Organizational culture

The CEO wants to increase collaboration and cut costs with an open-plan work space, but the knowledge workers say they need their walls, their doors, and their privacy.

It's not the only startup to make that mistake.

Samsung’s Lee Kun-hee was in power, then out of power, and is now in power again. And that’s not making life easy for his former employee Kim Yong-chul. As reported today, the latter is in a form of career exile after accusing his boss and other top executives of corruption. The complaint got results: Lee […]

Tell them a compelling story.

The faster a company grows, the more dramatic the shift.

When political and social issues touch business and the workplace, employees and their leaders sometimes struggle to address those issues productively...

Without clipping their wings.

Many felt pressure to lie about their personal lives.

Here’s another assumption that is deeply embedded in much of our organizational behavior, but sadly out-of-date: If I keep my head down and do my own task well, I’ll be fine. This assumes that an individual’s responsibility is simply to do a “good job.” In hierarchical organizations, the standard for gauging an individual’s performance is […]

This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Making Collaboration Work. Last week I arrived home from work to see my 8th grade son toiling away on a science...

by Lauren Keller Johnson

Network groups for black and Hispanic employees had been an unqualified success. Now a Christian group was forming—and Bill Thompson didn’t know what to think about it.

The nine types of brands — and their corresponding values.

Too many executives have "shiny object syndrome."

I didn’t take Calculus in high school, and I almost didn’t take Advanced Placement (AP) American History for fear that I wouldn’t get an A. In retrospect, given that I’ve pursued a career in finance, achieving a B in Calculus rather than knowing little to nothing on the topic would have been a decent trade. […]

Focus on learning to drive results, not pressure.

Only 5% of big-data investments are in human resources.

My hunch is that, at some point in your career, your reliance on someone else to get a job done has left you angry, confused, frustrated, and maybe even deeply concerned for your own professional standing. Especially when the stakes are high in a complex, troubling situation, depending on colleagues to make the right moves […]

"There is no excuse. Creativity has to be at the forefront."

A new study suggests middle managers are the key.