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Managing Your Professional Image
Harvard Business School professor Laura Morgan Roberts' article Creating a Positive Professional Image is one of the most popular ever run on HBS Working Knowledge. Her theme: If you don't actively manage your professional image, others will do it for you. Create your own identity. Take a strategic,...
Tags: Monitor, Workplace, Image, Identity, Roberts, Monitor Other, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2009-07-01
Managing Up: Make Your Boss Your Strongest Ally
Scott Adams's comic strip Dilbert is popular and famous because the characters and situations—exaggerated though they may be—remind everyone of familiar examples from their own office lives. Career ladders are crowded with superiors like Dilbert's who don't fit the image of the ideal manager. Inept, disorganized, power hungry, or downright...
Tags: Scott Adams, Career Ladder, Professional Development, Career
Download resources 2006-06-02
How to Decide in a Time of Confusion
A practical five-step plan to make sure you have the data (and the mind-set) you need to make great decisions in a time of unprecedented risk and uncertainty. Study Your Business Environment Goal: Compile information to understand what you know...
Tags: Team, Korean Air, Worker, Ram Charan, Team Management, Management, Uncertainty, BNET Crash Course, Decisionmaking, Downturn, Recession, Managing a Team, Kim Girard,  Kim Girard
Articles 2009-05-04
The Weird Rules of Creativity
The Idea in Brief Hire people you don't like, then promote them when they defy you. Wholeheartedly commit to risky projects. Get your happiest workers arguing. And keep your innovators away from customers. Recipes for disaster?...
Tags: Management, Robert I. Sutton, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Team Management, Recruitment & Selection, Sutton, Idea, Team, Hiring, Harvard Business Review, In Brief
Articles 2007-12-13
Reaching Your Potential
Despite racking up impressive accomplishments, you feel frustrated with your career--convinced you should be achieving more. You may even wish you had chosen a different career altogether. These feelings often stem from a common error:...
Tags: Harvard Business Review, Career, Management, Professional Development, Leadership, Job, Robert S. Kaplan, In Brief
Articles 2008-07-18
Understanding Matrix Management
Matrix management is a system based on multiple employee reporting structures. It emphasizes both "vertical" organizational hierarchy and "horizontal" relationships. In other words, any employee within a matrix organization reports upwards to superiors and, based on geographic requirements, may also report sideways to peers. It came about as organizations recognized...
Tags: talent, role, structure, matrix management, business, organization
Articles 2007-04-23
The New Manager
The New Manager's Handbook provides you with two dozen lessons and insights for successfully handling the all-important "People" component of your new position. Providing you with concrete skills to successfully overcome the double challenge of managing and turning on the motivation of your employees while meeting the demands of your...
Tags: McGraw-Hill Companies, New Manager, Leadership, Management
Book chapters 2007-10-01
In Praise of the Incomplete Leader
Have you ever feigned confidence to superiors or reports? Hidden the fact you were confused by the latest business results or blindsided by a competitor's move? If so, you've bought into the myth of the complete...
Tags: Harvard Business Review, Management, Leader, Leadership, In Brief, Deborah Ancona, Thomas W. Malone, Wanda J. Orlikowski, Peter M. Senge
Articles 2008-05-07
Tick Tock: Tips for Allocating Your Time
Do you spend your work time as effectively as you could? Let me answer for you. No. Everyone from CEOs to front-line managers squander their most valuable resource -- time -- like an untuned automobile wastes fuel. Our opportunities to create real value for the organization are...
Tags: Sean Silverthorne, Finance, Online Communications, Human Resources, Productivity, Financial Accounting, E-mail, Workforce Management, Time Management
Blog posts 2008-05-13
Unlock the Potential of Line Managers
McKinsey has just published its latest quarterly report on front-line managers -- a crucial but often neglected role in the business. Often they are looked on as even more expendable than the foot-soldiers they manage, because they don't even execute strategy, they merely oversee that execution performed by...
Tags: Manager, Team Management, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Management, Human Resources, Julian Goldsmith
Blog posts 2009-08-11
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