Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

To help you more effectively master the art of small talk, we’ll present in this article a mindset for how to think about small talk and a series of behaviors for how to do small talk.

Diversity 130

Diversity Inclusion 130

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Shift the focus from “what” you’re building (the deliverables) to “why” you’re building it (the outcomes). In this article, I’ll explain how you can keep your team’s efforts aligned with the genuine needs of your audience. Features multiply, priorities blur, and schedules and budgets suffer.

Deliverables 119

Deliverables Project Management Manager Operations 119

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2024

Research shows that a focus on human sustainability drives stronger business results. This article offers five questions to ask yourself as you’re setting your own growth strategy. It starts with individuals, but ultimately has a ripple effect to the people they encounter and the organizations they’re part of.

Manager 107

Manager 107

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Instead of relying on static formulas that worked in the past, organizations need to focus on changing the way people think. This article covers three ways that companies can sharpen cognitive skills in their own organizations.

Manager 131

Manager 131

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This article introduces four pivotal strategies to help businesses achieve a transcendent purpose, ensuring a cohesive blend of profitability and genuine societal impact. This divide prompts discussions about the feasibility of genuine societal contributions within capitalist frameworks.

Operations 113

Operations Benefits 113

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In this article, the author outlines practical, research-backed strategies to try. You may not be able to change your outlook — particularly if you’re someone who has a prevention focus — but remind yourself that you do have agency.

Team Management 123

Team Management Manager 123

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2024

This article offers four key domains you can focus on to ensure you’ve prepared an agenda-setting mission: adopting an enterprise perspective, leveraging your strategic mindset, cultivating stakeholder awareness, and considering your personal motives and risks. You may be an expert at running your business unit or leading your team.

Manager 106

Manager 106

Peter Winick

MAY 16, 2024

Expanding Vision, Narrowing Focus A conversation with Tony Martignetti about finding his passion and expanding his impact through thought leadership. Tony introduces his guiding philosophy, “Expand your vision, narrow your focus,” encouraging exploration before narrowing down on a specific area to serve.

Biotech 190

Biotech Marketing Insurance Sales 190

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The remedy for such pay gaps is often to focus on those workers who are most underpaid. This article explains why this approach falls short and how using a structured approach to pay equity analysis will help companies not only address systematic biases, but also address the exact point of pay inequity in their salary structure.

Compensation 93

Compensation Benefits Diversity Inclusion 93

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In this article, the authors outline five tips to consider when choosing what to buy this holiday season: 1) Don’t assume expensive gifts are the best. 3) Focus on the practical and useful. Strategic and thoughtful gift-giving can help ensure your clients feel seen and appreciated. 2) Individualize when possible.

Advertising 99

Advertising Manager 99

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Rather than betting on specialists or forcing people into specific niches, organizations need to focus on expanding people’s talents. This article makes five broad recommendations for preparing your workforce for an uncertain future.

Leadership Development 136

Leadership Development Manager 136

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2023

In that case, your reset must focus on revitalizing your team dynamic. This article focuses on some approaches that managers can use to address alignment gaps to jump-start a new, healthier, happier team dynamic. If so, it might be time for a team reset that focuses on realignment.

Manager 98

Manager 98

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In this article, the authors offer strategies for how to get everyone on the same page — and what to do if the confusion persists. It’s not uncommon for multiple stakeholders within companies to have differing visions or even competing agendas.

Manager 105

Manager 105

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In this article the authors explain the strategic benefits of randomized decision making — early advantage, faster learning, less predictability, and reduced biases — and offer advice on how to incorporate randomness in the strategy-making process.

Benefits 107

Benefits Operations Manager 107

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This article explores three common traps that managers fall into when measuring their strategy’s performance and explains how to avoid them. To fix this, focus on stakeholder outcomes. The third trap is a lack of focus. The first trap is when the strategic framework and measurement system don’t align.

Metrics 85

Metrics Manager Strategic Planning 85

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In this article, the authors explain how the intentional management of our online personas can have a positive and measurable connection to pay. A simple résumé and a list of references no longer captures the essence of our professional capabilities.

Compensation 106

Compensation Manager Benefits 106

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The authors of this article have developed a tool that they call “strategic sparring sessions.” Making future-focused decisions in an uncertain world presents fundamental challenges for leaders. When we’re talking about the future, data is by definition incomplete, so we’re often relying on assumptions and personal beliefs.

Change Management 100

Change Management Manager 100

Viima

JANUARY 2, 2024

These statistics echoed in articles spanning the last decade, underscore the unpredictable and volatile nature of the startup journey. One such approach that I will be diving into in this article is the Lean Startup method. One such approach that I will be diving into in this article is the Lean Startup method.

Marketing 82

Marketing Manager 82

Viima

JUNE 29, 2022

That’s why this article will shed some light on what it takes to lead innovation with the practices, methods, behaviors, and mindsets of successful innovation leaders. Leaders are bombarded from all directions with advice on how to behave as leaders. Great leaders who rarely make the headlines, if they ever do, are usually less controversial.

Manager 121

Manager 121

Help Scout Leadership

AUGUST 22, 2023

Customer focus results in loyal customers, strategic decision making, & company growth. Learn how to foster customer focus in your business. Read the full article

75

75

Thought Leaders LLC

DECEMBER 19, 2022

While many articles and approaches focus on the science of Performance Measurement, meaning the step-by-step methodology, and the business processes required to analyze, interpret, report, and the quality of performance measures, this article will focus on the human side or the art of performance measurement.

Performance Management 96

Performance Management Manager Project Management 96

Help Scout Leadership

AUGUST 22, 2023

Read the full article Compare the merits of focusing on internal innovation to the insights to be gained from customer feedback.

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92

Help Scout Leadership

APRIL 4, 2024

There are several approaches to the software development process that prompt us to focus on specific priorities over others. Read the full article But which one is best? Get our take in this post from the Help Scout engineering team.

Engineering 48

Engineering Software 48

Viima

JANUARY 2, 2024

These statistics echoed in articles spanning the last decade, underscore the unpredictable and volatile nature of the startup journey. One such approach that I will be diving into in this article is the Lean Startup method. One such approach that I will be diving into in this article is the Lean Startup method.

Marketing 69

Marketing Manager 69

Help Scout Leadership

AUGUST 22, 2023

By shifting your focus from output to empowerment, you can create more efficiency at work. Read the full article Many support managers spend a ton of time trying to increase productivity.

Manager 80

Manager 80

Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This article focuses on Why AI in Healthcare is critical to improve mental health. With depression and anxiety on the rise, board directors and C - levels must innovate to provide more self- guiding toolkits and also recognize that mood and happiness tracking is as important as financial results.

105

105

Help Scout Leadership

AUGUST 22, 2023

Keeping customers your #1 focus isn’t always easy. Read the full article These 6 companies offer real-life customer centricity examples that will show you the way.

75

75

Forbes Leadership

APRIL 28, 2023

This article discusses findings from Deloitte's latest Women @ Work report and focuses on how organizations can drive change. It's predicted that it will still take 132 years to close the gender parity gap. This is an urgent call to action for global leaders.

86

86

Forbes Leadership

MAY 21, 2023

This article focuses on AI sales intelligence use cases and uses ChatGPT to support this research article.

Sales 74

Sales Sales 74

Help Scout Leadership

AUGUST 22, 2023

Understanding the psychology behind setting and meeting goals will help you focus on what matters and improve productivity. Read the full article

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75

Tanveer Nasser

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Few issues have captured the attention and focus of leaders over the past few years as the ongoing debate over whether to allow employees to work remotely or demand they return to office (RTO). And because it’s a contentious issue, there’s invariably numerous articles and studies out there which are. Click to continue reading

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70

Chief Outsiders

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In this article, I will delve into the dynamic world of fractional sales leaders, exploring their pivotal role in driving revenue growth, providing specialized expertise, and offering flexibility to scale sales leadership based on organizational needs.

Sales 60

Sales Sales Revenue Scaling 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2023

Instead, this article offers new tips for how to balance work and meetings and suggests questions you can ask yourself when planning your day. Most meeting advice focuses on how to make meetings more effective or how to cut down on the number of meetings you have altogether.

Energy 87

Energy Manager 87

Rhythm Systems Growth

JUNE 24, 2023

Creating a clear vision of where your business will be in the future provides a sense of focus, direction, and alignment among your entire team. In this article, we'll examine why BHAGs are essential for up-and-coming organizations and how you can develop a BHAG for your company that aligns with your business strategies.

Accounts 98

Accounts 98

Forbes Leadership

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Unilverver’s Hellmann's Mayonnaise is returning to the Super Bowl for the third consecutive year with an ad that continues its focus around the issue of food waste and encouraging people to act and 'Make Taste, Not Waste'. This article reviews the ad.

86

86

Forbes Leadership

JANUARY 28, 2023

This article focuses on the AI leadership with the USA and the European Union in signing a new administrative agreement to do joint AI research in key global challenge areas like: climate change, healthcare, agriculture, etc.

Administration 84

Administration 84

Forbes Leadership

DECEMBER 29, 2022

There are lots of ways to get more eyes on your content, but in this article we’ll focus mostly on one strategy to get your content shared and re-shared.

Media 86

Media 86