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Accenture’s CEO on Leading Change

Pierre Nanterme discusses the forces changing consulting, and other knowledge-intensive industries.




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Becoming a More Authentic Leader

Bill George, Harvard Business School professor and author of "Discover Your True North," gives advice to both new and experienced leaders.




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Life’s Work: Neil deGrasse Tyson

In every issue, we feature a conversation with someone who's been wildly successful outside the traditional business world. This time, it's an astrophysicist.




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The Condensed January-February 2016 Issue

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




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Marketing Lessons for Companies Big and Small

Denise Lee Yohn, author of "Extraordinary Experiences" and "What Great Brands Do," explains what we can learn from retail and restaurant brands




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Achieve Your Goals (Finally)

Heidi Grant Halvorson, author of "No One Understands You and What to Do About It" and "9 Things Successful People Do Differently," explains how to actually stick to your resolutions this year.'




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Make Peace with Your Inner Critic

Tara Mohr, author of Playing Big, explains how to deal with self-doubt (or help someone else manage theirs).




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Stop Focusing on Your Strengths

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, professor at University College London and Columbia University and CEO of Hogan Assessments, explains how the fad for strengths-based coaching may actually be weakening us.




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Being Happier at Work

Emma Seppälä, Stanford researcher and author of "The Happiness Track," explains the proven benefits of a positive outlook; simple ways to increase your sense of well-being; and why it's not about being ecstatic or excited all the time.




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How to Give Constructive Feedback

Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman have administered thousands of 360-degree assessments through their consulting firm, Zenger/Folkman. This has given them a wealth of information about who benefits from criticism, and how to deliver it.




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Closing the Strategy-Execution Gap

Paul Leinwand, co-author of the book "Strategy That Works," explains how successful companies solve this thorny problem.




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The Condensed March 2016 Issue

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




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The Art of the Interview

Job interviews can feel more like a stylized ritual than a normal conversation. Esquire writer and journalist Cal Fussman, who's interviewed scores of people from Mikhail Gorbachev to Jeff Bezos to Dr. Dre, gives us his advice, from how to build trust with a subject to getting an honest answer to a tough question.




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Talking About Race at Work

Kira Hudson Banks, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the department of psychology at Saint Louis University, and a principal at consulting firm the Mouse and the Elephant. We spoke with her about why managers shouldn't wait for a controversy to start talking about race.




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Are Leaders Getting Too Emotional?

There's a lot of crying and shouting both in politics and at the office. Gautam Mukunda of Harvard Business School and Gianpiero Petriglieri of INSEAD help us try to make sense of it all.




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The Condensed April 2016 Issue

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




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Life’s Work: Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Iconic relationship expert Dr. Ruth discusses what she's learned over a long career.




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Understanding Agile Management

Darrell Rigby of Bain and Jeff Sutherland of Scrum explain the rise of lean, iterative management tactics, and how to implement them yourself.




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The Condensed May 2016 Issue

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




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Isabel Allende on Fiction and Feminism

The bestselling author describes her creative process and explains why she was always determined to have a career.




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Make Better Decisions

Therese Huston, Ph.D. and author of "How Women Decide," offers research-based tips for both men and women on how to make high quality, defensible decisions -- and sell them to your team.




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Be a Work/Life-Friendly Boss

Managers play a huge role in their employees' personal lives, which in turn affects productivity, morale, and turnover at work. Professor Scott Behson, author of "The Working Dad's Survival Guide," and professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, gives practical tips for being a leader who is flexible, fair, and effective.




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Yo-Yo Ma on Successful Creative Collaboration

The acclaimed cellist explains how he chooses and works with partners and shares advice on honing one's talent.




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Asking for Advice Makes People Think You’re Smarter

The research shows we shouldn't be afraid to ask for help. Francesca Gino and Alison Wood Brooks, both of Harvard Business School, explain.




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Getting Growth Back at Your Company

Chris Zook of Bain explains the predictable crises of growth and how to overcome them. His new book is "The Founder's Mentality," coauthored with James Allen.




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Greg Louganis on How to Achieve Peak Performance

The champion diver explains how visualization and ambitious goal-setting helped him achieve double gold medals in back-to-back Olympic Games and why he now serves as a mentor to younger athletes and a spokesman for LGBT causes.




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A Brief History of 21st Century Economics

Tim Sullivan, co-author with Ray Fisman of "The Inner Lives of Markets," on how we shape economic theory -- and how it shapes us.




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Brexit and the Leadership Equivalent of Empty Calories

Mark Blyth of Brown University and Gianpiero Petriglieri of INSEAD discuss Britain's vote to leave the European Union.




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Teaching Creativity to Leaders

Tim Brown, CEO and president of IDEO, on breakthrough problem-solving.




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We Can’t Work All the Time

Anne-Marie Slaughter on (finally) bringing sanity to the work/life struggle.




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The Era of Agile Talent

More of us are working in organizations employing a mix of freelancers, contractors, consultants, and full-timers, explains Jonathan Younger, coauthor with Norm Smallwood of "Agile Talent: How to Source and Manage Outside Experts."




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The Zappos Holacracy Experiment

Ethan Bernstein, Harvard Business School professor, and John Bunch, holacracy implementation lead at Zappos, discuss the online retailer's transition to a flat, self-managed organization. They are the coauthors of the HBR article "Beyond the Holacracy Hype."




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In Praise of Dissenters and Non-Conformists

Adam Grant, Wharton professor and author of "Originals", on the science of standing out.




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Negotiating with a Liar

Leslie John, Harvard Business School professor, explains why you shouldn't waste time trying to detect your counterpart's lies; instead, use tactics drawn from psychology to get them to divulge the truth. She's the author of the HBR article "How to Negotiate with a Liar."




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The Connection Between Speed and Charisma

Bill von Hippel, professor at the University of Queensland, on how the ability to think and respond quickly makes someone seem more charismatic.




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Email: Is It Time to Just Ban It?

David Burkus, author of "Under New Management", explains why some companies are taking extreme measures to limit electronic communication. Burkus is also a professor at Oral Roberts University and host of the podcast Radio Free Leader.




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Making the Toughest Calls

Joseph Badaracco, Harvard Business School professor, explains what to do when no decision feels like a good decision. He is the author of "Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work."




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Excessive Collaboration

Rob Cross, professor at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce, explains how work became an exhausting marathon of group projects. He's the coauthor of the HBR article "Collaborative Overload."




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Building Emotional Agility

Susan David, author of "Emotional Agility" and psychologist at Harvard Medical School, on learning to unhook from strong feelings.




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Macromanagement Is Just as Bad as Micromanagement

Tanya Menon, associate professor at Fisher College of Management, Ohio State University, explains how to recognize if your management style is too hands off. She's the co-author of "Stop Spending, Start Managing: Strategies to Transform Wasteful Habits."




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When Not to Trust the Algorithm

Cathy O'Neil, author of "Weapons of Math Destruction" on how data can lead us astray–from HR to Wall Street.




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Power Corrupts, But It Doesn’t Have To

Authority changes us all. Berkeley's Dacher Keltner, author of the HBR article "Don't Let Power Corrupt You" and the book "The Power Paradox" explains how to avoid succumbing to power's negative effects.




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What the World’s Best CEOs Have in Common

Long-term thinking, short-term savvy, and relentless focus on employees.




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The 10 People Who Globalized the World

Jeffrey Garten of Yale School of Management discusses how Genghis Khan, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Margaret Thatcher, and others made the world more integrated. Garten is the author of "From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization through Ten Extraordinary Lives".




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Re-Orgs Are Emotional

Stephen Heidari-Robinson and Suzanne Heywood, authors of "ReOrg: How to Get It Right" explain how good planning and communication can help employees adapt.




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A Leadership Historian on the U.S. Presidential Election

Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn talks about the surprising election of businessman Donald Trump as U.S. president, and what leaders throughout history can tell us about bridging divides and leading in times of uncertainty.




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Why the White Working Class Voted for Trump

Joan C. Williams, distinguished professor and director of the Center for WorkLife Law at UC Hastings, discusses the white working class voters who helped elect Republican Donald Trump as U.S. President, and why Democrat Hillary Clinton did not connect with them.




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How Focusing on Content Leads the Media Astray

Bharat Anand, author of The Content Trap and professor at Harvard Business School, talks about the strategic challenges facing digital businesses, and explains how he and his colleagues wrestled with them when designing HBX, the school's online learning platform.




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Handling Stress in the Moment

HBR contributing editor Amy Gallo discusses the best tactics to recognize, react to, and recover from stressful situations. She's a contributor to the "HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work."




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The “Jobs to be Done” Theory of Innovation

Clayton Christensen, professor at Harvard Business School, builds upon the theory of disruptive innovation for which he is well-known. He speaks about his new book examining how successful companies know how to grow.