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Adjusting to a New Boss: Our Favorite Reads
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“Don’t Isolate Yourself” and Other Advice For First-Time Managers
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Why Managers Should Think More Like Hackers
Management philosophy Digital ArticleIt can help you work around obstacles, find opportunities across silos, and more. -
When Everything Isn't Half Enough (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleNorman Spencer, who grew up poor, worked for two decades to make his investment firm successful and his family wealthy. The company he founded, Arrowhead,... -
Returning to the Office Will Be Hard. Here's How Managers Can Make It Easier.
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Don't Let the Short-Termism Bogeyman Scare You
Organizational Development SpotlightThe author, a professor at Harvard Law School, argues that concerns about the perils of short-termism--and support for measures that would insulate corporate... -
Chronic Time Abuse
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAnyone who has ever managed people who abuse time--whether they are chronic procrastinators or individuals who work obsessively to meet deadlines weeks... -
How to Be a Good Leader in a Bad Economy
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The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome
If your employees are underperforming, it could be a result of your own low expectations. Learn how to reverse the vicious circle in this video slide... -
Can You Handle Failure?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleHandling failure and blame is key to managerial success. But roughly 70% of Americans have a personality type that tends to react inappropriately when... -
How to Determine Your Work Style as a New Manager
Early career Digital ArticleAre you a director, an analyzer, a collaborator, or a promoter? -
The Role of a Manager Has to Change in 5 Key Ways
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe challenges organizations face today call for a new kind of leadership. -
Do Managers and Leaders Really Do Different Things?
Leadership Digital ArticleOr do they just think differently? -
Five Minds of a Manager
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleManagers are told: Be global and be local. Collaborate and compete. Change perpetually, and maintain order. Make the numbers while nurturing your people.... -
Are Some Customers More Equal than Others? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleJill Hoover was looking skyward, marveling at the heart-stopping beauty of Paradise Park-Seattle's newest attraction, its tallest and scariest roller... -
More Than 50% of Managers Feel Burned Out
Burnout Digital ArticleDoes your organization recognize the problem? -
3 Ways to Reenergize Your Team When Morale Is Low
Managing people Digital ArticleToday’s uncertain environment requires leaders to rehumanize work. -
Managers Aren't Doing Enough to Encourage Whistleblowing
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleDissent is an important source of information. -
Are You a Micromanager?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleFor new leaders, it's a trap that's easy to fall into. -
When Your Go-To Problem-Solving Approach Fails
Organizational Development Digital ArticleEight steps to help you assess what's not working - and why.
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Rein Chemical Co.: Specialty Division
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case describes corporate management's recent discovery of widespread unethical pricing transactions in one division and key managers' different views... -
Cultural Change at Nissan Motors
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Depicts the reformation of Nissan Motor Co.'s corporate culture and the company's subsequent turnaround in market share and profits. In 1985, Yutaka Kume... -
Malcolm Frank
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements NerveWire, Inc. -
Videojet (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details In 2005 Craig Purse, the CEO of Videojet, a company recently acquired by the conglomerate Danaher, is dealing with the unexpected failure of a new high... -
Perspective on Entrepreneurship
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Designed to highlight alternative concepts of good management and the need for entrepreneurship as a response to societal changes. It argues that entrepreneurship... -
Mat MacGregor (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Mat MacGregor took charge of a failing project but failed to turn it around because of a variety of personal, technical, cultural, and political reasons.... -
Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
28.00View Details This is the book that established "emotional intelligence" in the business lexicon--and made it a necessary skill for leaders. Managers and professionals... -
Robert Mondavi Corp.: Caliterra (A)
Communication Case Study11.95View Details The senior vice president of the Robert Mondavi Corp. (one of the world's leading producers of premium wine) and head of Mondavi's Chilean joint venture,... -
Teradyne Corp.: The Jaguar Project
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Teradyne, a leading manufacturer of semiconductor test equipment, embarked on a multiyear effort to improve its product development capabilities and to... -
Harvard Business Essentials: Power, Influence, and Persuasion
25.00View Details To be effective, managers have to be skilled at acquiring power and using that power to persuade others to get things done. This guide offers must-know... -
Jeffrey Smith
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Jeffrey Smith and David Johnson have apparently irreconcilable differences over their firm's strategy, which have led Jeffrey to conclude that he must... -
Nuria Chinchilla: The Power to Change Workplaces
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 1993, Nuria Chinchilla had recently completed her doctoral thesis at IESE Business School in Barcelona, on the topic of organizational turnover, with... -
Global Diversity and Inclusion at Royal Dutch Shell (A)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Royal Dutch Shell has been among the early players to implement diversity and inclusion policies in the 1990s, first in the U.S. and then globally. In... -
Kirk Arnold
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements NerveWire, Inc. -
The Leith Society: Managing International Growth for a Professional Development and Networking Firm, Supplement
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case B5902. In April 2017, Mr. Kristian Groth, a successful entrepreneur and founder of the Leith Society, was considering his next move.... -
Star Distributors, Inc. (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Presents the dilemma of Don Waters, vice president of Franchise Operations at Belmont Beverages. Waters must must decide what to do about the conflict... -
Brett Sanders at Inglewood Instrument Co.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The general manager, U.K. for Inglewood Instrument Co. (Inglewood) is sitting outside of his company's headquarters in Burnaby, B.C., waiting for a meeting... -
Getting Along Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Dealing with Difficult People at Work
119.00View Details Learn how to work productively with even the most difficult of colleagues. Work relationships can be hard. The stress of dealing with difficult people... -
Peter Drucker on the Profession of Management
25.00View Details For nearly half a century, Peter Drucker has inspired and educated managers - and influenced the nature of business with his landmark articles in the... -
Learning from LeapFrog: Creating Educational and Business Value
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Explores the success factors leading to one's company's rise to the number three ranking in the aggressively competitive toy industry. LeapFrog has made...
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Rein Chemical Co.: Specialty Division
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case describes corporate management's recent discovery of widespread unethical pricing transactions in one division and key managers' different views... -
Adjusting to a New Boss: Our Favorite Reads
Leadership & Managing People ListicleYou'll learn something new from every manager you have. -
“Don’t Isolate Yourself” and Other Advice For First-Time Managers
Leading teams Digital ArticleBased on insights from seasoned managers. -
Why Managers Should Think More Like Hackers
Management philosophy Digital ArticleIt can help you work around obstacles, find opportunities across silos, and more. -
Cultural Change at Nissan Motors
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Depicts the reformation of Nissan Motor Co.'s corporate culture and the company's subsequent turnaround in market share and profits. In 1985, Yutaka Kume... -
Malcolm Frank
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements NerveWire, Inc. -
Videojet (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details In 2005 Craig Purse, the CEO of Videojet, a company recently acquired by the conglomerate Danaher, is dealing with the unexpected failure of a new high... -
Perspective on Entrepreneurship
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Designed to highlight alternative concepts of good management and the need for entrepreneurship as a response to societal changes. It argues that entrepreneurship... -
When Everything Isn't Half Enough (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleNorman Spencer, who grew up poor, worked for two decades to make his investment firm successful and his family wealthy. The company he founded, Arrowhead,... -
Mat MacGregor (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Mat MacGregor took charge of a failing project but failed to turn it around because of a variety of personal, technical, cultural, and political reasons....