Turn Your Group into a True Team | 11:26 AM | By Linda Hill & Kent Lineback | Are the people who work for you a real team? It’s easy to extol teamwork, but not every group is a team. In fact, most teams we see, aren’t — because their managers focus on building the[...]
Good Leaders Acknowledge What Can’t Be Done | 8:44 AM | By Jeffrey Pfeffer | It’s never easy to decide to stop pursuing a strategy. Americans got a reminder of that in President Obama’s speech last week on Afghanistan; it was dispiriting to hear him describe the extended timetable required to remove even just the[...]
Turning Stress into an Asset | Monday, June 27, 2011 4:46 PM | By Amy Gallo | You constantly hear how bad stress is for you: it’s damaging your health, jeopardizing your relationships, and hurting your performance. While these risks are real, recent research is showing that work strain, when managed correctly, can actually have[...]
Making Onboarding Work | Monday, June 27, 2011 3:17 PM | By Dick Grote | With fresh faces in organizations and new interns flooding offices, it’s time to really think about what the first steps are for bringing a new employee onto your team. Originally, the process of converting a newly-hired stranger into a fully-contributing[...]
Why a Great Individual Is Better Than a Good Team | 2:28 PM | By Jeff Stibel | Anytime a CEO, quarterback, engineer or author is paid ridiculous amounts of money, dozens of investors, armchair quarterbacks, and scholars jump in to debate the value of individual contributors versus teams. Bill Taylor wrote the most recent[...]
LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM THE GOOD SAMARITAN LUKE 10:30-37 A leader is a healer of men,he carries the wounded and the hurting and restores them to fullness. 1] He DISCERNED his ASSIGNMENT-The Levite and the Priest ignored the man in the name of rushing to the temple to serve.The good Samaritan discerned that God has put[...]
What I’ve Learned About Leadership From My Wife | Tuesday, June 21, 2011 12:29 PM | By Scott Eblin | Today is my 24th wedding anniversary. You can accuse me of bias (and you might be right), but my wife, Diane, is one of the best leaders I know. She may not be famous (although[...]
The Six Keys to Surviving on the Road | 7:21 AM | By Tony Schwartz | I was walking through the lobby of the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose one day last week just before 6 pm, feeling a bit bleary after three consecutive weeks flying back and forth across the country to visit five[...]
The Happiness Dividend | Wednesday, June 22, 2011 5:40 PM | By Shawn Achor | Nearly every company in the world gives lip service to the idea that “our people are our greatest asset.” Yet when the Conference Board Survey came out earlier this year, employees were the unhappiest they have been in their 22[...]
How to Become a Great Finisher | Wednesday, June 22, 2011 10:01 AM | By Heidi Grant Halvorson | The road to hell may or may not be paved with good intentions, but the road to failure surely is. Take a good look at the people you work with, and you’ll find lots of Good[...]
hbr.org 05/10/2013 | Vijay Govindarajan and Srikanth Srinivas Here is a leadership lesson: Be selfish. Be very selfish. For this message to be an effective leadership tip, we need to understand what selfishness is. Selfishness is typically defined as “concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself.” If someone hears that the CEO is being selfish, the thought that[...]
By Adam Grant | May 10, 2013 Several decades ago, a team of experts built the world’s most expensive mirror. It was for the Hubble Space Telescope, and the mirror was the key to focusing light that predated the stars, capturing images that had never been seen by human eyes. The precision was measured in millionths[...]
By Scott Eblin | May 9, 2013 A couple of months ago, I was talking with an executive leader I’ve known for a few years. One of the things I’ve noticed about him in that time is that his confidence has grown in a very appropriate and admirable way. I mentioned this to him and,[...]
hbr.org 05/09/2013Author: Joan Solotar As a senior professional in financial services — an industry with comparatively few women in the executive ranks — I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about why there aren’t more women at the top-most levels of companies. I’ve read the studies and heard the theories that women don’t network well; don’t have[...]
hbr.org 05/09/2013 Author: Peter Bregman A recent early morning hike in Malibu, California, led me to a beach, where I sat on a rock and watched surfers. I marveled at these courageous men and women who woke before dawn, endured freezing water, paddled through barreling waves, and even risked shark attacks, all for the sake[...]
hbr.org 05/08/2013 Author: Mark Goulston Disclaimer: It’s probably not a good idea to read this before you eat. I still remember how it felt when, as a medical student, I drained my first abscess in a patient. We called the procedure “I & D” which stands for “Incision and Drainage” (I told you not to[...]
Leadership is not only a noble calling, it’s the highest level of calling there is. Both in the church and in the world leadership demands a lot. One becomes a leader if he or she is different and distinguished from the rest. People follow a person if he has something they lack and they are[...]
05/06/2013 hbr.org Each one of us holds a set of beliefs and attitudes — a mindset — that determines how we interpret and respond to situations. That mindset shapes how we interact with others, and therefore it also affects the people we work with — in ways both subtle and profound. A person with a[...]
hbr.org 05/06/2013 Author: Solange Charas Anyone who has served on a board of directors can appreciate that each board has its own characteristic rhythm, social rules and level of effectiveness. I’ve been advising boards and management teams for 25 years as a consultant and C-Suite executive, and have served on several corporate boards, and can[...]
The leadership feeds on the main portal have been revamped. We are now more mobile and iPad-friendly and easier to view on more devices. Stay tuned for more changes and exciting members-only content as we prepare a revamp of the system over the next several weeks …. Related Articles: Be Selfish. Be Very Selfish Why[...]
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