Leadership isn’t just a personality trait, it’s a set of skills that you can build. Whether you’re managing up or motivating a team, HBR On Leadership is your destination for insights and inspiration from the world’s top leadership practitioners and experts. Every Wednesday, the editors at the Harvard Business Review hand-picked case studies and conversations with global business leaders, management experts, academics, from across HBR to help you unlock the best in those around you.
Latest episodes
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31 min
How Leaders Create the Conditions for Innovative Thinking
Today’s leaders need to be able to innovate over and over again despite fast-changing market conditions and a multitude of other uncertainities. Harvard Business School professor L…
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2 min
An Announcement from HBR On Leadership
Since 2023, HBR On Leadership has brought you insights and inspiration from across the HBR archive, curated to unlock the best in those around you. But the time has come for HBR On…
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29 min
Why Speed and Trust Are Critical to Solving Hard Problems
When it comes to solving complex, layered problems, the default for many organizational leaders is to take their time to work through the issues at hand. Unfortunately, that often…
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25 min
How to Actually Finish What You Need to Get Done
There are many productivity tools and tactics that promise to help you make the most of your workday. But there is one simple practice that’s consistently been shown to be effectiv…
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26 min
How to Cultivate Your “Personal Power” as a Leader
We all know the stereotypes of leaders who use charisma, manipulation, domineering behavior, or their status in the hierarchy to exert control. But there is another type of leader…
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29 min
How Shake Shack Balanced Digitalization with Its Hospitality Ethos
Shake Shack started in 2001 as a hot dog cart in New York City’s Madison Square Park. It’s now a global fast-casual restaurant chain renowned for both quality and hospitality. In 2…
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30 min
Getting Buy-In for Your Next Big Idea
Leaders are often called upon to pitch ideas to senior management about how to change the way their company does business. Perhaps you have proposed an improvement to an existing p…
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30 min
Redefining What Efficiency Means in the Age of AI
What is the real definition of efficiency in a world powered by AI? What if it was quality, not quantity? Neuroscientist Mithu Storoni has researched how and when our brains are th…
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34 min
Communicating with Confidence When You’re Under Pressure
Communicating clearly sets you up to have the leadership impact and influence you need to drive change. But what if you’re running on empty? Expressing your ideas and giving direct…
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25 min
Build Your Resilience in the Face of Tough Change
Your company changes. Your role gets eliminated. A dream project gets assigned to someone else. These are examples of the kinds of difficult change that are inevitable in life, but…
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38 min
Making the Shift from Individual Contributor to Leader
Once you’ve committed to a leadership role—whether formally or informally—getting everyone else at work to buy in requires relationship management. The steps to transition from ind…
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31 min
Scaling a Business Beyond the Family Playbook
Johnson Security Bureau is one of the oldest Black-owned security firms in the United States, providing services to New York-area banks, public works, hospitals, transportation fac…
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23 min
Is Your Company Suffering from Initiative Overload?
Most organizations struggle to kill initiatives, even those that no longer support their strategy. Leadership consultants Rose Hollister and Michael Watkins explore the problem of…
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23 min
When You’re Worn Down—and Your Team Is Too
There’s nothing easy about being a manager today. But for team leaders who are feeling burnt out or overwhelmed with their job, workplace strategist Daisy Auger-Domínguez has advic…
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28 min
The Most Successful Leaders Never Stop Learning
After running Yum! Brands, which includes well-known chains such as KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell, David Novak wanted to help others become better leaders. He believes the key is t…
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29 min
What It Takes to Execute a Successful Company Turnaround
If a company starts to veer off track, whether amid technological change, marketplace conditions, or otherwise, it is daunting to get back on a path to growth. But big turnarounds…
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20 min
Looking Back on Nike’s Evolution from Startup to Global Enterprise
Every company has an origin story, which goes on to inform its culture. Phil Knight, co-founder, former CEO, and Chairman Emeritus of Nike, recounts starting the sports apparel and…
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31 min
Why Storytelling Matters When Changing Company Culture
Stories and storytelling are at the core of many aspects of the corporate world. Consider a great brand campaign or the ability to sell yourself in a job interview. It’s also an ex…
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30 min
Combatting Cynicism in Your Organization
Around the world, we’ve become increasingly cynical about other people, public institutions, and corporations. Back in 2022, Edelman’s Trust Barometer found that nearly 60% of resp…
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25 min
Why Most Projects Fail—and How to Achieve Better Outcomes
Companies of every size in every industry and part of the world are basing more of their work around projects. And yet research shows that nearly two-thirds of those efforts fail.…