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Managing Yourself
"3 Steps Toward Being a Better Leader in 2009" by Stew Friedman
"A Freelancer's Recipe for Professional Development" by Steven DeMaio
"The Power of Preventive Assessment" by Stew Friedman
"Do You Have an Excessive Need to Be Yourself?" by Marshall Goldsmith
"A New Year's Resolution: Schedule Regular Meetings with Yourself" by Gill Corkindale
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself, one of six HBR article collections in the popular 10 Must Reads series
"The Next Big Idea in Management: The 3 x 5 Card" by Alan M. Webber
"Academia vs. Industry: The Difference Is in the Punctuation Marks" by John Maeda
"Six Ways to Supercharge Your Productivity" by Tony Schwartz
"How to Manage People in 15 Minutes a Day" by Daisy Wademan Dowling
"Six Ways to Supercharge Your Productivity" by Tony Schwartz
"To Multitask Effectively, Focus on Value, Not Volume" by Ron Ashkenas
What's Next, Gen X?: Keeping Up, Moving Ahead, and Getting the Career You Want by Tammy Erickson
"Are You the Bottleneck in Your Organization?" by Brett Martin and Thanos Papadimitriou
"Are You Micromanaging Yourself?" by Steven DeMaio
"Three Ways to Beat Burnout" by Christopher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek
"How Your Brain Connects the Future to the Past" by Jeff Brown and Mark Fenske
"A Great Boss Is Confident, But Not Really Sure" by Robert I. Sutton
"How to Become a Thought Leader in Six Steps" by Dorie Clark
"To Get Paid What You're Worth, Know Your Disruptive Skills" by Whitney Johnson
"Overcoming the Mental Barriers to Equal Pay" by Mary Davis Holt
"Improve in the Delicate Art of Self-Promotion" by Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay
"3 Ways to Pitch Yourself in 30 Seconds" by Jodi Glickman Brown
"Define Your Personal Leadership Brand in Five Steps" by Norm Smallwood
"Turn the Job You Have into the Job You Want" by Amy Wrzesniewski, Justin M. Berg, and Jane E. Dutton
"Should You Write Your Own Promotion Plan?" by David Silverman
"Don't Let Promotion Anxiety Derail Your Career" by Gill Corkindale
"To Lead More Effectively, Increase Your Self-Confidence" by John Baldoni
"Decoding Leadership" by Norm Smallwood
"What Every New Generation of Bosses Has to Learn" by Robert I. Sutton
"Four Ways to Improve Your Team's Performance" by Daisy Wademan Dowling
"Bringing Out the Best in Your People" by Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown
"An Effective (and Underused) Way to Reassure and Motivate" by Peter Bregman
"When Should You Let an Employee Make a Mistake?" by Peter Bregman
"Forgive and Remember: How a Good Boss Responds to Mistakes" by Robert I. Sutton
"Do You Have Their Backs? Or Just Your Own?" by Robert I. Sutton
"Learn to Embrace the Tension of Diversity" by Marshall Goldsmith
"Avoid Mistakes That Plague New Leaders: An Interview with Warren Bennis" by Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay
"Get Your Team to Stop Fighting and Start Working" by Amy Gallo
"Ask the Expert" on the HBR Answer Exchange by Peter Cappelli
"Embedding Sustainability/Ethics into Performance Reviews" on the "Ask the Expert: Marc Effron, Miriam Ort" board of the HBR Answer Exchange
"Great Communicators Are Great Explainers" by John Baldoni
"The Delicate Art of Being Perfectly Assertive" by Robert I. Sutton
"Give a Gift: 4 Tips for More Effective Mentoring" by Tammy Erickson
"Empowering Your Employees to Empower Themselves" by Marshall Goldsmith
"How to Identify Your Employees' Hidden Talents" by Steven DeMaio
"A Story About Motivation" by Peter Bregman
"Leverage Your Top Talent Before You Lose It" by Ron Ashkenas
"How to Communicate Like Barack Obama" by John Baldoni
"Bringing Out the Best in Your People" by Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown
"6 Questions to Help You Build Trust on Your Team" by Lieutenant Colonel Diane Ryan
"How Leaders Create the Context for Strategy Execution" by Ron Ashkenas
"Bringing Out the Best in Your People" by Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown
"Bad Is Stronger Than Good: Evidence-Based Advice For Bosses" by Robert I. Sutton
"How to Align Employee and Company Interests" by Anthony Tjan
"Seven Communication Mistakes Managers Make" by Stever Robbins
"The 10 Questions Every Change Agent Must Answer" by Bill Taylor
"Moving from Strategic Planning to Storytelling" by Roger Martin
"If You're the Boss, Start Killing More Good Ideas" by Robert I. Sutton
"Three Questions for Entrepreneurs" by Scott Anthony
"When Failure Is Intolerable" by Scott Anthony
"How Small Businesses Win Big in Tough Economies" by Jeff Stibel
"Finding Northwest Flight 253's Lessons for Leaders" by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
"Why the Best Solutions Are Always Temporary Ones" by Peter Bregman
"How to Strike Effective Alliances and Partnerships" by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
"How to Strike Effective Alliances and Partnerships" by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
"Why Small Companies Will Win in This Economy" by Peter Bregman
"Four Lessons from Y-Combinator's Fresh Approach to Innovation" by Scott Anthony
"Have You Already Killed Your Next Big Thing?" by Mark W. Johnson
"Four Ways to Spur Innovation at Your Company" by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison
"Find the 15-Minute Competitive Advantage" by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
"Do's and Don'ts for Your Work's Social Platforms" by Andrew McAfee
"Social Media's Critical Path: Relevance to Resonance to Significance" by Brian Solis
"What McDonald's Can Teach Us about Recovery" by Mats Lederhausen
"Understanding Customer Experience" by Adam Richardson
"Four Ways to Increase the Urgency Needed for Change" by John Kotter
"In E-Commerce, More Is More" by Andreas B. Eisengerich and Tobias Kretschmer, Harvard Business Review, March 2008
"Groupon's Four Keys to Customer Interaction" by John Sviokla
"It's Not Who Your Customers Are, It's How They Behave" by Peter Merholz
"Looking to Grow Sales on the Cheap? Use Natural Spokespeople" by John Sviokla
"Better Customer Service Through Transparency, Tribes, and Talent" by John Sviokla
"How Integrated Are Your Customer Experiences?" by Peter Merholz
"Want to Understand Your Customers? Go Pyscho" by Anthony Tjan
"Are You Catering to your Customer's Anxieties?" by John Sviokla, Anand Rao, and Jamie Yoder
"To Win the Sale, Win Your Customer's Heart" by Clif Reichard
"Persuasion Tactics of Effective Salespeople" by Steve W. Martin
"The Secret to Meaningful Customer Relationships" by Roger Martin
"The Farm-to-Table Secret to Motivating People" by Peter Bregman
"Developing Services Consumers Want" by John Senior