Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2018

Epoxydude/Getty Images. I looked at my watch. It was 3:20pm. I had been on the phone for over an hour, almost all of that time listening to Frank*, a senior manager at Jambo, a technology company, complain about his boss, Brandon. In other words, I wasn’t soliciting complaints or asking for feedback. And that’s not the worst.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2016

I felt a toxic sense of dread and powerless. Why is it that the more people you put into a room the more certain it is that the meeting will go late and everyone will act powerless to do something about it? In 1964 John Darley and Bibb Latane conducted an experiment on group powerlessness. Roger Schwarz.

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MishTalk

MARCH 1, 2014

Kiev''s new authorities have been powerless to intervene. Obama warns Russia The Telegraph has a live blog on Ukraine going with some of those headlines and this image of Kharkiv in which protesters have raised the Russian flag. Russian Troops Seize Crimea Reuters reports Troops Seize Crimea. It is time to put an end to this lawlessness.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

We were powerless to intervene , they might say. And it fails to take into account the power of social media to punish companies whose employees go against their instincts as decent people because they felt bound to follow orders. It’s a new turn in what has been a PR disaster for the company. What must they be thinking now?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Professional negotiators and researchers alike hail the BATNA (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement, or “walk away” outcome) as a negotiator’s primary source of relative power. A negotiator’s BATNA-based power in these situations is virtually meaningless as would be any corresponding strategy based on the same.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2016

As a leader, leaving a great legacy is arguably the most powerful thing you can do in your career and life because it enables you to have influence well into the future – even after you are out of the picture yourself. It’s key to optimizing your impact on your organization and its people. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2016

Similarly, Treehouse eliminated managers after noticing that “people had really great ideas but were powerless to implement them.” Thus, narcissists like hierarchical organizations because they think they will rise to high ranks and reap status and power. ” But hierarchy does have its merits.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 29, 2017

There are three things that all working parents have in common: (1) a lack of time; (2) a feeling that we should be spending more time — at work, with our kids, at the gym, or engaged in any number of important activities that get squeezed when we have too much to do; and (3) an uneasy, guilty, powerless, nagging feeling about all of it.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2018

Layoffs can trigger a sense of powerlessness and self-doubt in the form of a scary lack of control and the voice of a relentless inner critic — particularly when others in the organization remain employed. How to Use Your LinkedIn Profile to Power a Career Transition. Karyna Aslanova/EyeEm/Getty Images. You and Your Team Series.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 19, 2018

And it’s powerful stuff, especially coming from the world’s largest asset owner. Neasden Control Centre for hbr. “Wall Street doesn’t care.” But could that finally be changing? Interestingly, Apple CEO Tim Cook used remarkably similar language about the role of business in society last summer).

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Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2017

Jennifer Maravillas for HBR. From the conflict in Ukraine, to Russian meddling in U.S. and European elections, to management of the Syrian War, it’s clear that relations between the West and Russia have become increasingly hostile. Yet Russia remains an important part of most Western multinationals’ emerging markets portfolios.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

. “Before they played a second game, he wrote a simple computer program that would look up his letters in the dictionary so that he could choose from all possible words,” wrote New Yorker reporter Evan Osnos. It went viral. But leaders ultimately reflect the culture of their times. Failure, after all, is learning in disguise. Not always.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2016

But while exercising for 40 minutes in my little confined space, I experienced the cause of a lot of passive aggressiveness: the feeling of powerlessness that grows in the fertile ground between anger and silence. Passive aggressiveness is an attempt to regain power and relieve the tension created by that gap between anger and silence.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Murphy has written extensively about the offenses his profession commits against the vulnerable and powerless, especially with hospitals, prisons, and public housing. A key determinant of everything that matters when it comes to health interventions — the experience, cost, and results — has been hiding in plain sight.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2017

Like many people today, he was worried about unchecked corporate power. Tim Evans for HBR. This summer marks 50 years since the publication of John Kenneth Galbraith’s The New Industrial State and its quick rise to the top of the New York Times Best Seller list. And therein lies a lesson for economists and policy makers today.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

JUNE 14, 2010

What also influences us is our own experience of power and powerlessness; our relations with authority and authority figures, our propensities to handle conflict one way rather than another, our capacity to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity, all these and more aid and inhibit our perception of our realities. Growing Ourselves.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

You accept your first job as a manager in a fast growth tech company, thinking: “How much different could this be from my former company—a financial services firm? Management is management, right?” ” But by the end of the first month you feel confused and disoriented. A tenure of two years makes you an “old-timer.”

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Tsavo Neal

JULY 14, 2020

My personal website, the website you’re reading now, has been everything to me. My career, my business, my life’s work — all wrapped up into one neat, 2-dimensional digital package. But what about others? Am I just a lone weirdo, obsessed with “cloning” my self through my website? Or are others doing the same? QUICK LINKS: .

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

You experience a cocktail of emotions ranging from fear about how the rest of the team will react, to frustration at having to add recruiting to your already hectic calendar. The worst is the lingering feeling of being rejected. As with most difficult situations as a manager, how you handle the resignation will affect more than just you.

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Harvard Business

JULY 29, 2016

You need to speak in public, but your knees buckle even before you reach the podium. You want to expand your network, but you’d rather swallow nails than make small talk with strangers. Speaking up in meetings would further your reputation at work, but you’re afraid of saying the wrong thing. First, be honest with yourself. Liane Davey.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Paul Garbett for HBR. Imagine you’re the CEO of a casual dining chain. One of your executives comes to you with a proposal: she wants to lower the quality of service at the restaurants, reduce product safety standards, use deceptive marketing practices, lower employee pay, and adopt worse environmental practices.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 2, 2016

When Caroline moved to a new city to take on a job at a company she was thrilled to join, she was surprised when she had a hard time building friendships and positive relationships with her colleagues. Workplace gossip like this can have devastating consequences. We react similarly to information about others. 1) Regulate your negative emotions.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The fear of failure causes anxiety, avoidance, loss of control, helplessness, and powerlessness at a personal level. Organizations desire certainty, success, and efficiency, and it is uncertainty, failure, and inefficiency that are sources of innovation. Leaders fail as much as they succeed. Healthy vs. unhealthy fear of failure.

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MishTalk

MARCH 18, 2014

A "goon-squad" group named The Helpful Union Guys (THUG), members of Ironworkers Local 401 set fires, started riots, and took crowbars to the competition in an effort to protect union jobs. THUGs stalked women, took baseball bats to a Toys R Us site, and even torched a Quaker meetinghouse that dared to use non-union labor. Allen Reeves Inc.

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Confessions of a Consultant

JULY 1, 2018

The better managers in the public sector know that the system is hugely wasteful, but feel powerless to change this. Grab attention. Make the point. But every now and again, a slightly more difficult topic is worth exploring. Indulge me this week as you take a 5-minute executive break! On the surface, this sounds good.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

(What does the applicant think of her past employer? Does she like Chicago? What does she do in her downtime?) After all, isn’t your job to get to know the candidate? The organizational psychologist Scott Highhouse called this resistance “the greatest failure of I-O [industrial and organizational] psychology.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

Jennifer Maravillas for HBR. On rare occasions, linguists have the pleasure of seeing the larger world realize that language matters. It’s not “just words” or “only semantics” — the choices a speaker makes have real social and political consequences. ” The operative word here, as we all know, is hope. .

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 27, 2017

Indian independence , the color revolutions in Eastern Europe, and the Arab Spring all hinged on the powerless banding together against the powerful. Was it to remove Donald Trump from power? Women’s suffrage and civil rights in the U.S., This type of activism is crucial for creating the groundwork for change.

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