Managing organizations

The research on generational differences has been overhyped.

Take the direct route to stress reduction.

The presidential candidate is playing into dangerous misconceptions about deal making.

Get out of the building.

To firms, industries, and even economies.

Steering an organization through times of change can be hazardous, and it has been the ruin of many a leader. To avoid the perils, let a few basic rules govern your actions—and your internal compass.

It’s also the case in societies with more tolerance for inequality.

People don’t follow Moore’s Law.

When organizations get into big trouble, fixing the culture is usually the prescription. That's what most everyone said GM needed to do after its 2014...

A memo to the cardinals applies to executives as well.

Reasonable attempts to tame it are doomed to fail.

Here’s the bigger picture.

Know how to respond.

Many companies want to raise their level of customer service--but how? The typical response is to rewrite frontline employees' scripts and conduct pilot...

Two Corning Glass Works products illustrate the use of various forecasting techniques. Managers and forecasters should consider three issues when approaching...

Job-offer negotiations are rarely easy. Consider three typical scenarios: You’re in a third-round interview for a job at a company you like, but a firm you admire even more just invited you in. Suddenly the first hiring manager cuts to the chase: “As you know, we’re considering many candidates. We like you, and we hope […]

As the demands of the workplace keep rising, many people respond by putting in ever longer hours, which inevitably leads to burnout that costs both the...

Back in the 1990s, computer engineer and Wall Street "quant" were the hot occupations in business. Today data scientists are the hires firms are competing...

How to negotiate across cultures

They’re all hard to improve because they run counter to our instincts.

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The best leaders know how to communicate clearly and persuasively. How do you stack up? If you read nothing else on communicating effectively, read these...

Don't let destructive drama sideline your career. Every organization has its share of political drama: Personalities clash. Agendas compete. Turf wars...

In his defining work on emotional intelligence, bestselling author Daniel Goleman found that it is twice as important as other competencies in determining...

How often have you sat in team meetings complaining to yourself, "What a colossal waste of time. Why does it take forever for this group to make a simple...

How can you transform yourself from a good manager into an extraordinary leader? We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on...

DON'T LET YOUR WRITING HOLD YOU BACK. When you're fumbling for words and pressed for time, you might be tempted to dismiss good business writing as a...

On the hook to lead a big project? Your job just got easier. Save time and effort with HBR's Guide to Project Management Ebook + Tools. Whether you're...

Provides an opportunity to examine leadership and entrepreneurship in the context of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition, a compelling story...

Describes the events that transpired during the May 1996, Mount Everest tragedy. Examines the flawed decisions that climbing teams made before and during...

Tapped to lead a change initiative--and afraid it will fail like so many others? You have reason to worry: 70% of change efforts do fail. Here's how to...

Rob Parson was a star producer in Morgan Stanley's Capital Markets division. He had been recruited from a competitor the prior year and had generated...

Calculating and assessing the overall financial health of the business is an important part of any managerial position. Companies expect managers to...

GE is faced with Jack Welch's impending retirement and whether anyone can sustain the blistering pace of change and growth characteristic of the Welch...

Performance feedback is crucial to a career in the information-rich global economy. However, feedback is psychologically stressful to both give, and hear....

Google's Project Oxygen started with a fundamental question raised by executives in the early 2000s: do managers matter? The topic generated a multi-year...

Wolfgang Keller, manager of the Ukrainian subsidiary of a German beer company, faces a managerial dilemma. His subordinate, Dmitri Brodsky, is a talented...

If you're an executive, manager, or team leader, one of your toughest responsibilities is managing your people's performance. How do you appraise just...

Helping your team set effective goals is a critical part of your job as a manager. Challenging, but attainable goals improve productivity and create a...

In 2012, Bill Allen and Maria Pejter, of Maersk Group's Human Resources Department, sat down to consider some key aspects of Maersk's talent management...