naged. Some of the best were extremely productive. Others were great team players. Others made the people around them better. Another called me out when I wasn’t performing as well as I could, something I didn’t enjoy but always appreciate…
HBR’s editor at large talks to former McKinsey managing partner Vikram Malhotra for this week’s edition of the HBR Executive Agenda.
Let’s be honest: fear is everywhere inside organizations right now.
You can feel it in how people talk about headcount or not. You see it in 10-slide decks justifying one decision. You sense it when smart teams stop raising bold ideas and start hed…
Up until very recently, employees often had to endure costly and lengthy commutes to faraway cities to work from a single headquarters office on a daily basis. Today, accelerated by the pandemic and driven by the rapid digitization of the workplace, t…
Work emails ping as they come in. A text reminder flashes: Empty bottles are needed for science class tomorrow. The dog’s out of food. A soccer tournament just got moved to next weekend. The babysitter needs to get booked for Saturday. For millions of…
Misframing a problem can lead to solving the wrong one.
This week, Taylor Swift teased the release of her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, through a clip from today’s episode of New Heights, the podcast hosted by her boyfriend, NFL player Travis Kelce, and his brother, former NFL player Jas…
Many employers are demanding more from workers these days, pushing them to log as many hours as possible.
Google, for example, told all its employees that they should expect to spend 60 or more hours in the office every week. Some tech companies ar…
Louis Tétu: If we don’t adopt much faster, our companies will fail and our standard of living will massively erode
At many companies, the minimum viable product (MVP) mindset has become gospel. Two-week sprints and “move fast, break things” slogans keep teams iterating, but they can also trap organizations in a cycle of incrementalism—producing updates that are sa…
