ADI IGNATIUS: I’m Adi Ignatius. ALISON BEARD: I’m Alison Beard, and this is the HBR IdeaCast. ADI IGNATIUS: All right. So Alison, the more I think about leadership, the more I think that leading effectively is almost all about psychology. ALISON BEARD: Yeah, I can see what you mean. You need to understand consumers’ wants […]
Summary: Managers need better strategies for managing collaboration. One option is to organize employees into pods: cross-discipline groups that mix and match on projects as needed. This structure requires less oversight and fewer meetings than multiproject environments that don’t use pods, and it can help keep employees from being pulled in too many directions. In […]
Low-effort, AI-generated work is wasting people’s time and seeding frustration. #AIGenerated #Workslop #Destroying #Productivity
Five strategies for redesigning your operations. #Successfully #Automate #Manufacturing
In the new, updated, and expanded edition of their book Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them (Harvard Business Review Press, 2025), Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini paint a stark picture of how bureaucracy hobbles ingenuity and innovation, and make a data-driven argument for reinventing management as we know it. Here’s an […]
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images To compete and survive, companies need to adopt innovative ways of working, but new options seem to be emerging more frequently than ever before. Fortunately, not all innovative practices need to be invented anew. Many — such as lean management, digitization, and agile approaches — have already been conceptualized […]
September 15, 2025 Are you experiencing a roadblock in your leadership path? On this season of Coaching Real Leaders, executive coach Muriel Wilkins works through issues like imposter syndrome, whether you really want to be CEO, and how to receive – and take action on – tough feedback. She guides leaders through what’s holding them […]
BRIAN KENNY: Welcome to Cold Call, the podcast where we delve deep into the stories behind groundbreaking Harvard Business School case studies. It’s pretty rare for an industry to go from zero to Mach speed in just a few years, but that’s exactly how it’s gone for rideshare services. Since the first peer-to-peer rideshare service […]
ALISON BEARD: I am Alison Beard. ADI IGNATIUS: And I’m Adi Ignatius. And this is the HBR IdeaCast. ALISON BEARD: Adi, do you remember back in 2022 when we were thinking about our first all-day live virtual leadership conference? And we really didn’t know what we were doing at all, but we hired a freelance […]
As you’ve probably heard, if not also experienced, AI is reshaping how we work. If you happen to be a senior professional with sufficient reputational capital, status, and a deep social network, you may be relatively safe from being displaced by AI—at least for now. #Perils #Replace #EntryLevel #Jobs
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