Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2018

Self-awareness seems to have become the latest management buzzword — and for good reason. Research suggests that when we see ourselves clearly, we are more confident and more creative. Four years ago, my team of researchers and I embarked on a large-scale scientific study of self-awareness. Archi Trujillo/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

When you’re hiring a new manager, the stakes are high. You need someone who can effectively lead people, manage a budget, liaise with upper management — and, usually, do it all from day one. Would you hire or promote a star player into a management role if they’ve never managed anyone?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Emotional Intelligence (EQ). Running design sprints.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A client (who I’ll call “Alex”) asked me to help him prepare to interview for a CEO role with a start-up. It was the first time he had interviewed for the C-level, and when we met, he was visibly agitated. Caiaimage/Andy Roberts/Getty Images. Let’s go back to Alex as an example of how to execute this.

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Harvard Business

JULY 6, 2017

Our data included executives’ scores on personality and emotional intelligence assessments, interviews with their managers and HR, and our case notes. In each case, one of us served as the executive coach and worked with the executive to set their individual goals.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 15, 2016

Given that I’m a happiness researcher, you might think I’d strive to help people eliminate unhappiness in their careers. But unhappiness actually serves a crucial function, signaling the need for change, prompting us to switch companies or fields, or even just motivating us to secretly update our resume at home (just in case).

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 20, 2017

Giving feedback may be one of the most difficult challenges a manager faces. Empathy at work creates psychological safety, which research by Amy Edmondson of Harvard demonstrates is created when managers are inclusive and humble and encourage their staff to speak up or ask for help.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 22, 2018

Listen to Angelia Herrin, Special Projects editor for Harvard Business Review, interview Dr. Terri Cooper, Principal and Chief Inclusion Officer of Deloitte Consulting, as she discusses six attributes of leaders who display the ability to not only embrace individual differences, but to potentially leverage them for competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 3, 2018

Most existing research has thus focused on failure as an inhibitor of entrepreneurship. Our research shows a more nuanced picture: Fear can inhibit and motivate. We interviewed 65 entrepreneurs in the UK and Canada. We defined fear of failure as a temporary cognitive and emotional reaction to a threat to potential achievement.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The challenge, she said, was that these managers were highly proficient in their own disciplines such as finance, marketing, research, clinical care, and insurance reimbursement — and had demonstrated that they could manage people in these areas — but she needed them to be “bigger” leaders.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 26, 2018

The first benefit is enhanced emotional agility , or the ability to not react immediately to emotions, but to observe those that arise, carefully collect information to understand the possible causes, then intentionally decide how to manage them. The Data-Driven Case for Vacation. You and Your Team Series.

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