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Have You Restructured for Global Success?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThe organizational structures of many multinational corporations are inadequate to the task of capitalizing on opportunities in emerging markets. Locating... -
Proof That Women Get Less Credit for Teamwork
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How to Manage Your Team’s Vacation Requests
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Organizing for Manufacturable Design
Leading teams Magazine ArticleNowhere in a company is the need for coordination more acute than between the people who are responsible for product design and those responsible for manufacturing. As Daniel E. Whitney argued in these pages recently (“Manufacturing by Design,” July–August 1988), most companies have operated for years in an environment where design and manufacturing communicate infrequently, […] -
Managing the Social Butterfly in Your Office
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If You're Not Collecting Productivity Data, You'll Never Succeed at Work
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIt's central to self-improvement. -
Meetings Need a Shot Clock
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleLiterally, use a timer. -
When Your Team Turns on You
Leadership & Managing People Best PracticeIt can happen to even the most competent leaders. Your team members disengage or stop coming to meetings. They refuse to, or simply don't do, what you... -
A Study of Thousands of Dropbox Projects Reveals How Successful Teams Collaborate
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3 Ways to Build a Culture That Lets High Performers Thrive
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What Will You Pledge to Your Team?
Leadership Digital ArticleI was reminded last week of a simple but important truth: if you want to manage people effectively, ask them what they need from you in order to succeed. The realisation came as I was coaching a executive who had been finding it very difficult to manage the disparate people in her team. Some were […] -
Get Your Virtual Team Off to a Fast Start
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Life's Work: An Interview with Rick Steves
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleRick Steves developed a deep love for travel when he was a teenager and soon realized that he could fashion a career out of teaching others how to plan... -
How to Get Your Team to Stop Asking You Every Little Question
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How to Prepare Your Virtual Teams for the Long Haul
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3 Ways to Encourage Smarter Teamwork
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Keeping Work Organized when Your Team Is Fragmented
Operations and supply chain management Digital ArticleCompanies increasingly use external specialists to do key tasks. Processes don’t have to suffer. -
The Flight of the Boomerang Employee (HBR Case Study)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleLiana, a product developer-turned-entrepreneur, is invited back to her old company to take over her former boss's job. She's excited about the prospect... -
Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other
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How to Get Experts to Work Together Effectively
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHow should teams of experts working on knowledge-intensive projects be structured? Should they be hierarchical? Or will flexible, self-organized groups...
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HBR Guide to Being a Great Boss
21.95View Details Are you a good boss--or a great one? Good bosses can handle the day-to-day work of running a team. Great bosses go beyond that, finding ways to help employees... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads for Mid-Level Managers (with bonus article "Managers Can't Do It All" by Diane Gherson and Lynda Gratton)
24.95View Details Collaborator. Communicator. Connector. Coach. As a mid-level manager, you're being tasked with more than ever before. You're expected to lead innovation,... -
Cultivating Capabilities to Innovate: Booz.Allen & Hamilton
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Describes the efforts of the president of Booz.Allen, a major consulting firm, to understand and improve the way that products, services, and processes... -
Adam Baxter Co./Local 190: Debrief and Endnotes
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the Adam Baxter series. -
Developing Products on Internet Time: A Process Design Exercise
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This team exercise allows students to experience some of the dynamics of developing products in the fast-paced Internet environment and was inspired by... -
Lisa Thomas at LaMont Engineering
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details The case details the challenges faced by Lisa Thomas of LaMont Engineering after the company is acquired by Munday Consultants, Inc. Thomas, who supported... -
Motivating From the Top Down
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The CEO and other company leaders are trying to do all the right things to motivate executives. One of those things is to develop the workforce through... -
RBC: Transforming Transformation (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Historically, personal and commercial banks (P&CB) maintained long relationships with their clients who tended to do most if not all of their banking... -
Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America: The Quest for a Model Workplace
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case details the sexual harassment case brought against Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America by nearly 300 female employees in April 1996. The... -
Leading Virtual Teams
15.00View Details How do you lead a team scattered across the globe? How do you keep members you can't see organized, communicative, and productive? In this book, you'll... -
Managing a Task Force
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Describes several principles for improving the effectiveness of internal task forces. Suggests a number of guidelines for starting up a task force, conducting... -
GitLab and the Future of All-Remote Work (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details GitLab is arguably one of the world's largest "all-remote" companies. Started in 2011 and with more than 1,000 employees at present, it has no physical... -
A Learning Team Drama in One Act
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details "Hee Soap, Hee Soap," Timothy Jones sang out in a mocking fashion towards Hee Seop Choi, a fellow learning team member at a noted graduate school of business.... -
Johannes Linden: Managing the Global Executive Committee
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Johannes Linden is the Director of the Washer and Dryer division of Fluss, a large Swiss appliance manufacturer. Soon after the company completes its... -
Roll Back Malaria and BCG: the Change Initiative
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Roll Back Malaria, a global partnership dedicated to fighting malaria has not met its founders' expectations of effectively combatting malaria. In 2005,... -
Texas Instruments: Cost of Quality (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details A division questions whether to retain, modify, or abandon its cost of quality system now that more direct measures of quality have been adopted. Discusses... -
Tank in the Bog (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details On November 16, 1996, Doug Crandall, second lieutenant and platoon leader of the Army's 1st Platoon, Delta Company, consisting of four tanks and 16 men,... -
HBR Guide to Project Management
Strategy & Execution Book21.95View Details MEET YOUR GOALS--ON TIME AND ON BUDGET. How do you rein in the scope of your project when you've got a group of demanding stakeholders breathing down... -
Hybrid Workplace: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
22.95View Details Reinvent your organization for the hybrid age. Hybrid work is here to stay--but what will it look like at your company? If your organization is holding... -
Brown Bag Films (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Brown Bag Films produced programming for Disney, Amazon, BBC, and Nickelodeon, reaching an audience of more than 100 million pre-school children around...
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Have You Restructured for Global Success?
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThe organizational structures of many multinational corporations are inadequate to the task of capitalizing on opportunities in emerging markets. Locating... -
Proof That Women Get Less Credit for Teamwork
Global Business Digital ArticleUgh. -
How to Manage Your Team’s Vacation Requests
Leading teams Digital ArticleBe fair and don’t panic. -
Organizing for Manufacturable Design
Leading teams Magazine ArticleNowhere in a company is the need for coordination more acute than between the people who are responsible for product design and those responsible for manufacturing. As Daniel E. Whitney argued in these pages recently (“Manufacturing by Design,” July–August 1988), most companies have operated for years in an environment where design and manufacturing communicate infrequently, […] -
Managing the Social Butterfly in Your Office
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWithout clipping their wings. -
HBR Guide to Being a Great Boss
21.95View Details Are you a good boss--or a great one? Good bosses can handle the day-to-day work of running a team. Great bosses go beyond that, finding ways to help employees... -
If You're Not Collecting Productivity Data, You'll Never Succeed at Work
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIt's central to self-improvement. -
Meetings Need a Shot Clock
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleLiterally, use a timer. -
HBR's 10 Must Reads for Mid-Level Managers (with bonus article "Managers Can't Do It All" by Diane Gherson and Lynda Gratton)
24.95View Details Collaborator. Communicator. Connector. Coach. As a mid-level manager, you're being tasked with more than ever before. You're expected to lead innovation,... -
Cultivating Capabilities to Innovate: Booz.Allen & Hamilton
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Describes the efforts of the president of Booz.Allen, a major consulting firm, to understand and improve the way that products, services, and processes...