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"Even if the market continues cooling, stay the course and give people more autonomy, not less."

How to Motivate Employees When Their Priorities Have Changed

Three years after the start of the pandemic, we’re seeing how our collective trauma has impacted the psychology of work. Our humanity has been revealed, as have working paradigms that were previously...

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Advance your initiative and tip the scales toward widespread change.

To Implement Change, You Don’t Need to Convince Everyone at Once

Managers launching a new initiative often try to start big. They work to gain approval for a substantial budget, recruit high-profile executives, arrange a big “kick-off” meeting, then look to move...

Parents: Think as broadly and creatively as possible about the flex arrangement that will work for you.

Working Parents, It’s Time to Let Go of These Pandemic-Era Habits

Throughout the Covid crisis, many working parents had to work full time while simultaneously parenting full time. Some of the routines they adopted to make it work continue to serve them well. But...

Four ways for leaders to expand their view of how to motivate employees.

How to Motivate Employees When Their Priorities Have Changed

"Ethical nightmares aren’t subjective. Systemic violations of privacy is on everyone’s 'that’s terrible' list."

How to Avoid the Ethical Nightmares of Emerging Technology

Next-generation technologies are poised to cause society-shaking shifts at unprecedented speed and scale. Generative AI, quantum computing, blockchain, and other technologies present novel ethical...

How to reduce the stress that comes with pumping at work

A New Mother’s Guide to Pumping at Work

Returning to work as a first-time mother is already complex and challenging. Add pumping milk at the office on top of that, and you’re at the bottom of a steep learning curve. Fortunately, there are...

"Working moms are chasing the balance of working a job that they want or need and being the mom that they envisioned."

How to Let Go of Working-Mom Guilt

Working moms are chasing the balance of working a job that they want and being the mom that they envisioned. They feel bad about letting their kids, team, or boss down, and also feel guilt about...

"We need a national system to support all working families."

Two New Moms Return to Work — One in Seattle, One in Stockholm

Sarah-in-Seattle and Sarah-in-Stockholm are both white, middle-class, married, professional women with babies and toddlers at home. But their experiences as working mothers returning to work after...

Accept mistakes with curiosity.

Lessons from a Working Mom on “Doing It All”

How does anyone effectively juggle a busy family life and career — especially during the Covid-19 crisis. No one will do it perfectly. The key is to reset expectations and follow four simple princi...

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Even in the murkiest of situations, you can succeed by taking pragmatic action while demonstrating emotional steadiness and drawing on the expertise of others.

Managing When the Future Is Unclear

We frequently find ourselves managing in situations where the company or unit strategy is unclear, in flux, or constantly changing. The best managers find ways to provide steady, realistic direction...

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When you're waiting to hear back about a job, being overly eager or pushy is (at best) going to seem annoying and (at worst) might actually hurt your chances of getting the job.

4 Ways to Follow Up After a Job Interview

What’s the best way to follow up after a job interview? First, write a thank-you note to the hiring manager no later than a day after. Keep it short and sweet, but mention one specific thing that you...

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What does a "good job" really mean?

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Don’t bombard your team with messages.

How to Collaborate Effectively If Your Team Is Remote

People who work on remote teams face communications challenges consistently. As more and more of our interactions happen digitally, we will continue to experience new forms of miscommunication and...

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There are three paths to being a leader. Which one are you following?

Ask an Expert: How Do I Become a CEO?

There are three breakthrough pathways that the most successful C-suite residents tend to leverage. Being a “fixer.” From an early age, people with this type of capability naturally see how things in...

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It’s critical to reward not just effort, but learning and progress too.

What Having a “Growth Mindset” Actually Means

Debunking three common misconceptions.

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Race-based hair discrimination remains a widespread issue for Black women in the workplace.

How Hair Discrimination Affects Black Women at Work

Despite some progress over the past few years, race-based hair discrimination still remains a widespread issue for Black women in the workplace. A recent study showed that Black women’s hair was...

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If you’re procrastinating right now, here’s how to stop.

How to Actually Start the Task You’ve Been Avoiding

The biggest challenge to moving forward on anything is the transition to working on it. It almost always represents a shift from doing something comfortable (sending simple emails, knocking straigh...

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Everyone involved in hiring decisions should think carefully about who is being recommended and why.

“A Friend of a Friend” Is No Longer the Best Way to Find a Job

How do you get a job these days? The answer often involves networking — it isn’t what you know, it’s who, we’re told. But the type of networking that’s valuable has changed over time. In the 1970s,...

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Here’s how to keep meetings from getting in the way of your productivity.

How to Get Your To-Do List Done When You’re Always in Meetings

You keep waiting for the “perfect time” to sit down and knock out your work presentation in one go, but at the end of the day you realize you spent your time in meetings. You may never get your...

Instead of workaholism, what if you tried giving 80%?

In Praise of Extreme Moderation

You can’t throw a paper airplane in some offices without hitting a person who is training for a marathon, planning a 10-day silent meditation retreat, or intending on scaling Kilimanjaro. Workaholism...

Disruption is only one end of the innovation spectrum.

Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive

For the past 20 years “disruption” has been a battle cry in business. Not surprisingly, many have come to see it as a near-synonym for innovation. But the obsession with disruption obscures an...

Humble leaders help employees feel purposeful, motivated, and energized.

How Humble Leadership Really Works

Top-down leadership is outdated and counterproductive. By focusing too much on control and end goals, and not enough on their people, leaders are making it more difficult to achieve their own desired...

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How to use three approaches to analytics, and the trade-offs and limitations of each.

Advanced analytics can help companies solve a host of management problems, including those related to marketing, sales, and supply-chain operations, which can lead to a sustainable competitive...

Analytics for Marketers

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It’s a challenge every leader has to face.

How to Get People to Accept a Tough Decision

Every leader has to make tough decisions that have consequences for their organizations, their reputation, and their career. When you’re faced with a tough call, consider two features that often make...

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No leader who is used to hands-on control adopts a people-centric style overnight.

A paradox of business is that while leaders often employ a hands-on, directive style to rise to the top, once they arrive, they’re supposed to empower and enable their teams. Suddenly, they’re...

The Leadership Odyssey

Ask yourself: What constitutes an unfair or unjust or discriminatory distribution of goods and services?

How to Avoid the Ethical Nightmares of Emerging Technology

Next-generation technologies are poised to cause society-shaking shifts at unprecedented speed and scale. Generative AI, quantum computing, blockchain, and other technologies present novel ethical...

Great leaders question their assumptions and don’t respond impulsively when they’re challenged.

Great Leaders Are Thoughtful and Deliberate, Not Impulsive and Reactive

All leaders have two selves. There’s the self we prefer to present to the world – the one that is run by our pre-frontal cortex and is measured, rational, and capable of making deliberate choices....

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To combat hair bias and discrimination, leaders need to focus on building awareness, staying objective, and collecting employee feedback.

How Hair Discrimination Affects Black Women at Work

Despite some progress over the past few years, race-based hair discrimination still remains a widespread issue for Black women in the workplace. A recent study showed that Black women’s hair was...

"A quarter of the Black women surveyed believe they were denied a job because of their hair."

How Hair Discrimination Affects Black Women at Work

Despite some progress over the past few years, race-based hair discrimination still remains a widespread issue for Black women in the workplace. A recent study showed that Black women’s hair was...

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Three common counterfeit emotions to watch out for.

Is Your Emotional Intelligence Authentic, or Self-Serving?

It’s possible to fake emotional intelligence. Well-intended leaders can go into interactions armed with what they believe is a combination of deep empathy, attuned listening, and self-awareness but...

Flexibility is not about working less. It's about working differently.

What PwC Learned from Its Policy of Flexible Work for Everyone

When it comes to flexible workplace policies, the key is to actually be “flexible.” It seems counterintuitive, but having rules in place can work against you. That’s why PricewaterhouseCoopers...

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Long gone are the days when power was closely guarded, held only by a few. Today, the strongest companies don't hoard their power — they channel it.

Understanding “New Power”

Power clearly isn’t what it used to be. We see Goliaths being toppled by Davids all around us, from the networked drivers of Uber to the crowdfunded creatives of Kickstarter. But it’s difficult to...

How do consultants learn about their clients’ challenges while also showing they have the expertise to solve them?

How Consultants Project Expertise and Learn at the Same Time

For consultants, work is largely a performance. Like skillful actors, they use a combination of “backstage” preparation and “front stage” performance to make clients believe the story they want to...

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When you become a leader, your job is to define the problem — not solve it.

How Managers Become Leaders

Reprint: R1206C Few managerial transitions are more difficult than making the move from leading a function to leading an entire enterprise for the first time. The scope and complexity of the job...

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When small bits of work creep into your personal time, it can increase stress. On the flip side, small bursts of meaningful time away from your computer during the workday can help your life feel more balanced.