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Editors’ Picks of the Week

HBR editors read top posts from HBR.org.




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Get a Dysfunctional Team Back on Track

Roger Schwarz, author of "Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams," explains how to build trust and accountability on your team.




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Reduce Stress with Mindfulness

Maria Gonzalez, author of "Mindful Leadership," explains how to minimize stress -- not just manage it. Contains a brief guided breathing exercise.




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The Economics of Online Dating

Paul Oyer, Stanford economist and the author of "Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Economics I Learned from Online Dating," explains the marketplace of online love.




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The Condensed January-February 2014 Magazine

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.




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Nomadic Leaders Need Roots

Gianpiero Petriglieri, professor at INSEAD, on the new global elite.




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Building the Agile Workforce

Jeffrey Joerres, CEO of ManpowerGroup, on finding the talent you need in an unpredictable world.




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Getting Excellence to Spread

Bob Sutton, Stanford University professor, talks about his book, "Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less" (coauthored by Huggy Rao).




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John Cleese Has a Serious Side

The iconic comedian speaks with HBR's Adi Ignatius about work, life, and, yes, comedy.




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How the U.S. Can Regain its Edge

Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, says the U.S. can remain a global leader only if it addresses issues at home.




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We Need Economic Forecasters Even Though We Can’t Trust Them

Walter Friedman, director of the Business History Initiative at Harvard Business School, on the pioneers of market prediction.




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Our Bizarre Fascination with Stories of Doom

Andrew O'Connell, HBR editor, explains why we find tales of disaster so compelling.




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Identify Your Primary Customer

Robert Simons, Harvard Business School professor, says companies still struggle to choose the right customer.




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How Unusual CEOs Drive Value

William Thorndike, investor and author of "The Outsiders," looks at some less-known but more effective executives.




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How Companies Can Embrace Speed

John Kotter, author of "Accelerate," on how slow-footed organizations can get faster.




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Best of the IdeaCast

Featuring Jeff Bezos, Howard Schultz, Francis Ford Coppola, Maya Angelou, Nancy Koehn, Rob Goffee, Gareth Jones, Cathy Davidson, and Mark Blyth.




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Social Physics Can Change Your Company (and the World)

Sandy Pentland, MIT professor, on how big data is revealing the science behind how we work together, based on his book "Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread."




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Succeeding Quietly in Our Recognition-Obsessed Culture

David Zweig, author of "Invisibles," on employees who value good work over self-promotion.




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The Condensed July-August 2014 Issue

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.




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The Fukushima Meltdown That Didn’t Happen

Charles Casto, recently retired from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, on how smart leadership saved the second Fukushima power plant.




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Marc Andreessen and Jim Barksdale on How to Make Money

The tech luminaries on bundling and unbundling in the digital age.




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To Do Things Better, Stop Doing So Much

Greg McKeown, author of "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less," on the importance of being "absurdly selective" in how we use our time.




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The Dangers of Confidence

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, professor at University College London, on how confidence masks incompetence.




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The Condensed September 2014 Issue

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.




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Prevent Employees from Leaking Data

David Upton and Sadie Creese, both of Oxford, explain why the scariest threats are from insiders.




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The Condensed October 2014 Issue

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.




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Fixing the College Grad Hiring Process

Sanjeev Agrawal, Collegefeed cofounder and CEO, explains what recruiters, new graduates, and college career centers need to do differently.




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Does Your Sales Team Know Your Strategy?

Frank Cespedes, HBS professor and author of "Aligning Strategy and Sales," explains how to get the front line on board.




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The Condensed November 2014 Issue

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.




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Disrupting TV’s Status Quo

Famed producer Norman Lear on developing groundbreaking sitcoms, managing creative partnerships and the lessons he wants to pass on to the next generation.




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Is the Corporate Campus Dying?

Jennifer Magnolfi, Founder & Principal Investigator at Programmable Habitats LLC, on how digital work, and the Internet of Things will fundamentally change the how we use the buildings and neighborhoods we work in.




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Boris Johnson on Influence and Ambition

The mayor of London explains why Churchill is a role model and whether his aspirations include the Prime Minister's office.




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The Condensed December 2014 Issue

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.




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Making Good Decisions

Stanford's Ron Howard, one of the fathers of decision analysis, explains how it's done.




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What Makes Teams Smart (or Dumb)

Cass Sunstein, Harvard professor and author of "Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter."




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The Condensed January-February 2015 Issue

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.




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Innovation Needs a System

David Duncan, senior partner at Innosight and coauthor of "Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days," explains how to organize corporate creativity.




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GoDaddy’s CEO on Leading Change

Blake Irving talks about the company's renewed focus on small businesses and bringing on a new leadership team.




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The Condensed March 2015 Issue

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.




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Why Leadership Feels Awkward

Herminia Ibarra, author of "Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader" and professor at INSEAD, on moving forward, even when it's not comfortable.




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Be Less Reactive and More Proactive

Peter Bregman, author of "Four Seconds," on changing the way you lead.




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Goldie Hawn on Female Leadership

The Hollywood icon explains why she moved from acting to producing and directing, then launched a foundation that teaches mindfulness to kids.




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The Condensed April 2015 Issue

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.




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Blue Ocean Strategy and Red Ocean Traps

Renée Mauborgne of INSEAD explains how a landmark idea is evolving. She is coauthor, along with W. Chan Kim, of "Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition (2015)."




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Your Brain’s Ideal Schedule

Ron Friedman, Ph.D., author of "The Best Place to Work," on how to structure your day to get the most done.




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Case Study: Reinvent This Retailer

Hear this story based on real events at J.C. Penney. A discussion with contributor Jill Avery and editor Andy O'Connell follows.




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Making Health Care More Consumer-Driven

Regina Herzlinger, Harvard Business School professor, talks about how to dismantle the barriers to innovation in care delivery.




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The Condensed May 2015 Issue

Amy Bernstein, editor of HBR, offers executive summaries of the major features.




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Understand How People See You

Heidi Grant Halvorson, author of "No One Understands You and What to Do About It," explains the science of perception.




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Why We Pretend to Be Workaholics

Erin Reid of Boston University on why men (but not women) feign long working hours.