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Leading global teams effectively
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- 10 Apr 2025
- David Livermore
This article emphasises the need for Western managers to develop cultural intelligence in order to effectively lead global teams. It highlights common pitfalls and provides some tips as to how one can avoid them.
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How women can win in the workplace
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- 01 Mar 2025
- Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, María del Mar Martínez
Despite excelling academically, women often fall behind in career advancement due to a lack of experience capital. This article discusses systemic issues and offers strategies for women to build skills and advance their careers, including seeking supportive employers, making bold career moves, and embracing technology.
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Are you too busy to lead?
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- 01 Mar 2025
- Anita Dennis
Leadership coaches and firm leaders provide tips on how to break free from daily tasks to concentrate on strategic priorities.
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How to attract the best talent
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- 01 Mar 2025
- Nooshin Hashemi
This article discusses the challenges startups face in attracting top talent and shares strategies for recruiting a dedicated team by emphasising personal connections and meaningful work.
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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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How to manage a career transition
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- 04 Feb 2025
- Herminia Ibarra
This article explores the emotional challenges of career transitions and offers strategies for navigating them successfully.
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How to develop your leadership style
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- 04 Feb 2025
- Suzanne J. Peterson, Robin Abramson, R.K. Stutman
This article provides actionable advice on cultivating a leadership style that effectively balances signals of power and attractiveness for maximum impact.
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Building social capital when you work remotely
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- 04 Feb 2025
- Aliza Licht
Strong relationships and strategic networking are key to career success. This article explores how professionals can build trust, stay visible, and engage meaningfully in a hybrid and remote work world.
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How to structure a great interview
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- 28 Jan 2025
- Xena Wang
This article outlines strategies for conducting structured, effective job interviews, emphasising thorough preparation, fair assessment, and evaluating both technical and soft skills to make better hiring decisions.
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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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Why do people not accept AI?
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- 01 Jan 2025
- Julian De Freitas
Article explorers the barriers to people's willingness to harness the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence. These barriers are due to the negative thoughts about job losses, fears of the misuse of personal data and even to AI taking over the world.
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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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Transform employee development with these continuous feedback strategies
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- 01 Jan 2025
- Nichole Marconi
This article explores how continuous feedback can enhance employee development, outlining effective feedback methods that foster growth and improve workplace performance.
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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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Change management: achieve your goals with the right change model
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- 30 Dec 2024
- Oliver Janzen
This article considers the challenges of organisational change and the need for effective management strategies, exploring key models like Lewin’s and Kotter’s. It emphasises the human element in change and provides practical tips for successful implementation.
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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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Retaining the best of your culture amid organisational change
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- 05 Nov 2024
- Rebecca Newton
This article outlines four strategies for preserving an organisation's strongest cultural elements during periods of transformation.
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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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