Management & Leadership

Strengthen your soft skills and reach your leadership potential. If you listen to nothing else on developing your interpersonal skills, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you identify your social and emotional strengths and weaknesses, approach them with a learning mindset, and become a more effective leader today.

MicroSkills is built on one core, easy-to-learn principle: every big goal, complicated task, healthy habit, and, yes, even what we think of as character traits, can be broken down into small, learnable, skills that can be practiced, and incorporated real-time. We call these: MicroSkills. As award winning physicians, educators, and mentors we hear the gamut of challenges with navigating the workplace. And when we learn a lesson we often wish we had learned it earlier. MicroSkills is packed with the privileged information that you want delivered to you as efficiently as possible.

What explains the massive worldwide success of video games such as Fortnite, Minecraft, and Pokemon Go? Game companies and their popularity are poorly understood and often ignored from the standpoint of traditional business strategy. What lessons can we draw from its major successes and failures about the future of entertainment?

Taking a Career Break for Dummies shows you that a career break could be life-changing. Career breaks give us a chance to pause to identify opportunities and dreams, focus on the things we've been missing, and develop new skills.

Overcoming Ageism offers stories, research, and advice about navigating gendered age discrimination and bias at work. From advocating for yourself to ensuring continual learning and curiosity, you'll learn how to show others the unique expertise you bring to the organization and take back control of your career growth.

Step into the world of leadership and empowerment with Ronica Watkins inspiring book, Winning at Leading—Women in Leadership. This thought-provoking guide navigates the multifaceted landscape of leadership, showcasing the remarkable potential of women in the realm of influence and decision-making. Watkins begins the journey by exploring leaderships essence, emphasizing its power to inspire, guide, and drive individuals toward shared objectives. As you delve deeper, you'll uncover the compelling story of women in leadership roles and the milestones they continue to achieve in diverse fields.

Your future is unwritten. Your potential is yet to be discovered. You are on the cusp of accomplishing feats that may seem unthinkable at this moment. Let go of your self-doubt and THINK BIG. Give yourself permission to unlock the life you want to lead.

Society often admires the gift of gab, sidelining quieter introverts whose unique strengths are unappreciated and overlooked. The pressure to conform to extroverted norms can make you feel invisible and undervalued, which impacts your confidence, career, and happiness. But what if I told you that your introversion is not a hindrance, but your greatest strength? This book is tailor-made for individuals like you, who seek to create a space for quiet leadership in a world that often misunderstands silence for weakness.

In Vol. 2, author Michael Coleman picks up where he left off and takes us through dozens more marketing communication insights, and on into: The Future of Messaging. He covers a range of tactics for overcoming our “media-induced ADD” and both the challenges and opportunities presented by AI and similar evolving technologies.

Frozens are the dark forces of an organization’s management team. But you already knew that—you just didn’t know what to call them. You know the Frozens. They are the people in management destroying dreams by two key methods: quietly impeding progress on everything (product, people, process and more), artificially hiring and promoting based almost solely on loyalty (instead of capability, outcomes, potential or other 'real' factors).

From the boardroom to the newsroom, nearly every job requires speaking in front of a group. In this age of political correctness and viral social media moments, “winging it” can be a risky business. It’s no wonder that three out of four people suffer from speech anxiety. No Such Thing as OFF the Record is your survival guide for effective public speaking. It will arm you with the skills to navigate tricky Q&A scenarios and avoid unexpected pitfalls—like commenting off the record to a trusted source.

Discover how to break free from self-doubt and societal constraints to become the leader you were born to be. Are you a woman in leadership feeling undervalued and constrained? Join the movement to redefine leadership on your terms!

Burnout. Compassion fatigue. Self-care. Work/life balance. In the midst of all these buzzwords, there are real human beings – nurses, doctors, first responders, social workers, teachers, therapists – all trying to navigate the perils and promise of the helping professions. Working as a helper asks a lot of us personally, but we rarely get the training we need to handle the complex challenges we face – let alone unlock the deep personal growth potential available in our work.

Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment: find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers. But when Bain & Company's Chris Zook and James Allen researched this question, they found that when companies fail to achieve their growth targets, 90 percent of the time the root causes are internal, not external.

It’s becoming harder to be a successful sales leader. You must attract and retain top performers and motivate and engage your teams to deliver, if not exceed, their goals in a tough market. After all, company success rests on your team’s ability to achieve their KPIs. As a sales leader, you have more impact on your people than any other factor, which adds to the pressure.