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The secret to cross-cultural negotiations
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- 13 Feb 2025
- Horacio Falcão, Thomas Wiegelmann
This article explores strategies for successful cross-border negotiations, emphasising clear communication, trust-building, and flexibility.
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What sets inspirational leaders apart
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- 13 Feb 2025
- Adam D. Galinsky
This article explores three key traits of inspiring leaders — vision, exemplary behavior, and mentorship — that fulfill fundamental human needs and can be cultivated through intentional reflection and practice.
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Getting fit for growth: the leadership mindsets and behaviours that matter
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- 13 Jan 2025
- Andy West, et al.
This article explores how aligning leadership mindsets with actions fosters sustainable growth. It highlights key traits of high-performing leaders, such as bold decision-making, customer focus, talent development, and disciplined execution.
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Time to double down on DEI
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- 01 Jan 2025
- Paige Hagy
Paige Hagy examines the state of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts within the accounting profession, against the backdrop of a wider corporate pushback against these initiatives.
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What people still get wrong about negotiations
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- 01 Jan 2025
- Max H. Bazerman
Max H. Bazerman, Professor at Harvard Business School, sets out negotiation strategies that can help you to avoid common mistakes and become the best value creator possible.
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Leaders shouldn't try to do it all
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- 01 Jan 2025
- A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin
A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin urge leaders to delegate wisely in order to avoid burnout, and to focus on what they can do better than anyone else.
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Three ways to lead learning
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- 01 Jan 2025
- Gianpiero Petriglieri
This article sets out three approaches which can help executives to select, develop, partner with, and be better leaders of learning for their companies.
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Our favourite management tips of 2024
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- 27 Dec 2024
- HBR Editors
Ten tips to help you better manage yourself and your teams, from one of HBR’s most popular newsletters.
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6 questions to find out how your employees are really doing
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- 17 Dec 2024
- Rebecca Knight
This article highlights how thoughtful questions can help managers support employee well-being, engagement, and productivity.
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Writing with Gen AI
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- 09 Dec 2024
- Alexandra Samuel
The article offers guidance on business writing with generative artificial intelligence (AI), that include collecting, summarizing and organizing ideas, drafting, and getting feedback.
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Coping with competing role expectations: how do Independent Directors make sense of their role?
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- 01 Dec 2024
- Jin-ichiro Yamada, Toru Yoshikawa
This study explores how independent directors make sense of their director role? We examine this question in the context of competing expectations among key corporate governance actors during the onboarding process of independent directors, which stem from both external change agents, such as government agencies and the media, and internal actors, especially management.
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Let's end toxic productivity
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- 13 Nov 2024
- Jennifer Moss
This article explores the dangers of toxic productivity and its impact on employee well-being. It urges leaders to set boundaries, promote healthy work habits, and implement practical strategies to reduce burnout.
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When a performance improvement plan could help your employee
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- 06 Nov 2024
- Liane Davey
This article explores how Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) can be used to address underperformance, emphasising clear expectations, feedback, and fairness.
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How leaders can tap the power of vulnerability
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- 04 Nov 2024
- Dana Maor, et al.
This article discusses the importance of vulnerability in leadership, emphasising how it can help to build trust and connections. The authors point to real-life examples of leaders who have successfully embraced vulnerability to enhance their leadership effectiveness.
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Mastering the art of feedback: cultivating positive and productive conversations
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- 01 Nov 2024
- Barbara Kay
Barbara Kay emphasises the importance of honest, constructive feedback, and offers strategies for delivering it promptly and effectively to support team development.
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Turning negative reviews into a positive experience
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- 01 Nov 2024
This article highlights the value of constructive negative feedback in performance reviews, to foster employee potential and prevent disengagement.
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What the best leadership teams do right
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- 22 Oct 2024
- Ron Carucci, Mindy Millward, Eric Hansen
This article outlines three critical, highly interdependent roles that executive teams must play in order to have lasting impact on their company’s performance, culture, and ability to adapt. The authors provide tips as to how teams can play each of these roles successfully.
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6 essential leadership skills — and how to develop them
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- 18 Oct 2024
- Rebecca Knight
This article highlights six leadership skills that have become essential in the contemporary workplace, and provides practical advice on how to develop them.
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Shift your leadership from "power over" to "leading through"
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- 09 Oct 2024
- Kim B. Clark, Jonathan R. Clark, Erin E. Clark
An excerpt from a new book which calls for the end of the power-focused leadership model and the rise of a new approach — one which is caring, consciously seeks to do good, and mobilises
people to solve tough problems.
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Team effort: beyond employees to team, beyond manager to coach
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- 01 Oct 2024
- Renee Evenson
Renee Evenson discusses the importance of building cohesive teams through communication, cooperation, and creativity, urging managers to act as coaches for efficient, self-sustaining success.
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Why leadership teams fail
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- 01 Sep 2024
- Thomas Keil, Marianna Zangrillo
Drawing on interviews with more than 100 CEOs and senior executives, this article outlines three main patterns of dysfunction within leadership teams. The authors aim to help leadership teams to diagnose their failings, and find ways to improve.
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Teamwork at the top
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- 01 Sep 2024
- Gregory LeStage, Sara Nilsson DeHanas, Pete Gerend
This article sets out a four-step process to help leaders to promote beneficial patterns of collective behaviour within their teams. The authors point to five key behaviours — direction, discipline, drive, dynamism, and collaboration — as being crucial to the effectiveness of leadership teams.
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How to train an AI-enabled workforce - and why you need to
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- 08 Aug 2024
- Lucas Mearian
As artificial intelligence (AI) is adopted within organisations, there is a need for employee training in how to use AI tools most effectively. This article underscores the importance of upskilling workers for the AI revolution, and highlights practical strategies for building AI expertise.
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Employee ownership trusts: An emerging strategy for HR leaders
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- 29 Jul 2024
- Derek Razo
Employee ownership has emerged as an effective strategy for attracting, engaging and retaining top talent. The author discusses the use of employee ownership trusts in the US and how they can provide opportunities to increase employee satisfaction, foster collaborative cultures and drive consistent business growth.
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More seats at the table: A legacy-minded Charlotte contracting family opts for broader employee ownership
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- 01 Jul 2024
- David Mildenberg
Blythe Development, a construction company based in Charlotte, North Carolina, has opted for employee ownership by selling the business to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). ESOPs have been around for a number of years in the US but still remain rare. The company's decision is discussed, including the family's wish to maintain control of the business and to gain an advantage in the retention and recruitment of employees.
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All-white boards becoming more common, says UK retailers report
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- 25 Jun 2024
- Jennifer Creery
A new report has found that the proportion of British retailers with all-White boards has increased, which is seen as a setback for the industry's efforts to improve diversity.
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The leap to leader
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- 20 Jun 2024
- Adam Bryant
To succeed as a senior executive, you need a new mindset as well as special skills and competencies. This article outlines the mental shifts necessary for a successful transition to a senior leadership position.
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3 challenges to hybrid work — and how to overcome them
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- 30 May 2024
- Mark C. Bolino, Corey Phelps
This article provides advice on how managers can overcome three key challenges which often arise in hybrid working contexts — those of aligning schedules, fostering culture, and ensuring productivity.
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Mind the gap
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- 10 May 2024
- Ahmed Hassan
Ahmed Hassan looks at the key skills and functional competencies which today's finance leaders need, and outlines how one can move beyond the traditional finance role and become a strategic partner.
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Engage employees for AI success
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- 01 May 2024
- David De Cremer
Article discusses how in order to make Artificial Intelligence adoption a success it is important to keep employees happy and engaged. Employees find AI intimidating and their feedback is often not part fo the process. The author discusses what organisations must do to develop employee-inclusive AI practice and to keep their employees happy, productive, and engaged.
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