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Weekly ideas, insights, and tips on management from Harvard Business Review.

How Successful People Reach Their Goals

How to Change People's Perception of You

How Egos Distort the Way We See Each Other

Know Your Team's Motivational Mindset

Get Your Employees Engaged

Measure Employee Productivity Accurately

Get the Feedback You Need to Grow

Managers Are Wasting Time and Money on People Problems

Lessons from America’s Golden Age of Innovation

Know Your Customers' Jobs to Be Done

Like It or Not, More Employees Are Using Their Own Devices

The Explainer: Core Competence

How to Reach Customers in Emerging Markets

Create a Marketplace for Great Ideas

The Right Way to Conduct a Job Interview

Coach for Executive Presence

Build Your Emotional Agility

The Explainer: One More Time, How Do You Motivate Employees?

Good Leaders Admit Mistakes

Rethinking Some Assumptions About Global Business

Whiteboard Session: Manage the Workload of Being a Leader

How to Give Meaningful Feedback

Working Well with Your Boss When You Work Remotely

Negotiating on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin

When to Hire an Extreme Leader

Use Values to Make Work-Life Decisions

Whiteboard Session: The Business Case for Sustainability

Change the Way You Pay Your Sales Force

Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are So Important to the U.S.

The Explainer: Reverse Innovation

Set the Tone for Trust

Find Your Next Growth Market

What Great Office Design Actually Looks Like

Make Time for the Work That Matters

There's No Such Thing as a Perfect Job

Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life

Why Brands Need a Clear Promise

How to Disagree with Your Boss

Building a Global Brand

11 Personality Traits That Can Limit Your Career

Sky Robot

How Managers Should Use Data

When Stress Helps You Get More Done

Three Keys to Influencing Others

Develop Productivity Rituals

How to Remember a Name

The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome

A Brief History of Doing Well by Doing Good

Encourage Candor at Work

Crowdsourcing Inside Your Company

Defeating the Midday Slump

Reaching Across Cultures Without Losing Yourself

Bring Out Your Team's Creative Potential

The Explainer: Hidden Traps in Decision-Making

The Explainer: Blue Ocean Strategy

How Cultures Across the World Approach Leadership

Four Ways to Think Like an Innovator

Your Scarcest Resource

What Drives Salespeople in Different U.S. Regions

The 8 Types of Company Culture

How P&G Turned an Acquisition into a Core Competency

The Art of Career Development

Confronting Ethical Issues at Work

Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It

Make Time for Small Talk in Your Virtual Meetings

When Your Employees Are Most Likely to Quit

Distinguish Good Failures from Bad Ones

Even After Criticism, Men Think Highly of Themselves

Lack of Information Stokes Globalization Anxiety

Craft a Story to Sell Your Business Case

How to Manage Scope Creep

Great Brands Don't Chase Trends

Collaboration by Difference

The Explainer: How to Write a Great Business Plan

The Value of an Honest Performance Review

Five Ways to Improve Your Writing

How to Concentrate Under Pressure

Conduct an Informal 360

Why Aren't More Companies Using Renewable Energy?

The New Science of Customer Emotions

Make Your Employees Feel Respected

Establish Credibility in a New Job

Boards Neglect Cybersecurity at Their Companies’ Peril

Write a "Big Opportunity" Statement to Align Your Strategy

Trust Your Team to Use Their Talent

Find Your Purpose and Put It to Work

What People Really Want from Customer Service

To Innovate, You Have to Manage the Past, Present, and Future

Why Certain Things Go Viral

Why You Need a "State of the Company" Address

Defuse Difficult People

Take Control of Your Nonverbal Communication

How to Make Better Decisions

How to Ask for What You Want

Whiteboard Session: 5 Principles for Innovation in Emerging Markets

Measure Your Team's Success

Six Skills Middle Managers Need

Understand What Your Customers Really Want

Why Some Ads Go Viral and Others Don't

Create Slides People Will Remember

Sometimes, You Can't Juggle Priorities

Getting Strategy Execution Right

Create Time for Your Most Important Work

Postmortems Are Essential

Defuse Tension to Come to an Agreement

Whiteboard Session: Bringing the Best Business Ideas to Healthcare

Innovative Ways to Change Customer Behavior

Stop Trying to Fix Your Weaknesses

One Frame of Reference Isn't Enough

Leading Like Nelson Mandela

Whiteboard Session: The Problem of Loneliness at Work

The Explainer: Level 5 Leadership

Whiteboard Session: 4 Things Successful Executives Do Differently

In the Digital Age, Physical Assets Are a Burden

Why Better Technology Can Be Slower to Take Off

Improve Your Relationship with Your Boss By Aligning Goals

Can You Entrust That Decision to a Robot?

Cognitive Diversity Helps Teams Solve Problems Faster

Whiteboard Session: Getting Past Either-Or Decision Making

The Value of Asking Open-Ended Questions

5 Common Writing Mistakes

The Explainer: How to Negotiate Nicely Without Being a Pushover

Research Shows Good Management Is Incredibly Hard to Copy

Leading with a Light Footprint

The Explainer: Managing Multicultural Teams

Emotional Intelligence in Tough Conversations

Setting Your Goals Without Jargon

How to Work with People Who Are Hard to Work With

Why So Few "Diversity Candidates" Are Hired

The Explainer: Emotional Intelligence

Enterprise 2.0 and Social Business

Three Elements to Expressing Your Idea

On Résumés, an Upper-Class Background Benefits Men but Not Women

5 Whys

Whiteboard Session: How to Get Up to Speed in Your New Leadership Role

The Authenticity Paradox

Whiteboard Session: How Does Blockchain Work?

How Digital Connectivity Blurs Industry Lines

Create an App Club

Whiteboard Session: Africa, China, and the Future of Manufacturing

Controlling Your Emotions During a Negotiation

The Challenges of Transitioning to a New Role

Get Better at Receiving Feedback

Whiteboard Session: How Traditional Business Metrics Are Outdated

What Makes a Leader?

Why You Should Read Your Memo Out Loud

Simplify Your Strategy

Change Your Market, Not Your Product

How Digital Is Your Industry?

How Expats Should Lead in China

Turn Customers into Promoters

Escape from Brainstorm Island

The Explainer: Big Data and Analytics

Whiteboard Session: Why Every Organization Needs an AR Strategy

Whiteboard Session: How to Work Successfully Across Borders

Motivate Employees with Recognition

The Explainer: Porter's Five Forces

Fix Their Problem, Win the Deal

The Explainer: Marketing Myopia

The Molecule Behind Effective Teamwork

Turn a Good Idea into Reality

Whiteboard Session: The Ingredients of Great Leadership

Gain Competitive Advantage—by Questioning Old Habits

Empower Your Customer-Facing Employees

How to Create an Open Organization

How to Seize Everyday Negotiation Opportunities

Innovate by Looking for Problem Patterns

Why Kindness Is Good Business

The Post-Hierarchical Organization

The Sweet Spot Between Privacy and Transparency

Three New Networks for the Digital Age

Tolerate Weakness in Your Employees

Find Your Purpose in Your Most Challenging Experiences

Customer Service in a Crisis

Are the Workaholics You Know Just Faking It?

Six Simple Rules for Managing Complexity

A Simple Framework for Business Model Innovation

Competition Gone Wrong

Whiteboard Session: The 3 Myths of Collaboration

What Makes a Company a Digital Master?

The Healthy Fear That Drives Growth

How to Uncover Your Unique Purpose

How Starbucks Trains Customers to Behave

The Real Job of a Manager

Making Failure More Productive

The Refresher: Net Present Value

Whiteboard Session: Every Business Is a Software Business

Responding When Your Expertise Is Challenged

Turn Cooperation Into Collaboration

How Gender Affects Your Ability to Lead

It's OK to Ask for Help

What Do People Want from Their Leaders?

The Refresher: Regression Analysis

How Gap, Inc. Innovates

Managing the Uncertainty of Innovation

The Power of Small, Flexible Teams

Becoming an Idea Entrepreneur

The Benefits Employees Want Don't Always Cost a Lot

How to Be an Effective Negotiator

The Two Choices to Make in Strategy

Putting a Price on Customer Loyalty

A 2x2 Matrix Explains Good vs. Great Leadership

How Leaders Earn Legitimacy and Trust

Crafting the Luxury Experience

Find Success Your Own Way

What It Takes to Be a Superboss

Whiteboard Session: This Is Your Brain on Mindfulness

Whiteboard Session: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur

Three Rules to Make Your Company Exceptional

Negotiating Across Cultures

How to Integrate Work and Life

Whiteboard Session: Clashing with a Coworker? Here's What to Do

How Managers Become Leaders

How to Expand Your Professional Network

The Explainer: The Balanced Scorecard

Slingshot Your Career

The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation

Whiteboard Session: 5 Questions to Help You Make Tough Decisions

How and When Selflessness at Work Backfires

4 Lessons from the Best Family Businesses

Guidelines for Deciding Who's Trustworthy

Turn Your Idea into Reality

Make Networking Less Awkward

What Your Company Needs to Go Global

The Explainer: How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight

Create a Life with Purpose

Get Better at One-on-One Meetings

The Risk and Reward of Disagreeing with Your Boss

The Ripple Effect of a Great Work Culture

Rebuilding Trust in the Employer-Employee Relationship

Business Analytics Defined

The Explainer: Design Thinking

Why Leaders Struggle Today

Hire for Personality

Prepare Your Brain for Change

Debunking Three Entrepreneurship Myths

Whiteboard Session: What Stops Companies From Growing

3 Ways Drones Are Changing Telecom

The Other Kind of Inequality, Explained

How Non-English-Speaking Countries Stack Up on English Proficiency

What Can Business Do to Bolster U.S. Competitiveness?

Pandit, Vikram

Managing Idiosyncratic Talent

The Data on Who Takes "Bleisure" Trips

Gender Equality Is Making Men Feel Discriminated Against

Computers Create Jobs and Inequality at the Same Time

The (Mostly Republican) Politics of U.S. Boards

Why the Strong U.S. Economy Is Not Making Americans Happy

Why the Most Common Diversity Programs Don't Work

More People Work in Large Companies than Ever Before

Western Middle Classes Have Been Left Out of Global Growth

Evidence That Lobbying Is Paying Off for Corporations

What's the Most Lucrative MBA Career?

Not All Countries Are Ready for a Cashless World

Men Spend More on Business Travel

Counteract Secondhand Stress

Build Confidence to Unleash Creativity

The Problem with Stock Buybacks

Bridging Two Kinds of Cultural Differences

How to Fix America's Failing Infrastructure

CEOs Get Paid Too Much

Get Comfortable with Team Conflict

Forces that Shape New Industries

The Urban Sustainability Opportunity

Four Methods for Corporate Innovators

Consider Gender Differences to Improve Sales

Gaining Credibility in a New Role

Set Your Sustainability Goals to Match the Problem

Protect Your Company from Activist Investors

How Emerging-Market Companies Should Expand

Three Pitfalls Startup Founders Must Avoid

Capitalism Gone Wild

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