Management

Management

The cover of the book "Intentional: How to Finish What You Start" by Chris Bailey, featuring bold white text on an orange background with a circular arrow graphic, highlights strategies like time blocking for productivity.
Time blocking is a remarkable technique for ensuring your daily actions are guided forward by your overarching goals and intentions. Here’s how to supercharge it.
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Organizational psychologist Adam Grant emphasizes that while no one excels at a skill initially, effective leadership can uncover and nurture the untapped potential in team members through guidance and practice.
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Personal finance expert Paula Pant says you can afford almost anything if you recognize that every money choice involves a trade-off.
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The greatest companies navigate change at speed and make it stick at scale. Here’s how IBM started that journey in 2012.
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In the operating room, success isn’t about one person but the teamwork behind them. Surgeon Atul Gawande says those lessons under pressure apply far beyond medicine.
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How to foster a workplace environment where employees want to be present, rather than feel forced to be there.
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Leadership demands resilience, as it involves navigating high-stakes decisions amid challenges like market shifts, but venture capitalist Ben Horowitz advises that embracing tough problems rather than avoiding them is key to moving forward.
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Chip Conley suggests that viewing emotions as equations can help you identify adjustable variables and constants beyond your control, making overwhelming feelings more manageable through a mathematical perspective.
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High-conflict personalities, characterized by predictable behaviors, create drama in relationships, but by recognizing these patterns in ourselves and others, as suggested by lawyer and therapist Bill Eddy, we can effectively navigate these challenging situations.
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To thrive in a new leadership role, Michael Watkins advises understanding the organization's culture and assessing its needs, which will help you adapt your leadership style and gain support from superiors and team members.
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Restaurateur Will Guidara emphasizes that extending hospitality to employees, alongside customers, fosters a culture of shared values and purposeful communication, ultimately enabling staff to feel valued and perform at their best.
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Empathy and cooperation are essential for success, as the quality of personal and professional lives hinges on the complexity of relationships, which require effective listening, communication, and conflict management from both parties, according to Todd Davis of FranklinCovey.
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True leadership is demonstrated in challenging times when accountability is embraced, as emphasized by ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott, who asserts that the right to win must be earned, not simply given.
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Leadership is evolving from traditional views of strength and ambition to a focus on authenticity, as emphasized by Bill George, former chairman and CEO of Medtronic.
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Join former CIA officer Andrew Bustamante to discover how espionage strategies and psychological insights can enhance your business and leadership skills, helping you motivate teams, safeguard secrets, and unlock your inner secret agent.
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Aristotle's notion of man as a political animal highlights that 21st-century career success hinges on effectively navigating complex relationships and the social and political dynamics within organizations, as emphasized by Harvard Business School professor Linda Hill.
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Michelle Tillis Lederman defines a connector as a relationship-focused individual, emphasizing that nurturing professional networks with the same intent as personal relationships can significantly enhance career development, allowing connectors to achieve their goals more efficiently.
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Despite the pitfalls of multitasking leading to burnout, productivity expert Cal Newport advocates for "slow productivity," which emphasizes focused, intentional work that prioritizes long-term output over performative tasks, ultimately enhancing both accomplishment and well-being.
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In this expert class, executive coach Alisa Cohn shares principles and practices designed to help you overcome self-doubt and insecurity, enabling you to become a more natural leader for your team.
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Tiffani Bova emphasizes that fostering employee satisfaction is crucial for enhancing customer experience, advocating for the integration of customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX) to achieve predictable growth.
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Suzy Welch argues that the persistent narrative separating management from leadership overlooks their essential intersection, with effective leaders mastering both inspiring vision and detailed execution, a blend she terms “lanaging.”
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Led by experts like Angie McArthur and Ginni Rometty, this class teaches relational intelligence through lessons on empathy, conflict resolution, and self-awareness, emphasizing the importance of respectful communication and vulnerability in transforming challenging interactions into collaborative opportunities.
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This class teaches the vital role of managing professional relationships and networks for career success, emphasizing trust, strategic connections, and effective communication, as highlighted by experts like Linda Hill, Nicholas Christakis, Adam Grant, and General Stanley McChrystal.
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This class equips participants with strategies from experts like David Goggins, Amy Cuddy, and Dr. Rudolph Tanzi to enhance mental strength and emotional well-being through mindfulness, body-mind techniques, and compassionate emotional processing, ultimately fostering resilience and personal growth.
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This class, led by experts like Lisa Lampanelli and Amy Cuddy, teaches essential communication skills for authentic audience connection, focusing on storytelling, self-awareness, and adapting to diverse perspectives in today's multicultural workplace.
Book cover for "Manage Yourself to Lead Others: Why Great Leadership Begins with Self-Understanding" by Margaret C. Andrews, featuring a red background and bold text that echoes the timeless principle: know thyself.
Aristotle taught that “knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom” — all leaders and teams should take note.
Book cover of "The Happiness Files: Insights on Work and Life" by Arthur C. Brooks, featuring a yellow background with white steps, Harvard Business Review branding, and insights from renowned author Arthur C. Brooks.
Harvard Kennedy School professor and author Arthur C. Brooks guides us through the give-and-take of feedback — even when it is negative.
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“The simplest, most powerful way to reinforce work, not jobs, is to ask people to do something different.”
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If you want the best shot at long-term success, it can pay to supplement hot-shots with seasoned industry veterans.