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Management Tips was adapted from the following blog posts and products. Search for them on hbr.org:

Managing Yourself

  1. "3 Steps Toward Being a Better Leader in 2009" by Stew Friedman

  2. "Choose the Fantasy World You Live In" by Peter Bregman

  3. "Top Ten Ways to Find Joy at Work" by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  4. "A Freelancer's Recipe for Professional Development" by Steven DeMaio

  5. "Never Let Your Ego Stop You from Learning" by John Baldoni

  6. "The Power of Preventive Assessment" by Stew Friedman

  7. "Five Questions Every Mentor Must Ask" by Anthony Tjan

  8. "Do You Have an Excessive Need to Be Yourself?" by Marshall Goldsmith

  9. "Critique Me, Please" by John Maeda

  10. "Is Listening an Endangered Skill?" by Bronwyn Fryer

  11. "A New Year's Resolution: Schedule Regular Meetings with Yourself" by Gill Corkindale

  12. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself, one of six HBR article collections in the popular 10 Must Reads series

  13. "The Supreme Killer App: Your Memory" by Steven DeMaio

  14. "The Next Big Idea in Management: The 3 x 5 Card" by Alan M. Webber

  15. "Academia vs. Industry: The Difference Is in the Punctuation Marks" by John Maeda

  16. "Burned Out? Take a Creative Sabbatical" by Gina Trapani

  17. "Six Ways to Supercharge Your Productivity" by Tony Schwartz

  18. "Why Wise Leaders Don't Know Too Much" by Jeff Stibel

  19. "Add an Hour to Your Day" by Ron Ashkenas

  20. "How to Manage People in 15 Minutes a Day" by Daisy Wademan Dowling

  21. "Six Ways to Supercharge Your Productivity" by Tony Schwartz

  22. "The Art of the Self-Imposed Deadline" by Steven DeMaio

  23. "To Multitask Effectively, Focus on Value, Not Volume" by Ron Ashkenas

  24. "Why You Need to Fail" by Peter Bregman

  25. What's Next, Gen X?: Keeping Up, Moving Ahead, and Getting the Career You Want by Tammy Erickson

  26. "Are You the Bottleneck in Your Organization?" by Brett Martin and Thanos Papadimitriou

  27. "Are You Micromanaging Yourself?" by Steven DeMaio

  28. "Three Ways to Beat Burnout" by Christopher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek

  29. "Use Stress to Your Advantage" by Peter Bregman

  30. "How to Make Knowledge Work Fun" by Larry Stybel

  31. "Grownups Need Recess, Too" by Stew Friedman

  32. "Why Do Most Entrepreneurs Fail to Scale?" by Anthony Tjan

  33. "Don't Give Up on Change" by Marshall Goldsmith

  34. "Why You Should Fire Yourself" by Ron Ashkenas

  35. "How Your Brain Connects the Future to the Past" by Jeff Brown and Mark Fenske

  36. "How (and When) to Motivate Yourself" by Peter Bregman

  37. "A Great Boss Is Confident, But Not Really Sure" by Robert I. Sutton

  38. "You've Made a Mistake. Now What?" by Amy Gallo

  39. "How to Identify Your Disruptive Skills" by Whitney Johnson

  40. "How to Become a Thought Leader in Six Steps" by Dorie Clark

  41. "To Get Paid What You're Worth, Know Your Disruptive Skills" by Whitney Johnson

  42. "Overcoming the Mental Barriers to Equal Pay" by Mary Davis Holt

  43. "Improve in the Delicate Art of Self-Promotion" by Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay

  44. "3 Ways to Pitch Yourself in 30 Seconds" by Jodi Glickman Brown

  45. "Define Your Personal Leadership Brand in Five Steps" by Norm Smallwood

  46. "Turn the Job You Have into the Job You Want" by Amy Wrzesniewski, Justin M. Berg, and Jane E. Dutton

  47. "How to Get the Pay Raise You Want" by Gill Corkindale

  48. "Should You Write Your Own Promotion Plan?" by David Silverman

  49. "Don't Let Promotion Anxiety Derail Your Career" by Gill Corkindale

  50. "Who Is the Leader of the Future?" by Vineet Nayar


Managing Your Team

  1. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership

  2. "Why Are Creative Leaders So Rare?" by Navi Radjou

  3. "To Lead More Effectively, Increase Your Self-Confidence" by John Baldoni

  4. "Decoding Leadership" by Norm Smallwood

  5. "What Every New Generation of Bosses Has to Learn" by Robert I. Sutton

  6. "Some Bosses Live in a Fool's Paradise" by Robert I. Sutton

  7. "The Boss as Human Shield" by Robert I. Sutton

  8. "The Age of the Both/And CEO" by Jeff Kehoe

  9. "Four Things Employees Need from Leaders" by Cleve Stevens

  10. "Four Ways to Improve Your Team's Performance" by Daisy Wademan Dowling

  11. "The Boss as Human Shield" by Robert I. Sutton

  12. "Bringing Out the Best in Your People" by Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown

  13. "An Effective (and Underused) Way to Reassure and Motivate" by Peter Bregman

  14. "When Should You Let an Employee Make a Mistake?" by Peter Bregman

  15. "The Miracle of Making Mistakes" by Vineet Nayar

  16. "Forgive and Remember: How a Good Boss Responds to Mistakes" by Robert I. Sutton

  17. "Do You Have Their Backs? Or Just Your Own?" by Robert I. Sutton

  18. "When the Going Gets Tough, Act the Part" by John Baldoni

  19. "Learn to Embrace the Tension of Diversity" by Marshall Goldsmith

  20. "Avoid Mistakes That Plague New Leaders: An Interview with Warren Bennis" by Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay

  21. "Get Your Team to Stop Fighting and Start Working" by Amy Gallo

  22. "Ask the Expert" on the HBR Answer Exchange by Peter Cappelli

  23. "How to Drive Change the IDEO Way" by Andrew Winston

  24. "Embedding Sustainability/Ethics into Performance Reviews" on the "Ask the Expert: Marc Effron, Miriam Ort" board of the HBR Answer Exchange

  25. "Feedback That Works" by Cynthia M. Phoel

  26. "Great Communicators Are Great Explainers" by John Baldoni

  27. "The Delicate Art of Being Perfectly Assertive" by Robert I. Sutton

  28. "Give a Gift: 4 Tips for More Effective Mentoring" by Tammy Erickson

  29. "Empowering Your Employees to Empower Themselves" by Marshall Goldsmith

  30. "Stop Worrying about Your Weaknesses" by Peter Bregman

  31. "How to Identify Your Employees' Hidden Talents" by Steven DeMaio

  32. "Action Learning: A Recipe for Success" by Chris Cappy

  33. "A Story About Motivation" by Peter Bregman

  34. "Leading Clever People" by Gareth Jones

  35. "Leverage Your Top Talent Before You Lose It" by Ron Ashkenas

  36. "Giving a High Performer Productive Feedback" by Amy Gallo

  37. "Award Your Own Genius Grants" by Julia Kirby

  38. "True Leaders Are Also Managers" by Robert I. Sutton

  39. "How to Communicate Like Barack Obama" by John Baldoni

  40. "Bringing Out the Best in Your People" by Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown

  41. "6 Questions to Help You Build Trust on Your Team" by Lieutenant Colonel Diane Ryan

  42. "How Leaders Create the Context for Strategy Execution" by Ron Ashkenas

  43. "Bringing Out the Best in Your People" by Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown

  44. "Vanquish the Time-Management Villain" by Luca Baiguini

  45. "Bad Is Stronger Than Good: Evidence-Based Advice For Bosses" by Robert I. Sutton

  46. "Four Tools For Defeating Denial" by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  47. "How to Align Employee and Company Interests" by Anthony Tjan

  48. "Seven Communication Mistakes Managers Make" by Stever Robbins

  49. "When Your Team Reverts to the Old Strategy" by Amy Gallo

  50. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy



Managing Your Business

  1. "The 10 Questions Every Change Agent Must Answer" by Bill Taylor

  2. "Moving from Strategic Planning to Storytelling" by Roger Martin

  3. "The Four Phases of Design Thinking" by Warren Berger

  4. "If You're the Boss, Start Killing More Good Ideas" by Robert I. Sutton

  5. "Making Your Strategy Work on the Front-Line" by Amy Gallo

  6. "Three Questions for Entrepreneurs" by Scott Anthony

  7. "Don't Get Distracted by Your Plan" by Peter Bregman

  8. "When Failure Is Intolerable" by Scott Anthony

  9. "The Benefits of Thinking the Unthinkable" by Rita McGrath

  10. "How Small Businesses Win Big in Tough Economies" by Jeff Stibel

  11. "Finding Northwest Flight 253's Lessons for Leaders" by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  12. "Why the Best Solutions Are Always Temporary Ones" by Peter Bregman

  13. "3 Ways to Fail Cheap" by Scott Anthony

  14. "How CMOs Should Function in a Recession" by John Quelch

  15. "A Better Way to Cut Costs" by Rita McGrath

  16. "Google Grows Up" by Scott Anthony

  17. "Better Through Whose Eyes?" by Scott Anthony

  18. "How to Strike Effective Alliances and Partnerships" by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  19. "How to Strike Effective Alliances and Partnerships" by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  20. "Why Small Companies Will Win in This Economy" by Peter Bregman

  21. "Four Lessons from Y-Combinator's Fresh Approach to Innovation" by Scott Anthony

  22. "Have You Already Killed Your Next Big Thing?" by Mark W. Johnson

  23. "Why Most CEOs Are Bad at Strategy" by Roger Martin

  24. "Innovate Like Chris Rock" by Peter Sims

  25. "Four Ways to Spur Innovation at Your Company" by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison

  26. "Find the 15-Minute Competitive Advantage" by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  27. "Surviving a Recession" "And a Wildfire" by Adam Werbach

  28. "Do's and Don'ts for Your Work's Social Platforms" by Andrew McAfee

  29. "Social Media's Critical Path: Relevance to Resonance to Significance" by Brian Solis

  30. "Debunking Social Media Myths" by David Armano

  31. "How Would Walt Disney Market in 2009?" by John Sviokla

  32. "What's Your Company's Sentence?" by Bill Taylor

  33. "What McDonald's Can Teach Us about Recovery" by Mats Lederhausen

  34. "Understanding Customer Experience" by Adam Richardson

  35. "Four Ways to Increase the Urgency Needed for Change" by John Kotter

  36. "In E-Commerce, More Is More" by Andreas B. Eisengerich and Tobias Kretschmer, Harvard Business Review, March 2008

  37. "Groupon's Four Keys to Customer Interaction" by John Sviokla

  38. "It's Not Who Your Customers Are, It's How They Behave" by Peter Merholz

  39. "Looking to Grow Sales on the Cheap? Use Natural Spokespeople" by John Sviokla

  40. "Better Customer Service Through Transparency, Tribes, and Talent" by John Sviokla

  41. "How Integrated Are Your Customer Experiences?" by Peter Merholz

  42. "Want to Understand Your Customers? Go Pyscho" by Anthony Tjan

  43. "Are You Catering to your Customer's Anxieties?" by John Sviokla, Anand Rao, and Jamie Yoder

  44. "To Win the Sale, Win Your Customer's Heart" by Clif Reichard

  45. "Persuasion Tactics of Effective Salespeople" by Steve W. Martin

  46. "The Secret to Meaningful Customer Relationships" by Roger Martin

  47. "How (Not) to Complain" by John Quelch

  48. "The Farm-to-Table Secret to Motivating People" by Peter Bregman

  49. "Developing Services Consumers Want" by John Senior

  50. "Simplicity: The Next Big Thing" by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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