In a recent article in the Harvard Business Review (HBR), Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Barbara Z. Larson and Cirrus Foroughi share 2017 Gallup Poll and 2018 US Census data indicating that about 40 percent of U.S. employees work from home at least some of the time, and that about 5 percent work exclusively from home.
Only a Tiny Proportion of CEOs Are Women, but Women Score Higher than Men in Most Leadership Skills
In a June 2019 article in the Harvard Business Review (HBR), Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman remind readers that the persistently low rate of representation by women in senior corporate positions makes no sense when it comes to actual leadership abilities and perceived competency. In fact, research conducted by Zenger and Folkman indicates that
“The Industrial Era Ended, and So Will the Digital One”
In an article in the Harvard Business Review entitled “The Industrial Era Ended, and So Will the Digital One,” Greg Satell – innovation writer, speaker and author of Mapping Innovation (McGraw-Hill, 2017) – casts an eye over the history of technologies like electricity that have,
Reducing the Tedium of Meetings: Wise Words from a Meetings Expert
As all of us know, most meetings are a pain. Many attendees are there only out of obligation or fear of being negatively perceived.
A recent article by Paul Axtell in the Harvard Business Review, entitled “5 Common Complaints about Meetings and What to Do about Them,” takes a refreshing look at how meetings might
How Do Super-Productive People Do It? Seven Traits They Share
The Harvard Business Review reports on a study of attributes and behaviours of highly productive individuals from a range of industries that was undertaken in an attempt to understand their much-better-than-average outputs.
Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman collected data on 7,000 workers, from code-writers to butchers, who had been rated by their managers as “super-productive.”
Change Can Be Easier than We Think
In my years as a managing partner, I believed that the most difficult challenge of a leader in a law firm was to inculcate change. This Harvard Business Review article – which indicates that such indices as ease of implementation and the careful deployment of friction are essential to successful change initiatives – would suggest
Making Difficult Decisions
An article by Peter Bregman in the Harvard Business Review will interest anyone faced with making a decision from among a range of equally appealing (or unappealing) options – which, of course, happens to most of us all the time. Such deliberations can range from the relatively trivial, like deciding what to have for lunch,
Can You Be Too Nice?
To most of us, courtesy and consideration are almost second nature. However, Michael Fertik — founder of reputation.com — says that when we assume a leadership capacity, being “too nice” can actually be detrimental to our organizations.
In a guest blog for the Harvard Business Review, Fertik says:
Many yield to [the instinct to
Asking the Right Question
In a recent Harvard Business Review blog post, journalist Warren Berger discusses the importance to effective leadership of asking the right questions – with the emphasis on the word “right.”
“How you question is critical,” says Berger. “Questions can be great for engaging and motivating people, but they can just as easily be
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“Recent research from Carnegie-Mellon University indicates that our unconscious minds actually make better decisions when left alone to deal with complex issues.” – Nick Morgan, communications consultant, president and founder of Public Words
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According to communications expert Nick Morgan, merely presenting data is no way to convince people of anything – no