Leadership development

You just have to put in the work.

They're simple but overlooked in health care.

In search of lessons to apply in our own careers, we often try to emulate what effective leaders do. Roger Martin says this focus is misplaced, because...

Effective sponsors can help catapult junior talent into top management tiers, and good proteges can greatly expand the reach and impact of senior leaders-but...

To retain high-potential employees, the conventional wisdom is deceptively simple: Identify, develop, and nurture them. By paying special attention to the very best people, they will stay with the firm and eventually emerge as key leaders. But translating this into action is much more difficult. As the former head of executive development at GE used […]

A majority of managers just don’t understand what it means to be a leader. That’s a conclusion that I draw from a recent global survey by McKinsey and Company about what it takes to manage corporate performance. Only 48% of managers surveyed believed that they need to inspire and only 46% believed it was their […]

Travel and living abroad have long been seen as good for the soul. What’s perhaps less well-known is that they’re also good for the company. People who have international experience or identify with more than one nationality are better problem solvers and display more creativity, our research suggests. What’s more, we found that people with […]

It has to start with buy-in from the top.

But if you’re young, gay, black, or a man, the odds are higher that you do.

The dean of Harvard Business School recalls his first impressions of HBR

One of the more vexing problems most managers face every day is how to get involved in the work of their people without doing the work themselves or micromanaging...

Advice from Susan Cain, author of Quiet.

Within one year, attendees of a conference for women were twice as likely to be promoted.

Occasionally I am asked if there are any lessons learned from my work in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya that helped me as a Marine in Bosnia, Iraq,...

So you’ve found the leadership at the bottom of the corporate pyramid – those smart hidden gems with the iPod earplugs peeping discreetly through carefully careless hairstyles: Generation Y, the young Millenials termed by Fortune as potentially most high-performing generation in history. A generation that is entering the workplace with more information, greater technological skill, […]

Daniel Goleman, author of "The Focused Leader," explains why leaders need to cultivate a triad of awareness--an inward focus, a focus on others, and an...

HBR’s advice columnist on how to cover a manager’s leave.

In recent decades sweeping reengineering, digitization, and agile initiatives--and lately the move to remote work--have dramatically transformed the job...

When you coach someone or conduct a performance appraisal, where do you tend to focus? Probably on "opportunities for improvement," right? Sure, you mention...

Linda A. Hill, Harvard Business School professor, says we won't find new global leaders by looking in conventional places for people who act in conventional...