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Giving a High Performer Productive Feedback
Managing people Best PracticeGiving feedback, particularly constructive feedback, is often a stressful task. As counterintuitive as it may seem, giving feedback to a top performer can be even tougher. Top performers may not have obvious development needs and in identifying those needs, you can sometimes feel like you’re being nitpicky or over-demanding. In addition, top performers may not […] -
Is Your Company Using Employee Data Ethically?
Managing people Digital ArticleThe trade-offs can be complex. -
A Question of Character
Leadership Magazine ArticleJoe Ryan turned a small-town cosmetics company into a national powerhouse, making employees happy and shareholders rich in the process. Does it really matter that he cheats on his wife? -
The Toxic Handler: Organizational Hero—and Casualty
Organizational culture Magazine ArticleWhen companies cause emotional pain through nasty bosses, layoffs, and change, a certain breed of “healing” manager steps in to keep the gears moving. They are toxic handlers—unsung corporate heroes who save the day, but often pay a high price. -
How to Quit When You Lead a Team
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA guide to help you maintain boundaries while setting your successor up for success. -
How to Set Up a Remote Employee for Success on Day One
Managing people Digital ArticleFour strategies for managers. -
How to Keep Your Star Performers in Trying Times
Employee retention Best PracticeWhen the economy is slow and unemployment rates are high, it’s easy to think your employees will happily stay put in their current jobs. But that’s a dangerous assumption. Research shows that voluntary turnover rates increase as consumer confidence builds. This means, as a manager, you need to figure out ways to retain your top […] -
Is it Time for Mutiny?
Managing people Digital ArticleA close study of the real thing — seafarers’ insurrections during the Age of Discovery — might help you decide. -
How Obama and Clinton Stack Up as Managers
Government Digital ArticleThe conventional wisdom on leadership and management is clear: the first matters more than the second. Warren Bennis‘s classic On Becoming a Leader is typical. In a lengthy comparison between leaders and managers, he describes leaders as luminaries and managers as mere mortals. For example: • “The manager administers; the leader innovates.” • “The manager […] -
Microsoft Analyzed Data on Its Newly Remote Workforce
Leadership & Managing People Big IdeaHere's what it found about meetings, culture, workdays, and engagement. -
How to Equip Your Team to Problem Solve Without You
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleStop shielding your team from challenges and responsibilities. -
When Should You Let an Employee Make a Mistake?
Managing people Digital Article“Put my training wheels back on,” Sophia said in a stern tone, “Or I’m not going to ride my bike!” She had just turned four that day and wanted to learn to ride a bike like her older sister. Now she wasn’t so sure. After a lot of encouraging and a little stubbornness of my […] -
How Leaders Can Escape Their Echo Chambers
Leadership and managing people Digital ArticleSix strategies to ensure your team tells you what you need to hear. -
What Makes Someone an Engaging Leader
Leadership development Digital ArticleAnd how organizations can develop more of them. -
How to Push Your Team to Take Risks and Experiment
Experimentation Digital ArticleNormalize failure. No, really: Do it. -
Update Your DE&I Playbook
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleAddressing structural racism requires structural change. -
Use Tension and Conflict to Create Breakthrough Products
Creativity Digital ArticleOppositional goals can actually increase creativity. -
How Great Managers Manage People
Talent management Digital Articleby Paul Michelman
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How Biases About Motherhood Impact All Women at Work
Gender Digital ArticleResearch shows the maternal wall is an obstacle regardless of whether women plan to have children or not. -
Overcome Your Fear of Giving Feedback
Giving feedback Digital ArticleThree ways managers make the process harder than it needs to be. -
Research: 4 Ways Employees Respond to DEI Initiatives
Diversity and inclusion Digital ArticleIt’s not as simple as classifying people for or against diversity, equity, and inclusion. -
How to Get the Most Out of Your Relationship with a Career Sponsor
Motivating people Digital ArticleThese four strategies can help. -
Creating Stability Is Just as Important as Managing Change
Motivating people Digital ArticleTo do their best work, employees need to feel a sense of consistency — not constant upheaval. -
Stop Playing Favorites
Managing people Magazine ArticleAll managers have in-groups and out-groups. Here’s how to manage those dynamics more effectively. -
3 Ways to Build a Culture That Lets High Performers Thrive
High potential employees Digital ArticleStop getting in the way of your top talent. -
Constant Change Is Rewriting the Psychological Contract with Employees
Managing people Digital ArticleIn the face of rising dissatisfaction, leaders need to revisit their unwritten agreements with workers — and agree on a sustainable path forward. -
5 Traps to Avoid as You Gain Power as a Leader
Power and influence Digital ArticlePower will change you — and your relationships. How you wield it can make or break your success. -
3 Ways to Compassionately Hold Your Team Accountable
Motivating people Digital ArticleWhy some teams are more successful at meeting deadlines, hitting targets, and growing revenues. -
How Gen AI Can Make Work More Fulfilling
AI and machine learning Digital ArticleResearch-backed ways to increase employees’ enjoyment of work by reducing time spent on unpleasant tasks. -
When Your Team Offloads Their Stress onto You
Managing employees Digital ArticleFive strategies for taking care of yourself so you can care for others. -
Research: Why We Choose the Hard Way to Do Tedious Tasks
Health and behavioral science Digital ArticleAnd how to stop getting stuck in ruts. -
5 Signs Your One-on-Ones Aren’t Working
Meeting management Digital ArticleAnd how to make the most of your face time with direct reports. -
3 Ways to Make a Request That Doesn’t Feel Coercive
Managing people Digital ArticleTo get an authentic yes, give your employee room to say no. -
How to Talk to an Employee Who Isn’t Meeting Expectations
Difficult conversations Digital ArticleIt’s an opportunity to address the gap between the work they’re delivering and the company’s goals. -
4 Strategies to Guide Your Team Through a Departmental Transition
Organizational change Digital ArticleStart by communicating the “why” clearly and authentically. -
When Someone You Manage Isn’t Following the Return-to-Office Policy
Managing people Digital ArticleHow to strike a balance between enforcing company mandates and supporting the needs of your team. -
4 Common Types of Team Conflict — and How to Resolve Them
Leadership and managing people Digital ArticleAdvice backed by three decades of research into thousands of team conflicts around the world. -
Does Your Organization Have the Energy to Transform?
Strategy Digital ArticleHow managers can measure and manage their company’s capacity for change.
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Atera NYC (A): Turbulent Times in the Kitchen
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Atera Restaurant, New York City, February 2015. Jodi Richard closed the door behind her with a ton of questions. She had just come out of the final meeting... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Talent (with bonus article "Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy" by Douglas A. Ready, Linda A. Hill, and Robert J. Thomas)
24.95View Details Invest in your most valuable resource: your people. Top talent is hard to come by. And seeing your stars walk out the door is painful--and expensive.... -
Johansen's: The New Scorecard System
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Johansen's has just completed its first year under a new scorecard system for evaluation of manager performance. The manager of Store 51 has traditionally... -
NOVA VISION: Digital Transformation of Service Retailing Industry
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case traces the digital transformation exploration of NOVA VISION (also called "Baodao Glasses"), as the leading Chinese service-oriented eyewear... -
Executive Remuneration at Royal Dutch Shell (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The remuneration committee at Shell decided to exercise their discretionary power to award five top executives a bonus for 2008, even though they had... -
Stress in the Workplace: Mental Health Conversations-The Employee
Management Case Study11.95View Details Most managers will one day be in a situation where they must help another employee with a mental health issue. How should they prepare for these conversations?... -
Analyzing Standard Costs, Technical Note
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Explains variance analysis. Concepts of price variance and quantity variance are introduced to analyze prime cost variances. Spending variance and capacity... -
Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley (C) (Abridged)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details A year after Rob Parson's manager decided to postpone Parson's promotion, Parson's new manager Gary Stuart faces the decision of promotion again. Stuart... -
One Page Talent Management, with a New Introduction: Eliminating Complexity, Adding Value
35.00View Details A radical approach to growing high-quality talent--fast. You know that winning in today's marketplace requires top-quality talent. You also know what... -
Managing Teams in the Hybrid Age: The HBR Guides Collection (8 Books)
Management Book160.00View Details Lead your hybrid team to success. The strictly nine-to-five office routine no longer exists, and you may be managing a team that works in several different... -
Coaching at Banco Azucarero de Cali (BAC) (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details An abstract is not available for this product. -
MacAfee Building Supply: Improving Performance Across Retail Stores (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details MacAfee Building Supply, a distributor of building supplies and heating and plumbing products, had grown to become the largest company of its kind in... -
Cafes Monte Bianco: Building a Profit Plan
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Alert: This case has been revised since its original publication; all amounts have been converted to euros and the dates have been updated to 2020. If... -
Network Assessment Exercise: Executive Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Designed to help executives identify patterns in their approaches to developing networks of relationships. A "network" refers to the set of relationships... -
Value Partners Group Ltd.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details A financial advisor located in Hong Kong is requested by local clients for investment instruments with exposures to China stocks. He recommends several... -
The Sophomore Jinx
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case discusses the so-called sophomore jinx: professional athletes who perform superbly as rookies never seem to do as well in their second--sophomore--season.... -
Atera NYC (B): Food War Declared
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case IMD818. Atera Restaurant, New York City, February 2015. Jodi Richard closed the door behind her with a ton of questions. She had just... -
Performance Reviews (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
12.95View Details Master the art of growing your employees through effective performance reviews. Conducting performance reviews can be stressful. But these conversations... -
Marshall & Gordon: Designing an Effective Compensation System (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details CEO Kelly Browne wrestles with the design of a new compensation system to promote the collaboration and cross-selling necessary for supporting her firm's... -
Peer Feedback Assignment
Communication Case Study11.95View Details The Peer Feedback Assignment is based on the fact that giving feedback is an essential managerial communication skill. The assignment suggests guidelines...
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Giving a High Performer Productive Feedback
Managing people Best PracticeGiving feedback, particularly constructive feedback, is often a stressful task. As counterintuitive as it may seem, giving feedback to a top performer can be even tougher. Top performers may not have obvious development needs and in identifying those needs, you can sometimes feel like you’re being nitpicky or over-demanding. In addition, top performers may not […] -
Atera NYC (A): Turbulent Times in the Kitchen
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Atera Restaurant, New York City, February 2015. Jodi Richard closed the door behind her with a ton of questions. She had just come out of the final meeting... -
Is Your Company Using Employee Data Ethically?
Managing people Digital ArticleThe trade-offs can be complex. -
A Question of Character
Leadership Magazine ArticleJoe Ryan turned a small-town cosmetics company into a national powerhouse, making employees happy and shareholders rich in the process. Does it really matter that he cheats on his wife? -
The Toxic Handler: Organizational Hero—and Casualty
Organizational culture Magazine ArticleWhen companies cause emotional pain through nasty bosses, layoffs, and change, a certain breed of “healing” manager steps in to keep the gears moving. They are toxic handlers—unsung corporate heroes who save the day, but often pay a high price. -
How to Quit When You Lead a Team
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA guide to help you maintain boundaries while setting your successor up for success. -
How to Set Up a Remote Employee for Success on Day One
Managing people Digital ArticleFour strategies for managers. -
How to Keep Your Star Performers in Trying Times
Employee retention Best PracticeWhen the economy is slow and unemployment rates are high, it’s easy to think your employees will happily stay put in their current jobs. But that’s a dangerous assumption. Research shows that voluntary turnover rates increase as consumer confidence builds. This means, as a manager, you need to figure out ways to retain your top […]