When big changes shake your organization, employees need clarity, empathy, and direction. An all-hands meeting isn’t just a status update—it’s an opportunity to rebuild trust and help your team ...

The success that organizations derive from AI is based not only on the capabilities of the AI—which are advancing each day—but on the willingness of people and organizations to harness and use these ...

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New research, including a nationally representative study of U.S. workers, suggests that presenteeism isn’t simply a matter ...

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IMD Business School’s Arnaud Chevallier explains how five types of questions can improve your strategic decision-making. Few leaders have been trained to ask great questions. That might explain ...

A conversation with author Whitney Johnson on recovering from a career disruption. In a period of increasing political and economic uncertainty, government funding cuts, and AI that can outperform ...

Companies can greatly reduce their risk of failure by carefully navigating five critical steps. Unfortunately, you can’t set up your organization’s artificial intelligence projects like just ...

What the RTO debate reveals about the gulf between employers and employees. by Anne-Laure Fayard and John Weeks When Amazon announced in September 2024 that it was requiring people to come into ...

Amid geopolitical instability, climate shocks, AI disruption, and more, today’s leaders aren’t navigating the occasional crisis—they’re operating in a state of perma-crisis. Explore HBR ...

Improving performance requires trust, empathy—and a bit of tough love. Frances Frei, professor at Harvard Business School, says that trust, empathy—and even a bit of tough love—are all ...

Sean Jacobsohn, founder of the Failure Museum, shares notable product failures and the lessons we can learn from them. What can failures like Harley-Davidson Cologne or Cheetos Lip Balm teach us ...