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- AI Transformation Requires Redesigning Work, Not Cutting Roles
- When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”
I can 100% vouch for this! Automatic coding sessions are both exhilarating and exhausting. This will need to be factored into job functions as we embrace AI more. An engineer…
- AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
HBR research piece arguing AI intensifies work rather than reducing it — expectations and output scope expand faster than tasks disappear. Likely paywalled (limited text…
- Managing Oneself
- Take Ownership of Your Future Self
If you've read books like Atomic Habits, Tiny Habits, or others this article covers similar ground. I like that it gets to what I think is the root around identity, and how we…
- How High-Performing Teams Build Trust
Good culture considerations for any team. Does HBR always have 5 sections to these articles? 😏 Still good content.
- Does Your Hybrid Strategy Need to Change?
Remote work, hybrid, in-office continues to be such a challenging, multi-faceted issue. This article does a good job of capturing a data driven way to look at it. I also tend to…
- Design Your Organization to Match Your Strategy
Compelling article focused on materializing your strategy into your organization. When it comes to executing strategy, alignment means configuring all of the organization’s assets…
- The Psychology Behind Meeting Overload
Some of these are obvious and I see them (and probably practice some of them) on a regular basis. However, I hadn't considered something like FOMO, the fear of missing out, and…
- How NFTs Create Value
This article is a good overview of how various NFT projects work, where they generate revenue, and how they can grow. If you are still in the camp of "Isn't an NFT just a JPEG?"…
- How to Do Hybrid Right
Fabulous overview of the complexities of a hybrid work environment. Figuring out how to do this is far from straightforward. That’s because to design hybrid work properly, you…
- Don’t Underestimate the Power of a Walk
Lucky gets taken on a walk pretty much every day. There is real benefit to walks. But, when I think about the simplest and most strategic thing I am able to do for myself that’s…
- Beyond Burned Out
Good perspective on the demands being placed on many and how COVID-19 has made some of them so much worse.
- How to Lead When Your Team Is Exhausted — and You Are, Too
Great article highlighting the difference in leading during the first part of the pandemic, and where we are now. Personal resilience in the second wave is a different story…
- How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
- Want to Be More Productive? Try Doing Less.
I don't know that this is about doing less, but it is instead about connecting cause and effect. Seems like a reasonable way to approach evaluating your projects though.
- That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief
This resonates with me, and I think calling it what it is, grief, may help. Yes, and we’re feeling a number of different griefs. We feel the world has changed, and it has. We know…
- The Making of a Corporate Athlete
Very good article highlighting the importance of focusing on your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual capacities to be a successful leader. There are similar concepts here…
- How Will You Measure Your Life?
Clayton Christensen , author of The Innovators Dilemma, passed away last week and many people were sharing talks and articles by him. This article was by far the most recommended,…
- Why Tech’s Approach to Fixing Its Gender Inequality Isn’t Working
I tend to agree with this articles approach. These three focus areas make sense to me and broadly align with where I've been focusing: broaden recruiting efforts, clarify criteria…
- Why the Most Productive People Don’t Always Make the Best Managers
Ignore the sensational headline, and dig into the six highlighted skills that were identified to correlate with strong managers. As a manager, each one of those could be a good…
- When Waterfall Principles Sneak Back Into Agile Workflows
Very few companies have Agile practices embedded through every facet of their organization. As the Agile process interfaces with non-Agile components, you need to be very mindful…
- “Lean In” Messages and the Illusion of Control
An initial study perceived cause and solution around gender issues in the workplace based on context. People who read or listened to the DIY messages were more likely to believe…
- Why Great Employees Leave “Great Cultures”
A practical definition of what makes up a company's culture: I’ve been working in HR for over twenty years, and the best companies I’ve worked with have recognized that there are…
- Emotional Intelligence Has 12 Elements. Which Do You Need to Work On?
A good reminder for leaders that emotional intelligence is broader than many people think. You need a solid foundation to engage with people, but in the workplace you also have…
- The Death of Supply Chain Management
This is why networks are replacing supply chains, and why a cloud-based network approach is needed for innovation.
- The 3 Things Employees Really Want: Career, Community, Cause
I like the easy to remember "C's" in this article and can see that being a good way to communicate to your team as well as when hiring. Organizations and leaders should have…
- The Most Common Type of Incompetent Leader
This is an important read. 👓 Absentee leaders are people in leadership roles who are psychologically absent from them. They were promoted into management, and enjoy the…
- 5 Ways to Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap
Some things to think about connecting your companies strategy to execution. The companies’ executives eschew conventional wisdom, not for the sake of nonconformity in itself, but…
- If You Multitask During Meetings, Your Team Will, Too
Interesting to see some analysis on being distracted in meetings and the tone it sets. This sends the signal, “It’s OK to not pay attention.” Managers that frequently send emails…
- If You Aspire to Be a Great Leader, Be Present
This article hits on an important topic and one that I don't think leaders spend enough time considering. I think people can start to think they are just a logic machine going…
- How We Reorganized Instagram’s Engineering Team While Quadrupling Its Size
More should be written about how technology teams evolve their organizational models as they scale. I liked the goal setting in this one "We picked our top five outcomes, which…
- Why Management Needs Philosophers
Management is about people. People are abstract and unpredictable. It seems obvious that you cannot design an overarching algorithm to drive productive teams. That isn't to say…
- 4 Things That Set Successful CEOs Apart
Good fodder for leaders to consider in how they approach their work and their teams.
- The 5 Biases Pushing Women Out of STEM
- The More You Use Facebook, the Worse You Feel
Overall, our results showed that, while real-world social networks were positively associated with overall well-being, the use of Facebook was negatively associated with overall…
- The Fine Line Between a Collaborative Employee and One Who Doesn’t Get Enough Done
- Blitzscaling
In this edited interview with Tim Sullivan, the editorial director of HBR Press, Hoffman talks about the challenges, risks, and payoffs of blitzscaling.
- A 10-Year Study Reveals What Great Executives Know and Do
As part of our ten-year longitudinal study on executive transitions, which included more than 2,700 leadership interviews, we did a rigorous statistical analysis (including more…
- Want to Be an Outstanding Leader? Keep a Journal.
Research has documented that outstanding leaders take time to reflect. Their success depends on the ability to access their unique perspective and bring it to their decisions and…
- If Mindfulness Makes You Uncomfortable, It’s Working
Therefore, we have to redefine mindfulness as more than feeling good, and instead see it as having an increased capacity to sit with the full spectrum of being human, experiencing…
- Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
There are three popular explanations for the clear under-representation of women in management, namely: (1) they are not capable; (2) they are not interested; (3) they are both…
- Is Something Lost When We Use Mindfulness as a Productivity Tool?
I came to mindfulness as a healing practice after overcoming an addiction to Adderall during my junior year of college. I found myself in this situation because I thought that…
- Reinventing Performance Management - HBR
Idea in Brief The Problem Not just employees but their managers and even HR departments are by now questioning the conventional wisdom of performance management, including its…
- The Rise of Social Graphs for Businesses
Thus we see the various software providers that already provide the tools to manage business interactions (like procurement and invoicing) moving rapidly to capitalize on this…
- Hard-to-Read Fonts Promote Better Recall - Harvard Business Review
People recall what theyve read better when its printed in smaller, less legible type.
- Facebook Is Making Us Miserable