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At Harvard Business Review, we believe in management. If the world’s organizations and institutions were run more effectively, if our leaders made better decisions, if people worked more productively, we believe that all of us — employees, bosses, customers, our families, and the people our businesses affect — would be better off. We try to arm our readers with ideas that help them become smarter, more creative, and more courageous in their work.
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How to Be Ready for a Layoff, Even Though Your Position Feels Secure for Now | Christine vs. Work
2d ago00:08:17Tap to summarizeHow to Be Ready for a Layoff, Even if Your Job Feels Secure for Now | Christine vs. Work 10 Nov 2020 --- 𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝘼𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮! ✨ https://www.youtube.com/c/HBRAscend ✨ It never hurts to be prepared for the worst. Especially when it comes to losing your job. If you ever get laid off, as opposed to fired, it’s never your fault. Layoffs are financial decisions made by companies, and can happen at any time. The transition is never easy, but preparing responsibly, even if your job feels secure, can make this process less painful if and when it comes up. What are steps you can take today to prepare? We spoke to executive career transition coach Susan Peppercorn about how to prepare for a layoff. Her top four pieces of advice are essential bedrocks of individual career management: keep track of your accomplishments, nurture your network, back up important information, and be on top of your savings (give yourself a financial runway). You want these to become everyday habits for the long term. Learn more about Susan Peppercorn at https://positiveworkplacepartners.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- At Harvard Business Review, we believe in management. If the world’s organizations and institutions were run more effectively, if our leaders made better decisions, if people worked more productively, we believe that all of us — employees, bosses, customers, our families, and the people our businesses affect — would be better off. So we try to arm our readers with ideas that help them become smarter, more creative, and more courageous in their work. We enlist the foremost experts in a wide range of topics, including career planning, strategy, leadership, work-life balance, negotiations, innovation, and managing teams. Harvard Business Review empowers professionals around the world to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact. Sign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters Follow us: https://hbr.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review/ https://www.facebook.com/HBR/ https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz https://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_review #manageyourself #layoffs #jobsearch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Finance: What Managers Have to Know
2d ago00:19:30Tap to summarizeFinance: What Managers Need to Know 9 Sep 2009 --- Joe Knight, coauthor of the Financial Intelligence series, gives you a crash course in reading the numbers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Fostering Stability Is Just as Important as Managing Change
2d ago00:03:07Tap to summarizeCreating Stability Is Just as Important as Managing Change 9 Aug 2024 --- At work, some change is necessary and some is inevitable. But not all of it. Research suggests that before we think about managing change, we should consider managing stability, one of the key conditions people need at work to be productive. — Read the full article: https://s.hbr.org/3AfA8Ls #changemanagement #leadership #business Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Nimbleness, AI Strategy, and the Shifting Role of Managers
2d ago00:40:23Tap to summarizeAmazon CEO Andy Jassy on Agility, AI Strategy, and the Changing Role of Managers 6 May 2025 --- A conversation with the head of Amazon on their competitive advantage in an age of uncertainty. From HBR's IdeaCast, available wherever you get your podcasts. 00:00 - Startup mindset at scale 01:30 - Key traits of a startup culture 03:10 - Speed and reducing bureaucracy 05:00 - Rethinking management and ownership 07:00 - Why Amazon brought people back to the office 09:00 - In-person collaboration vs. remote work 11:30 - Advice for cutting complexity in large organizations 13:30 - AI strategy and Amazon’s tech stack 17:00 - Rufus and reinventing retail with AI 20:30 - Societal impact and risks of AI 22:40 - Leading through global uncertainty 25:15 - What 21st-century leadership requires 26:30 - Jassy’s best career advice It's a tough time to lead one of the biggest companies in the world - one that depends on supply chains, physical infrastructure, and top tech talent to stay competitive. But Andy Jassy, who took over as CEO of Amazon from legendary founder Jeff Bezos in 2021, manages in a way that he says helps him stay focused on what is best for their products and ultimately their customers. He explains his decision to get workers back to the office five days a week, why he is building an organization less dependent on managers, and how their artificial intelligence strategy differs from the rest. Books, tools, and more: store.hbr.org Follow us: https://hbr.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review/ https://www.facebook.com/HBR/ https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz https://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_review Sign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters #HarvardBusinessReview #YourCareer #Career #Job #Work #Business #Harvard #HarvardBusinessSchool Copyright © 2025 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Stories Define What Kind of Company You Are
2d ago00:03:09Tap to summarizeStories Define What Kind of Company You Are 11 Oct 2024 --- Malcolm Gladwell discusses the concept of ‘over stories’ and their impact on leadership and organizational behavior, highlighting the importance of shared stories and community norms in shaping practices and principles. Listen to the full HBR IdeaCast episode here: https://s.hbr.org/3NnsodB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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How to Prioritize Your Work When Your Manager Doesn't Guide You
2d ago00:05:55Tap to summarizeHow to Prioritize Your Work When Your Manager Doesn’t 12 Dec 2022 --- Prioritizing work can be frustrating, especially if you work for a hands-off manager or a company that doesn’t give you clear goals. In a world where conflicting and unclear priorities are the norm, how can you learn to prioritize your own work and still feel satisfaction from a job well done? 00:00 Research shows that more than 90% of employees don’t fully understand their company’s strategy. What can you do? 00:45 Step 1: Take ownership 01:12 Step 2: Filter priorities 02:03 Step 3: Determine next steps with an organizing framework 03:20 Step 4: Operationalize and flag priorities in your calendar Based on the HBR article by Amy Jen Su: https://hbr.org/2017/01/how-to-prioritize-your-work-when-your-manager-doesnt This video is co-produced with @Emeritus. You can find more co-productions from HBR and Emeritus on the Emeritus app: https://emrt.us/HarvardBusinessReview Follow HBR: https://hbr.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review/ https://www.facebook.com/HBR/ https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz https://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_review Sign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters #HarvardBusinessReview #Explainer #Goals #Strategy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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How to Make the Most of a Whiteboard (Demo Included) | Christine vs. Work
2d ago00:11:30Tap to summarizeHow to Really Use a Whiteboard (Demo Included) | Christine vs. Work 12 Oct 2021 --- 𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝘼𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮! ✨ https://www.youtube.com/c/HBRAscend ✨ Under that humble exterior lies a powerful design tool. Here’s how to unlock it. Subscribe to the Ascend newsletter: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters?movetile_hbpascendnl&hideIntromercial=true Learn more about our sponsor, Confluence, at https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/meet-less and https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence 00:00 Whiteboards. Ever heard of them? 01:10 This guy loves whiteboards 01:34 Whiteboards can make you smarter? Say more. 02:47 Demonstration! 04:09 "Note and Vote" Technique 05:00 Say no to multicolored sticky notes 06:28 Why I care about whiteboards now Most of us probably don’t think too hard about whiteboards. Whether it’s the traditional dry-erase surface or a digital collaboration workspace, we typically use whiteboards in meetings for brainstorming sessions, jotting down diagrams, or posting sticky notes with questions and ideas. But is there a better way to use whiteboards? Why do whiteboards matter, and are there techniques to unlock their full potential? At the end of the day, are we unwittingly overlooking this everyday workplace resource? Innovation Editor Christine Liu seeks answers from Jake Knapp, the inventor of the Design Sprint and the author of Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days and Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day. A self-described whiteboard geek, Knapp explains the real cognitive value of a whiteboard and outlines pro tips for anyone to make the most of a whiteboard session. Learn more about Jake Knapp: https://jakeknapp.com #collaboration #designthinking #whiteboards Watch more about Confluence on their YouTube Channel: About: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jqg8o-ataIQ&ab_channel=Atlassian Produced by Andy Robinson, Christine Liu, and Kelsey Alpaio Video by Andy Robinson and Christine Liu Editing by Andy Robinson Animation and Design by Riko Cribbs and Karen Player Follow us: https://hbr.org/ascend https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/hbr-ascend/ https://www.facebook.com/hbrascend/ https://twitter.com/HBRAscend https://www.instagram.com/hbrascend/ Copyright © 2021 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Easy Networking Tips for the Networking Haters
2d ago00:04:33Tap to summarizeEasy Networking Tips for the Networking Haters 4 Jan 2023 --- Networking doesn’t have to be scary or hard. 00:00 Networking can feel frightening and embarrassing. But it doesn't have to. 00:30 Tip 1: Look for islands. 00:58 Tip 2: Networking doesn't have to involve meeting new people. 01:35 Tip 3: Turn networking into a game. 02:02 Tip 4: Don't stress yourself with preparing for small talk. Based on the HBR/Ascend article by Amantha Imber: https://hbr.org/2021/10/easy-networking-tips-for-the-networking-haters This video is co-produced with @Emeritus. You can find more co-productions from HBR and Emeritus on the Emeritus app: https://emrt.us/HarvardBusinessReview Follow HBR: https://hbr.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review/ https://www.facebook.com/HBR/ https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz https://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_review Sign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters #HarvardBusinessReview #Explainer #Networking Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Surviving and Excelling in a World Transformed by Covid-19
2d ago00:48:34Tap to summarizeSurviving and Excelling in a World Upended by Covid-19 12 May 2020 --- How can we best take care of ourselves while we get through this pandemic? And how can we set ourselves up to thrive afterward? This video was recorded live on May 11, 2020. Thrive Global CEO Arianna Huffington joins HBR's Adi Ignatius and Joshua Macht to discuss the importance of sleep, meditation, and more. --------------------------------------------------------------------- At Harvard Business Review, we believe in management. If the world’s organizations and institutions were run more effectively, if our leaders made better decisions, if people worked more productively, we believe that all of us — employees, bosses, customers, our families, and the people our businesses affect — would be better off. So we try to arm our readers with ideas that help them become smarter, more creative, and more courageous in their work. We enlist the foremost experts in a wide range of topics, including career planning, strategy, leadership, work-life balance, negotiations, innovation, and managing teams. Harvard Business Review empowers professionals around the world to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact. Sign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters Follow us: https://hbr.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review/ https://www.facebook.com/HBR/ https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz https://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_review Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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What the Best Negotiators Do Exceptionally
2d ago00:02:53Tap to summarizeWhat the Best Negotiators Do Differently 6 Aug 2024 --- If you want to be a great negotiator, you need to prove that you’re a collaborator — not an adversary. To do that, show the other person you understand their logic, emotions, and perspective. Here’s how. — Read the full article: https://s.hbr.org/3WUSv1b #negotiation #communication #psychology Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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