How we think about strategy

  • June 28, 2012

To make the topic of strategy more personal, Cynthia Montgomery, Timken Professor of Business Administration and immediate past head of the Strategy Unit at Harvard...

7-step approach to giving feedback

  • June 26, 2012

Bosses aren’t the only ones who can provide feedback to employees. Giving negative feedback requires you to counsel and criticize in a way that alerts a co-worker...

Black boss, white worker? Beware reverse bias

  • June 17, 2012

Courts hold white employees who allege racial discrimination to a slightly higher standard than members of other protected classes. The higher standard is met if the...

4 leadership lessons from Butch Cassidy

  • June 14, 2012

You’ve got vision, while the rest of the world wears bifocals. If that bit of swagger sums up your leadership style, you’ve got something in common with...

4 ways to destroy an employee’s day

  • June 12, 2012

What makes an employee productive? Unproductive? “The key factor you can use to make employees miserable on the job is to simply keep them from making progress...