HBR - March 23, 2012
Whether making an important presentation to potential clients or trying to motivate a room full of entry-level employees, your words carry weight at work.
Most job candidates feel interview questions can be decoded and hacked, letting them respond to those questions with "perfect" answers. Guess what: They're right, especially if you insist on asking opinion-based job interview questions. Every candidate comes prepared to answer general questions...
When employees say they want their voices to be heard, they are really saying they want leaders who will not just hear them, but really listen to them.
Very few people know their own leadership style -- or strengths and weaknesses, for that matter. But that's a mistake.
Whether you're negotiating an acquisition, recruiting new talent, trying to ink an elusive client, or even just asking for a raise, you need to be well versed in the powers of persuasion.
Is there a time and place to get past the awkwardness and just do it? If so, who leads? Who follows? And what to do with that phone in your hand? Let's fully embrace those touchy questions.
How do you avoid the “big company” problem? Make sure that you have a clear system in place that aligns the goals of each employee with the goals of the organization as a whole.
According to one study, 66% of new products fail within two years. And 96% of all innovations fail to deliver any return on a company's investment.
Four simple, destructive behaviors that doom a marriage--and a business.
Our ability to improve the ways we do things depends on defining and shaping our daily habits of mind and practice — our "standard work."
The responsibility of steering a company in the right direction can be extremely overwhelming, pushing you to the edge of a never-ending juggling act. Luckily, stress doesn’t have to be such a “soul-sucking, health-draining force,” claims work and family columnist Sue Shellenbarger in an...
Great leaders tend to be funny in a particular way, new research shows.
Rather than following Outlook's quarter-hour despotism, the length of a meeting should be tailored to the decision-making work being done, whether that's 22 or 2 minutes.
While Karp's management style has been criticized as being unpredictable, he led his team in developing a product that has more than 300 million monthly unique visitors and was bought for a huge sum of money.
What’s the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning, before you even brush your teeth? Is it checking the e-mail that’s flooded into your inbox overnight? Does the pull feel increasingly irresistible, even Pavlovian? Do you get so immersed in responding to other people’s agendas...
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