength and can reduce their physical and emotional pain. In fact, simply the idea of cash has this effect. The study: Kathleen Vohs asked some subjects to count cash and others to count slips of paper. Afterward, she asked the subjects to dip their hands in extremely hot […]</description>
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<title>How Learning and Development Are Becoming More Agile</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/how-learning-and-development-are-becoming-more-agile</link>
<description>As the workforce evolves, so must training programs.</description>
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<title>Teamwork for Today’s Selling</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1989/03/teamwork-for-todays-selling</link>
<description>Getting Things Done Listen to this account manager, responsible for building sales and a close relationship with a key customer, describe a recent conversation with a colleague: “I called our district manager in Phoenix and explained that I was preparing an important proposal for this big account, and would he please help with the part […]</description>
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<title>The Secret Ingredient in GE’s Talent-Review System</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/04/the-secret-ingredient-in-ges-talent-review-system</link>
<description>A lot of time.</description>
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<title>How to Crack the Self-Awareness Paradigm</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/12/cracking-the-self-awareness-pa</link>
<description>To bring people together around a common cause, it is critical that a leader be self aware. Jeff Immelt’s recent comments to the cadets at West Point reminded me of this fact. Immelt, CEO of General Electric, said he he’s learned lessons from the Great Recession that have made him “humbler and hungrier… I needed […]</description>
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<title>How to Build Confidence</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/04/how-to-build-confidence</link>
<description>Very few people succeed in business without a degree of confidence. Yet everyone, from young people in their first real jobs to seasoned leaders in the upper ranks of organizations, have moments — or days, months, or even years — when they are unsure of their ability to tackle challenges. No one is immune to […]</description>
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<title>Leadership in Your Midst: Tapping the Hidden Strengths of Minority Executives</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/11/leadership-in-your-midst-tapping-the-hidden-strengths-of-minority-executives</link>
<description>Minority professionals often hold leadership roles outside work, serving as pillars of their communities and churches and doing more than their share of mentoring. It’s time their employers took notice of these invisible lives and saw them as sources of strength.</description>
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<title>The Über-Connected Organization: A Mandate for 2010</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/11/the-uberconnected-organization</link>
<description>Think about your organization and ask yourself these two questions: Are external social media sites restricted or blocked while at work? Is the use of social media in the workplace inhibited or frowned upon? If you answered yes, then your organization is one of the majority of firms with over 100 employees that have yet […]</description>
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<title>Nonverbal Cues Get Employees to Open Up—or Shut Down</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/12/nonverbal-cues-get-employees-to-open-upor-shut-down-2</link>
<description>Signal “I’m really listening,” not “I’m the boss.”</description>
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<title>“Retail Is War Without Blood”: What Foot Locker’s CEO Learned in the Army</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/11/retail-is-war-without-blood-wh.html</link>
<description>This post is part of an HBR Spotlight examining leadership lessons from the military. Ken Hicks, the CEO of Foot Locker, formerly the president and chief merchandising officer of J.C. Penney’s, graduated from the United States Military Academy and spent six years in the army just after the Vietnam War. HBR talked to Ken about […]</description>
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<title>Be a Better Leader: Add 300 Meetings to Your Calendar</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/10/be-a-better-leader-add-300-mee</link>
<description>One of the joys of teaching in a leadership development program is that we instructors learn from our participants. This was brought home to me last week when I was teaching at Banff Centre (www.banffcentre.ca) in Alberta, Canada. Aside from the stunning location and the pleasant fact that Alberta’s economy is going up rather than […]</description>
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<title>Like It or Not, “Smart Drugs” Are Coming to the Office</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/like-it-or-not-smart-drugs-are-coming-to-the-office</link>
<description>The hard questions about performance enhancement.</description>
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<title>Transform Your Employees into Passionate Advocates</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/01/transform-your-employees-into</link>
<description>Employee happiness is becoming a hot topic among CEOs and in boardrooms, and it’s about time. The current issue of Harvard Business Review, which includes a series of articles focused on employee happiness, is just one more sign of the growing recognition that happy, engaged employees are more productive and generate better outcomes for their […]</description>
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<title>Why Parents Make Great Managers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/11/why-parents-make-great-manager.html</link>
<description>A few days ago I was running in Central Park as fast as I could, pushing myself hard, trying to beat my previous best time. About halfway around the park I passed a mother walking with her two-year-old daughter. They were holding hands and she was moving at the pace of her child, about one […]</description>
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<title>The Right Way to Manage Unprofitable Customers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/04/the-right-way-to-manage-unprofitable-customers</link>
<description>Don’t just dump customers that cost you money. Use this framework to decide how best to fix or end the relationships.</description>
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<title>CEOs Need to Get Serious About Sales</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/07/ceos-need-to-get-serious-about</link>
<description>With many companies trying to shake off the drag of a global recession, CEOs are eager to find growth. One place they need to look is in their own sales organizations. In writing the book Sales Growth, we’ve found that CEOs who put sales management at the heart of their agenda have captured astonishing growth […]</description>
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<title>Look to Consumers to Increase Productivity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1979/05/look-to-consumers-to-increase-productivity</link>
<description>When productivity is a problem in manufacturing, managers turn to the R&amp;D department or operations for help. In services, however, especially ones where there is a lot of contact with the customer, such in-house groups cannot by themselves improve productivity. Because services involve the customer in production, are labor intensive, and are time-bound, consumer behavior […]</description>
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<title>Match Your Motivational Tactic to the Situation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/match-your-motivational-tactic-to-the-situation</link>
<description>Using the wrong one can backfire.</description>
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<title>Should Your Coworkers Know How Much You Make?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/04/should-i-know-how-much-you-mak</link>
<description>Perhaps so. Let me ask you to suspend what I suspect may be an instant “no” for a moment, and consider three questions: Would greater transparency of compensation be advantageous to your firm — on the defensive side by minimizing legal exposure and, on the offensive, by increasing employee commitment? How about going a step […]</description>
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<title>Case Study: Can a Work-at-Home Policy Hurt Morale?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/case-study-can-a-work-at-home-policy-hurt-morale</link>
<description>A manager must decide whether an experimental program is growing too fast.</description>
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<title>Is Your Smartphone Making You Less Productive?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/04/is-your-smartphone-making-you</link>
<description>Mobile devices have exacerbated an always-on work culture where employees work anytime, anywhere. They’ve contributed to the blurred distinction between when you’re “on the clock” and when you’re not. Service industry professionals are especially tethered to these devices. There’s an assumption that using smart devices boosts productivity, since they allow us to work constantly. But, […]</description>
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<title>How Managers Can Make Group Projects More Efficient</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/01/how-managers-can-make-group-projects-more-efficient</link>
<description>Don’t collaborate for the sake of collaboration.</description>
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<title>The Time-Consuming Activities That Stall Women’s Careers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/03/the-time-consuming-activities-that-stall-womens-careers</link>
<description>Don’t let collaboration sabotage you.</description>
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<title>What It Takes to Be a Superboss - HBR Video</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/video/4767335516001/what-it-takes-to-be-a-superboss</link>
<description>Sydney Finkelstein, professor at Dartmouth&amp;rsquo;s Tuck School of Business, outlines the characteristics of exceptional leaders.</description>
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<title>Nine Practices to Help You Say No</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/02/nine-practices-to-help-you-say.html</link>
<description>To say yes to the right things, you have to learn to say an effective no.</description>
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<title>How to Use Stretch Assignments to Support Social Good</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/11/how-to-use-stretch-assignments-to-support-social-good</link>
<description>Advance your career and give back at the same time.</description>
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<title>The Greening of Petrobras</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/03/the-greening-of-petrobras</link>
<description>Eight years ago, energy giant Petrobras was best known for its appalling environmental record. Today, Brazil’s biggest company is a champion for sustainable business at home.</description>
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<title>Understanding Customer Experience</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/02/understanding-customer-experience</link>
<description>Companies that systematically monitor customer experience can take important steps to improve it—and their bottom line.</description>
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<title>The Condensed January-February 2015 Issue</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2014/12/the-condensed-january-february-2015-issue.html</link>
<description>Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.</description>
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<title>Why People Follow the Leader: The Power of Transference</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/09/why-people-follow-the-leader-the-power-of-transference</link>
<description>You can’t lead without followers. But getting them requires more than your talent and charisma. Followers are driven by their own powerful motivations.</description>
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<title>Why Incentive Plans Cannot Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1993/09/why-incentive-plans-cannot-work</link>
<description>When reward systems fail, don’t blame the program—look at the premise behind it.</description>
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<title>The Potential of Remote Health Monitoring at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/12/the-potential-of-remote-health</link>
<description>One spring morning a few years back, I went from being a healthy middle-aged guy to a healthy middle-aged guy with type 2 diabetes in the blink of a blood test. The news came out of the blue — I’m thin, active, eat a pretty decent diet, don’t smoke, and there’s no diabetes in my […]</description>
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<title>Driving Projects into the End Zone</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/09/driving-projects-into-the-end</link>
<description>You were fired up at the start — you pushed yourself and the team hard to get over the 50-yard line…you kept the momentum going over the 30 yard line…and as you finally approached the 20-yard line, you felt for the first time the end zone was clearly in sight. Great time to pause? Take […]</description>
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<title>The Third Wave of Virtual Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/01/the-third-wave-of-virtual-work</link>
<description>Knowledge workers are now untethered, able to perform tasks anywhere at any time. What do the best of them want from your organization?</description>
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<title>Seven Surprises for New CEOs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/10/seven-surprises-for-new-ceos</link>
<description>Even the best-prepared new chief executives can be blindsided by the realities—and limitations—of the job.</description>
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<title>We All Need Friends at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/07/we-all-need-friends-at-work</link>
<description>Promoting camaraderie does great things for engagement.</description>
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<title>End the Religion of ROE</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/10/can-we-end-the-religion-of-roe.html</link>
<description>There is no more powerful question in a U.S. corporation than “what’s the ROE on that?” Social media spending? Wellness checkups? Better working conditions? Return-on-equity hurdles threaten them all. Conversely, why market cigarettes? ROE justifies the means. We think there’s more to business success — and that something as straightforward as a simple equation could […]</description>
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<title>Almost Ready: How Leaders Move Up</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/01/almost-ready-how-leaders-move-up</link>
<description>At the very top of a company, a subtle sorting process reveals who might become CEO and who won’t. The irony is, what makes you a contender isn’t enough to make you a winner.</description>
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<title>The Risky Business of Hiring Stars</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/05/the-risky-business-of-hiring-stars</link>
<description>Odds are, the superstars you eagerly and expensively recruit will shine much less brightly for you than for their previous employers. Research shows why—and why you’re usually better off growing stars than buying them.</description>
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<title>Which Initiatives Should You Implement?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/02/which-initiatives-should-you-i.html</link>
<description>Financial and human resources are never unlimited, but they are scarcer and more precious now than at any time in a generation. Deciding where to allocate them is thus more challenging — and more risky, because a wrong decision can mortally wound an organization. Yet managers must make resource-allocation decisions — and quickly — to […]</description>
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<title>Getting the Attention You Need</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2000/09/getting-the-attention-you-need</link>
<description>It’s tougher than ever to keep employees focused on your company’s overarching goals. Help comes from a surprising source—the World Wide Web, where attention management is flourishing.</description>
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<title>Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/01/leading-change-why-transformation-efforts-fail</link>
<description>Leaders who successfully transform businesses do eight things right (and they do them in the right order).</description>
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<title>Conflicts That Plague Family Businesses</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1971/03/conflicts-that-plague-family-businesses</link>
<description>The job of operating a family-owned company is often grievously complicated by friction arising from rivalries involving a father and his son, brothers, or other family members who hold positions in the business, or at least derive income from it. Unless the principals face up to their feelings of hostility, the author says, the business […]</description>
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<title>The Condensed March 2015 Issue</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2015/02/the-condensed-march-2015-issue.html</link>
<description>Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.</description>
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<title>The Wild West of Executive Coaching</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/11/the-wild-west-of-executive-coaching</link>
<description>It’s not just individuals who benefit from one-on-one coaching—their employers can gain immensely, too. But in an industry without universally accepted standards, all the parties need to be clear about their goals and how to reach them.</description>
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<title>Using Design Thinking to Embed Learning in Our Jobs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/07/using-design-thinking-to-embed-learning-in-our-jobs</link>
<description>The focus should be on employee experience.</description>
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<title>Why Inspiration Matters</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/11/why-inspiration-matters</link>
<description>“When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.” — Rudyard Kipling In a culture obsessed with measuring talent and ability, we often overlook the important role of inspiration. Inspiration awakens us to new possibilities by allowing us to transcend our ordinary experiences and limitations. Inspiration propels a […]</description>
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<title>Feedback That Works</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/04/feedback-that-works</link>
<description>Fundamentally, feedback is a good thing. For managers, it’s an important tool for shaping behaviors and fostering learning that will drive better performance. For their direct reports, it’s an opportunity for development and career growth. Why, then, is it so problematic? Most managers say they dislike giving feedback and don’t think it’s as effective as […]</description>
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<title>Should Your Boss Encourage You to Take Drugs?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/06/should-your-boss-encourage-you</link>
<description>A top executive I know recently decided to take Inderal before making high-pressure/high-anxiety presentations. The impact was immediate. She felt more relaxed, confident and effective. Her people agreed. Would she encourage a comparably anxious subordinate to take the drug? No. But if that employee’s anxiety really undermined his or her effectiveness, she’d share her story […]</description>
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<title>If You Want to Motivate Employees, Stop Trusting Your Instincts</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/02/if-you-want-to-motivate-employees-stop-trusting-your-instincts</link>
<description>Adopt a data-driven approach.</description>
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<title>Talent Management for the Twenty-First Century</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/03/talent-management-for-the-twenty-first-century</link>
<description>Every talent management process in use today was developed half a century ago. It’s time for a new model.</description>
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<title>The New Science of Building Great Teams</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/04/the-new-science-of-building-great-teams</link>
<description>The chemistry of high-performing groups is no longer a mystery.</description>
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<title>Six Myths of Product Development</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/05/six-myths-of-product-development</link>
<description>The fallacies that cause delays, undermine quality, and raise costs</description>
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<title>Fast-Cycle Capability for Competitive Power</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1988/11/fast-cycle-capability-for-competitive-power</link>
<description>All managers appreciate, at least intuitively, that time is money, and most will invest to save time—and the money it represents—if they see a clear opportunity. The travel agent computerizes to be able to confirm customers’ reservations instantly. The apparel manufacturer develops a just-in-time production process to make what’s wanted and avoid the inevitable discounts […]</description>
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<title>Why Do Companies Succumb to Price Fixing?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1978/07/why-do-companies-succumb-to-price-fixing</link>
<description>When Ben Franklin wrote Poor Richard’s Almanac and the words, “A little neglect may breed great mischief,” he did not have price fixing in mind. To the 47 executives in companies in the folding-box industry convicted of price fixing, however, the words seem tailored to fit. In those companies convicted under antitrust laws in 1976, […]</description>
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<title>In Sales, Can You Manage What You’re Measuring?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/in-sales-can-you-manage-what-youre-measuring</link>
<description>Probably not: Research shows that 83% of the numbers on your sales dashboard are completely unmanageable.</description>
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<title>Profits Without Prosperity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/09/profits-without-prosperity</link>
<description>Stock buybacks manipulate the market and leave most Americans worse off.</description>
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<title>What Every Leader Needs to Know About Followers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/12/what-every-leader-needs-to-know-about-followers</link>
<description>The distinctions among followers are every bit as consequential as those among leaders—and have critical implications for how managers should manage.</description>
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<title>Communities of Practice: The Organizational Frontier</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2000/01/communities-of-practice-the-organizational-frontier</link>
<description>Not so long ago, companies were reinvented by teams. Communities of practice may reinvent them yet again—if managers learn to cultivate these fertile organizational forms without destroying them.</description>
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<title>Proof That Good Managers Really Do Make a Difference</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/04/proof-that-good-managers-really-do-make-a-difference</link>
<description>To firms, industries, and even economies.</description>
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<title>Design Thinking at Edmunds.com</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/08/design-thinking-at-edmundscom</link>
<description>An interview with CEO Avi Steinlauf</description>
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<title>What Your Leader Expects of You</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/04/what-your-leader-expects-of-you</link>
<description>And what you should expect in return.</description>
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<title>Making a Life or Making a Living?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/07/making-a-life-or-making-a-livi</link>
<description>Why am I doing this job? Why am I working for this company? How did I end up here? What’s it all about? Is there something else I should be doing with my life? Challenging questions, which most of us ask at some point during our lives. They may be prompted by personal “earthquakes” (e.g., […]</description>
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<title>If Employees Don’t Trust You, It’s Up to You to Fix It</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/01/if-employees-dont-trust-you-its-up-to-you-to-fix-it</link>
<description>Four ways to get started.</description>
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<title>Letting Good People Go When It’s Time</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/10/letting-good-people-go-when-its-time</link>
<description>Be respectful and compassionate.</description>
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<title>How to Deal With Resistance to Change</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1969/01/how-to-deal-with-resistance-to-change</link>
<description>One of the most baffling and recalcitrant of the problems which business executives face is employee resistance to change. Such resistance may take a number of forms—persistent reduction in output, increase in the number of “quits” and requests for transfer, chronic quarrels, sullen hostility, wildcat or slowdown strikes, and, of course, the expression of a […]</description>
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<title>When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Do Maintenance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/10/when-the-going-gets-tough-the.html</link>
<description>Employee morale falters when the workplace shows signs of disrepair.</description>
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<title>Why You Shouldn’t Label People “Low Performers”</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/why-you-shouldnt-label-people-low-performers</link>
<description>It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.</description>
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<title>Why Employees Stay</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1973/07/why-employees-stay</link>
<description>Many companies spend a great amount of time money investigating the causes of employee turnover—for example, through programs of exit interviews. Usually the intent behind such studies is to find out why people leave—the idea being that if a company can identify the reasons for terminations, it can work to hold terminations, and turnover, down. […]</description>
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<title>Time Management Training Doesn’t Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/time-management-training-doesnt-work</link>
<description>Today’s technologies call for different skills.</description>
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<title>How Can Big Companies Keep the Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1995/11/how-can-big-companies-keep-the-entrepreneurial-spirit-alive</link>
<description>By supporting innovative employees and encouraging their agility.</description>
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<title>The Five Minds of a Manager</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/11/the-five-minds-of-a-manager</link>
<description>The world of the manager is complicated and confusing. Making sense of it requires not a knack for simplification but the ability to synthesize insights from different mind-sets into a comprehensible whole.</description>
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<title>The Innovation Catalysts</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/06/the-innovation-catalysts</link>
<description>The best creative thinking happens on a company’s front lines. You just need to encourage it.</description>
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<title>Off-Sites That Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/06/off-sites-that-work</link>
<description>The top team’s annual strategic off-site differs from all other meetings in its potential impact on the company. That’s why it should be designed and managed differently.</description>
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<title>Developing Employees Who Think for Themselves</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/developing-employees-who-think-for-themselves</link>
<description>Work today demands more autonomy.</description>
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<title>How to Manage a Perfectionist</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/10/how-to-manage-a-perfectionist.html</link>
<description>Do you have a perfectionist on your team? The good news is that your direct report has high standards and a fine attention for detail. The bad news is that he fixates on every facet of a project and can’t set priorities. Can you harness these positive qualities without indulging the bad? Can you help […]</description>
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<title>How To Keep Your Team Loose</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/09/how-to-keep-your-team-loose</link>
<description>During his wrap-up comments after the University of Southern California football team beat Ohio State University in Columbus, Brent Musberger, ABC/ESPN’s long-time announcer, said that he believed that one of USC head coach Pete Carroll’s greatest attributes was his ability to keep his team loose. Managers can learn something from Carroll’s loosey-goosey sideline demeanor. He […]</description>
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<title>Five Resolutions for Aspiring Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/12/five-resolutions-for-aspiring</link>
<description>As the New Year approaches, people will be making resolutions to eat better, exercise more, get that promotion at work, or spend more time with their families. While these are worthwhile goals, we have a more important challenge for young people: Think seriously about your development as a leader. These are tough times. Many leaders […]</description>
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<title>Learning Charisma</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/06/learning-charisma-2</link>
<description>Transform yourself into the person others want to follow.</description>
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<title>How to Build a Culture of Originality</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/03/how-to-build-a-culture-of-originality</link>
<description>Anyone can innovate if given the opportunity and the support.</description>
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<title>Research: 10 Traits of Innovative Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/research-10-traits-of-innovative-leaders</link>
<description>What makes the most effective managers tick.</description>
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<title>Your Employees’ Emotions Are Clues to What Motivates Them</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/your-employees-emotions-are-clues-to-what-motivates-them</link>
<description>We can’t always articulate what we want.</description>
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<title>Robert S. McNamara and the Evolution of Modern Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/12/robert-s-mcnamara-and-the-evolution-of-modern-management</link>
<description>Lessons from one of the most controversial managers in modern history.</description>
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<title>What Working for a Japanese Company Taught Me</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1990/11/what-working-for-a-japanese-company-taught-me</link>
<description>Back in the late 1970s, as a consultant to several Japanese computer giants, I read everything I could about Japanese business. It was all very interesting—interesting, but not particularly useful. When I became a line manager in 1981, I realized how little of what I’d read had any practical value. I couldn’t control interest rates, […]</description>
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<title>Do You Really Need to Say Thank You?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/11/do-you-really-need-to-say-than</link>
<description>Yes. And far more often than you probably do.</description>
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<title>The Secret to Dealing With Difficult People: It’s About You</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/10/the-secret-to-dealing-with-dif.html</link>
<description>Do you have someone at work who consistently triggers you? Doesn’t listen? Takes credit for work you’ve done? Wastes your time with trivial issues? Acts like a know-it-all? Can only talk about himself? Constantly criticizes? Our core emotional need is to feel valued and valuable. When we don’t, it’s deeply unsettling, a challenge to our […]</description>
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<title>The Three Cs of Dealing with Under Performers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/09/underperformers</link>
<description>“Since my last report, this employee has reached rock bottom and has started to dig.” “This employee is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.” “Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap.” —Alleged Quotes from Performance Evaluations Performance evaluations such as these, true or not, always draw laughs, […]</description>
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<title>Peanut- Finance: Swaps as Strategy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/12/swaps-as-strategy-the-potentia/</link>
<description>The news that health care in Zimbabwe can be paid for with peanuts (and sometimes corn and goats) made the front page of the New York Times. This peanut-finance system, which turned the peanuts into food for hospital patients, seems quaint, like tales from 19th century America of rural doctors taking chickens for treating chicken […]</description>
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<title>5 Ways to Get Better at Asking for Help</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/5-ways-to-get-better-at-asking-for-help</link>
<description>It’s essential to collaboration.</description>
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<title>You Can’t Engage Employees by Copying How Other Companies Do It</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/11/you-cant-engage-employees-by-copying-how-other-companies-do-it</link>
<description>Your plan must reflect your unique culture and values.</description>
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<title>The Internet Is Finally Forcing Management to Care About People</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/the-internet-is-finally-forcing-management-to-care-about-people</link>
<description>It’s a revolution nearly 100 years in the making.</description>
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<title>Calculating the ROI of Customer Engagement</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/08/calculating-the-roi-of-customer-engagement</link>
<description>How to measure the effectiveness of community management.</description>
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<title>How to Get Health Care Employees Onboard with Change</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/11/how-to-get-health-care-employees-onboard-with-change</link>
<description>Put people and purpose first.</description>
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<title>The Things They Do for Love</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/12/the-things-they-do-for-love</link>
<description>Ask your employees to define work. If they say, “It’s what I do for money,” you could be in trouble. Company leaders won’t be surprised that employee engagement—the extent to which workers commit to something or someone in their organizations—influences performance and retention. But they may be surprised by how much engagement matters. Increased commitment […]</description>
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<title>No One Should Have to Choose Between Caregiving and Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/07/no-one-should-have-to-choose-between-caregiving-and-work</link>
<description>Employers can help those looking after both children and parents.</description>
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<title>Managing the Immoral Employee</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/managing-the-immoral-employee</link>
<description>Don’t confuse competence with integrity.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Make Time for the Work That Matters</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/09/make-time-for-the-work-that-matters</link>
<description>How smart knowledge workers delegate tasks—or eliminate them altogether</description>
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<title>Make Sure Your Employees Have Good Things to Say About You Behind Your Back</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/make-sure-your-employees-have-good-things-to-say-about-you-behind-your-back</link>
<description>Office gossip is more powerful than any speech you’ll give.</description>
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<title>The Hard Data on Being a Nice Boss</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/the-hard-data-on-being-a-nice-boss</link>
<description>Warmth beats toughness.</description>
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<title>Conquering a Culture of Indecision</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/01/conquering-a-culture-of-indecision</link>
<description>Some people just can’t make up their minds. The same goes for some companies. Leaders can eradicate indecision by transforming the tone and content of everyday conversations at their organizations.</description>
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<title>Eastern Blocks</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/08/eastern-blocks</link>
<description>London has become a magnet for Eastern Europeans, with around 400,000 Russians and 600,000 others, mostly Polish, working in the capital. From plumbers to energy billionaires, Eastern Europeans can be found working in almost every sector of our booming economy. Hardworking and well-educated, they have no trouble finding jobs in financial services firms and multinationals […]</description>
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<title>Innovation Is Everyone’s Job</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/12/innovation-is-everyones-job.html</link>
<description>To what extent are you responsible for innovation in your company? The reality is that unless they’re in research or product development, most people in organizations don’t think of themselves as innovators. In fact, many managers discourage their people from inventing new ways of doing things — pushing them instead to follow procedures and stay […]</description>
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<title>Firing Up the Front Line</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1999/05/firing-up-the-front-line</link>
<description>For the many organizations that depend on their rank and file to move the goods and delight the customers, motivation is an ongoing battle. The key to victory may be held by the Marines, who use five unique practices to spark extraordinary energy and commitment. Businesses can, too.</description>
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<title>When to Reward Employees with More Responsibility and Money</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/01/when-to-reward-employees-with.html</link>
<description>Managers who want to recognize employees for good work have many tools at their disposal. One of the more traditional ways to reward a top performer is to give her a promotion or raise or both. But how can you know whether someone is truly ready for the next challenge or deserving of that bump […]</description>
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<title>Fire All the Managers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2011/11/fire-all-the-managers.html</link>
<description>Gary Hamel, director of the Management Innovation eXchange and author of the HBR article “First, Let’s Fire All the Managers.”</description>
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<title>Why IBM Gives Top Employees a Month to Do Service Abroad</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/why-ibm-gives-top-employees-a-month-to-do-service-abroad</link>
<description>It breeds loyalty.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Managing Alliances with the Balanced Scorecard</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/01/managing-alliances-with-the-balanced-scorecard</link>
<description>Fifty percent of corporate alliances fail. But you can increase your partnership’s odds of success by applying these techniques.</description>
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<title>Web Exclusive: Fix the Health Care Crisis, One Employee at a Time</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/01/web-exclusive-fix-the-health-care-crisis-one-employee-at-a-time</link>
<description>The key to jump-starting health care reform is to invest in employee wellness programs that focus on prevention and yield steady returns.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Really Listen to Your Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/how-to-really-listen-to-your-employees</link>
<description>Straightforward advice most people never follow.</description>
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<title>New Management Job: The Integrator</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1967/11/new-management-job-the-integrator</link>
<description>While the advances of science and technology are increasing the tempo of change in some complex business organizations, the requirements for regularity and standardization remain in others. This continuously increases the need both for greater specialization (differentiation) and for tighter coordination (integration). However, complications arise, since these two needs are essentially antagonistic, and one can […]</description>
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<title>Nothing Prepared Me to Manage AIDS</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1992/07/nothing-prepared-me-to-manage-aids</link>
<description>The trouble with almost everything I read about AIDS or AIDS in the workplace is that it’s too cut and dried. Popular advice to managers is strikingly unhelpful because it always seems to involve choices that are neat and easy. Confidentiality, equity, and accommodation are among the prescribed managerial practices, but these words describe a […]</description>
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<title>The Best Managers Are Boring Managers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/the-best-managers-are-boring-managers</link>
<description>No drama.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Win the Buy-In: Setting the Stage for Change</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/how-to-win-the-buyin-setting-t-1</link>
<description>Want to drive change down through an organization? Don’t lose sight of the bottom-up perspective. by David Stauffer</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Leadership in a Combat Zone</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2001/12/leadership-in-a-combat-zone</link>
<description>Whether you’re running a company or feeding, clothing, and equipping an army, the bedrock principles of leadership don’t change: Know your stuff and listen hard, and your troops will fight like lions for you.</description>
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<title>Crisis Prevention: How to Gear Up Your Board</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1993/01/crisis-prevention-how-to-gear-up-your-board</link>
<description>In the ongoing debate over America’s competitive position, winning is everything. But without an active board, you’re not even in the game.</description>
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<title>The Globe: The China Rules</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/06/the-globe-the-china-rules</link>
<description>A practical guide for CEOs managing multinational corporations in the People’s Republic.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Why Few Executives Are Skillful Managers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/08/why-few-executives-are-skilful</link>
<description>I work with senior executives from all over the world with remarkably diverse industries, backgrounds, and cultures, yet it’s always a surprise to realise that their development needs are very similar. How can it be that a French CFO of a luxury goods company has the same management problems as a Kuwaiti operations manager? Or […]</description>
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<title>The CEO of Zoetis on How He Prepared for the Top Job</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/the-ceo-of-zoetis-on-how-he-prepared-for-the-top-job</link>
<description>Photography: Andy Ryan The Idea: Alaix had spent years running businesses inside large companies. But when Pfizer decided to spin off his division in an IPO, the soon-to-be CEO embarked on an intensive training regimen to prepare for a very different role. For most of my career, I didn’t aspire to be the CEO of […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>A Primer on Measuring Employee Engagement</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/a-primer-on-measuring-employee-engagement</link>
<description>Which metrics to look for, and what they mean.</description>
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<title>Keeping Tabs on the Competition as a Start-Up</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/keeping-tabs-on-the-competition-as-a-start-up</link>
<description>Gain intel with minimal resources.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Stop Trying to Control How Ex-Employees Use Their Knowledge</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/10/stop-trying-to-control-how-ex-employees-use-their-knowledge</link>
<description>It’s bad for companies and the economy.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Organizations Can’t Change If Leaders Can’t Change with Them</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/organizations-cant-change-if-leaders-cant-change-with-them</link>
<description>They should start by understanding their own behavior.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Help Someone Develop Emotional Intelligence</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/how-to-help-someone-develop-emotional-intelligence</link>
<description>It can be the difference between success and failure.</description>
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<title>The Three S’s of Branding</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/09/the-three-ss-of-branding-1</link>
<description>I read the recent BusinessWeek special issue on “The Future of Work” with interest as we are holding an event on the links between education and the competitiveness of the next generation workforce in Boston in November. The issue had articles on globalization, connectivity, the changing relationship between employer and worker, and of course the […]</description>
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<title>Wearables in the Workplace</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/09/wearables-in-the-workplace</link>
<description>The emerging field of “physiolytics” is creating a 21st-century version of Frederick Taylor’s time and motion studies.</description>
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<title>Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1999/11/management-time-whos-got-the-monkey</link>
<description>The burdens of subordinates always seem to end up on the manager’s back. Here’s how to get rid of them.</description>
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<title>Demand Better Results—And Get Them</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1991/03/demand-better-results-and-get-them</link>
<description>Managers can break through the barriers that keep their performance expectations too low.</description>
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<title>Why Teams Don’t Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/05/why-teams-dont-work</link>
<description>A leading organizational psychologist explains the five critical conditions that make the difference between success and failure.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How Great Companies Think Differently</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/11/how-great-companies-think-differently</link>
<description>Instead of being mere money-generating machines, they combine financial and social logic to build enduring success.</description>
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<title>The Busier You Are, the More You Need Mindfulness</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/12/the-busier-you-are-the-more-you-need-mindfulness</link>
<description>You can get benefits in as little as two minutes.</description>
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<title>Breaking the Systems Development Bottleneck</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1983/03/breaking-the-systems-development-bottleneck</link>
<description>With waiting time for new applications running into several years, managers as well as users have been casting about for more efficient approaches to systems development. Among the most promising, according to these authors, are use of software packages, prototyping, and systems developed by users. Evaluating projects by the criteria of commonality, impact, and structure […]</description>
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<title>Building the Co-Creative Enterprise</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/10/building-the-co-creative-enterprise</link>
<description>Give all your stakeholders a bigger say, and they’ll lead you to better insights, revenues, and profits.</description>
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<title>Turning Doctors into Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/04/turning-doctors-into-leaders</link>
<description>Medicine is in for a radical change as the old guard gives way to performance-driven teams.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Best Data Storytellers Aren’t Always the Numbers People</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/10/the-best-data-storytellers-arent-always-the-numbers-people</link>
<description>Knowing your audience is the most important part.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Leveraging Processes for Strategic Advantage</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1995/09/leveraging-processes-for-strategic-advantage</link>
<description>Reengineering efforts are sweeping the country as companies shift from purely functional organizations to those that better accommodate horizontal work flows. Broad, crosscutting processes such as product development and order fulfillment have become the new organizational building blocks, replacing narrowly focused departments and functions. Managers, in turn, have begun to develop new ways of working. […]</description>
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<title>Know Your Strengths</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/03/know-your-strengths</link>
<description>Executives fail when they can’t see their weaknesses. But overlooking strengths can be perilous, too.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Twelve Sales Metrics that Matter Most</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/new-insight-into-key-sales-metrics</link>
<description>A recent survey shows what numbers sales managers should watch.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Most Reorgs Aren’t Ambitious Enough</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/02/most-reorgs-arent-ambitious-enough</link>
<description>Don’t just change the org chart; change the way work is done.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Steve Jobs and The Bobby Knight School of Leadership</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/03/steve-jobs-and-the-bobby-knigh</link>
<description>I believe that Steve Jobs was among the best CEOs of this generation because he created entirely new categories six times in a decade, and built the largest company market cap ever. Yet two recent and excellent books (Inside Apple, by Adam Lashinsky and Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson) describe a management style that was […]</description>
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<title>Three Myths About Your Strengths</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/07/three-myths-about-your-strengths</link>
<description>They’re not causing your weaknesses.</description>
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<title>You May Not Need Big Data After All</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/you-may-not-need-big-data-after-all</link>
<description>Learn how lots of little data can inform everyday decision making.</description>
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<title>How to Preempt Team Conflict</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/how-to-preempt-team-conflict</link>
<description>Five conversations to have before you get started</description>
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<title>How I Did It: Building a Company Without Borders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/04/how-i-did-it-building-a-company-without-borders</link>
<description>The Idea: You may never have heard of Reckitt Benckiser, but in the past few years the company has outperformed its rivals P&amp;G, Unilever, and Colgate in growth—even during the downturn. Here’s how.</description>
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<title>First-Time Managers, Don’t Do Your Team’s Work for Them</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/first-time-managers-dont-do-your-teams-work-for-them</link>
<description>It’s a common and destructive impulse.</description>
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<title>People Policies for the New Machines</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1987/03/people-policies-for-the-new-machines</link>
<description>Human resource policies and practices once associated only with progressive management philosophies now look desirable from a technological perspective as well. Part of the reason is that advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) makes human skills and workers’ commitment more important than ever. So, many leading-edge manufacturers are searching for ways to enhance their workers’ capabilities and […]</description>
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<title>How to Master a New Skill</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/11/how-to-master-a-new-skill</link>
<description>We all need to get better at something.</description>
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<title>Proactivity Can Be a Double-Edged Sword</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/proactivity-can-be-a-double-edged-sword</link>
<description>Office politics determines whether you’re seen as helpful or obnoxious.</description>
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<title>Is Something Lost When We Use Mindfulness as a Productivity Tool?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/is-something-lost-when-we-use-mindfulness-as-a-productivity-tool</link>
<description>Meditation is not a shortcut.</description>
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<title>Five Ways to Learn Nothing from Your Customers’ Feedback</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/five-ways-to-learn-nothing-from-your-customers-feedback</link>
<description>The case for eschewing the traditional approach to customer satisfaction measurement.</description>
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<title>The Magic of 30-Minute Meetings</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/the-magic-of-30-minute-meetings</link>
<description>Give yourself less time, and you’ll get more done.</description>
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<title>Five Leadership Lessons from the BP Oil Spill</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/06/five-lessons-in-leadership-fro</link>
<description>It will be months, if not years, before the full impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig spill will be fully understood — environmentally, commercially, and politically. In this respect, and the fact that the disaster will have a deep effect on the Unites States psyche, President Obama was correct to draw comparisons with the […]</description>
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<title>Leveling the Playing Field on Cross-Cultural Teams</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/04/leveling-the-playing-field-on</link>
<description>Multicultural teams are ubiquitous in today’s business environment, and a lot has been written about them. What is often lost in the discussion of multicultural teams, however, is the experience of individuals — especially individuals from East Asian cultures — who are at a disadvantage on teams with Western cultural norms and English as a […]</description>
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<title>Collect Your Employees’ Data Without Invading Their Privacy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/09/collect-your-employees-data-without-invading-their-privacy</link>
<description>Seven things to consider before you start.</description>
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<title>The New Path To the C-Suite</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/03/the-new-path-to-the-c-suite</link>
<description>Are you ready for the big job? How the road to the top is shifting—and what changes lie ahead</description>
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<title>Managing Yourself: Extreme Productivity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/05/managing-yourself-extreme-productivity</link>
<description>A veteran executive outlines the principles for getting a lot done.</description>
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<title>Leaders as Decision Architects</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/leaders-as-decision-architects @francescagino</link>
<description>Structure your organization’s work to encourage wise choices.</description>
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<title>Don’t Let Layoffs Ruin Customer Service</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/03/dont-let-layoffs-ruin-customer</link>
<description>Committed and motivated employees serve customers better; customers happy with your company’s products or services are likely to express their satisfaction, making your employees feel better about their work. It’s a virtuous circle. But it’s a circle that can be broken by the cost cutting a recession often demands. When there are fewer employees to […]</description>
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<title>A New Game Plan For C Players</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/01/a-new-game-plan-for-c-players</link>
<description>Winning the war for talent isn’t just about recruiting and retaining people. You’ve got to invest in A performers, raise the game of B performers, and—perhaps most difficult of all—deal decisively with C performers.</description>
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<title>The Case of the Unequal Opportunity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1991/07/the-case-of-the-unequal-opportunity</link>
<description>Laura Wollen, group marketing director for ARPCO, Inc., a manufacturer of small electrical tools and appliances, telephoned London from her Columbus, Ohio office. She was getting ready to recommend her best product manager, Charles Lewis, for a position in the London office, a job that would give Lewis the international exposure he would need to […]</description>
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<title>To Seem Confident, Women Have to Be Seen as Warm</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/07/to-seem-confident-women-have-to-be-seen-as-warm</link>
<description>Even in engineering, competence alone isn’t enough.</description>
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<title>The Right Way to Rally Your Troops</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/09/the-right-way-to-rally-your-tr</link>
<description>Lessons from three CEOs facing crises.</description>
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<title>To Motivate Employees, Do 3 Things Well</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/to-motivate-employees-do-3-things-well</link>
<description>Intentionally provide inspiration, kindness, and self-care.</description>
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<title>Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1998/05/evolution-and-revolution-as-organizations-grow</link>
<description>Management practices that work well in one phase may bring on a crisis in another.</description>
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<title>How Luxury Brands Can Motivate Service Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/11/how-luxury-brands-can-motivate-service-employees</link>
<description>Financial security, forgiveness, respect, and communication.</description>
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<title>Zero Defections: Quality Comes to Services</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1990/09/zero-defections-quality-comes-to-services</link>
<description>The real quality revolution is just now coming to services. In recent years, despite their good intentions, few service company executives have been able to follow through on their commitment to satisfy customers. But service companies are beginning to understand what their manufacturing counterparts learned in the 1980s—that quality doesn’t improve unless you measure it. […]</description>
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<title>Is “Employee Motivation” an Oxymoron?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/09/is-employee-motivation-an-oxymoron</link>
<description>I’m at Heathrow airport after a three-day “all hands” meeting for my division at World Wide Wicket. As corporate mind-shaping, it was better than most. The hotel food was edible and they took us to the horse races. And, despite myself, and my entrepreneurial desires, I found myself being–shockingly–inspired. I was a determined curmudgeon from […]</description>
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<title>How to Reward Your Stellar Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/08/how-to-reward-your-stellar-tea/</link>
<description>Recognizing people for collaboration can be tricky.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>To Prevent Another Rana Plaza, Build Better Societies, Not Just Better Factories</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/04/to-prevent-another-rana-plaza-build-better-societies-not-just-better-factories</link>
<description>Safety inspections are only one part of the puzzle.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Knowing When to Reinvent</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/12/knowing-when-to-reinvent</link>
<description>Detecting marketplace “fault lines” is the key to building the case for preemptive change.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Research: What CEOs Really Want from Coaching</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/08/research-ceos-and-the-coaching</link>
<description>It’s not the “soft skills.”</description>
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<title>You’re Getting a Bonus! So Why Aren’t You Motivated?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/06/youre-getting-a-bonus-so-why-a</link>
<description>If you’re like most professionals working in large corporations, you’re eligible for an annual bonus as part of your pay. If you’re one of the luckier ones, you’ve been hearing rumors lately that with the economy recovering, that bonus may become a reality again. Good for you. But maybe not so good for your company. […]</description>
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<title>IT Has To Deliver Great Tools — and Teach People to Use Them</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/08/it-has-to-deliver-great-tools</link>
<description>CIOs need to rethink how to provide employee support and training.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Toward a Career-Resilient Workforce</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1994/07/toward-a-career-resilient-workforce</link>
<description>By helping workers become more employable, companies can build a more flexible workforce and re-create a sense of community.</description>
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<title>What Peter Drucker Knew About 2020</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/10/what-peter-drucker-knew-about-2020</link>
<description>Six management imperatives for the knowledge age.</description>
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<title>Strengthen Your Workforce Through Volunteer Programs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/03/strengthen-your-workforce-thro</link>
<description>Time-crunched employees are increasingly looking to their jobs to provide opportunities for the good deeds that they don’t have the hours for outside of work, and companies are responding. But karmic satisfaction is only part of the payoff. Volunteering offers participants the opportunity to strengthen their skills, broaden their networks, break out of a career […]</description>
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<title>The CEO of Coca-Cola on Using the Company’s Scale for Good</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/the-ceo-of-coca-cola-on-using-the-companys-scale-for-good</link>
<description>A Q&amp;A with Muhtar Kent.</description>
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<title>Making Advanced Analytics Work for You</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/10/making-advanced-analytics-work-for-you</link>
<description>A practical guide to capitalizing on big data</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Strategic Intent</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/07/strategic-intent</link>
<description>Most leading global companies started with ambitions that were far bigger than their resources and capabilities. But they created an obsession with winning at all levels of the organization and sustained that obsession for decades.</description>
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<title>How Senior Managers Think</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1984/11/how-senior-managers-think</link>
<description>For the most part people view managers as rational, purposeful, and decisive. They see them as going through a series of stages of analysis before deciding what to do. The doing comes after the thinking. In his study of what senior managers think about and how they think, Daniel Isenberg found that this is only […]</description>
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<title>One Talent Strategy Isn’t Enough for Asia</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/01/one-talent-strategy-isnt-enough-for-asia</link>
<description>I posed this question to a group of executives in a successful Asian-headquartered bank during a recent consulting engagement: “Considering for the moment only our current set of employees, where do we devote development resources to get the leadership talent we will need in the next three to five years?” The bank operates in almost […]</description>
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<title>What Young vs. UPS Means for Pregnant Workers and Their Bosses</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/what-young-vs-ups-means-for-pregnant-workers-and-their-bosses</link>
<description>Companies that don’t become more accommodating may find themselves facing legal action.</description>
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<title>Internal Hires Need Just as Much Support as External Ones</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/04/internal-hires-need-just-as-much-support-as-external-ones</link>
<description>Here’s how to “inboard” them.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Changing Employee Values: Deepening Discontent?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1979/01/changing-employee-values-deepening-discontent</link>
<description>A consensus is emerging that there has been a shift in the attitudes and values of the U.S. work force and that this shift has been accompanied by increased dissatisfaction with many aspects of work. The evidence for this shift and disaffection has emerged from two camps: systematically recorded observations from case studies and surveys […]</description>
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<title>The Assumptions That Make Giving Tough Feedback Even Tougher</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/the-assumptions-that-make-giving-tough-feedback-even-tougher</link>
<description>Why you have to listen before you criticize.</description>
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<title>Before You Link Pay to Customer Feedback: Five Essentials</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/09/how-to-link-pay-to-customer-fe</link>
<description>More and more companies are tying incentive pay to customer metrics. TIAA-CREF, the big financial services company, includes customer loyalty score improvement in senior executive compensation. Phones4U, a UK mobile phone retailer, announced a big increase in the weight of Net Promoter scores in its frontline pay plan. Pep Boys, a US auto parts store […]</description>
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<title>Three Leadership Steps to Defuse Tense Situations</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/05/three-leadership-steps-to-defu.html</link>
<description>How do leaders maintain morale and momentum when members of their team are close to collapsing in frustration over the obstacles they face? Perhaps the issue is angry customers whose questions are hard to answer, or uncooperative peers from other groups who cause logjams and delay decisions. Team members might grumble and complain, or they […]</description>
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<title>Power Play</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/07/power-play</link>
<description>Acquiring real clout—the kind that helps you get stuff done—requires bare-knuckle strategies.</description>
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<title>The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2007</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/02/the-hbr-list-breakthrough-ideas-for-2007</link>
<description>Our annual survey of emerging ideas considers how nanotechnology will affect commerce, what role hope plays in leadership, and why, in an age that practically enshrines accountability, we need to beware of “accountabalism.”</description>
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<title>New Managers Need a Philosophy About How They’ll Lead</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/new-managers-need-a-philosophy-about-how-theyll-lead</link>
<description>Servant leadership is a good place to start.</description>
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<title>How to Write the Dreaded Self-Appraisal</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/03/how-to-write-the-dreaded-self-appraisal</link>
<description>Reviews are unpleasant. But they can work in your favor.</description>
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<title>Engage Your Long-Time Employees to Improve Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/engage-your-long-time-employees-to-improve-performance</link>
<description>Managing talent isn’t just about new hires.</description>
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<title>Changing a Culture of Face Time</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2001/11/changing-a-culture-of-face-time</link>
<description>Marriott’s intense work ethic was driving away talented managers. Transforming that culture wasn’t easy, but the change led to happier employees—and better results.</description>
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<title>How the Navy SEALs Train for Leadership Excellence</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/how-the-navy-seals-train-for-leadership-excellence</link>
<description>Management training needs to be more hardcore.</description>
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<title>Checking In with Employees (Versus Checking Up)</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/05/checking-in-versus-checking-up</link>
<description>Recently we wrote about how managing for innovation requires balancing four critical factors to produce a highly motivated and creative workforce. Perhaps the most difficult of those balancing acts is ensuring that employees have clear, meaningful goals as well as considerable autonomy (PDF) in meeting those goals. It’s not easy, but some companies have pulled […]</description>
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<title>To Thine Own Staff Be Agreeable</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/06/to-thine-own-staff-be-agreeable</link>
<description>If you invest in improving your employees’ views of your firm’s corporate character, those positive attitudes will rub off and boost customers’ opinions of the company. That will drive growth. It sounds simple, but too many organizations focus on what customers think—to the exclusion of what employees think. In field interviews with 4,700 customers and […]</description>
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<title>How Your Morning Mood Affects Your Whole Workday</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/07/how-your-morning-mood-affects-your-whole-workday</link>
<description>Help your team feel bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.</description>
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<title>Is Your Culture Too Nice?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/08/is-your-culture-too-nice</link>
<description>Do you avoid conflict? If you do, you’re not alone. Conflict avoidance is one of the most common characteristics of corporate cultures. At the same time it is one of the most pernicious and dangerous sources of unintentional complexity in organizational life. The tendency to avoid conflict — albeit inconvenient — is very human. Most […]</description>
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<title>How to Write a Résumé That Stands Out</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/how-to-write-a-resume-that-stands-out</link>
<description>Share accomplishments, not responsibilities.</description>
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<title>Three Ways Leaders Can Listen with More Empathy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/three-ways-leaders-can-listen-with-more-empathy</link>
<description>Techniques to help you hear, process, and respond.</description>
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<title>An Uneasy Look at Performance Appraisal</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1972/09/an-uneasy-look-at-performance-appraisal</link>
<description>As economists must acknowledge Keynes, managers in organizations must pay dues to the ‘founder’ of Theory Y.</description>
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<title>The Human Cost of Kodak’s Bankruptcy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/01/the-human-cost-of-kodaks-bankr</link>
<description>Kodak’s filing for Chapter 11 protection has gotten a great deal of attention. Much has been said about the causes of the fall of an iconic brand. And there has been a good deal of speculation over whether and how Kodak will be able to rebuild. Lessons for leaders abound in these stories, but we […]</description>
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<title>Work-Life “Balance” Isn’t the Point</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/06/work-life-balance-isnt-the-poi</link>
<description>Strive for work-life “effectiveness.”</description>
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<title>Help Employees Listen When They Don’t Want to Hear</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/02/help-employees-listen-when-the</link>
<description>[For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.] When change initiatives fail, the culprit is often a lack of good communication from management. But that’s not always the whole story. Communication isn’t just about what management says; it’s also about how employees listen. This point was made to me by an executive whose organization had difficulty […]</description>
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<title>Manage Up and Across with Your Mentor</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/01/manage-up-and-across-with-your</link>
<description>Jeanne Meister, partner at Future Workplace and contributor to the ”HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across.”</description>
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<title>Liberate Your Employees and Recharge your Business Model</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/03/liberate-your-employees-and-re</link>
<description>The basic structure of the firm-employee relationship has not changed much over the last 50 years.</description>
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<title>Seven Rules for Managing Creative-But-Difficult People</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/04/seven-rules-for-managing-creat</link>
<description>Spoil them with resources and only involve them in meaningful work.</description>
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<title>Motivate Employees with Recognition - HBR Video</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/video/2235569166001/motivate-employees-with-recognition</link>
<description>Clive Schlee, CEO of Pret a Manger, keeps team members engaged by publicly thanking them at an annual dinner.</description>
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<title>The Reign of Zero Tolerance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/11/the-reign-of-zero-tolerance</link>
<description>Actions that damage a company and its employees should be stamped out, everyone would agree. But should the people responsible be stamped out, too?</description>
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<title>We Need More Mature Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/10/we-need-more-mature-leaders</link>
<description>“My idea is better.” “Is not.” “If we don’t use my idea, I’m not playing!” “Fine, I don’t like you anymore.” An argument among six-graders in the schoolyard? Unfortunately not. In the past few months we’ve seen the attitude above reflected in the halls of government and corporate boardrooms across the country. Arrogance, pouting, tantrums, […]</description>
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<title>Can You Really Improve Your Emotional Intelligence?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/05/can-you-really-improve-your-em</link>
<description>It’s a noble quest, but a tough one.</description>
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<title>Why Did We Ever Go Into HR?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/07/why-did-we-ever-go-into-hr</link>
<description>Two recent Harvard MBAs who chose human resources as a career explain why it’s the next big thing.</description>
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<title>Why We Don’t Always Tell the Truth</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/02/why-we-dont-always-tell-the-tr.html</link>
<description>When I was growing up, one of the principles in our house was that we had to tell the truth, no matter how painful it might be. Lying, we were taught, wasn’t something you could get away with. Like Pinocchio’s nose, it would be apparent to others. Children of course need clear rules to learn […]</description>
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<title>The High Cost of Rudeness at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2013/01/the-high-cost-of-rudeness-at-w.html</link>
<description>Christine Porath, associate professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and coauthor of the HBR article “The Price of Incivility.”</description>
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<title>The Right Way to Off-Board a Departing Employee</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/the-right-way-to-off-board-a-departing-employee</link>
<description>Retain their expertise and knowledge.</description>
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<title>Making Across-the-Board Incentives Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/02/making-across-the-board-incentives-work</link>
<description>When a reward goes to everyone in a company, it rarely has a big impact on individual performance. But don’t tell that to the employees of Continental Airlines.</description>
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<title>Coffee Breaks Don’t Boost Productivity After All</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/05/coffee-breaks-dont-boost-productivity-after-all</link>
<description>Listen to an interview with Charlotte Fritz.Download this podcast The finding: Taking short breaks during the workday doesn’t revitalize you—unless you do something job related and positive, such as praising a colleague or learning something new. The research: Charlotte Fritz conducted a series of studies on how people unwind from work, looking at everything from […]</description>
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<title>5 Ways to Boost Your Resilience at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/627-building-resilience-ic-5-ways-to-build-your-personal-resilience-at-work</link>
<description>Based on the latest research.</description>
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<title>When a Fancy Degree Scares Employers Away</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/when-a-fancy-degree-scares-employers-away</link>
<description>At start-ups, credentials can be a liability.</description>
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<title>What It Was Like to Be a Manager in Ukraine</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/what-it-was-like-to-be-a-manager-in-ukraine</link>
<description>Leading your company in a time of conflict.</description>
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<title>Ten Ways to Create Shareholder Value</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/09/ten-ways-to-create-shareholder-value</link>
<description>Companies profess devotion to shareholder value but rarely follow the practices that maximize it. What will it take to make your company a level 10 value creator?</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>A 3-Step Plan for Turning Weaknesses into Strengths</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/01/a-3-step-plan-for-turning-weaknesses-into-strengths</link>
<description>Most of us never make a real effort to change, but we can if we try.</description>
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<title>Covert Leadership: Notes on Managing Professionals</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1998/11/covert-leadership-notes-on-managing-professionals</link>
<description>Knowledge workers respond to inspiration, not supervision.</description>
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<title>Make Acquisitions Sing, with Harmony</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/06/make-acquisitions-sing-with-harmony.html</link>
<description>Paul is an old friend who, until his recent retirement, worked as a senior scientist at a pharmaceutical company, where he managed a group of innovative researchers. After reading The Progress Principle, which describes our discovery that progress in meaningful work drives employee motivation, Paul was eager to share his own story with us. When […]</description>
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<title>Ending the CEO Succession Crisis</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/02/ending-the-ceo-succession-crisis</link>
<description>Something is seriously amiss in the business of developing and hiring CEOs. Too many top leaders fail in office; too many succession pipelines are bone dry. Here’s what boards should do in order to perform their most important job right.</description>
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<title>How to Be Assertive (Without Losing Yourself)</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/08/how-to-be-assertive-without-lo.html</link>
<description>If you’re shy or reserved, don’t fret. You can ask for what you need, while still being yourself.</description>
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<title>What to Do When an Employee Cries at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/06/what-to-do-when-an-employee-cries-at-work</link>
<description>Don’t leave your humanity at the office door.</description>
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<title>Micromanage at Your Peril</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/micromanage-at-your-peril</link>
<description>by Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay</description>
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<title>The Perils of Self-Promotion</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/the-perils-of-self-promotion</link>
<description>Sure, toot your own horn. But first make sure you know how to play it.</description>
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<title>How to Stop People Who Bog Things Down with Bureaucracy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/07/how-to-stop-people-who-bog-things-down-with-bureaucracy</link>
<description>Fight the tendency to make problems bigger, not smaller.</description>
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<title>Germany’s Midsize Manufacturers Outperform Its Industrial Giants</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/08/germanys-midsize-manufacturers-outperform-its-industrial-giants</link>
<description>Here’s how they do it so consistently.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How Well Is Employee Ownership Working?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1987/09/how-well-is-employee-ownership-working</link>
<description>Ever since 1974, when Congress enacted the first of a series of tax measures designed to encourage employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), the number of employee-owned (or partially owned) companies has grown from about 1,600 to 8,100, and the number of employees owning stock has jumped from 250,000 to more than eight million.1 Employee-owners publish […]</description>
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<title>A Performance-Appraisal Conundrum: What Would You Do?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/07/a-performance-appraisal-conundrum</link>
<description>Pondering whether a significant incident should be included after the official review period has closed.</description>
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<title>Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/11/time-driven-activity-based-costing</link>
<description>Many companies abandoned activity-based costing because it did not capture the complexity of their operations, took too long to implement, and was too expensive to build and maintain. Here’s a way around those problems.</description>
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<title>How to Motivate Someone You Don’t Like</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/how-to-motivate-someone-you-dont-like</link>
<description>Start by finding at least one redeeming trait.</description>
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<title>The Art of Saying a Professional Goodbye</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/the-art-of-saying-a-professional-goodbye</link>
<description>The key is to treat it seriously — because it matters.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Change Management Meets Social Media</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/11/change-management-meets-social-media</link>
<description>Talk to employees where they already are.</description>
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<title>The Hidden Skills in Your Most Reliable People</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/03/the-hidden-skills-in-your-most</link>
<description>When you need something done — and done right — you probably know who you can count on. Even at work, most people have someone they can call on at a moment’s notice. If you gave your team a basic personality test, the reliable people would probably score high in conscientiousness, one of the five […]</description>
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<title>Reward Value, Not Face Time</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/02/my-manager-expects-me-to.html</link>
<description>“My manager expects me to be at my desk from 9 to 5,” a highly successful salesperson lamented during a break at a session I was delivering at a progressive company in Silicon Valley. “I love my job,” she went on, “but I have an hour and fifteen minute commute each way, and it’s just […]</description>
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<title>Strategic Humor: Cartoons from the December 2013 Issue</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/11/strategic-humor-cartoons-from-the-december-2013-issue</link>
<description>Enjoy these cartoons from the latest issue of Harvard Business Review.</description>
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<title>Stop Being Micromanaged</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/09/stop-being-micromanaged</link>
<description>No one likes a boss who excessively scrutinizes work and constantly checks in. Not only is this micromanaging behavior annoying, it can stunt your professional growth. If you have a controlling boss, you don’t have to suffer. By assuaging a micromanager’s stress, you may be able to secure the autonomy you need to get your […]</description>
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<title>Asking Open-Ended Questions Helps New Managers Build Trust</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/asking-open-ended-questions-helps-new-managers-build-trust</link>
<description>It’s an effective leadership approach.</description>
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<title>If You Have a Bad Boss, These Are Your Options</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/if-you-have-a-bad-boss-these-are-your-options</link>
<description>Wait it out, or get out.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Quick Wins Paradox</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/01/the-quick-wins-paradox</link>
<description>New leaders must prove themselves quickly, but the quest for rapid results is inherently dangerous. Where are the traps, and how can managers avoid them?</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Difference Between Coaching Rookies and Veterans</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/the-difference-between-coaching-rookies-and-veterans</link>
<description>Tailor your approach to experience levels.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Maximizing Your Return on People</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/03/maximizing-your-return-on-people</link>
<description>New tools can show you which investments in employees are driving company performance now and which you should emphasize to advance your strategic goals.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Deliver Criticism So Employees Pay Attention</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/01/how-to-deliver-criticism-so-employees-pay-attention</link>
<description>Four tips a champion diver learned from her coach.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>What to Do and Say After a Tough Reorganization</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/10/what-to-do-and-say-after-a-tough-reorganization</link>
<description>How to respond with grace.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Why John Deere Measures Employee Morale Every Two Weeks</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/why-john-deere-measures-employee-morale-every-two-weeks</link>
<description>The link between motivation and innovation.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Appraisal of What Performance?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1976/07/appraisal-of-what-performance</link>
<description>Current dissatisfactions with appraisal systems will continue until they are revised to accommodate the “how” as well as the “what” in performance.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Motivate Your Problem People</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/01/how-to-motivate-your-problem-people</link>
<description>It’s easy to energize employees who want to be motivated. But how do you crack the tough cases, the people who never seem to do what you want—yet take up all your time?</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Design Offices to Be More Like Neighborhoods</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/07/design-offices-to-be-more-like-neighborhoods</link>
<description>To reform conference room wastelands, think like an urban planner.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How My Company Hires for Culture First, Skills Second</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/01/how-my-company-hires-for-cultu</link>
<description>No two organizations’ hiring processes are alike. No technology company hiring manager would ask a programmer applicant to teach the alphabet, but it’s the first thing a school administrator might ask of a teacher. Obviously, you need different criteria to assess if people possess the skills needed to succeed in different positions. But skills don’t […]</description>
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<title>Happy Workplaces Can Also Be Candid Workplaces</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/happy-workplaces-can-also-be-candid-workplaces</link>
<description>There’s no trade-off between being kind and being honest.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Beyond Products: Services-Based Strategy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1990/03/beyond-products-services-based-strategy</link>
<description>When communication was limited to telephones and letters, and transportation took weeks or months instead of hours or days, concentrating on a few products—and the vertical integration that let managers control every step of their production processes—made real sense. Now such traditional strategic formulas no longer hold. Thanks to new technologies, executives can divide up […]</description>
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<title>Employees Who Feel Love Perform Better</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/employees-who-feel-love-perform-better</link>
<description>Organizations with a strong emotional culture have happier, more engaged employees.</description>
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<title>The Ripple Effects You Create as a Manager</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/05/the-ripple-effects-you-create</link>
<description>What kind of social influence would you like to have?</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Promise-Based Management: The Essence of Execution</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/04/promise-based-management-the-essence-of-execution</link>
<description>By examining the commitments people make to colleagues and customers, executives can figure out why work stalls and how to get it moving again.</description>
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<title>Better Sales Networks</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/07/better-sales-networks</link>
<description>A salesperson develops webs of customers, leads, and colleagues. Companies and salespeople can improve performance significantly by understanding the interplay among these different groups.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Stopping Theft at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/05/stopping-theft-at-work</link>
<description>She had dark circles under her eyes as she walked into the conference room. Not just Friday-morning dark circles, but major-product-launch dark circles. I asked her how she was doing. She was ready to explode with fury. A key project was hitting a deadline, and a member of her team hadn’t been able to pull […]</description>
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<title>Your Boss’s Work-Life Balance Matters as Much as Your Own</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/07/your-bosss-work-life-balance-matters-as-much-as-your-own</link>
<description>A leader’s long hours have a trickle-down effect.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>We Still Don’t Know the Difference Between Change and Transformation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/we-still-dont-know-the-difference-between-change-and-transformation</link>
<description>And it keeps holding us back.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Managing Information Overload</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2009/08/managing-information-overload.html</link>
<description>Paul Hemp, HBR contributing editor and author of the HBR article “Death by Information Overload.”</description>
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<title>When Your Manager Is Afraid of You</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/11/when-your-manager-is-afraid-of</link>
<description>A rookie learns the costs of being exceptional.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Assessment: What’s Your Leadership Style?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/assessment-whats-your-leadership-style</link>
<description>Get feedback on your strengths, weaknesses, and blind spots.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>What to Do When Your Peer Becomes Your Boss</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/what-to-do-when-your-peer-becomes-your-boss</link>
<description>Accept that things will change.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How a Flex-Time Program at MIT Improved Productivity, Resilience, and Trust</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/how-a-flex-time-program-at-mit-improved-productivity-resilience-and-trust</link>
<description>It cost nothing and it helped more work get done.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Changing the Role of Top Management: Beyond Systems to People</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1995/05/changing-the-role-of-top-management-beyond-systems-to-people</link>
<description>The most basic task of corporate leaders is to unleash the human spirit, which makes initiative, creativity, and entrepreneurship possible.</description>
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<title>Three Differences Between Managers and Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/08/tests-of-a-leadership-transiti</link>
<description>Stop thinking about your tasks and start talking about your vision.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Customer-Focused Leadership</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/leadership-that-focuses-on-the-1.html</link>
<description>by Anne Field</description>
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<title>To Get Honest Feedback, Leaders Need to Ask</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/02/to-get-honest-feedback-leaders-need-to-ask</link>
<description>At a certain level, people stop just giving it to you.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Pitch a Brilliant Idea</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/09/how-to-pitch-a-brilliant-idea</link>
<description>Before you even know it, the stranger across the desk has decided what kind of person you are. Knowing how you’ll be stereotyped allows you to play to—and control—the other guy’s expectations.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Put Positivism to Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/03/put-positivism-to-work</link>
<description>A colleague of mine was talking about the challenge of getting employees to look on the bright side — or as he put it viewing the “glass as half-full rather than as half-empty.” Encouraging employees in good times can be tricky because employees sense you are seeking to manipulate them. But in bad times it […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Container Store’s CEO on Finding and Keeping Front-Line Talent</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/the-container-stores-ceo-on-finding-and-keeping-front-line-talent</link>
<description>How the retailer scouts, hires, and retains its people.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>What Managers Think of Participative Leadership</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1973/03/what-managers-think-of-participative-leadership</link>
<description>An extroverted, sensitive leader who openly shares decisions and authority with subordinates—this is the profile that emerged when 318 executives were asked their opinions on the characteristics of participative leadership. While there is much discussion—and controversy—among educators and theorists about the concept of participative leadership, managers themselves have not yet been heard. In this study, […]</description>
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<title>Leadership Lessons from Great Family Businesses</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/leadership-lessons-from-great-family-businesses</link>
<description>A new study points to four best practices.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>5 Basic Needs of Virtual Workforces</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/5-basic-needs-of-virtual-workforces</link>
<description>And the tools to satisfy them.</description>
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<title>Empowering the Board</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1995/01/empowering-the-board</link>
<description>How do boards draw the line between monitoring performance and managing the company?</description>
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<title>The Key to Change Is Middle Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/10/the-key-to-change-is-middle-management</link>
<description>Research shows the traits that make them successful.</description>
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<title>Don’t Let Your Strengths Become Your Weaknesses</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/04/dont-let-your-strengths-become</link>
<description>Overdoing it is just as ineffective as underdoing it.</description>
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<title>How to Handle Negative Feedback</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/how-to-handle-negative-feedback</link>
<description>Advice for the heat of the moment.</description>
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<title>Technology Can Save Onboarding from Itself</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/technology-can-save-onboarding-from-itself</link>
<description>New tools are improving engagement, performance, and retention.</description>
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<title>New York’s Train Derailment is a Reminder of the Importance of Sleep Health Policy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/new-yorks-train-derailment-is-a-reminder-of-the-importance-of-sleep-health-policy</link>
<description>Better corporate policies around sleep can prevent accidents.</description>
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<title>4 Ways to Improve Your Strategic Thinking Skills</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/12/4-ways-to-improve-your-strategic-thinking-skills</link>
<description>Think big picture, no matter where you sit on the org chart.</description>
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<title>Engaging the “Pole Vaulters” on Your Staff</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/03/engaging-the-pole-vaulters-on-your-staff</link>
<description>You may know the five principles for increasing employee engagement: Keep people informed, listen, set clear objectives, match the person with the job, and create meaningful work. Though these tactics provide a good foundation, firms should also tailor engagement programs to reach different types of workers. After studying eight companies with a total of 180,000 […]</description>
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<title>Breaking the Trade-Off Between Efficiency and Service</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/11/breaking-the-trade-off-between-efficiency-and-service</link>
<description>Service businesses struggle with a reality that is foreign to manufacturers: Customers “interfere” with their operations. To deliver consistent quality at sustainable cost, companies must learn to manage that involvement.</description>
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<title>What Really Influences Employee Motivation - HBR Video</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/video/4701966304001/what-really-influences-employee-motivation</link>
<description>It&#8216;s not compensation.</description>
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<title>What’s the Matter with Business Ethics?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1993/05/whats-the-matter-with-business-ethics</link>
<description>It’s not that managers dislike the idea of doing the right thing…</description>
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<title>Inside AT&amp;T’s Radical Talent Overhaul</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/atts-talent-overhaul</link>
<description>Can the firm really retrain hundreds of thousands of employees?</description>
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<title>Proof That Positive Work Cultures Are More Productive</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/12/proof-that-positive-work-cultures-are-more-productive</link>
<description>Four ways bosses can create them.</description>
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<title>The Four Phases of Project Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/11/the-four-phases-of-project-management</link>
<description>Planning, build-up, implementation, and closeout.</description>
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<title>How to Earn Respect as a Leader</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/how-to-earn-respect-as-a-leader</link>
<description>Start by showing passion for your job.</description>
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<title>At HP, Deference May Have Led to Deviance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/08/at-hp-deference-may-have-led-t.html</link>
<description>Mark Hurd was brought in to HP in 2005 not only to turn around the company but also to set a more professional tone in the executive suite. By all accounts, he succeeded, through an unrelenting focus on the numbers, painful cost cutting, aggressive acquisitions, and operational discipline. He was at the pinnacle of success […]</description>
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<title>Good Communication Goes Beyond Open Door Policies</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/05/good-communication-goes-beyond.html</link>
<description>[For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.] Editors’ note: This is the first in a series of posts examining myths about why employees don’t speak up, based on the June HBR article, “Debunking Four Myths About Employee Silence.” Leaders are supposed to solve problems and drive strategies. Judging by their performance over the last few […]</description>
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<title>Coaching Your Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/webinar/2014/09/coaching-your-employees</link>
<description>When you’re swamped with your own work, how can you make time to coach your employees—and do it well? It’s a common problem. But if you don’t build your people’s own skills and capabilities, they’ll come to you for answers instead of finding their own solutions. Hand-holding kills productivity and creativity, and you can’t sustain […]</description>
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<title>A Fairer Way of Giving Credit Where It’s Due</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/08/a-fairer-way-of-giving-credit-where-its-due</link>
<description>How to eliminate resentments and foster collaboration.</description>
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<title>Give Your Performance Management System a Review</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/06/give-your-performance-manageme</link>
<description>Evaluate the system you use to evaluate employees.</description>
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<title>The Cost of Myopic Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/08/the-cost-of-myopic-management</link>
<description>by Natalie Mizik and Robert Jacobson This article appears in the July-August 2007 issue of Harvard Business Review. Under pressure to hit immediate performance targets, many managers inflate earnings, often by cutting expenditures. In a recent survey of 401 top financial executives, 80% said they would decrease spending on “discretionary” activities like marketing and R&amp;D […]</description>
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<title>Understanding Leadership</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/01/understanding-leadership</link>
<description>Effective leaders take a personal interest in the long-term development of their employees, and they use tact and other social skills to encourage employees to achieve their best. It isn’t about being “nice” or “understanding”—it’s about tapping into individual motivations in the interest of furthering an organizationwide goal.</description>
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<title>Big Companies Don’t Pay as Well as They Used To</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/02/big-companies-dont-pay-as-well-as-they-used-to</link>
<description>And it’s one reason inequality has increased.</description>
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<title>Make Your Career a Success by Your Own Measure</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/02/make-your-career-a-success-by-your-own-measure</link>
<description>Creating room for career advancement without more management.</description>
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<title>Leading Older Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/04/leading-older-employees</link>
<description>The litany of leaders who’ve founded and built their companies in their twenties and thirties is long and storied. It’s hard to read much of anything in the news these days without Mark Zuckerberg, Biz Stone, or Andrew Mason weighing in. But more and more today, even the average young professional, the Millenial, is taking […]</description>
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<title>Tips for Making Small Talk With Bigwigs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/03/tips-for-making-small-talk-wit</link>
<description>One of the things that can befuddle managers, even experienced ones, is how to make small talk with the big boss. When you are talking about someone who has authority over you, be it your boss’s boss or the CEO, the word “small” becomes relative. Anything involving a boss can have a big impact. Conversation […]</description>
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<title>The Acceleration Trap</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/04/the-acceleration-trap</link>
<description>It’s not just individuals who burn out—companies do, too.</description>
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<title>Why Do Employees Resist Change?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1996/05/why-do-employees-resist-change</link>
<description>Organizations have personal compacts with their employees. Change efforts will fail unless those compacts are revised.</description>
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<title>What Manufacturing Taught Me About Knowledge Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/02/what-manufacturing-taught-me-a</link>
<description>You’ve got to make your inputs and outputs visible.</description>
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<title>Beyond the Holacracy Hype</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/07/beyond-the-holacracy-hype</link>
<description>The overwrought claims—and actual promise—of the next generation of self-managed teams</description>
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<title>Six Dangerous Myths About Pay</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1998/05/six-dangerous-myths-about-pay</link>
<description>Many managers have bought into expensive fictions about compensation. Have you?</description>
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<title>Stop Making Plans; Start Making Decisions</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/01/stop-making-plans-start-making-decisions</link>
<description>In most companies, strategic planning isn’t about making decisions. It’s about documenting choices that have already been made, often haphazardly. Leading firms are rethinking their approach to strategy development so they can make more, better, and faster decisions.</description>
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<title>Make the Sales Task Clear</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1983/11/make-the-sales-task-clear</link>
<description>In an earlier HBR article we reported that sales task clarity has a greater impact on the motivation of field salespeople than ego drive or compensation method.1 In addition, we reported that sales task clarity can reinforce the effects of good recruiting and selection because it can make recruits with high ego drive work harder […]</description>
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<title>Getting Beyond Engagement to Creating Meaning at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/06/getting-beyond-engagement-to-c</link>
<description>We like to ask random people in airports and elevators what they like about their job. Answers vary from “the challenge” to “the people” to “Are you kidding? I hate my job.” A few of the people giving these answers make big bucks in big companies and others sweep up after the people who make […]</description>
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<title>What’s Your Language Strategy?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/09/whats-your-language-strategy</link>
<description>It should bind your company’s global talent management and vision.</description>
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<title>Global Teams That Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/10/global-teams-that-work</link>
<description>A framework for bridging social distance</description>
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<title>Trading Places: A Smart Way to Change Your Mind</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/03/trading-places-a-smart-way-to</link>
<description>How’s this for a neat idea about where to find new ideas and apply them to your business? Maxine Clark, founder and CEO of (publicly traded) Build-a-Bear Workshop, switched companies for a day with Kip Tindell, cofounder and CEO of the (privately held) Container Store. Both outfits are big, fast-growing, passion brands in the ultra-competitive […]</description>
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<title>Finding the Profit in Fairness</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/09/finding-the-profit-in-fairness</link>
<description>In an industry widely viewed as exploitative, Germany’s TeamBank has built a brand on being equitable.</description>
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<title>Three Questions for Effective Feedback</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/08/three-questions-for-effective-feedback</link>
<description>When I was in graduate school, Phil Daniels, then a psychology professor at Brigham Young University, taught us about a feedback mechanism he called the SKS form. It was simply a process whereby we would ask others what we should stop (S), keep (K), and start (S) doing, given a particular role we might have […]</description>
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<title>Susan Boyle: A Lesson in Talent Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/04/susan-boyle-a-lesson-in-talent</link>
<description>Susan Boyle, who recently performed on the UK television show Britain’s Got Talent, has captured the world’s attention. And it’s a good lesson for managers the world over. In case you’ve missed it: she’s a 47-year-old unemployed charity worker who lives with her cat in a small village in Scotland. As soon as she walked […]</description>
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<title>Mastering the Management System</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/01/mastering-the-management-system</link>
<description>Successful strategy execution has two basic rules: understand the management cycle that links strategy and operations, and know what tools to apply at each stage of the cycle.</description>
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<title>Getting the Best Employee Ideas</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/getting-the-best-employee-idea</link>
<description>Five questions with Alan G. Robinson, Coauthor of Ideas Are Free (Berrett-Kohler, 2004)</description>
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<title>How to Manage Your Smartest, Strangest Employee</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/07/how-to-manage-your-smartest-st</link>
<description>There is a brilliant and highly accomplished engineer in my company who has managed to break the coffee machine, the toaster and so many other appliances in the company kitchen that we’re considering giving his trail of broken appliances their own line item in the budget. Apparently making toast is more challenging than the complex […]</description>
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<title>How to Manage People Who Are Smarter than You</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/how-to-manage-people-who-are-smarter-than-you</link>
<description>It’s natural to feel worried or insecure.</description>
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<title>Your Company Culture Can’t Be Disconnected from Your Customers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/03/your-company-culture-cant-be-disconnected-from-your-customers</link>
<description>Most companies only look inward.</description>
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<title>Managing Differences: The Central Challenge of Global Strategy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/03/managing-differences-the-central-challenge-of-global-strategy</link>
<description>With the globalization of production as well as markets, you need to evaluate your international strategy. Here’s a framework to help you think through your options.</description>
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<title>To Change Employee or Customer Behavior, Start Small</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/09/to-change-employee-or-customer-behavior-start-small</link>
<description>Tips from Google and behavioral economics.</description>
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<title>Managing Yourself: Turn the Job You Have into the Job You Want</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/06/managing-yourself-turn-the-job-you-have-into-the-job-you-want</link>
<description>A 30-year-old midlevel manager—let’s call her Fatima—is struggling at work, but you wouldn’t know it from outward appearances. A star member of her team in the marketing division of a large multinational foods company, Fatima consistently hits her benchmarks and goals. She invests long hours and has built relationships with colleagues that she deeply values. […]</description>
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<title>How to Ask for Feedback That Will Actually Help You</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/how-to-ask-for-feedback-that-will-actually-help-you</link>
<description>It can be hard to draw out the truth.</description>
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<title>Authentic Leadership</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/05/harvard-business-ideacast-43-a.html</link>
<description>Bill George, Harvard Business School professor and author of “True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership”.</description>
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<title>Honing Your Skills as a Peer Coach</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/02/honing-your-skills-as-a-peer-c</link>
<description>Okay, let’s say you and a few colleagues or friends have formed an informal peer coaching network dedicated to helping each other improve performance. What’s next? As I described in my last post, you can be either directive or nondirective in your coaching approach. Here, I’ll offer ideas for how you can increase your ability […]</description>
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<title>Why Paid Leave Matters for the Future of Business</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/why-paid-leave-matters-for-the-future-of-business</link>
<description>Leading business school faculty from across the U.S. make their case.</description>
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<title>Handling Emotional Outbursts on Your Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/handling-emotional-outbursts-on-your-team</link>
<description>How to deal with criers and screamers.</description>
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<title>Boost Resilience, Decrease Stress, and Improve Your Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2009/09/boost-resilience-decrease-stre.html</link>
<description>Stewart Friedman, Wharton School professor and author of “Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life.”</description>
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<title>How Managers’ Everyday Decisions Create—or Destroy—Your Company’s Strategy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/02/how-managers-everyday-decisions-create-or-destroy-your-companys-strategy</link>
<description>The cumulative impact of the allocation of resources by managers at any level has more real-world effect on strategy than any plans developed at headquarters.</description>
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<title>Making Mobility Matter</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/03/making-mobility-matter</link>
<description>Moves that develop a leader.</description>
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<title>Research: Using a Smartphone After 9 pm Leaves Workers Disengaged</title>
<link>http://hbr.org/2014/01/research-using-a-smartphone-after-9-pm-leaves-workers-disengaged/</link>
<description>Put the device down.</description>
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<title>Companies Drain Women’s Ambition After Only 2 Years</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/companies-drain-womens-ambition-after-only-2-years</link>
<description>But men’s ambition doubles.</description>
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<title>The Case of the Not-So-Supermarket</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1989/03/the-case-of-the-not-so-supermarket</link>
<description>Hilltop Stores 100 Bloomfield Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut 06105 Serving Greater Hartford Since 1926 Date: February 16, 1989 To: Margaret Flynn, CEO Hilltop From: Ed Boyer, VP for store operations Our contract with Local 413 expires June 18, so we need to start preparing for negotiations (they’re scheduled to begin in eight weeks). Now is a […]</description>
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<title>Beware the Busy Manager</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/02/beware-the-busy-manager</link>
<description>Are the least effective executives the ones who look like they are doing the most?</description>
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<title>One Out of Every Two Managers Is Terrible at Accountability</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/11/one-out-of-every-two-managers-is-terrible-at-accountability</link>
<description>Someone needs to be the sheriff, even if it’s a thankless job.</description>
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<title>How to Manage Remote Direct Reports</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/how-to-manage-remote-direct-reports</link>
<description>Start by setting expectations.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Design a Strategic Planning System</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1976/09/how-to-design-a-strategic-planning-system</link>
<description>In this sequel to their well-received earlier collaboration for HBR, “Strategic Planning in Diversified Companies” (January–February 1975), Peter Lorange and Richard F. Vancil take the reader through the steps necessary to implement and carry forward a formal strategic planning effort. They identify six issues that top management has to deal with along the way: communication […]</description>
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<title>The Myth of Performance Metrics</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/09/the-myth-of-performance-metric</link>
<description>There’s a bogus belief that gets in the way of managers when they evaluate performance. That myth says that in order for an appraisal to be objective, assessors must have quantifiable metrics to support their assessment judgment. That’s just not true. What is a performance appraisal? The straightforward answer: A performance appraisal is a formal […]</description>
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<title>Big Data: The Management Revolution</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/10/big-data-the-management-revolution</link>
<description>Exploiting vast new flows of information can radically improve your company’s performance. But first you’ll have to change your decision-making culture.</description>
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<title>Power Is the Great Motivator</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/01/power-is-the-great-motivator</link>
<description>Contrary to popular opinion, the best managers are the ones who like power—and use it.</description>
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<title>Seven Things Great Employers Do (that Others Don’t)</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/04/seven-things-great-employers-do-that-others-dont</link>
<description>A recipe for an engaged workforce.</description>
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<title>Manufacturing—Missing Link in Corporate Strategy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1969/05/manufacturing-missing-link-in-corporate-strategy</link>
<description>A company’s manufacturing function typically is either a competitive weapon or a corporate millstone. It is seldom neutral. The connection between manufacturing and corporate success is rarely seen as more than the achievement of high efficiency and low costs. In fact, the connection is much more critical and much more sensitive. Few top managers are […]</description>
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<title>Let Your Employees Bring Their Interests to Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/08/let-your-employees-bring-their-interests-to-work</link>
<description>They’ll be more engaged.</description>
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<title>Being a Parent Made Me a Better Manager, and Vice Versa</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/being-a-parent-made-me-a-better-manager-and-vice-versa</link>
<description>They share three transferable skills.</description>
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<title>Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/03/off-ramps-and-on-ramps-keeping-talented-women-on-the-road-to-success</link>
<description>Stepping off the career fast track is easy. What’s hard is getting back on. Careers, companies, and economies suffer when highly skilled women cannot get back where they belong.</description>
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<title>The HBR Interview: Technology, Tradition, and the Mouse</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/07/the-hbr-interview-technology-tradition-and-the-mouse</link>
<description>Listen to the interview this piece is based on.Download this podcast He wasn’t the odds-on favorite to succeed Michael Eisner. But when Bob Iger became CEO of Disney, in 2005, he confounded the skeptics. He quickly moved to calm the infighting that had roiled Disney, and then he launched the media giant into profitable new […]</description>
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<title>Interview Techniques That Get Beyond Canned Responses</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/interview-techniques-that-get-beyond-canned-responses</link>
<description>Change your tactics on the fly.</description>
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<title>Why Do You Want to Manage?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/08/why-do-you-want-to-manage</link>
<description>“Most new leaders advance in their careers due their proficiency with technical skills, but they don’t necessarily have the leadership abilities needed for success in their higher-level positions,” says Steve Cohen, senior vice president with Right Management. Bingo, Steve! Time and again, I have witnessed talented and productive employees move into management not only without […]</description>
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<title>Consulting Is More Than Giving Advice</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1982/09/consulting-is-more-than-giving-advice</link>
<description>Each year management consultants in the United States receive more than $2 billion for their services.1 Much of this money pays for impractical data and poorly implemented recommendations.2 To reduce this waste, clients need a better understanding of what consulting assignments can accomplish. They need to ask more from such advisers, who in turn must […]</description>
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<title>Carly Fiorina’s Legacy as CEO of Hewlett Packard</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/carly-fiorinas-legacy-as-ceo-of-hewlett-packard</link>
<description>Insights from 50 interviews with HP executives.</description>
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<title>The Discipline of Teams</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/07/the-discipline-of-teams</link>
<description>What makes the difference between a team that performs and one that doesn’t?</description>
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<title>When Your Boss Gives You Conflicting Messages</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/when-your-boss-gives-you-conflicting-messages</link>
<description>What to do when you’re told to “take risks” but “don’t fail.”</description>
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<title>Make Your Enemies Your Allies</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/05/make-your-enemies-your-allies</link>
<description>Three steps to reversing a rivalry at work</description>
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<title>Get Ahead With a Mentor Who Scares You</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/03/get-ahead-with-a-mentor-who-sc</link>
<description>“You’re the best!” the four American Idol contestants cried to their voice coach Patty after narrowly escaping elimination, “We couldn’t have done it without you!” As they celebrated, I couldn’t help but notice that their hero was the same irascible, no-holds-barred woman who had been shown yelling and screaming at the same contestants just minutes […]</description>
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<title>Managing Performance When It’s Hard to Measure</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/managing-performance-when-its-hard-to-measure</link>
<description>You need an individualized approach.</description>
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<title>When Does Executive Coaching Work?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/07/harvard-business-ideacast-104.html</link>
<description>Marshall Goldsmith, executive coach.</description>
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<title>How to Help Employees Return from Sick Leave</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/03/how-to-help-employees-return-f</link>
<description>Chances are you have faced the tough challenge of reintegrating an employee into the workplace after an extended sick leave. The dimensions of the task go well beyond the purely medical to include psychological, social, and workplace-specific factors. Although some companies are turning to professional disability managers, it’s usually up to frontline managers to navigate […]</description>
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<title>How to Minimize Your Biases When Making Decisions</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/09/how-to-minimize-your-biases-when</link>
<description>Challenge your assumptions, and you’ll reduce your risks.</description>
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<title>The Myth of the Top Management Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1997/11/the-myth-of-the-top-management-team</link>
<description>Even in the best companies, a so-called top team seldom functions as a real team.</description>
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<title>Want to Boost Productivity? Give Workers Bigger Screens</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/05/want-to-boost-productivity-giv</link>
<description>The easiest way to increase the productivity of people working on computers is to increase the size of their monitors. I recently suggested that a firm add an additional screen for all its customer service workers and you can see below that in a month’s time, the time per call decreased from about three minutes […]</description>
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<title>Proven Ways to Earn Your Employees’ Trust</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/proven-ways-to-earn-your-employees-trust</link>
<description>Without trust, performance inevitably suffers.</description>
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<title>Why People Cry at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/why-people-cry-at-work</link>
<description>You can’t deal with it if you don’t understand the cause.</description>
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<title>Three Ways to Recognize a Talent Magnet</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/02/three-ways-to-recognize-a-tale.html</link>
<description>By Tsun-yan Hsieh with Anthony Tjan (Tsun-yan Hsieh is working with Anthony Tjan and Richard Harrington on a book about entrepreneurship and building businesses. He is chairman of LinHart Group, a firm specialized in CEO leadership, and is a member of Cue Ball’s advisory group, the Cue Ball Collective.) Talent rules. Changing a business plan […]</description>
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<title>Your Strategy Needs a Strategy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/09/your-strategy-needs-a-strategy</link>
<description>Photography: Sylvain Deleu Artwork: Nuala O’Donovan, Radiolaria, Grid Yellow Centre, 2011, porcelain, stained, unglazed, 36 x 24 x 36 cm The oil industry holds relatively few surprises for strategists. Things change, of course, sometimes dramatically, but in relatively predictable ways. Planners know, for instance, that global supply will rise and fall as geopolitical forces play […]</description>
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<title>Seeing Yourself as Others See You</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/09/to-see-yourself-as-others-see.html</link>
<description>In our last blog, we argued that becoming a great boss required courage — in particular, the courage to find out how others see you. Almost certainly, we said, others’ perceptions of you will differ in important and perhaps disconcerting ways from your self-perceptions. Many of you responded with thoughtful comments — thank you! Some […]</description>
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<title>Connect and Develop: Inside Procter &amp; Gamble’s New Model for Innovation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/03/connect-and-develop-inside-procter-gambles-new-model-for-innovation</link>
<description>Procter &amp; Gamble’s radical strategy of open innovation now produces more than 35% of the company’s innovations and billions of dollars in revenue.</description>
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<title>The Sales Role Multinationals Need in Emerging Markets</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/the-sales-role-multinationals-need-in-emerging-markets</link>
<description>A channel manager.</description>
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<title>What Kind of Management Control Do You Need?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1973/03/what-kind-of-management-control-do-you-need</link>
<description>A good method of measuring a manager’s financial contribution to a company must meet two criteria. It must seem fair to the manager, and it must reward him for working for the benefit of the whole company, not just his department or division. Although simple in theory, these criteria become difficult to meet in practice. […]</description>
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<title>Connect, Then Lead</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/07/connect-then-lead</link>
<description>To exert influence, you must balance competence with warmth.</description>
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<title>If You’re Not Helping Employees Learn, You’re Not Doing Your Job</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/07/its-the-companys-job-to-help-employees-learn</link>
<description>Concrete steps managers can take.</description>
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<title>We Like Leaders Who Underrate Themselves</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/11/we-like-leaders-who-underrate-themselves</link>
<description>Self-awareness might not be the most important leadership skill after all.</description>
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<title>What You Can Do If You Have a Gossiping Boss</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-you-can-do-if-you-have-a-gossiping-boss</link>
<description>Take action.</description>
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<title>Isolate Toxic Employees to Reduce Their Negative Effects</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/11/isolate-toxic-employees-to-reduce-their-negative-effects</link>
<description>Even a small act of rudeness can ripple across a team.</description>
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<title>The 5 Things IBM Needs to Do to Win at AI</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/the-5-things-ibm-needs-to-do-to-win-at-ai</link>
<description>It has the technology — now it needs a startup mindset.</description>
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<title>To Keep Your Customers, Keep It Simple</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/05/to-keep-your-customers-keep-it-simple</link>
<description>They don’t want a “relationship” with you. Just help them make good choices.</description>
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<title>Managing Risks: A New Framework</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/06/managing-risks-a-new-framework</link>
<description>Smart companies match their approach to the nature of the threats they face.</description>
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<title>How Effective Managers Use Information Systems</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1976/11/how-effective-managers-use-information-systems</link>
<description>Advances in computer-based information technology in recent years have led to a wide variety of systems that managers are now using to make and implement decisions. By and large, these systems have been developed from scratch for specific purposes and differ significantly from standard electronic data processing systems. Too often, unfortunately, managers have little say […]</description>
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<title>The Dangers of Deference</title>
<link>http://hbr.org/2011/07/the-dangers-of-deference</link>
<description>Not long ago I sat in on a meeting of the executive leadership team for a global technology company. At the beginning of the session, the CEO quickly flashed a couple of slides on the screen that summarized key aspects of the firm’s strategy, saying, “You’ve all seen these charts before, so we don’t have […]</description>
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<title>Deconstructing Executive Presence</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/08/de-constructing-executive-pres</link>
<description>You need a baseline of self-confidence and a willingness to deal with unpredictable situations.</description>
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<title>Catch People in the Act of Doing Things Right</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/10/catch-people-in-the-act-of-doing-things-right</link>
<description>How to bring out the best in whomever you encounter.</description>
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<title>12 Gifts for Cash-Short, Recession-Weary Workplaces</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/12/12-gifts-for-cashshort-recessi.html</link>
<description>Welcome to holidays in a recession. Retailers play chicken with discounts. Office parties are downsized or terminated. E-cards from friends are caught in spam filters while paper cards arrive from people you’ve never heard of. Public school teachers are forced to refuse gifts from parents of their students. “Bonus” is a dirty word. The economy […]</description>
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<title>What Social Entrepreneurs Can Teach Your Company’s Future Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/02/what-social-entrepreneurs-can</link>
<description>They have experience in complex environments that are becoming the norm in business.</description>
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<title>Who’s Afraid of Data-Driven Management?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/05/whos-afraid-of-data-driven-management</link>
<description>A 2×2 matrix explains.</description>
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<title>Let First-Level Supervisors Do Their Job</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1980/03/let-first-level-supervisors-do-their-job</link>
<description>Performing well as a first-level supervisor is like walking the circus high wire. In both positions, the ability to maintain one’s balance when shifting forces pull in opposite directions is a measure of one’s success. First-level supervisors must be able to harmonize the demands of management, the demands of the collective work force (often represented […]</description>
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<title>How to Handle Difficult Conversations at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/how-to-handle-difficult-conversations-at-work</link>
<description>Start by changing your mindset.</description>
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<title>Making Sure Your Employees Succeed</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/02/making-sure-your-employees-suc</link>
<description>It’s common knowledge that helping employees set and reach goals is a critical part of every manager’s job. Employees want to see how their work contributes to larger corporate objectives, and setting the right targets makes this connection explicit for them, and for you, as their manager. Goal-setting is particularly important as a mechanism for […]</description>
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<title>Taking Time Seriously in Evaluating Jobs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1979/09/taking-time-seriously-in-evaluating-jobs</link>
<description>In appraising performance, designing pay systems, and in organizing and planning work, managers make assessments about the size and importance of jobs. Whether the assessments are accurate deeply affects how well the organization runs. But what do we mean when we say that one job is bigger than another? Bigger in what sense? One way […]</description>
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<title>Managing an Unpopular Change Effort</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/12/managing-an-unpopular-change-effort</link>
<description>Proven tips for first and second line managers charged with producing more and spending less.</description>
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<title>How to Get Happy: Tactics From the UK’s Cheeriest Company</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/08/should-your-job-make-you-happy</link>
<description>If you’re reading this column, I guess I’ve caught you at one of the best moments in your working year. The sun is shining, work is winding down for the summer and you’re probably heading off for your annual holiday. You’re ready to leave everything behind, to take some time out to reflect on your […]</description>
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<title>If You’re Going to Change Your Culture, Do It Quickly</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/11/if-youre-going-to-change-your-culture-do-it-quickly</link>
<description>Drive better results by tying culture to strategy.</description>
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<title>CEO Incentives—It’s Not How Much You Pay, But How</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1990/05/ceo-incentives-its-not-how-much-you-pay-but-how</link>
<description>The arrival of spring means yet another round in the national debate over executive compensation. Soon the business press will trumpet answers to the questions it asks every year: Who were the highest paid CEOs? How many executives made more than a million dollars? Who received the biggest raises? Political figures, union leaders, and consumer […]</description>
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<title>No Excuses Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1990/07/no-excuses-management</link>
<description>How Cypress’s management systems let executives monitor performance, anticipate problems, and intervene selectively—without layers of bureaucracy.</description>
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<title>Looking for Problems Makes Us Tired</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/looking-for-problems-makes-us-tired</link>
<description>New research identifies the costs of constant vigilance.</description>
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<title>Bad Leaders Can Change Their Spots</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/01/good-news-poor-leaders-can-cha</link>
<description>But first they have to recognize their fatal leadership flaws.</description>
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<title>The Truth About Private Equity Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/12/the-truth-about-private-equity-performance</link>
<description>Rising credit costs have already taken the bloom off private equity’s rose, but some funds (and some investors) are due for another shock. Our research shows that the way PE fund performance is most often reported overstates the truth. Here’s the problem: Private equity returns are often reported as the internal rate of return (IRR)—the […]</description>
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<title>The HBR Channel by Harvard Business Review on iTunes</title>
<link>http://s.hbr.org/dcfcev</link>
<description>Download past episodes or subscribe to future episodes of The HBR Channel by Harvard Business Review for free.</description>
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<title>High-Performance Marketing: An Interview with Nike’s Phil Knight</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1992/07/high-performance-marketing-an-interview-with-nikes-phil-knight</link>
<description>Nike is a champion brand builder. Its advertising slogans—“Bo Knows,” “Just Do It,” “There Is No Finish Line”—have moved beyond advertising into popular expression. Its athletic footwear and clothing have become a piece of Americana. Its brand name is as well-known around the world as IBM and Coke. So it may come as a surprise […]</description>
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<title>The Quest for Customer Focus</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/04/the-quest-for-customer-focus</link>
<description>Every company wants to get close to its customers, but wishing doesn’t make it so. New research identifies four stages of customer focus and maps the organizational changes necessary to navigate from one stage to the next.</description>
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<title>Job Matching for Better Sales Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1980/09/job-matching-for-better-sales-performance</link>
<description>When sales and marketing executives get together, the high turnover and poor productivity of salespeople are probably the two most widely discussed topics. Unfortunately, they rarely talk about or challenge the hiring criteria that, more than any other factor, cause this waste. The very basis on which hiring judgments are made helps explain why high […]</description>
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<title>International Tourism</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/05/international-tourism</link>
<description>I spent a stimulating afternoon yesterday with The Conference Board’s Executive Coaching Council talking about the work I’m doing on using coaching to accelerate senior executive transitions. The Council is a group of about 25 talent management executives with responsibility for overseeing executive coaching at Fortune 500 companies. It’s a really great group that is […]</description>
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<title>CEOs Can’t Give Feedback Only to Their Direct Reports</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/ceos-cant-give-feedback-only-to-their-direct-reports</link>
<description>How Campbell Soup changed its approach.</description>
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<title>Workers with Disabilities Solved This Company’s Talent Crisis</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/09/workers-with-disabilities-solv</link>
<description>An Indian firm found motivated employees in an unlikely place.</description>
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<title>Love, Trust, and Candor: Today’s Management Priorities</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/08/love-trust-and-candor-todays-management-priorities</link>
<description>Candid feedback helps build better businesses.</description>
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<title>How to Manage Managers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/08/how-to-manage-managers</link>
<description>Model the behavior you want to see.</description>
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<title>Is Your Company Encouraging Employees to Share What They Know?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/11/is-your-company-encouraging-employees-to-share-what-they-know</link>
<description>Too much expertise is going to waste.</description>
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<title>The Experience Trap</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/the-experience-trap</link>
<description>As projects get more complicated, managers stop learning from their experience. It is important to understand how that happens and how to change it.</description>
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<title>Reinventing Performance Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/reinventing-performance-management</link>
<description>How one company is rethinking peer feedback and the annual review, and trying to design a system to fuel improvement</description>
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<title>Stop Basing Pay on Performance Reviews</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/stop-basing-pay-on-performance-reviews</link>
<description>Severing the link to compensation is the key to honest feedback.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Conquering a Culture of Indecision</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2001/04/conquering-a-culture-of-indecision-2</link>
<description>Some people just can’t make up their minds. The same goes for some companies—and their performance suffers as a result. But new research shows that leaders can eradicate indecision by transforming the tone and content of everyday conversations at their organizations.</description>
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<title>The Two Most Important Words</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/04/the-two-most-important-words</link>
<description>When I arrived at Mattel, the company was losing almost a million dollars a day, the bonus pool was empty, and equity awards were underwater. I believed that those challenges were surmountable. On my first day, at a “town hall” gathering in the cafeteria, I said, “I know how this works. We will turn things […]</description>
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<title>E Pluribus Computum</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1986/09/e-pluribus-computum</link>
<description>Although computers have spread into every corner of the organization, although people have become more knowledgeable and enthusiastic about them, many of their promises have not been fulfilled. End-user computing, which enables users to develop their own applications, has potentially the greatest impact of any development in the computer field. But for many organizations it […]</description>
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<title>Managing Middlescence</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/03/managing-middlescence</link>
<description>Midcareer employees and managers, who should be at their peak of productivity, are the most disaffected segment of the workforce. Companies need to find ways to rekindle the fires of this vast, neglected group of people—or risk losing them altogether.</description>
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<title>How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/09/how-pixar-fosters-collective-creativity</link>
<description>Behind Pixar’s string of hit movies, says the studio’s president, is a peer-driven process for solving problems.</description>
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<title>How a Bathtub-Shaped Graph Helped a Company Avoid Disaster</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/how-a-bathtub-shaped-graph-helped-a-company-avoid-disaster</link>
<description>“Small data” helped an HR department identify a hidden problem.</description>
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<title>Do You Need to Lighten Up or Toughen Up?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/03/do-you-need-to-lighten-up-or-toughen-up</link>
<description>Feedback needs to be carefully tailored or it will likely backfire.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>What Service Customers Really Want</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/09/what-service-customers-really-want</link>
<description>Superior customer service can be an essential source of strength as companies emerge from the recession, but managers need to understand the extent to which the consumer landscape has shifted. Weakened brands, customers’ easy access to information about vendors, and the erosion of barriers to switching among competitors have combined to create a much more […]</description>
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<title>When You’ve Got to Cut Costs—Now</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/05/when-youve-got-to-cut-costs-now</link>
<description>A practical guide to reducing overhead by 10%, 20%, or (wince) 30%.</description>
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<title>The Power of Dignity in the Workplace</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/04/the-power-of-dignity-in-the-workplace</link>
<description>Give your employees autonomy. You’ll see results.</description>
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<title>Meet the Wellness Programs That Save Companies Money</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/04/meet-the-wellness-programs-that-save-companies-money</link>
<description>The debate over ROI has overlooked chronically ill and at-risk employees.</description>
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<title>Women Are Over-Mentored (But Under-Sponsored)</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2010/08/women-are-over-mentored-but-un.html</link>
<description>Herminia Ibarra, professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD and coauthor of the HBR article “Why Men Still Get More Promotions Than Women.”</description>
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<title>What Design Thinking Is Doing for the San Francisco Opera</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/what-design-thinking-is-doing-for-the-san-francisco-opera</link>
<description>A perfectionist organization learns to experiment.</description>
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<title>The Case for Hiring “Outlier” Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/the-case-for-hiring-outlier-employees</link>
<description>Society can’t afford to set aside people who are different.</description>
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<title>Why Do We Spend So Much Developing Senior Leaders and So Little Training New Managers?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/why-do-we-spend-so-much-developing-senior-leaders-and-so-little-training-new-managers</link>
<description>Fixing a learning imbalance.</description>
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<title>In Praise of Middle Managers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2001/09/in-praise-of-middle-managers</link>
<description>For years, middle managers have gotten a bad rap as inflexible, unimaginative bureaucrats. But a new study shows that when it comes to implementing radical change, middle managers are your best bet for success.</description>
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<title>Six Principles for Developing Humility as a Leader</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/09/six-principles-for-developing</link>
<description>It’s the most valuable attribute we’re not teaching our high-potentials.</description>
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<title>Creative Job Titles Can Energize Workers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/creative-job-titles-can-energize-workers</link>
<description>They reduce burnout and increase satisfaction.</description>
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<title>People Are Not Cogs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/06/people-are-not-cogs</link>
<description>Every day I go to meetings where language suggests people are cogs. With peers in a few CEO roundtables, I’ve heard things like: “I plan on hiring 3 biz dev people to get $345K per headcount in revenues.” After publishing a book about closing the execution gap by focusing on the “peopley” stuff, CEOs of […]</description>
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<title>Grow Your Stars—Don’t Buy Them</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/09/grow-your-starsdont-buy-them-2</link>
<description>Boris Groysberg, Harvard Business School professor and coauthor of the HBR article Employee Motivation: A Powerful New Model. Many star performers hired from outside don’t perform as expected at their new company. So, develop stars within your company; for example, through strong training and mentoring programs.</description>
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<title>The 5 Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/12/the-5-skills-that-innovative-leaders-have-in-common</link>
<description>Based on an analysis of 5,000 leaders.</description>
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<title>Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/04/predictable-surprises-the-disasters-you-should-have-seen-coming</link>
<description>The signs of an impending crisis often lie all around us, yet we still don’t see them. Fortunately, there are ways to spot danger before it’s too late.</description>
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<title>Step by Step Through a Union Campaign</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1981/07/step-by-step-through-a-union-campaign</link>
<description>At the first sign of union organizing, company management often decides to do “whatever is necessary to defeat the union,” as one corporate vice president put it. Without advance thought or preparation, the company launches a policy of resistance and often winds up before the National Labor Relations Board charged with unfair labor practices. Sometimes […]</description>
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<title>The Best Luxury Services Are Customized, Not Standardized</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/03/the-best-luxury-services-are-customized-not-standardized</link>
<description>You can’t rely on a checklist.</description>
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<title>What Kind of Leader Do You Want to Be?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/what-kind-of-leader-do-you-want-to-be</link>
<description>Deciding is the missing step to leading well.</description>
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<title>The Delicate Art of Giving Feedback</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/03/the-delicate-art-of-giving-fee</link>
<description>Be sparing with criticism and generous with praise.</description>
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<title>How to Take the Bias Out of Interviews</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/04/how-to-take-the-bias-out-of-interviews</link>
<description>It’s easier to improve processes than people.</description>
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<title>Competent Jerks, Lovable Fools, and the Formation of Social Networks</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2005/06/competent-jerks-lovable-fools-and-the-formation-of-social-networks</link>
<description>New research shows that when people need help getting a job done, they’ll choose a congenial colleague over a more capable one. That has big implications for every organization—and not all of them are negative.</description>
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<title>Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2001/03/building-the-emotional-intelligence-of-groups</link>
<description>By now, most executives have accepted that emotional intelligence is as critical as IQ to an individual’s effectiveness. But much of the important work in organizations is done in teams. New research uncovers what emotional intelligence at the group level looks like—and how to achieve it.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How Power Affects Your Productivity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/how-power-affects-your-productivity</link>
<description>And everyone else’s.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Down with Knee-Jerk Downsizing</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/10/down-with-knee-jerk-downsizing</link>
<description>Recently, the Wall Street Journal had a startling headline: “Lean Companies Ready to Cut.” Its opening sentence: “Despite another quarter of robust corporate profits, an ominous impulse is stirring at many big companies — restructuring.” Spooked by prospects of sluggish revenue growth in 2012, some large companies, already quite lean, are making plans to slash […]</description>
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<title>Three Things that Actually Motivate Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/10/three-things-that-actually-motivate-employees</link>
<description>Mastery, membership, and meaning are all more important than money.</description>
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<title>Motivating People to Perform at Their Peak</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/motivating-people-to-perform-at-their-peak</link>
<description>How to get them to explore new possibilities instead of exploiting the tried-and-true.</description>
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<title>For Real Productivity, Less is Truly More</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/05/for-real-productivity-less-is</link>
<description>When I wrote a post on this site about The Myth of Productivity recently, a number of commentators argued productivity has gone up not because employees are running scared, but rather because companies have finally laid off the slackers who were dragging productivity down. There are surely plenty of low performers who got the ax, […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Stop Enabling Gossip on Your Team</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/stop-enabling-gossip-on-your-team</link>
<description>Give people alternative channels to express and solve problems.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Case Against Pay Transparency</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/the-case-against-pay-transparency</link>
<description>The benefits aren’t worth the costs.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Championing Change: An Interview with Bell Atlantic’s CEO Raymond Smith</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1991/01/championing-change-an-interview-with-bell-atlantics-ceo-raymond-smith</link>
<description>Infusing bureaucracy with entrepreneurial energy starts at the top.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Productivity Challenge of an Aging Global Workforce</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-productivity-challenge-of-an-aging-global-workforce</link>
<description>A look at new research from the McKinsey Global Institute.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Give Feedback to a Perfectionist</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/11/how-to-manage-a-perfectionist-2</link>
<description>Having a perfectionist on your team can be an asset. Perfectionists are driven to succeed, work hard to avoid mistakes, and are always striving to improve. Yet it can be a challenge to manage someone who needs everything to be perfect. In my work with perfectionists, I often ask, “How do you want others to […]</description>
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<title>When an Employee Quits and You Didn’t See It Coming</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/when-an-employee-quits-and-you-didnt-see-it-coming</link>
<description>Try to hide the shock.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Diving into Deep Waters</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/04/diving-into-deep-waters</link>
<description>Coaching can often take unexpected turns. For many executives, a coaching session can be the first opportunity in their working lives to sit back and reflect on who they are and what they have become. It can be a powerful moment when light shines into unexpected corners. While younger managers have grown up in more […]</description>
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<title>Do You Have What It Takes to Help Your Team Be Creative?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/12/do-you-have-what-it-takes-to-help-your-team-be-creative</link>
<description>There are eight competencies you need.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Do You Have a Growth Mindset?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/11/do-you-have-a-growth-mindset</link>
<description>Mindset is everything. If that statement seems too strong, consider that we bring these basic assumptions to every decision and action we make. Left unexamined, they may unnecessarily restrict us or lead us in the wrong direction altogether. Perception may not truly be reality, but when it comes to how we approach challenges and opportunities, […]</description>
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<title>Measure Employee Productivity Accurately - HBR Video</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/video/2235472805001/measure-employee-productivity-accurately</link>
<description>Francesca Gino, author of the HBR Press book Sidetracked, explains how managers can work around input bias to get a real picture of performance in their companies.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Ten Ways to Get People to Change</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/09/ten-ways-to-get-people-to-chan</link>
<description>Most people use only a few of these tactics. The most persuasive use them all.</description>
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<title>One Cost System Isn’t Enough</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1988/01/one-cost-system-isnt-enough</link>
<description>Many companies now recognize that their cost systems are inadequate for today’s powerful competition. Systems designed mainly to value inventory for financial and tax statements are not giving managers the accurate and timely information they need to promote operating efficiencies and measure product costs. In response, they have tried to redesign their present systems, but […]</description>
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<title>A Better Way to Deliver Bad News</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/09/a-better-way-to-deliver-bad-news</link>
<description>Critiquing weak performance is a job nobody likes. But by taking a more open approach, you can be a better boss—and get a lot more from your team.</description>
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<title>Is Your Employee Coachable?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/is-your-employee-coachable</link>
<description>What to do when your development plan’s not working.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Use Twitter to Collect Micro-Feedback</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/03/twitters-potential-as-microfee</link>
<description>“Ugh,” you may sigh to yourself when you receive a colleague’s request to fill out a 360-degree feedback instrument with 150 items. Of course you’re lucky if you only get one; you may get a half dozen requests or more if other colleagues attend the same development program. Feedback is best when provided as close […]</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The 3 Ways Work Can Be Automated</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/10/the-3-ways-work-can-be-automated</link>
<description>And what each one is good for.</description>
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<title>Understanding “People” People</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/06/understanding-people-people</link>
<description>Facilitation, teamwork, influence, and creative communication—they’re all people skills. The trick is to match talents with tasks.</description>
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<title>How Successful Leaders Think</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/06/how-successful-leaders-think</link>
<description>We look for lessons in the actions of great leaders. We should instead be examining what goes on in their heads—particularly the way they creatively build on the tensions among conflicting ideas.</description>
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<title>Evaluating the Employees You Can’t See</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/12/evaluating-the-employees-you-c</link>
<description>We all tend to trust what we can see. If someone is always in the office early and leaves late, you’d probably assume he is a dedicated, hard-working employee. But he might actually be the least productive of his co-workers. And that’s why numerous experts have advised that companies should avoid management by observation, and […]</description>
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<title>How Structured Debate Helps Your Team Grow</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/12/how-structured-debate-helps-your-team-grow</link>
<description>It creates opportunities to question the status quo.</description>
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<title>The 8 Self-Assessments You Need to Improve at Work This Year</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/the-8-self-assessments-you-need-to-improve-at-work-this-year</link>
<description>You need to know where you’re starting from.</description>
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<title>Bridging the Professional Divide Between Nurses and Medical Residents</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/09/bridging-the-professional-divide-between-nurses-and-medical-residents</link>
<description>Initiatives at Mayo Clinic have improved professional relations and increased patient satisfaction.</description>
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<title>Fixing the Leadership Gap in Southeast Asia</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/fixing-the-leadership-gap-in-southeast-asia</link>
<description>Five strategies culled from top ASEAN executives.</description>
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<title>Getting Brand Communities Right</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/04/getting-brand-communities-right</link>
<description>Embrace conflict, resist the urge to control, forget opinion leaders—and build your brand.</description>
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<title>The Challenge of the Average Employee</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/10/the-challenge-of-the-average-e.html</link>
<description>Most businesses have a normal distribution of talent — a limited number, say top 10 percent, of high potential, rock star performers, a bottom decile of underperformers, and a thick middle of 80 percent of folks who get the day-to-day stuff done. In well-managed businesses, there are clear feedback mechanisms to ensure that the bottom […]</description>
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<title>The False Promise of the Single Metric</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/the-false-promise-of-the-single-metric</link>
<description>Great CEOs focus on more than one thing at a time.</description>
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<title>How to Make Feedback Feel Normal</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/08/how-to-make-feedback-feel-normal</link>
<description>A moving company’s unusual approach to improving performance.</description>
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<title>Africa’s Companies Need to Become More Like Training Schools</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/africas-companies-need-to-become-more-like-training-schools</link>
<description>Investing in employees can help solve Africa’s youth unemployment crisis.</description>
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<title>Are Scorecards and Metrics Killing Employee Engagement?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/07/are-scorecards-and-metrics-kil</link>
<description>Staff Sgts. Fred Hilliker and Robert O’Hair were boarding Delta Flight 1625 in Baltimore for the final leg of their journey home from Afghanistan with 32 others in their U.S. Army unit when their homecoming came to an abrupt halt. Delta personnel told the soldiers they needed to pay $200 for each person that had […]</description>
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<title>Making Virtual Teams Work: Ten Basic Principles</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/06/making-virtual-teams-work-ten</link>
<description>How to build the foundation for superior performance.</description>
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<title>Managers: To Make a Good Hire, Take a Good Look Inside</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/02/managers-to-make-a-good-hire-t</link>
<description>Only by knowing yourself can you avoid unknowingly hiring people who can’t work successfully for you. by Liz Simpson</description>
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<title>Building Deep Supplier Relationships</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/12/building-deep-supplier-relationships</link>
<description>Two Japanese automakers have had stunning success building relationships with North American suppliers—often the same companies that have had contentious dealings with Detroit’s Big Three. What are Toyota and Honda doing right?</description>
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<title>Structure Your Presentation Like a Story</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/10/structure-your-presentation-li</link>
<description>To win people over, create tension between the status quo and a better way.</description>
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<title>The Common Myths About Performance Reviews, Debunked</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/07/the-common-myths-about-performance-reviews-debunked</link>
<description>Yes, plenty of people get poor scores.</description>
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<title>How Smart Leaders Translate Strategy into Execution</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/07/how-smart-leaders-translate-st</link>
<description>Too many CEOs and other leaders today are uncertain about their role in executing strategy. Too often they relegate this and miss an important opportunity to perform the role of Chief Execution Officer. Unlike a traditional CEO, the Chief Execution Officer gets involved in the details of strategy execution by: translating the strategy into measurable […]</description>
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<title>The Strategic Secret of Private Equity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/09/the-strategic-secret-of-private-equity</link>
<description>Why “buying to sell” can generate a much higher return on investment than the public company practice of “buying to keep”</description>
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<title>The Best Investment You’ll Ever Make</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/05/the-best-investment-youll-ever</link>
<description>With nervous, but mostly eager, anticipation I walked up to the C-suite floor to meet with a senior manager at Merrill Lynch. When I’d initially met him two years earlier, he’d seemed quite supportive of my career as a sell-side analyst. And now that I was Institutional Investor double-ranked, I decided to reach out to […]</description>
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<title>The Neuroscience of Trust</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/01/the-neuroscience-of-trust</link>
<description>Management behaviors that foster employee engagement</description>
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<title>Employees Perform Better When They Can Control Their Space</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/employees-perform-better-when-they-can-control-their-space</link>
<description>Workers with flexibility are more satisfied, innovative, and productive.</description>
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<title>People Who Think They’re Great Coaches Often Aren’t</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/people-who-think-theyre-great-coaches-often-arent</link>
<description>And those who underrate themselves are better than they think.</description>
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<title>Why Keeping Salaries a Secret May Hurt Your Company</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/03/why-keeping-salaries-a-secret-may-hurt-your-company</link>
<description>There are benefits to pay transparency, especially for high performers.</description>
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<title>How to Present to Senior Executives</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/10/how-to-present-to-senior-execu</link>
<description>Cut to the chase. Keep their attention.</description>
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<title>Measuring the Strategic Readiness of Intangible Assets</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/02/measuring-the-strategic-readiness-of-intangible-assets</link>
<description>A real—and revolutionary—opportunity lies in studying and assessing how well prepared a company’s people, systems, and culture are to carry out its strategy.</description>
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<title>The Attack on Pay</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1987/03/the-attack-on-pay</link>
<description>Status, not contribution, has traditionally been the basis for the numbers on employees’ paychecks. Pay has reflected where jobs rank in the corporate hierarchy—not what comes out of them. Today this system is under attack. More and more senior executives are trying to turn their employees into entrepreneurs—people who earn a direct return on the […]</description>
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<title>How to Communicate Dissent at Work</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/02/how-to-communicate-dissent-at</link>
<description>Tips for knowing when, and how, to speak up.</description>
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<title>Good Communication Goes Beyond Open Door Policies</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/05/good-communication-goes-beyond</link>
<description>[For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.] Editors’ note: This is the first in a series of posts examining myths about why employees don’t speak up, based on the June HBR article, “Debunking Four Myths About Employee Silence.” Leaders are supposed to solve problems and drive strategies. Judging by their performance over the last few […]</description>
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<title>What’s Holding Women Back in Science and Technology Industries</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/03/whats-holding-women-back-in-science-and-technology-industries</link>
<description>These male-centered cultures are causing women to walk out the door.</description>
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<title>How an Accounting Firm Convinced Its Employees They Could Change the World</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/10/how-an-accounting-firm-convinced-its-employees-they-could-change-the-world</link>
<description>With storytelling.</description>
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<title>In the Age of Loneliness, Connections at Work Matter</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/09/in-the-age-of-loneliness-connections-at-work-matter</link>
<description>Six ways to bring us closer together.</description>
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<title>Weave Change into Your HR Processes</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/12/weave-change-into-your-hr-proc</link>
<description>Profound changes in an organization must be led from the top, but human resource professionals can play a big part in making them happen. Consider HR’s role in accelerating Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates’ operational improvement initiative. This 4,500-employee Massachusetts healthcare group embarked on “Care Improvement” three years ago. Chief Human Resources Officer Dan Michaud told […]</description>
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<title>Group Technology and Productivity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1984/07/group-technology-and-productivity</link>
<description>Group technology is drawing increasing interest from manufacturers because of its many applications for boosting productivity. GT is an approach to manufacturing that seeks to maximize production efficiencies by grouping similar and recurring problems or tasks. Through a careful examination of the many applications of GT, the authors show how it saves time, avoids duplication, […]</description>
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<title>How to Manage Someone Who Can’t Handle Ambiguity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/how-to-manage-someone-who-cant-handle-ambiguity</link>
<description>Getting past good vs. evil, hero vs. villain, and love vs. hate.</description>
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<title>Social Media Is Too Important to Be Left to the Marketing Department</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/04/social-media-is-too-important-to-be-left-to-the-marketing-department</link>
<description>Why companies need a cross-functional social media team.</description>
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<title>How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/12/how-to-stay-stuck-in-the-wrong-career</link>
<description>You’re ready to chuck it all and start afresh. Just make sure you don’t listen to the usual advice about changing careers.</description>
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<title>Upgrade Your Company’s Image—and Valuation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1984/01/upgrade-your-companys-image-and-valuation</link>
<description>The primary goal of any company is to attract the customers to its product or service. But smaller companies often pursue the goal so singlemindedly that they overlook or give only passing attention to the image they project to the world at large. This image can affect the attention smaller businesses get from those people […]</description>
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<title>The Folly of Stretch Goals</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/04/the-folly-of-stretch-goals</link>
<description>Let’s dispense, once and for all, with the managerial absurdity known as “stretch goals.” While it’s true that renowned psychologists Edwin Locke and Gary Latham described goal setting as “the most effective managerial tool available,” it’s also true that no less a thinker than W.E. Deming insisted that companies, “Eliminate management by objective.” In my […]</description>
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<title>Four Tips for Building Accountability</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/08/looking-in-the-mirror-of-accou</link>
<description>“Accountability” is a favorite word to invoke when the lack of it has become so apparent — such as now, with the global financial crisis. It is also a loaded word and political football in major sectors crying out for reform, such as health care and public education. Who should get what data about physician […]</description>
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<title>Security Alert</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/07/security-alert</link>
<description>When the economy’s down—and budgets are stressed—the threat level rises.</description>
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<title>4 Ways to Make Conference Calls Less Terrible</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/4-ways-to-make-conference-calls-less-terrible</link>
<description>For one, most of them should be video meetings instead.</description>
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<title>Purchasing’s Role in New Product Development</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1985/09/purchasings-role-in-new-product-development</link>
<description>In industry after industry, sustained competitive advantage now flows from the ability to introduce well-designed new products in a timely fashion. As product life cycles shrink and few market segments provide safe harbors from the winds of competition, companies find it more important than ever to master the work of developing new products. American science […]</description>
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<title>How Companies Can Develop Critical Thinkers and Creative Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/10/how-companies-can-develop-crit.html</link>
<description>This post is part of an HBR Spotlight examining leadership lessons from the military. Today’s leaders are continually cajoled to act as “outside-the-box” thinkers. Such pronouncements give the impression the only sound solutions are ones never previously conceived. However, what industry and the military really strive to produce are leaders possessing strong critical and creative […]</description>
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<title>The Growth Crisis—and How to Escape It</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/07/the-growth-crisis-and-how-to-escape-it</link>
<description>A combination of forces is making it harder than ever for companies to increase their revenues. But there is a way out of the trap—and it’s closer at hand than you might think.</description>
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<title>Even Tiny Rewards Can Motivate People to Go the Extra Mile</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/even-tiny-rewards-can-motivate-people-to-go-the-extra-mile</link>
<description>A study of truly piddling rewards in online learning.</description>
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<title>The CEO’s Role in Business Model Reinvention</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/01/the-ceos-role-in-business-model-reinvention</link>
<description>A forward-looking CEO must do three things: Manage the present, selectively forget the past, and create the future.</description>
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<title>How to Know If Someone Is Ready to Be a Manager</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/how-to-know-if-someone-is-ready-to-be-a-manager</link>
<description>Questions to ask.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>The Two Sides of Employee Engagement</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/12/the-two-sides-of-employee-engagement</link>
<description>You have to measure both.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Positive Intelligence</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/01/positive-intelligence</link>
<description>Three ways individuals can cultivate their own sense of well-being and set themselves up to succeed</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Ten Charts That Show We’ve All Got a Case of the Mondays</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/06/ten-charts-that-show-weve-all-got-a-case-of-the-mondays</link>
<description>Results from a new Gallup poll on the persistent state of employee disengagement.</description>
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<title>Manage Your Team’s Collective Time</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/manage-your-teams-collective-time</link>
<description>Time management is a group endeavor. The payoff goes far beyond morale and retention.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>What to Say and Do When Your Employee Has Another Job Offer</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/05/what-to-say-and-do-when-your-employee-has-another-job-offer</link>
<description>Resist the temptation to counteroffer.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Retaining a Workforce That Wants to Quit</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/07/retaining-a-workforce-that-want</link>
<description>In each of the past three months, more employees quit their jobs than were terminated, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is good news for the economy but bad for individual businesses: when jobs become more plentiful, the first to exit are often the business’s most ambitious employees — the innovators, the […]</description>
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<title>Get Ready for Your Next Assignment</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/12/get-ready-for-your-next-assignment</link>
<description>Three steps for making the most of an internal move</description>
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<title>Who Moved My Cube?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/07/who-moved-my-cube</link>
<description>Creating workspaces that actually foster collaboration</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How Women (and Men) Can Find Role Models When None Are Obvious</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/how-women-and-men-can-find-role-models-when-none-are-obvious</link>
<description>Focus on behaviors you admire.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>If You Want Honesty, Break Some Rules</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2002/04/if-you-want-honesty-break-some-rules</link>
<description>How do you create a culture where people aren’t afraid to speak the truth and candid information flows freely?</description>
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<title>Managing Yourself: What Brain Science Tells Us About How to Excel</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/12/managing-yourself-what-brain-science-tells-us-about-how-to-excel</link>
<description>A doctor’s prescription for achieving peak performance.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>A Checklist for Someone About to Take on a Tougher Job</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/a-checklist-for-someone-about-to-take-on-a-tougher-job</link>
<description>Questions to ask when you’re going through transitions.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Empowered</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/07/empowered</link>
<description>In a world where one angry tweet can torpedo a brand, corporations need to unleash their employees to fight back.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Is Your Boss a Bully? Stop Being the Target.</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/11/is-your-boss-a-bully-stop-bein</link>
<description>The total jobless rate in the US is 10.2%, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. As the number of employees dwindles, companies are requiring fewer people to do more work, burdening an already stressed workforce. Bullies, especially bullying bosses, are unaffordable. According to Robert Sutton’s The No Asshole Rule, the […]</description>
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<title>Manager’s Guide to Forecasting</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1986/01/managers-guide-to-forecasting</link>
<description>Early in 1984, the Houston-based COMPAQ Computer Corporation, manufacturer of IBM-compatible microcomputers, faced a decision that would profoundly affect its future. Recognizing that IBM would soon introduce its version of the portable computer and threaten COMPAQ’s dominance in this profitable market, the company had two options. It could elect to specialize in this product line […]</description>
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<title>A Jobs Compact for America’s Future</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/03/a-jobs-compact-for-americas-future</link>
<description>Badly needed investments in human capital are not being made. What can we do—together—to jump-start the process?</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>What We’re Watching in Business Psychology</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/07/what-were-watching-in-business-psychology</link>
<description>This month we’re looking at flattery and ingratiation, pervasive tools of influence in the workplace. Across the next few pages, we’ll show why insincere compliments and sucking up are effective—and risky. With Customers, Any Compliment Will Do… In a simple but striking experiment, students who were identified as would-be clothing shoppers received an overtly flattering […]</description>
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<title>3 Ways to Make Less Biased Decisions</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/04/3-ways-to-make-less-biased-decisions</link>
<description>Awareness isn’t enough.</description>
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<title>Collaborative Overload</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/collaborative-overload</link>
<description>Too much teamwork exhausts employees and saps productivity. Here’s how to avoid it.</description>
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<title>Great Leaders Are Made, Not Born</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/01/great-leaders-are-made-not-bor</link>
<description>Are leaders born or made? This is one of the most frequently asked questions in all leadership development. To begin with, let’s start with a definition of “leader.” My friend and mentor, Dr. Paul Hersey, defines leadership as “working with and through others to achieve objectives.” Given this definition, anyone in a position whose achievement […]</description>
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<title>Why Leaders Don’t Learn from Success</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/04/why-leaders-dont-learn-from-success</link>
<description>Failures get a postmortem. Why not triumphs?</description>
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<title>Why Some Bosses Bully Their Best Employees</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/06/why-some-bosses-bully-their-best-employees</link>
<description>It depends on their views of hierarchy — and we have a quiz for that.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Great Leaders Embrace Office Politics</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/04/great-leaders-embrace-office-politics</link>
<description>Even when it makes them uncomfortable.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Interpretive Management: What General Managers Can Learn from Design</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1998/03/interpretive-management-what-general-managers-can-learn-from-design</link>
<description>In an uncertain environment, conversation becomes more important than closure.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How Poor Leaders Become Good Leaders</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/02/how-poor-leaders-become-good-l</link>
<description>They need to practice common managerial virtues far more often than they’re doing.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Love Your Ex-Employees and They’ll Love You Back</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/11/love-your-ex-employees-and-theyll-love-you-back</link>
<description>The relationship shouldn’t end when they leave the company.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Making the Most of Webinars</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/03/making-the-most-of-webinars</link>
<description>A new survey shows most attendees don’t find them valuable. So what works?</description>
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<title>“Undercover Boss” and the Missing Information Loop</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/02/undercover-boss-and-the-missin-2</link>
<description>It’s hard to argue that a primetime network T.V. show that debuts after the Super Bowl has any mission other than to entertain the masses. It’s perhaps unfair then to ascribe any further responsibility to “Undercover Boss”. In reality T.V., however, there is an endgame separate and apart from mere entertainment. “The Bachelor” promises love, […]</description>
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<title>Identifying the Biases Behind Your Bad Decisions</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/10/identifying-the-biases-behind-your-bad-decisions</link>
<description>You might think you’re immune, but you’re not.</description>
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<title>How to Help an Underperformer</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/06/how-to-help-an-underperformer</link>
<description>First, see if you’re the problem.</description>
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<title>Update Your Job Search</title>
<link>http://hbr.org/2013/10/update-your-job-search/</link>
<description>If you’ve been hunkered down in the same job for the past five years, here’s a guide for starting fresh.</description>
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<title>Cracking the Code of Change</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2000/05/cracking-the-code-of-change</link>
<description>Until now, change in business has been an either-or proposition: either quickly create economic value for shareholders or patiently develop an open, trusting corporate culture long term. But new research indicates that combining these “hard” and “soft” approaches can radically transform the way businesses change.</description>
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<title>What Great Companies Know About Culture</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/12/what-great-companies-know-abou</link>
<description>Even in this unprecedented business environment, great leaders know they should invest in their people. Those companies who are committed to a strong workplace culture tend to perform well, and now they are featured prominently in a new ranking recently released by Great Place to Work Institute. Among the top performers on the 2011 World’s […]</description>
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<title>The Right Way to Manage Expats</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1999/03/the-right-way-to-manage-expats</link>
<description>Sending executives abroad is expensive, but most companies don’t get much back for their money. Those that do follow three practices.</description>
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<title>How the Quest for Efficiency Corroded the Market</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2003/07/how-the-quest-for-efficiency-corroded-the-market</link>
<description>In a textbook instance of unintended consequences, policy makers’ attempts to improve U.S. financial markets critically weakened the institutions that protect investors from abuse. Radical reform is needed.</description>
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<title>Executive Psychopaths</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2004/10/executive-psychopaths</link>
<description>Chances are good there’s a psychopath on your management team. Seriously. I’m not talking about the “psycho” boss that employees like to carp about—the hard-driving supervisor who sometimes loses it. He’s just difficult. Nor am I referring to the sort of homicidal “psychopath” Hollywood likes to serve up—Freddy Krueger, say, or Brando’s Colonel Kurtz. Neither […]</description>
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<title>Positive Teams Are More Productive</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/03/positive-teams-are-more-productive</link>
<description>Research-based ways to make your employees happier.</description>
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<title>Will Your Bad Boss Make You a Bad Boss, Too?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/11/will-your-bad-boss-make-you-a-bad-boss-too</link>
<description>Not necessarily.</description>
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<title>How Managers Can Promote Healthy Discussions About Race</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/how-managers-can-promote-healthy-discussions-about-race</link>
<description>Be proactive.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Executives Ignore Valuable Employee Actions that They Can’t Measure</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/executives-ignore-valuable-employee-actions-that-they-cant-measure</link>
<description>Easily-collectable data may not be the most important.</description>
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<title>Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/01/building-a-game-changing-talent-strategy</link>
<description>The most effective people policies—like those at BlackRock—drive business strategy, address concerns across the entire organization, and add value.</description>
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<title>Six Common Misperceptions about Teamwork</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/06/six-common-misperceptions-abou</link>
<description>This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Making Collaboration Work. Teamwork and collaboration are critical to mission achievement in any organization that has to respond quickly to changing circumstances. My research in the U.S. intelligence community has not only affirmed that idea but also surfaced a number of mistaken beliefs about teamwork that […]</description>
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<title>Building the Green Way</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2006/06/building-the-green-way</link>
<description>A substantial body of experience and a set of tested standards have made “green” a realistic choice for most building projects. Here are ten practical design and construction rules that will help you conserve the Earth’s resources and your budget.</description>
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<title>How Indian Corporate Culture Impedes Innovation</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/06/how-indian-corporate-culture-i.html</link>
<description>I recently participated in a panel with C-level execs from leading India-based firms, including DLF, Godrej Group, Marico, and Nokia India, to discuss the findings of the 2008 IBM Global CEO Study. The study, based on interviews with 1,130 corporate and public leaders worldwide, identifies how companies are innovating their business models to cope with […]</description>
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<title>Emotional Intelligence Has 12 Elements. Which Do You Need to Work On?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2017/02/emotional-intelligence-has-12-elements-which-do-you-need-to-work-on</link>
<description>It’s far more than just being nice.</description>
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<title>Industrial Distributors—When, Who, and How?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1983/03/industrial-distributors-when-who-and-how</link>
<description>Now that the average cost of a direct sales call exceeds $100, more producers are relying on industrial distributors to serve key markets. The distributors are independent firms, usually consisting of only a handful of sales and support people. Unlike manufacturers’ representatives, who take on the role of sales representatives and work on a commission […]</description>
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<title>Secrets of the Superbosses</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/secrets-of-the-superbosses</link>
<description>How exceptional leaders hire and hone talent</description>
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<title>Do Conservative Managers Give Smaller Bonuses to Women?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/12/do-conservative-managers-give-smaller-bonuses-to-women</link>
<description>A study of one law firm finds that political ideology does influence compensation.</description>
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<title>How to Conduct an Effective Job Interview</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/how-to-conduct-an-effective-job-interview</link>
<description>Don’t waste your breath with absurd questions like: What are your weaknesses?</description>
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<title>When a Leader Aims to Please</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/07/its-amazing-how-much-one</link>
<description>It’s amazing how much one troubled employee can undermine a department’s productivity. A staff member who routinely makes cutting remarks, elevates him or herself at the expense of others, or spreads undermining gossip can sink a department’s morale fast. Otherwise positive and productive team members begin to dread coming to work, and the group’s best […]</description>
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<title>How to Get a New Employee Up to Speed</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/05/how-to-get-a-new-employee-up-to-speed</link>
<description>Set expectations early on.</description>
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<title>To Motivate People, Give Them Something to Be Proud Of</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/11/to-motivate-people-give-them-something</link>
<description>Money is not the best motivator.</description>
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<title>Why a Happy Brain Performs Better</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/ideacast/2010/11/why-a-happy-brain-performs-bet.html</link>
<description>Shawn Achor, CEO of Aspirant and author of “The Happiness Advantage.”</description>
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<title>Get Your Workers to Disrupt Their Jobs</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/06/get-your-workers-to-disrupt-th</link>
<description>In my last post, I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs. Competition and customer demands mean that the most efficient and effective process should always be sought — but finding it requires contributions from the people doing the work. The benefits of the front-line driving […]</description>
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<title>Pret a Manger Wants Happy Employees — And That’s OK</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/11/pret-a-manger-wants-happy-employees-and-thats-ok</link>
<description>Seriously? It worries some people that companies want their employees to be cheerful?</description>
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<title>Act Like a Leader Before You Are One</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/05/act-like-a-leader-before-you-a</link>
<description>How to carve the path to the role you want.</description>
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<title>Why Mentoring Matters in a Hypercompetitive World</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2008/01/why-mentoring-matters-in-a-hypercompetitive-world</link>
<description>Today’s professional service firms are so busy making money that they’ve lost the art of making talent.</description>
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<title>How to Bounce Back from Adversity</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/01/how-to-bounce-back-from-adversity</link>
<description>Here’s a way to understand—and redirect—your instinctive reaction to crises.</description>
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<title>The Condensed January-February 2014 Magazine</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/12/the-condensed-january-february-2014-magazine</link>
<description>Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.</description>
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<title>How Philosophy Makes You a Better Leader</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/09/how-philosophy-makes-you-a-better-leader</link>
<description>An exercise to help you understand your behavior.</description>
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<title>How Google Manages Talent</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/09/how-google-manages-talent</link>
<description>Eric Schmidt, executive chairman, and Jonathan Rosenberg, former SVP of products, explain how the company manages their smart, creative team.</description>
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<title>Accelerate!</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/11/accelerate</link>
<description>How the most innovative companies capitalize on today’s rapid-fire strategic challenges—and still make their numbers.</description>
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<title>What Teaching Taught Me About Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/04/what-teaching-taught-me-about</link>
<description>I have long admired teachers. The ability to share knowledge and turn it into learning is a gift that I find rich and rewarding. Let me add another accolade to good teachers — great management skills. I learned this first-hand because I failed at teaching. For years I have taught in executive and corporate education […]</description>
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<title>Win Over Executives by Proving Customers Support Your Idea</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/07/win-over-executives-by-proving-customers-support-your-idea</link>
<description>Tactics for corporate innovators.</description>
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<title>A Culture of Candor</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/06/a-culture-of-candor</link>
<description>We won’t be able to rebuild trust in institutions until leaders learn how to communicate honestly—and create organizations where that’s the norm.</description>
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<title>Mergers That Stick</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/10/mergers-that-stick</link>
<description>Eager to snap up bargain acquisitions? Remember that merging talent is more important—and more difficult—than getting the numbers right.</description>
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<title>L’Oréal Masters Multiculturalism</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/06/loreal-masters-multiculturalism</link>
<description>The cosmetics giant manages to be very global—yet very French.</description>
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<title>How Mormons Have Shaped Modern Management</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/10/how-mormons-have-shaped-modern</link>
<description>Romney has said his passion flows from his Mormon faith–many of the most influential management thinkers can say the same.</description>
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<title>How “Neutral” Layoffs Disproportionately Affect Women and Minorities</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/07/how-neutral-layoffs-disproportionately-affect-women-and-minorities</link>
<description>Research on downsizing, gender, and race.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>A No-Layoffs Policy Can Work, Even in an Unpredictable Economy</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/01/a-no-layoffs-policy-can-work-even-in-an-unpredictable-economy</link>
<description>The benefits outweigh the costs.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Choose a Leadership Pattern</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1973/05/how-to-choose-a-leadership-pattern</link>
<description>Since its publication in HBR’s March–April 1958 issue, this article has had such impact and popularity as to warrant its choice as an “HBR Classic.” Mr. Tannenbaum and Mr. Schmidt succeeded in capturing in a few succinct pages the main ideas involved in the question of how managers should lead their organizations. For this publication, […]</description>
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<title>How Toxic Colleagues Corrode Performance</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2009/04/how-toxic-colleagues-corrode-performance</link>
<description>We’ve been studying incivility for a decade, and we’ve found that common (and generally tolerated) antisocial behavior at work is far more toxic than managers imagine. Berating bosses; employees who take credit for others’ work, assign blame, or spread rumors; and coworkers who exclude teammates from networks—all of these can cut a swath of destruction […]</description>
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<title>Human Due Diligence</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/04/human-due-diligence</link>
<description>The success of most acquisitions hinges not on dollars but on people. Here’s how to analyze potential people problems before a deal is completed.</description>
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<title>Creating a Culture Where Employees Speak Up</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/01/creating-a-culture-where-employees-speak-up</link>
<description>Inclusivity benefits the bottom line.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Adaptability: The New Competitive Advantage</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2011/07/adaptability-the-new-competitive-advantage</link>
<description>In a world of constant change, the spoils go to the nimble.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Don’t Let Outdated Management Structures Kill Your Company</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/02/dont-let-outdated-management-structures-kill-your-company</link>
<description>It’s time to ditch hub-and-spoke.</description>
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<title>Pushing Employees to Go the Extra Mile Can Be Counterproductive</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/09/pushing-employees-to-go-the-extra-mile-can-be-counterproductive</link>
<description>They start to feel like cutting corners is justified.</description>
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<title>Positive Program for Performance Appraisal</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1963/11/positive-program-for-performance-appraisal</link>
<description>“Bill, it’s time for your annual appraisal interview. You’ve done a lot of good work, and I want you to know that it has been noticed and appreciated. Of course there are areas in which improvements can be made. Let’s start with the good side. Your output record has been good all year, and we’re […]</description>
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<title>Making the Shift from Peer to Boss</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2007/11/making-the-shift-from-peer-to</link>
<description>Thanks to readers for the wonderful responses to the Julia Martinez scenario. It’s clear that many leaders have faced similar challenges, and that there is a wealth of knowledge out there for dealing with them. Because the scenario has a number of elements and because there is such richness to readers’ responses, I’ve decided to […]</description>
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<title>Health and the Welfare of U.S. Business</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1993/03/health-and-the-welfare-of-us-business</link>
<description>Whatever happens in Washington, managers must stop scapegoating health care costs and start managing health care suppliers.</description>
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<title>What HR Needs to Do to Get a Seat at the Table</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/what-hr-needs-to-do-to-get-a-seat-at-the-table</link>
<description>Two things need to change.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Why Your Brain Hates Performance Reviews</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/09/why-your-brain-hates-performance-reviews</link>
<description>Two scientific explanations.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Why The Best Hospitals Are Managed by Doctors</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/12/why-the-best-hospitals-are-managed-by-doctors</link>
<description>Training can make them even better.</description>
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<title>Bosses: What Will You Do Differently Today?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2012/10/bosses-what-will-you-do-differently</link>
<description>Six steps to earning your employees’ respect.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>4 Ways to Build a Productive Sales Culture</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/06/4-ways-to-build-a-productive-sales-culture</link>
<description>First: Don’t confuse efficiency for optimization.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Engaging Your Older Workers</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/11/engaging-your-older-workers</link>
<description>First, acknowledge their experience.</description>
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<title>Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2013/09/make-your-knowledge-workers-more-productive</link>
<description>Three techniques for getting more out of your team.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2017 18:55:04 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>How to Cultivate a Peer Coaching Network</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2010/02/cultivate-your-coaching-networ-2</link>
<description>Who’s the better quarterback, Drew Brees or Peyton Manning? Perhaps a more compelling question for you, the developing leader, is this: How did these guys — and all the great performers you might admire — get to be so good at what they do? A healthy dose of natural talent, of course — but talent […]</description>
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<title>You Might Be the Reason Your Employees Aren’t Changing</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/02/you-might-be-the-reason-your-employees-arent-changing</link>
<description>Three mistakes managers make.</description>
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<title>Who Goes, Who Stays?</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2001/01/who-goes-who-stays</link>
<description>The merger between two pharmaceutical companies generated headlines first—and then headaches. One reason: CEO Steve Lindell has two executives for every available slot. As the stock price drops and talented people head for the exits, he must quickly decide whom to keep and whom to let go. Pass the aspirin.</description>
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<title>Cyanamid’s New Take on Performance Appraisal</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1988/05/cyanamids-new-take-on-performance-appraisal</link>
<description>In one form or another, performance appraisals have been with us more than 50 years. Few would quarrel with the notion of linking pay to performance, thus rewarding good work and (the employer hopes) giving mediocre performers an incentive or a goad to do better next year. If those who fail to perform quit, the […]</description>
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<title>The Expectant Executive and the Endangered Promotion</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/1994/01/the-expectant-executive-and-the-endangered-promotion</link>
<description>The new product’s final design is due in four months. So is Diane’s baby.</description>
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<title>Designing a Bias-Free Organization</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2016/07/designing-a-bias-free-organization</link>
<description>It’s easier to change your processes than your people.</description>
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<title>What to Do If Your Boss Is a Control Freak</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/12/what-to-do-if-your-boss-is-a-control-freak</link>
<description>First, accept that it may have little to do with you.</description>
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<title>Your Company’s Purpose Is Not Its Vision, Mission, or Values</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2014/09/your-companys-purpose-is-not-its-vision-mission-or-values</link>
<description>The distinction matters.</description>
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<title>How to Get Feedback When No One Is Volunteering It</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/08/how-to-get-feedback-when-no-one-is-volunteering-it</link>
<description>It’s there if you’re willing to ask for it.</description>
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<title>What Separates High-Performing Leaders from Average Ones</title>
<link>https://hbr.org/2015/11/what-separates-high-performing-leaders-from-average-ones</link>
<description>Routines.</description>
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<link>https://hbr.org/2
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