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- 1 weeks ago36 min
Why Great Teams Don't Need to Like Each Other
Do great teams need to like each other to succeed? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant says no. What matters more is alignment around a shared purpose—and a willingness to challenge one another.Uploaded 21-10-26In this episode of HBR IdeaCast, Grant joins host Adi Ignatius to discuss his new book, Vibe, and what leaders can do to build stronger teams, improve workplace culture, and foster meaningful connections. He explains why task cohesion matters more than social bonding, how to encourage productive disagreement, and why hiring for cultural fit can leave organizations vulnerable to groupthink. Grant also shares practical advice on onboarding new employees, giving and receiving candid feedback, and creating a culture where people feel safe speaking up. Plus, he explains why AI companions can’t replace the messy, sometimes uncomfortable interactions that make human relationships—and teams—stronger.Listen to the HBR IdeaCast for more conversations with leading thinkers on strategy, leadership, and managing organizations.Books, tools, and more: store.hbr.orgFollow us:https://hbr.org/https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review/https://www.facebook.com/HBR/https://twitter.com/HarvardBizhttps://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_reviewSign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters#HarvardBusinessReview #YourCareer #Career #Job #Work #Business #Harvard #HarvardBusinessSchool Copyright © 2026 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 3 weeks ago37 min
How AI Is Changing Strategy—and 4 Skills Leaders Need Next
AI is moving beyond productivity gains—and forcing leaders to rethink how their businesses actually work. In this episode of HBR IdeaCast, Wharton professor and AI expert Ethan Mollick explains why leaders need to move beyond automating existing tasks and start redesigning organizations around what AI makes possible. He discusses how AI agents are changing the role of managers, where humans can create competitive advantage when everyone has access to the same AI models, and why companies need to experiment rather than wait for someone else to figure out the future. He also shares four capabilities leaders should cultivate in an AI-driven world: deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency.Uploaded 09-10-26Books, tools, and more: store.hbr.orgFollow us:https://hbr.org/https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review/https://www.facebook.com/HBR/https://twitter.com/HarvardBizhttps://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_reviewSign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters#HarvardBusinessReview #YourCareer #Career #Job #Work #Business #Harvard #HarvardBusinessSchool Copyright © 2026 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 4 weeks ago29 min
How Do I Establish My Network from Scratch? | S1E3 | New Here
How Do I Build My Network from Scratch? | S1E3 | New Here 8 Nov 2023 --- You need to build a network as you build a career. So, how do you get started? This week on New Here, we explore different ways to start building professional relationships – in a way that feels authentic. And we’ll learn how to sustain those relationships over time. Former tech executive Eric Rodriguez and Gael Aitor, co-host of Teenager Therapy and co-founder of Astro Studios, help host Elainy Mata understand that networking is about finding ways to support other people and building long-term relationships. They share how they make new connections and build on them, as well as some of their networking horror stories. And they help Elainy answer your questions about networking. Have a career question? Let us know at NewHere@HBR.org. Key topics include: personal networks, communication, careers. More Reading: • Eric Rodriguez’s one pager: https://ericjrodriguez.com/onepager • How to Network on Instagram (It’s More Than Just the DMs!) (Elainy Mata): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP9rWm7qRm8 • A Beginner’s Guide to Networking (Rakshitha Arni Ravishankar): https://hbr.org/2023/03/a-beginners-guide-to-networking • Work Speak: The Right Way to Network (Vasundhara Sawhney): https://hbr.org/2022/12/work-speak-the-right-way-to-network • Fun Ways to Network as a Newbie (Phoebe Dodds): https://hbr.org/2023/06/fun-ways-to-network-as-a-newbie • Get Better at Networking: Our Favorite Reads (Paige Cohen): https://hbr.org/2021/10/get-better-at-networking-our-favorite-reads Listen to more New Here episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzAU8TPKsJuaazJKfjsCX3AWB-SLt0ZVa You can also listen to this episode on HBR.org, and wherever you listen to podcasts: - HBR.org (transcript available here): https://hbr.org/podcast/2023/09/how-do-i-build-my-network-from-scratch - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-here/id1705031803?i=1000628571812 - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5pqUtTFBQCdoFS7qDZhAsa?si=3a41beb1354a44aa Series Description: The young professional’s guide to work — and how to make it work for you. About Harvard Business Review: Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, books, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review aims to provide professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to help lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact. Learn more at www.hbr.org. Chapters: 00:00 – Intro 2:26 – Interview with Gael Aitor and Eric Rodriguez 25:18 – Closing Thoughts 26:28 – Outro Follow Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/HBR/ https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz https://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_review/ Sign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters #HarvardBusinessReview #business #careers #workadvice Copyright © 2022 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 4 weeks ago7 min
How Industry Competition Theory Can Help Address U.S. Politics
How Industry Competition Theory Can Help Fix U.S. Politics 26 Oct 2020 --- Unhealthy competition is at the root of political dysfunction. Applying a famous business framework can help identify the best ways to fix it. Although people tend to think of the American political system as a public institution based on high-minded principles, it’s not. Politics behaves according to the same kinds of incentives and forces that shape competition in any private industry. Our elections and our legislative systems are drowning in unhealthy competition: The political-industrial complex wins, and the public interest loses. Business, in pursuing its short-term interests, has become a major participant in the politics industry, exacerbating its dysfunction. We can have healthy competition in politics—results, innovation, and accountability—by redesigning how we vote to connect acting in the public interest with getting reelected. Katherine Gehl's application of Michael Porter’s Five Forces framework illuminates the root causes of political dysfunction and points to the most powerful levers for transformation. For more, see Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter's book, "The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy", at https://amzn.to/2HB12Cu --------------------------------------------------------------------- At Harvard Business Review, we believe in management. If the world’s organizations and institutions were run more effectively, if our leaders made better decisions, if people worked more productively, we believe that all of us — employees, bosses, customers, our families, and the people our businesses affect — would be better off. So we try to arm our readers with ideas that help them become smarter, more creative, and more courageous in their work. We enlist the foremost experts in a wide range of topics, including career planning, strategy, leadership, work-life balance, negotiations, innovation, and managing teams. Harvard Business Review empowers professionals around the world to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact. Sign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters Follow us: https://hbr.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review/ https://www.facebook.com/HBR/ https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz https://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_review Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 4 weeks ago11 min
How to Say No at Work | Christine Against Work
How to Say No at Work | Christine vs. Work 14 Oct 2020 --- 𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝘼𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮! ✨ https://www.youtube.com/c/HBRAscend ✨ You may have wondered how to say no to a not-so-great request from your boss. Here’s how. Innovation Editor Christine Liu tries the one thing that’s seemingly ingrained in our workplace brains: saying no to your boss or co-worker. It’s hard no matter how you slice it, but a clean framework can take the emotion out of the statement and soften the blow. In this episode of Christine vs. Work, Ruchika Tulshyan, an inclusion strategist and author of, “The Diversity Advantage” helps Christine out by presenting a formula and discussing why deflecting a workplace ask can be so difficult. --------------------------------------------------------------------- At Harvard Business Review, we believe in management. If the world’s organizations and institutions were run more effectively, if our leaders made better decisions, if people worked more productively, we believe that all of us — employees, bosses, customers, our families, and the people our businesses affect — would be better off. So we try to arm our readers with ideas that help them become smarter, more creative, and more courageous in their work. We enlist the foremost experts in a wide range of topics, including career planning, strategy, leadership, work-life balance, negotiations, innovation, and managing teams. Harvard Business Review empowers professionals around the world to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact. Sign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters Follow us: https://hbr.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review/ https://www.facebook.com/HBR/ https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz https://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_review #careerdevelopment #negotiation #settingboundaries Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 25, 202633 min
Bob Iger: Power, Succession, and Leading Disney Through Upheaval
Few executives have had to make as many high-stakes calls, over as many years, as former Disney CEO Bob Iger. In this conversation with former HBS dean Nitin Nohria, Iger shares what he’s learned about the decisions that really belong to the CEO: where to spend your time, when to step into a problem, when to get out of the way, how to shape culture, and how to lead when crisis becomes a constant.Drawing on ideas from his new book, The CEO: The Role, the Reality, the Responsibility (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GD87T42Z), Nohria presses Iger on the realities of leading at the very top—including what Disney got wrong in its previous succession process and what Iger learned from having to return as CEO. They also discuss transforming Disney’s creative engine and using the power of the CEO role without letting that power distort your judgment.00:00 How Iger Reinvented Disney Animation02:12 Respecting the Past Without Being Trapped by It05:01 How a CEO Shapes Company Culture06:57 How CEOs Should Spend Their Time09:38 What Disney Got Wrong About Succession13:09 Returning to Disney as CEO14:51 How Leaders Should Manage Creative Decisions16:13 When—and How—to Intervene18:46 When CEOs Should Speak Out21:19 Staying Grounded When You Have Power23:28 Who Tells the CEO the Truth?25:01 The Responsibility CEOs Shouldn’t UnderestimateBooks, tools, and more: store.hbr.orgFollow us:https://hbr.org/https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review/https://www.facebook.com/HBR/https://twitter.com/HarvardBizhttps://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_reviewSign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters#HarvardBusinessReview #YourCareer #Career #Job #Work #Business #Harvard #HarvardBusinessSchool Copyright © 2026 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 11, 202639 min
Why Great Turnarounds Start with Culture, Not Strategy
What does it really take to turn around a company in the middle of massive disruption? In this episode of HBR IdeaCast, Verizon CEO Dan Schulman explains how he approached the challenge of leading the company into the AI age. He shares why putting customers—not engineering—at the center of the business required a fundamental shift in culture, how leaders can prepare employees for an AI-native future, and why successful transformation depends on reskilling people while being honest about the disruption ahead.Books, tools, and more: store.hbr.orgFollow us:https://hbr.org/https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review/https://www.facebook.com/HBR/https://twitter.com/HarvardBizhttps://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_reviewSign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters#HarvardBusinessReview #YourCareer #Career #Job #Work #Business #Harvard #HarvardBusinessSchool Copyright © 2026 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Aug 10, 20261h 8m
Have You Started Thinking About Retirement? | Women at Work | Podcast
Retirement is a major decision that takes planning and reflection. Ideally, you want to make the transition in a way that leaves you feeling happy and engaged, not lonely, lost, or bored. So, let’s talk about the seeds that should be sown before your last day in the workforce.Two women who very recently retired recount their decision-making process, describe how the transition has been so far, and share lessons from their personal experiences. We then hear from Ann Bundy, who’s an expert on retirement, having written a practical guide on the topic and having recently retired herself. She gives practical advice on how to think about and prepare for this transition no matter where you are in your career.Guest:Ann Bundy is the coauthor of Encore: Living Your Life’s Legacy, a recent retiree, and a former executive coach.Resources:• “What Happens When Your Career Becomes Your Whole Identity,” by Janna Koretz: https://hbr.org/2019/12/what-happens-when-your-career-becomes-your-whole-identity • “Design a Retirement That Excites You,” by Jeff Giesea: https://hbr.org/2015/11/design-a-retirement-that-excites-you • “When He Retires and She Still Works, What Happens?” by Karen Firestone: https://hbr.org/2013/11/when-he-retires-and-she-still-works-what-happens • “Does Having Grandchildren Persuade Women to Retire Early?” by Karen Firestone: https://hbr.org/2015/05/does-having-grandchildren-persuade-women-to-retire-early • “How to Become a Coach or Consultant After You Retire,” by Dorie Clark: https://hbr.org/2017/05/how-to-become-a-coach-or-a-consultant-after-you-retire • “What Job Crafting Looks Like,” by Jane E. Dutton and Amy Wrzesniewski: https://hbr.org/2020/03/what-job-crafting-looks-like Sign up for the Women at Work newsletter.Email us: womenatwork@hbr.orgListen to all Women at Work episodes here: [YouTube playlist link]You can also listen to this episode on HBR.org, and wherever you listen to podcasts: - HBR.org (transcript available here): https://hbr.org/podcast/2022/10/have-you-started-thinking-about-retirement - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/have-you-started-thinking-about-retirement/id1336174427?i=1000583748814 - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4GPQ78OQMVHWDom88fDcNV?si=235b4fcdb0da4cb1 - Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/women-at-work/episode/have-you-started-thinking-about-retirement-207897794 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLmhhcnZhcmRidXNpbmVzcy5vcmcvaGFydmFyZGJ1c2luZXNzL3dvbWVuLWF0LXdvcms/episode/dGFnOmF1ZGlvLmhici5vcmcsMjAxOC0wMS0xNzp3b21lbi1hdC13b3JrLnM4LjAwMDAy?sa=X&ved=0CAgQuIEEahcKEwjI88HSj_z6AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQLA Series Description: Women face gender discrimination throughout our careers. It doesn't have to derail our ambitions — but how do we prepare to deal with it? There's no workplace orientation session about narrowing the wage gap, standing up to interrupting male colleagues, or taking on many other issues we encounter at work. So HBR staffers Amy Bernstein, Amy Gallo, and Emily Caulfield are untangling some of the knottiest problems. They interview experts on gender, tell stories about their own experiences, and give lots of practical advice to help you succeed in spite of the obstacles.About Harvard Business Review: Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, books, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review aims to provide professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to help lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact. Learn more at www.hbr.org.Follow Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/harv... https://www.facebook.com/HBR/ https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz https://www.instagram.com/harvard_bus... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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