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How Great Management Turned Around Baseball’s Worst Team

Jonah Keri, sports and stock market writer; author of "The Extra 2%."




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Know Your Power Persona

Maggie Craddock, author of "Power Genes: Understanding Your Power Persona--and How to Wield It at Work."




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What Leaders Need to Know About Collaboration

Morten Hansen, professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and author of "Collaboration."




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Idea Watch: Coworkers, Bosses, and Cubicles

Dan McGinn and Scott Berinato, HBR senior editors.




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Social Media’s Untapped Power

Misiek Piskorski and Anthony J. Bradley, of Harvard Business School and Gartner Research, respectively.




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What Motivates Tomorrow’s Leaders

John Coleman, coauthor of "Passion and Purpose," with contributors Patrick Chun, Umaimah Mendhro, and Rye Barcott.




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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions

Peter Bregman, author of "18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done."




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How CEO Pay Became a Massive Bubble

Mihir Desai, Harvard Business School professor and author of the HBR article "The Incentive Bubble."




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Growth Isn’t Rocket Science

Ken Favaro, senior partner at Booz & Company and coauthor of the HBR article "Creating an Organic Growth Machine."




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Make Your Own Culturematic

Grant McCracken, anthropologist and author of "Culturematic: How Reality TV, John Cheever, a Pie Lab, Julia Child, Fantasy Football . . . Will Help You Create and Execute Breakthrough Ideas."




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How Effective Leaders Talk (and Listen)

Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind, authors of "Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations."




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The Power of the Introvert in Your Office

Susan Cain, author of "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking."




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In a Fast World, Think Slowly

Frank Partnoy, professor of law and finance at the University of San Diego and author of "Wait: The Art and Science of Delay."




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How Campaign Finance Reform Could Help Business

Russ Feingold, former US senator from Wisconsin and founder of Progressives United.




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How a Culture of Accountability Can Deteriorate

Tom Ricks, journalist and author of the HBR article "What Ever Happened to Accountability?"




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How to Get the Right Job

Jodi Glickman, founder of the communication training firm Great on the Job and contributor to the "HBR Guide to Getting a Job."




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How to Schedule Time for Meaningful Work

Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen, coauthors of the HBR article "Make Time for the Work that Matters."




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How CEOs Are Succeeding in Africa

Jonathan Berman, author of "Success in Africa," busts media myths about the continent.




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How Goldman Sachs Drifted

Steven G. Mandis of Columbia Business School discusses his book, "What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider's Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences."




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Feeling Conflicted? Get Out of Your Own Way

Erica Ariel Fox, who teaches negotiation at Harvard Law School, discusses how to resolve inner conflict to lead wisely and live well.




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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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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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How to Manage Wall Street

Sam Palmisano, former CEO of IBM, on striking a balance between running a company for the long term and keeping investors happy.




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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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How to Stop Corporate Inversions

Bill George and Mihir Desai, professors at Harvard Business School, explain why our corporate tax code is driving American business overseas.




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How Silicon Valley Became Uncool

Walter Frick, HBR editor, explains why we valorize tech heroes from the past, but scoff at today's entrepreneurs.




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How Google Manages Talent

Eric Schmidt, executive chairman, and Jonathan Rosenberg, former SVP of products, explain how the company manages their smart, creative team.




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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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How to Change Someone’s Behavior with Minimal Effort

Steve J. Martin, coauthor of "The Small Big: Small Changes That Spark Big Influence," on the little things that persuade.




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Learning What Wiser Workers Know

Dorothy Leonard, author of "Critical Knowledge Transfer" ​and Harvard Business School professor, on retaining organizational expertise.




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How to Negotiate Better

Jeff Weiss, author of the "HBR Guide to Negotiating" and partner at Vantage Partners, explains how to prepare to be persuasive.




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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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Brian Grazer on the Power of Curiosity

The Oscar-winning producer explains why a passion for learning--about other people and pursuits--has been the key to his success.




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How Science and Tech Are Changing the Human Body

Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans explain how we're "evolving ourselves."




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Your Office’s Hidden Artists and How to Work with Them

Kimberly Elsbach, author of the HBR article "Collaborating with Creative Peers," on collaborating better with a certain type of colleague.




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The Man Behind Siri Explains How to Start a Company

Norman Winarsky, coauthor of "If You Really Want to Change the World," on ventures that scale.




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4 Types of Conflict and How to Manage Them

Amy Gallo, author of the "HBR Guide to Managing Conflict at Work," explains the options.




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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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Your Coworkers Should Know Your Salary

Pay transparency is actually a way better system than pay secrecy. David Burkus, professor at Oral Roberts University and author of "Under New Management," explains why.




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How to Say No to More Work

Karen Dillon, author of the "HBR Guide to Office Politics", explains how to gracefully decline excessive projects–and thankless tasks.




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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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How Work Changed Love

Moira Weigel explains how the changing nature of work has reshaped the way we meet, date, and fall in love. She's the author of "Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating" and is completing a Ph.D. at Yale University.




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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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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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Why You Should Buy a Business (and How to Do It)

Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff, professors at Harvard Business School, spell out an overlooked career path: buying a business and running it as CEO. Purchasing a small company lets you become your own boss and reap financial rewards without the risks of founding a start-up. Still, there are things you need to know. Ruback and Yudkoff are the authors of the “HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business.”




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How Personalities Affect Team Chemistry

Deloitte national managing director Kim Christfort talks about the different personality styles in an organization and the challenges of bringing them together. Her firm has developed a classification system to help companies better understand personality styles and capitalize on their cognitive diversity. She and Suzanne M. Johnson Vickberg coauthored the article, "Pioneers, Drivers, Integrators, and Guardians" in the March-April 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review.




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Low-Risk, High-Reward Innovation

Wharton professor David Robertson discusses a "third way" to innovate besides disruptive and sustaining innovations. He outlines this approach through the examples of companies including LEGO, GoPro, Victoria's Secret, USAA, and CarMax. It consists of creating a family of complementary innovations around a product or service, all of which work as a system to carry out a single strategy. Robertson's the author of "The Power of Little Ideas: A Low-Risk, High-Reward Approach to Innovation."