by HappyQuotient | Dec 18, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Dimitri Otis/Getty Images Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk tweets that no one changed the world working 40 hours a week. He rarely sleeps or sees his kids and had a famously public meltdown. Apple’s Tim Cook is on email before the sun rises. And billionaire...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 18, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Dimitri Otis/Getty Images Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk tweets that no one changed the world working 40 hours a week. He rarely sleeps or sees his kids and had a famously public meltdown. Apple’s Tim Cook is on email before the sun rises. And billionaire...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 17, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Steve Bronstein/Getty Images After the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, many companies had to urgently decide whether to attend Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative, a global business conference scheduled to take place just days after...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 17, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
TheCrimsonMonkey/Getty Images Bayer’s mission is “Science for a Better Life.” We want to enable discoveries to promote health and secure food supply. To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 17, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
TheCrimsonMonkey/Getty Images Bayer’s mission is “Science for a Better Life.” We want to enable discoveries to promote health and secure food supply. To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 17, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
TheCrimsonMonkey/Getty Images Bayer’s mission is “Science for a Better Life.” We want to enable discoveries to promote health and secure food supply. To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 17, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
By Alex Shootman, CEO, Workfront Alexander Graham Bell once noted that “the inventor … looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are.” I could say the same of most business leaders I’ve met. With rare exception,...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 17, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Anthony Lee/Getty Images As a leader, much of what you do is relatively forgettable. We don’t mean to insult, but your routine actions on routine days are experienced by your direct reports as, well, routine. But for non-routine days — the days when you...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 17, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Anthony Lee/Getty Images As a leader, much of what you do is relatively forgettable. We don’t mean to insult, but your routine actions on routine days are experienced by your direct reports as, well, routine. But for non-routine days — the days when you...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 17, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Orbon Alija/Getty Images Companies are beginning to utilize their employees’ behavioral data — generally known as people analytics — to better understand and improve their sales operations, with strong results. Microsoft, where we work, is...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 17, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Gemma Escribano/EyeEm/Getty Images Research generally shows that having friends at work can increase productivity and engagement. However, a new study by Wharton researchers Julianna Pillemer and Nancy Rothbard finds that there can be a dark side to having...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Martin Child/Getty Images Not a month goes by without a major corporation suffering a cyber attack. Often state-sponsored, these breaches are insidious, difficult to detect, and may implicate personal information relating to millions of individuals. Clearly, the...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Martin Child/Getty Images Not a month goes by without a major corporation suffering a cyber attack. Often state-sponsored, these breaches are insidious, difficult to detect, and may implicate personal information relating to millions of individuals. Clearly, the...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Yagi Studio/Getty Images For startups, 2009 was a good year. More than 20 companies launched at that time, including Uber, Slack, Pinterest, and Blue Apron, eventually achieved $1 billion-plus valuations. Given that those companies were all venture-financed and...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Three Images/Getty Images Companies increasingly use digital technologies to circumvent distributors and enter into direct relationships with their end-users. These relationships can create efficient new sales channels and powerful feedback mechanisms or unlock...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
thatsval/Getty Images When it comes to the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace, employees demand leadership accountability. Consider the recent Google walkout, which employees staged to protest the lofty exit packages paid to men accused of misconduct. In...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
thatsval/Getty Images When it comes to the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace, employees demand leadership accountability. Consider the recent Google walkout, which employees staged to protest the lofty exit packages paid to men accused of misconduct. In...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
thatsval/Getty Images When it comes to the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace, employees demand leadership accountability. Consider the recent Google walkout, which employees staged to protest the lofty exit packages paid to men accused of misconduct. In...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
thatsval/Getty Images When it comes to the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace, employees demand leadership accountability. Consider the recent Google walkout, which employees staged to protest the lofty exit packages paid to men accused of misconduct. In...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
thatsval/Getty Images When it comes to the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace, employees demand leadership accountability. Consider the recent Google walkout, which employees staged to protest the lofty exit packages paid to men accused of misconduct. In...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Tim Macpherson/Getty Images It’s normal to underperform on occasion. After all, everyone has an off quarter — or even an off year — from time to time. But don’t just sit back and wait for that painful performance review. You need to have a...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Are you worried about being seen as a job-hopper? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR:, cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your with the help of Allison Rimm, a career coach and the author of The Joy of Strategy: A Business Plan for Life....
by HappyQuotient | Dec 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Twenty percent of executives at U.S. companies with artificial intelligence initiatives report that they will roll out AI across their business this year, according to PwC’s 2019 AI Predictions report. These companies expect their AI investment, which is often...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Marcus Franzen/Getty Images Attending a conference is a whir of activity — flying to a destination, engaging in several days of nonstop networking, and coming home to an inbox that has spiraled out of control in your absence. Back at work, most of us immediately...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Charles Orr/Getty Images Not long ago, I received a call from an HR manager at a large corporation seeking an executive coach for one of their senior leaders. He was described as arrogant, tactlessly blunt, and lacking empathy. Despite his challenges, all of which...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
splain2me/Getty Images Electronic health record systems for large, integrated healthcare delivery networks today are often viewed as monolithic, inflexible, difficult to use and costly to configure. They are almost always obtained from commercial vendors and require...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Youngme Moon, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Mihir Desai discuss staggering student debt levels, the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) Movement, and share their After Hours picks for the week. Download this podcast For interested listeners: The Basics of FIRE Mr....
by HappyQuotient | Dec 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Youngme Moon, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Mihir Desai discuss staggering student debt levels, the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) Movement, and share their After Hours picks for the week. Download this podcast For interested listeners: The Basics of FIRE Mr....
by HappyQuotient | Dec 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Luxy Images/Getty Images A new generation of philanthropists, whose wealth was created via entrepreneurship in technology-driven fields, has the unique opportunity to make a real difference in speeding the pace of progress in the fight against cancer. Not content...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Andrew Olney/Getty Images Many of us love competition and, more important, winning. Competition drives us toward our goals and motivates us to improve our performance, while the prestige and power that come from winning can provide a powerful morale booster....
by HappyQuotient | Dec 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Jorg Greuel/Getty Images Five years ago I read Daniel Markovitz’s argument for migrating to-do lists into calendars. Since then, my productivity has at least doubled. That momentous (at least for me) article describes five problems with the to-do list. First,...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Jorg Greuel/Getty Images Five years ago I read Daniel Markovitz’s argument for migrating to-do lists into calendars. Since then, my productivity has at least doubled. That momentous (at least for me) article describes five problems with the to-do list. First,...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Companies are spending millions on digital transformation, yet studies find many leaders feel their projects aren’t achieving their objectives. Why? Workfront CEO Alex Shootman says digitization is happening in most companies on a function-by-function basis,...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
W. Wayne Lockwood, M.D./Corbis/VCG/Getty Images What happens to people who are overconfident? Are they generally rewarded, promoted, and respected? Or do we distrust them and avoid collaborating with them? Our research suggests it may depend on how they express...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Thomas Steenburgh, a marketing professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, was inspired by his early career at Xerox to discover why firms with stellar sales and R&D departments still struggle to sell new innovations. The answer, he finds,...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Thomas Steenburgh, a marketing professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, was inspired by his early career at Xerox to discover why firms with stellar sales and R&D departments still struggle to sell new innovations. The answer, he finds,...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Thomas Steenburgh, a marketing professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, was inspired by his early career at Xerox to discover why firms with stellar sales and R&D departments still struggle to sell new innovations. The answer, he finds,...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
W. Wayne Lockwood, M.D./Corbis/VCG/Getty Images What happens to people who are overconfident? Are they generally rewarded, promoted, and respected? Or do we distrust them and avoid collaborating with them? Our research suggests it may depend on how they express...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
W. Wayne Lockwood, M.D./Corbis/VCG/Getty Images What happens to people who are overconfident? Are they generally rewarded, promoted, and respected? Or do we distrust them and avoid collaborating with them? Our research suggests it may depend on how they express...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
ULTRA.F/Getty Images On December 1, in Buenos Aires, President Trump started the 90-day clock to negotiate a trade deal with China. He claims he wants to tackle the big systemic concerns involving theft of American intellectual property, the forced transfer of...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Rubberball/Mike Kemp/Getty Images On October 28th, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil’s Social Liberal Party (PSL) defeated Fernando Haddad of the Worker’s Party (PT). Bolsonaro, a candidate coming from the far-right of the political spectrum, picked up 55% of the...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
zodebala/Getty Images The eight-hour workday harkens back to 19-century socialism. When there was no upper limit to the hours that organizations could demand of factory workers, and the industrial revolution saw children as young as six-years-old working the coal...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
zodebala/Getty Images The eight-hour workday harkens back to 19-century socialism. When there was no upper limit to the hours that organizations could demand of factory workers, and the industrial revolution saw children as young as six-years-old working the coal...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
shanghaiface/Getty Images Thanks to the résumé, the first things employers learn about job applicants are their names and where they live. Résumés attach a place to a person, and addresses indirectly tell employers something about the...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Caiaimage/Andy Roberts/Getty Images 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. I asked...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
shutterjack/Getty Images We overheard male classmates bond with internship interviewers about fantasy football drafts. We were taught that Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham were the best modern investors. We witnessed senior men sexualize younger women employees. It...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
shutterjack/Getty Images We overheard male classmates bond with internship interviewers about fantasy football drafts. We were taught that Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham were the best modern investors. We witnessed senior men sexualize younger women employees. It...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
shutterjack/Getty Images We overheard male classmates bond with internship interviewers about fantasy football drafts. We were taught that Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham were the best modern investors. We witnessed senior men sexualize younger women employees. It...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
shutterjack/Getty Images We overheard male classmates bond with internship interviewers about fantasy football drafts. We were taught that Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham were the best modern investors. We witnessed senior men sexualize younger women employees. It...
by HappyQuotient | Dec 7, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Westend61/Getty Images We are living in an age of acceleration. All manner of goods can be ordered online and delivered within hours. The next date is a swipe away. Even exercise and meditation are now accessed via apps and completed in minutes. This constantly...
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