Editor’s Choices for Week Ending Aug 10, 2012
Article of the Week
Managing Effectively in a Matrix (HBR Blog Network)
Big Idea: The skills needed for a leader to thrive in a matrix operating environment — empathy, conflict management, influence and self-awareness — can…
Managing Effectively in a Matrix
By Ruth Malloy
HBR Blog Network
August 10, 2012
Big Idea: The skills needed for a leader to thrive in a matrix operating environment — empathy, conflict management, influence and self-awareness — can be identified, developed and honed. Organizations and individual leaders need to take the initiative to broaden their traditional notions…
Editor’s Choices for Week Ending Aug 3, 2012
Article of the Week
Is Busyness Bad for Business? (HBR Blog Network)
Big Idea: Perhaps we are not so much caught in a “busy trap”, as a “meaning trap”. A meaningful life involves pursuing what we…
Is Busyness Bad for Business?
By Susan David
HBR Blog Network
August 3, 2012
Big Idea: Perhaps we are not so much caught in a “busy trap”, as a “meaning trap”. A meaningful life involves pursuing what we truly value, a sense of contribution in our work, as well as time outside of work. It’s perhaps no…
Editor’s Choices for Week Ending Jul 27, 2012
Article of the Week
How Companies Will Googlefy Your Career (HBR Blog Network)
Big Idea: The best way to understand the trajectory of your high performance career tomorrow is to look at what’s happening to…
How Companies Will Googlefy Your Career
By Michael Schrage
July 26, 2012
Big Idea: The best way to understand the trajectory of your high performance career tomorrow is to look at what’s happening to college undergraduates today. Judgment and personal experience will matter less. Statistical context will matter more. America is now training a next generation workforce…
Editor’s Choice Articles for Week Ending Jul 20, 2012
Article of the Week
The 100 Most Important People in Your Company (HBR Blog Network)
Big Idea: CEOs need to connect not only with their most senior managers, but with…
The 100 Most Important People in Your Company
By Ram Charan and Daniel Casse
HBR Blog Network
July 17, 2012
Big Idea: CEOs need to connect not only with their most senior managers, but with broader groups of their companies’ most influential and productive people. To provide effective leadership, they shouldn’t be stealing off to small, secretive conclaves. CEOs should…
Editor’s Choices for Week Ending Jul 13, 2012
Article of the Week
Why Millennials Don’t Want To Buy Stuff (Fast Company)
Big Idea: People aren’t shopping to “own” things in the traditional sense anymore. Here are the real reasons people are purchasing things now–and what we…
Why Millennials Don’t Want To Buy Stuff
By Josh Allen Dykstra
Fast Company
July 13, 2012
Big Idea: People aren’t shopping to “own” things in the traditional sense anymore. Here are the real reasons people are purchasing things now–and what we can do to tap into this new power.
