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What Having a “Growth Mindset” Actually Means
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What Is Psychological Safety?, Spanish Version
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The Case for a Chief of Staff
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Understanding Leadership (HBR Classic)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe would-be analyst of leadership usually studies popularity, power, showmanship, or wisdom in long-range planning. But none of these qualities is the... -
The Leader as Coach
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the face of rapid, disruptive change, companies are realizing that managers can't be expected to have all the answers and that command-and-control... -
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the past decade, the author has watched more than 100 companies try to remake themselves into better competitors. Their efforts have gone under many... -
What Leaders Really Do
Change management Magazine ArticleThey don’t make plans; they don’t solve problems; they don’t even organize people. What leaders really do is prepare organizations for change and help them cope as they struggle through it. -
Leader's Framework for Decision Making
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleSnowden and Boone have formed a new perspective on leadership and decision making that's based on complexity science. The result is the Cynefin framework,... -
Emotional Intelligence Has 12 Elements. Which Do You Need to Work On?
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Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
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Employees Are Losing Patience with Change Initiatives
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What Makes a Leader?
Leadership & Managing People HBR BestsellerWhen asked to define the ideal leader, many would emphasize traits such as intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision--the qualities traditionally... -
Three Differences Between Managers and Leaders
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Begin with Trust
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleTrust is the basis for almost everything we do. It's the foundation on which our laws and contracts are built. It's the reason we're willing to exchange... -
How Our Brains Decide When to Trust, Chinese Version
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The Key to Inclusive Leadership
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The Leadership Odyssey
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleA paradox of business is that while leaders often employ a hands-on, directive style to rise to the top, once they arrive, they're supposed to empower... -
The Hard Side of Change Management
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleEveryone agrees that managing change is tough, but few can agree on how to do it. Most experts are obsessed with "soft" issues, such as culture and motivation,... -
AI Should Augment Human Intelligence, Not Replace It
Global Business Digital ArticleArtificial intelligence isn't coming for your job, but it will be your new coworker. Here's how to get along. -
What It Takes to Give a Great Presentation
Business communication Digital ArticleFive tips to set yourself apart.
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Private Equity Needs a New Talent Strategy
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleHigher interest rates and competition have changed the nature of the business. Now the industry must find a new approach to developing leaders. -
What Today’s Rainmakers Do Differently
Sales and marketing Magazine ArticleBusiness development at professional services firms is outdated. Here’s what works now. -
It’s Time to Define Your Company’s Principles
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Storytelling That Drives Bold Change
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Harness Your Network to Unlock Innovation
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What to Do If You Feel Like You’ve Lost Your Intuition
Decision making and problem solving Digital ArticleFive strategies for getting back in touch with your gut instinct. -
5 Tactics to Combat a Culture of False Urgency at Work
Time management Digital ArticleDo you and your team feel chronically overwhelmed and reactive? -
Businesses Need to Bring Younger Employees into Their Leadership Ranks
Business and society Digital ArticleToday’s most intractable challenges require an intergenerational approach. -
5 Ways to Develop Talent for an Unpredictable Future
Developing employees Digital ArticleWhat we need is not just re-skilling or up-skilling, but pre-skilling. -
Do You Understand Why You Catastrophize?
Psychology Digital ArticleEveryday setbacks don’t have to feel like doomsday scenarios. -
Whole Foods CEO Jason Buechel on the Challenges and Opportunities of Following a Visionary Leader
Business and society Digital ArticleFilling the shoes of a legendary founder was not only a personal challenge for Whole Foods CEO Jason Buechel, but a significant adjustment for all the company’s employees, from the C-suite to the hundreds of local stores. -
How to Be a Better Leader Amid Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity
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What Makes an Inclusive Leader?
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleFive key behaviors that set them apart. -
What It Means to Be a Moral Leader
Business and society Digital ArticleLeading your team to do things right is only half the job. You also need to do the right things. -
Leading Change May Need to Begin with Changing Yourself
Leadership development Digital ArticleBehavior change is hard, but it’s a skill leaders who want to succeed amid near-constant organizational change need to develop. -
How to Avoid the Churn That Comes with Agility
Change management Digital ArticleDefine an end goal that stays constant — even as the means to achieve it change. -
5 T's of Great Coaches part 1: It's Not Only About Winning
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The Five T's of Great Coaches - Part 7: Do Coaches Really Matter?
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The Five T's of Great Coaches - Part 4: Teamwork
Management VideoCreating a healthy team culture starts with the coach: setting the tone, defining expectations, and providing clear criteria for what is acceptable and... -
HBR The Five T's of Great Coaches - Part 5: Tenacity
Management VideoWhether you call it grit or resilience, it's what helps your team build mental muscle for the lows and highs that come with any competition.
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Cross-Cultural Connection in the Suzhou Industrial Park (A)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details In 1994, Chinese Vice-Premier Li Lanqing and then Singapore Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew signed the Agreement on the Joint Development of Suzhou Industrial... -
Leader(ship) Development
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Designed for use in the first year of an MBA program, can be included within a core course on leadership or used more broadly to orient students to their... -
Growth in a Nonprofit Context
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case looks closely at the management of a branch of the YMCA in Boston during periods of growth and contraction and at the development of Wendy Zinn's... -
Leadership Voice and Style
Communication Case Study8.95View Details This technical note is used in management communications or strategic communication courses in MBA or executive education programs where students are... -
Americhem: The Gaylord Division (A-1)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study6.95View Details The Gaylord Division of Americhem, a large chemical company, is in the midst of the first use of a new zero-base budgeting system. The general manager... -
Global Healthcare Exchange, Spanish Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Founded in March 2000 at the height of the dot-com bubble, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) was one of 90 online marketplaces in the health care industry.... -
Colgate: Regaining Leadership in India's Sensitive Teeth Market
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details In April 2013, Colgate-Palmolive, a long-term front runner in a consumer goods business that specialized in oral care products, lost its dominance for... -
When a Pandemic Hits: Treading H2O and the Possible Pox (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details This five-case series, sold as a package, presents an opportunity for students to understand that having the leadership mindset is not about going from... -
Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading
27.50View Details To lead is to live dangerously. It's romantic and exciting to think of leadership as all inspiration, decisive action, and rich rewards, but leading requires... -
Commercial International Bank: Leading Transformation in Turbulent Times
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details In 2011, Cairo became the cradle of the Egyptian revolution. Transport workers, ambulance drivers and bank employees called for the end of President Hosni... -
Embracing Digital: ING's Journey to a New Way of Working - Supplement 1: Agile Coach
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case IN1530 and IN1533 -
Waking the Bear (B): "Danonizing" the Bolshevik Biscuit Factory
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case IN1056. Direct foreign investment in Russia was only 1% of GDP in 1999, and Russian industry was only half as productive in that year... -
Better World Books (in 2013): Social Entrepreneurship and the Triple Bottom Line
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Better World Books was founded as a for-profit "B corporation" committed to a triple bottom-line of financial, social, and environmental performance.... -
David Pyott: The Battle for Allergan (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details This case series charts the evolution of the hostile battle for Allergan and its ultimate sale to a white knight, Actavis. David Pyott had been the CEO... -
Differences at Work: Ben (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In Differences at Work: Ben (A) HBS Case No. 9-408-012 one of Ben's professional colleagues unexpectedly makes an anti-Semitic remark during a casual... -
Best Buy after Circuit City (in 2011): What's Next?
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Best Buy has survived the economic recession that took out competitor Circuit City only to find an increasingly competitive landscape. Their dominance... -
Coco-Mat: The Spartan Mattress Revolution
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The Coco-Mat case tracks the development of the bedding brand from its initial concept in 1989 to the iconic status it had achieved by 2016. During that... -
Mariwala's Family Entrepreneurship Challenges (B)
Management Case Study5.00View Details This case discusses the dilemma faced by Harsh Mariwala, the business leader who relinquished the CEO position of Marico Limited, his family-owned fast-moving... -
Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Inc. (C), Japanese Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Dubinsky and her boss' boss reflect on what was learned through this difficult chapter in Apple's history. May be used with Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer,... -
Rosabeth Moss Kanter on the Frontiers of Management
29.95View Details A Harvard Business Review Book. This book brings together all of Rosabeth Moss Kanter's Harvard Business Review articles and many of the editorial columns...
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What Having a “Growth Mindset” Actually Means
Managing yourself Digital ArticleDebunking three common misconceptions. -
What Is Psychological Safety?, Spanish Version
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA culture of trust and belonging doesn't just happen. Here's how you make one. -
The Case for a Chief of Staff
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleNew CEOs are typically focused on creating and implementing a strategy, building a top team, and driving culture change. Optimizing administrative workflow... -
Understanding Leadership (HBR Classic)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe would-be analyst of leadership usually studies popularity, power, showmanship, or wisdom in long-range planning. But none of these qualities is the... -
The Leader as Coach
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the face of rapid, disruptive change, companies are realizing that managers can't be expected to have all the answers and that command-and-control... -
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the past decade, the author has watched more than 100 companies try to remake themselves into better competitors. Their efforts have gone under many... -
What Leaders Really Do
Change management Magazine ArticleThey don’t make plans; they don’t solve problems; they don’t even organize people. What leaders really do is prepare organizations for change and help them cope as they struggle through it. -
Leader's Framework for Decision Making
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleSnowden and Boone have formed a new perspective on leadership and decision making that's based on complexity science. The result is the Cynefin framework,... -
Emotional Intelligence Has 12 Elements. Which Do You Need to Work On?
Emotional intelligence Digital ArticleIt’s far more than just being nice. -
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Organizational transformation Magazine ArticleLeaders who successfully transform businesses do eight things right (and they do them in the right order).