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Management's Little Black Dress: Essential Practices for Leaders
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleSince 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.... -
Productivity Skills to Help You Gain Time Back
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTime is your most valuable resource. Spend it carefully. -
Be Strategic About Your Time
Time management Digital ArticleIn the frantic buzz of most managerial lives, I see people running from meeting to meeting, consulting their BlackBerrys as though in prayer, desperately working into the night to cope with a deluge of emails and otherwise being busy, busy, busy. The dilemma of all this activity, however, is that it is for the most […] -
What to Ask the Person in the Mirror
Organizational restructuring Magazine ArticleThere 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. -
Manage Your Time Like Jim Collins
Work-life balance Digital ArticleJim Collins is all about discipline. The man who described Level 5 Leadership not only understands the inner fortitude of the best-performing companies and leaders; he’s famously disciplined and enormously productive, as you can tell from his website (jimcollins.com). A runner and mountain-climber, he is the picture of fitness. How does he manage his time? […] -
The Marshmallow Test for Grownups
Personal productivity Digital ArticleYour entire day revolves around willpower. -
Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey?
Delegating Magazine ArticleThe burdens of subordinates always seem to end up on the manager’s back. Here’s how to get rid of them. -
Maximizing Your Return on People
Employee performance management Magazine ArticleNew tools can show you which investments in employees are driving company performance now and which you should emphasize to advance your strategic goals. -
Take Back Your Life in Seven Simple Steps
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIn my most recent blog, I wrote about how we've allowed technology to take a pernicious toll on our attention, and in turn, on our creativity, our resilience,... -
Look to Consumers to Increase Productivity
Personal productivity Magazine ArticleWhen productivity is a problem in manufacturing, managers turn to the R&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 […] -
Is It Even Possible to Focus on Anything Right Now?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTechniques for dealing with three common interruptions: kids, chores, and distracting thoughts. -
How to Ask for What You Want
4 tips for getting your colleagues' attention. -
Time Management Training Doesn’t Work
Time management Digital ArticleToday’s technologies call for different skills. -
3 Strategies for Holding Yourself Accountable
Managing yourself Digital ArticleAs you progress in your career, it can get harder to ask for help in reaching your goals. -
Tsingtao's Chairman on Jump-Starting a Sluggish Company
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn 1995 Jin Zhiguo was put in charge of the Hans Brewery, a fresh Tsingtao acquisition. On his first day there, he found a financial statement on his... -
Simplify Outdated Corporate Processes
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThree principles to help you bring order to chaos. -
The Trouble with CFOs
Leadership Magazine ArticleIf the CEO sits in the hot seat, the CFO’s chair is positively smoking. According to analysis conducted by the CFO Executive Board, annual CFO turnover at the largest 162 global companies between 1995 and 2003 was 17%—even higher than for CEOs—and three out of four current Fortune 500 finance officers have been in their […] -
For Real Productivity, Less is Truly More
Managing yourself Digital ArticleWhen 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, […] -
Gazing at Nature Makes You More Productive
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWe've long sensed that spending time in green landscapes soothes and restores us. Now new research reveals that people benefit from simply looking at... -
How to Accomplish More by Doing Less
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTwo people of equal skill work in the same office. For the sake of comparison, let's say both arrive at work at 9 am each day, and leave at 7 pm. Bill...
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Overcoming Overwork (HBR Women at Work Series)
Management Book24.95View Details Overworked? Overwhelmed? Protect yourself from burnout. The amount of work placed on women is often insurmountable. Along with doing what's required for... -
Next-Level Negotiating (HBR Women at Work Series)
Communication Book24.95View Details Build trust--and create more value. Whether you're negotiating a salary, a deal with a supplier, or your workload, thoughtful preparation increases your... -
You at Work: Doing Your Best Work Remotely
29.95View Details The option to work remotely - whether at home, at co-working spaces, while travelling, or elsewhere--has gone mainstream. Remote work allows companies... -
Nine Things Successful People Do Differently
14.99View Details Are you at the top of your game--or still trying to get there? Take your cues from the short, powerful "9 Things Successful People Do Differently," where... -
How to Become Famous: Lost Einsteins, Forgotten Superstars, and How the Beatles Came to Be
30.00View Details Fame is like lightning. Taylor Swift, Bob Dylan, Leonardo da Vinci, Jane Austen, Oprah Winfrey--all of them were struck. Why? What if they hadn't been?... -
Jieliang Phone Home! (B)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators-bright and capable young men and (mostly) women... -
HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work
21.95View Details Are you suffering from work-related stress? Feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and short-tempered at work--and at home? Then you may have too much stress... -
Asociacion Colombiana de Industrias Plasticas (Acoplasticos)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Acoplasticos was established in 1961 as a lobbying group for Colombia's major plastics manufacturing companies. In the early 1980s, the organization shifted... -
People Skills for a Virtual World Collection (6 Books) (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
110.00View Details How to be human at work. HBR's Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of... -
South Africa (B): Getting Unstuck
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details 15 years after ending apartheid, formal unemployment in South Africa was still at 24%. While the country had grown at 4 to 5% annually during the 2000s,... -
Step Back: Bringing the Art of Reflection into Your Busy Life
28.00View Details How to find clarity amid the turbulence of work and life. We all wish we had more time to pause and reflect about small decisions and big goals--and everything... -
Florida Power Light Quality Improvement (QI) Story Exercise (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Florida Power and Light (FPL) has developed a widely acclaimed quality improvement program (QIP). This exercise leads the students through the process... -
A Primer on OKRs
Management Case Study8.95View Details The OKR framework is a popular goal-setting and strategy execution tool that uses goal setting through "Objectives" and measuring performance using "Key... -
Purity Steel Corporation, 2012
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Managers introduce a new performance evaluation system based on sales growth and return-on-investment (ROI). A branch manager wonders whether his new... -
Communicate Better with Everyone (HBR Working Parents Series)
Communication Book24.95View Details Conduct more productive conversations. As a working parent, you lead meetings, advocate for your children, and make presentations that win clients--all... -
Earnings Management Exercise
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HBR Guides to Managing Stress and Burnout Toolkit
99.95View Details Stress and burnout are rampant. Recognize the signs and make the right changes. The always-on workplace and increasing pressures are leading to high rates... -
Agile: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
22.95View Details More than a buzzword, agile is a powerful business tool for all. To the uninitiated, agile is a software development and project management process involving... -
The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems--and What to Do about It
30.00View Details How a million little things are dragging you down, and what to do about it. There's a force we encounter every day that we aren't aware of--and it threatens... -
Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life
30.00View Details How working parents can lead more purposeful lives, characterized by harmony, connection, and impact. Parents in today's fast-paced, disorienting world...
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Management's Little Black Dress: Essential Practices for Leaders
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleSince 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.... -
Productivity Skills to Help You Gain Time Back
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTime is your most valuable resource. Spend it carefully. -
Be Strategic About Your Time
Time management Digital ArticleIn the frantic buzz of most managerial lives, I see people running from meeting to meeting, consulting their BlackBerrys as though in prayer, desperately working into the night to cope with a deluge of emails and otherwise being busy, busy, busy. The dilemma of all this activity, however, is that it is for the most […] -
What to Ask the Person in the Mirror
Organizational restructuring Magazine ArticleThere 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. -
Manage Your Time Like Jim Collins
Work-life balance Digital ArticleJim Collins is all about discipline. The man who described Level 5 Leadership not only understands the inner fortitude of the best-performing companies and leaders; he’s famously disciplined and enormously productive, as you can tell from his website (jimcollins.com). A runner and mountain-climber, he is the picture of fitness. How does he manage his time? […] -
Overcoming Overwork (HBR Women at Work Series)
Management Book24.95View Details Overworked? Overwhelmed? Protect yourself from burnout. The amount of work placed on women is often insurmountable. Along with doing what's required for... -
The Marshmallow Test for Grownups
Personal productivity Digital ArticleYour entire day revolves around willpower. -
Next-Level Negotiating (HBR Women at Work Series)
Communication Book24.95View Details Build trust--and create more value. Whether you're negotiating a salary, a deal with a supplier, or your workload, thoughtful preparation increases your... -
Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey?
Delegating Magazine ArticleThe burdens of subordinates always seem to end up on the manager’s back. Here’s how to get rid of them. -
Maximizing Your Return on People
Employee performance management Magazine ArticleNew tools can show you which investments in employees are driving company performance now and which you should emphasize to advance your strategic goals.