According to user data from Reclaim.ai, a calendar-app company, the average full-time white-collar professional in the U.S. spends 17.8 hours a week in meetings. If you want to be happier at work (or ...

Misaligned communication habits—whether around response times, preferred channels, or writing style—can lead to missed ...

Blindspots aren’t occasional stumbles—they’re the default until you surface them. In this HBR Executive Masterclass, author and leadership psychologist Martin Dubin shows why even seasoned executives ...

Find new ideas and classic advice on strategy, innovation and leadership, for global leaders from the world's best business ...

Motivating yourself is one of the main things that sets high achievers apart, and it’s hard. How do you keep pushing onward when your heart isn’t in it? In her research, Fishbach has ...

Real-life coaching sessions with leaders working to overcome professional challenges. Muriel Wilkins is an executive coach with a strong track record of helping CEOs and senior leaders get through ...

Hated by bosses and subordinates alike, traditional performance appraisals have been abandoned by more than a third of U.S. companies. The annual review’s biggest limitation, the authors argue ...

Reprint: R0410B Employers are beginning to realize that they face a nearly invisible but significant drain on productivity: presenteeism, the problem of workers’ being on the job but, because of ...

What consumers truly value can be difficult to pin down and psychologically complicated. But universal building blocks of value do exist, creating opportunities for companies to improve their ...

Reprint: R0904C In January 2008, CBS anchor Katie Couric asked then-candidate Barack Obama what single book, apart from the Bible, he would bring with him to the White House. He cited Team of ...

Reprint: R1409B Though corporate profits are high, and the stock market is booming, most Americans are not sharing in the economic recovery. While the top 0.1% of income recipients reap almost all ...

For any enterprise to be competitive, continuous learning and improvement are key—but not always easy to achieve. After a decade of research, the authors have concluded that four biases stand in ...