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Practical insights, tools and resources from leading business thought leaders.

Boringness: The Secret to Great Leadership

Until recently, I hadn't really known any great leaders. As a writer, the highest-ranking people I deal with are editors,...

Do You Know What You Are Feeling?

Over the 23 years since we met, my wife Eleanor and I have spent considerable time, money, and energy on...

How to Market to Someone Who Knows Everything

People talk about Francis Bacon as the last person to know everything. Apparently, these people don't know any 15-year-old girls....

Are You a Closer? Take the Test

My last HBR blog post, How to Close a Sales Call, reviewed sales call closing techniques. Now let's analyze whether...

Mark Zuckerberg's Magic Touch

Facebook's shares open for trading today. Chances are, you're holding your breath or rolling your eyes. Whether you're inspired or...

Your Brain on Facebook

While Facebook's rise took many by surprise, its success was little surprise to the hundreds of researchers who study social...

In Defense of Polymaths

Polymath is one of those words more likely to show up on the SAT than in everyday conversation. But the...

To Be a Fly on the Wall at Facebook on IPO Day

Facebook "goes public" Friday, May 18th. Imagine what it might be like inside the company right now. Soon, paper stock...

Unilever's CEO on Making Responsible Business Work

An interview with Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever. This interview is featured in the forthcoming June issue of HBR. Download...

To Investigate Culture, Ask the Right Questions

In my last blog post, I encouraged thoroughly investigating the culture you're thinking of joining. In the comments, some people...

CEOs Need Hard Data on Customer Loyalty

Three-quarters of the world's CEOs say more emphasis should be placed on measuring the value of non-financial assets such as...

How Employers Can Make Us Stop Multitasking

Tony Schwartz's recent post The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time made a convincing case for staying focused....

Stop Guesstimating Your Sales Forecasts

For anyone running a sales organization, the 48 hours before a pipeline presentation are the worst days of the month....

When Ingenuity Saves Lives

Each year, twenty million babies worldwide are born prematurely or with a low birth weight, and four million of them...

What Your Innovators Want You to Know

What do your innovators want? What do they need from you? Earlier this month, we invited the HBR community on...

Putting Facebook in Perspective

Every day brings some new bit of information — or hype — about social business. If you actively follow the...

The Inexperience Advantage

Ever been shut down by someone who supposedly knows more than you? It happens to me daily. I get denied...

Are Women Held Back by Colleagues' Wives?

The new millennium has not brought much progress for women seeking top leadership roles in the workplace. Although female graduates...

Great Businesses Don't Start With a Plan

You want to start a business. So you need a plan, right? No. Not really. As part of the research...

The Myths That Prevent Change

You probably think that the barriers to innovation are negative elements of your organization — that is, the wrong people,...