Managing Your Team When the C-Suite Isn’t Providing Strategic Direction
https://hbr.org/2025/09/managing-your-team-when-the-c-suite-isnt-providing-strategic-direction
https://hbr.org/2025/09/managing-your-team-when-the-c-suite-isnt-providing-strategic-direction
Harvard Business Review
Managing Your Team When the C-Suite Isn’t Providing Strategic Direction
In fast-moving industries and volatile markets, strategy is supposed to come from the C-level. But when it doesn’t, senior leaders must step up to translate ambiguity into clarity, maintain momentum, and keep teams focused. There are four key strategies for…
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AI Is Changing the Structure of Consulting Firms
https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-is-changing-the-structure-of-consulting-firms
https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-is-changing-the-structure-of-consulting-firms
Harvard Business Review
AI Is Changing the Structure of Consulting Firms
AI is transforming consulting by making it possible to automate tasks traditionally handled by junior consultants such as research, modelling, and analysis. This shift is leading to a new leaner consulting model, the “obelisk,” which features fewer layers…
Loneliness Is Reshaping Your Workplace
https://hbr.org/2025/09/loneliness-is-reshaping-your-workplace
https://hbr.org/2025/09/loneliness-is-reshaping-your-workplace
Harvard Business Review
Loneliness Is Reshaping Your Workplace
If loneliness is reshaping society, then it’s already reshaping the teams we lead, whether we see it clearly or not. Loneliness silently dismantles trust and team cohesion, foundational elements that drive performance, innovation, and resilience. By attending…
What It Takes to Lead Through Digital Disruption
https://hbr.org/2025/09/what-it-takes-to-lead-through-digital-disruption
https://hbr.org/2025/09/what-it-takes-to-lead-through-digital-disruption
Harvard Business Review
What It Takes to Lead Through Digital Disruption
Researchers found that leaders who successfully navigate digital disruption draw from a mix of traditional and emerging leadership styles. Most impactful, however, was a tension between two leadership styles: prospectors, who display curiosity about internal…
Teams That Prioritize Either Learning or Performance Perform Better
https://hbr.org/2025/09/teams-that-prioritize-either-learning-or-performance-perform-better
https://hbr.org/2025/09/teams-that-prioritize-either-learning-or-performance-perform-better
Harvard Business Review
Teams That Prioritize Either Learning or Performance Perform Better
Performance management practices and systems often encourage teams to “innovate and deliver,” pushing them toward high standards while asking them to be flexible and experimental. But new research finds that expecting teams to emphasize both learning and…
When CMOs and CFOs Align Their KPIs, They Deliver More Value
https://hbr.org/2025/09/when-cmos-and-cfos-align-their-kpis-they-deliver-more-value
https://hbr.org/2025/09/when-cmos-and-cfos-align-their-kpis-they-deliver-more-value
Harvard Business Review
When CMOs and CFOs Align Their KPIs, They Deliver More Value
CMOs are under intense pressure to increase revenue and improve efficiency. The problem is that many of their traditional KPIs–reach, impressions, engagement rates, brand lift studies–are useful for marketers but don’t connect directly to business results.…
What Companies with Successful AI Pilots Do Differently
https://hbr.org/2025/09/what-companies-with-successful-ai-pilots-do-differently
https://hbr.org/2025/09/what-companies-with-successful-ai-pilots-do-differently
Harvard Business Review
What Companies with Successful AI Pilots Do Differently
The overwhelming majority of generative AI programs have so far failed to deliver significant business returns. Research across industries reveals that the small percentage of companies who actually are unlocking AI’s potential are distinguished by leaders…
Which Weak Signals Should You Pay Attention To?
https://hbr.org/2025/09/which-weak-signals-should-you-pay-attention-to
https://hbr.org/2025/09/which-weak-signals-should-you-pay-attention-to
Harvard Business Review
Which Weak Signals Should You Pay Attention To?
Traditional economic indications, such as interest and unemployment rates, are sending conflicting signals about the state and future of the global economy. In this issue of the HBR Executive Agenda, HBR editor at large Adi Ignatius asked CEOs from HBR Executive’s…
Coming Soon: Season 10 of Coaching Real Leaders
https://hbr.org/podcast/2025/09/coming-soon-season-10-of-coaching-real-leaders
https://hbr.org/podcast/2025/09/coming-soon-season-10-of-coaching-real-leaders
Harvard Business Review
Coming Soon: Season 10 of Coaching Real Leaders
Check out the latest season of Coaching Real Leaders to go behind closed doors with executive coach Muriel Wilkins to tackle leadership blockers.
Should Your Company Merge Its CHRO and CTO Roles?
https://hbr.org/2025/09/should-your-company-merge-its-chro-and-cto-roles
https://hbr.org/2025/09/should-your-company-merge-its-chro-and-cto-roles
Harvard Business Review
Should Your Company Merge Its CHRO and CTO Roles?
As companies have struggled to get value out of new AI tools, some have decided to combine technology and HR departments under a single leader. But is that really the best solution for the problem of how to align talent and technology strategies? Three experts…
Research-Backed Ways to Support Employees with Chronic Mental Illness
https://hbr.org/2025/09/research-backed-ways-to-support-employees-with-chronic-mental-illness
https://hbr.org/2025/09/research-backed-ways-to-support-employees-with-chronic-mental-illness
Harvard Business Review
Research-Backed Ways to Support Employees with Chronic Mental Illness
To better support employees with chronic mental illnesses, companies could do more to help them develop coping strategies during non-symptomatic periods. These strategies include leveraging professional support, determining appropriate psychiatric medications…
How Successful Sales Teams Are Embracing Agentic AI
https://hbr.org/2025/09/how-successful-sales-teams-are-embracing-agentic-ai
https://hbr.org/2025/09/how-successful-sales-teams-are-embracing-agentic-ai
Harvard Business Review
How Successful Sales Teams Are Embracing Agentic AI
Agentic AI is revolutionizing sales by enabling autonomous personal agents to work alongside human sales reps, identifying, nurturing, and closing deals across channels. This technology not only automates routine tasks but also anticipates next steps, adapts…
Supercharging Innovation with “Flash Teams”
https://hbr.org/podcast/2025/09/supercharging-innovation-with-flash-teams
https://hbr.org/podcast/2025/09/supercharging-innovation-with-flash-teams
Harvard Business Review
Supercharging Innovation with “Flash Teams”
A conversation with Stanford’s Melissa Valentine about how organizations can use online labor markets and AI tools to reshape collaboration.
The Perils of Using AI to Replace Entry-Level Jobs
https://hbr.org/2025/09/the-perils-of-using-ai-to-replace-entry-level-jobs
https://hbr.org/2025/09/the-perils-of-using-ai-to-replace-entry-level-jobs
Harvard Business Review
The Perils of Using AI to Replace Entry-Level Jobs
AI is reshaping work, but eliminating entry-level jobs is short-sighted. These roles are crucial for developing future leaders, fostering innovation, enriching organizational culture, and protecting society. Instead of cutting these jobs, companies should…
The Hidden Cost of Rushing into Emerging Markets
https://hbr.org/2025/09/the-hidden-cost-of-rushing-into-emerging-markets
https://hbr.org/2025/09/the-hidden-cost-of-rushing-into-emerging-markets
Harvard Business Review
The Hidden Cost of Rushing into Emerging Markets
Multinational companies often stumble in emerging markets because they underestimate how long success takes to materialize—a phenomenon known as the temporal optimism trap. Drawing on GlaxoSmithKline’s contrasting experiences with two asthma medications,…
What Disruptive Innovators Do Differently
https://hbr.org/2025/09/what-disruptive-innovators-do-differently
https://hbr.org/2025/09/what-disruptive-innovators-do-differently
Harvard Business Review
What Disruptive Innovators Do Differently
Disruptive innovation takes many forms, often shaped by customer needs and persistent experimentation. It is associated with famous figures like Jensen Huang or Henry Ford, but another leader in disruptive innovation? Julia Child. Child revolutionized American…
The Types of Questions Every Leader Should Ask
https://hbr.org/podcast/2025/09/the-types-of-questions-every-leader-should-ask
https://hbr.org/podcast/2025/09/the-types-of-questions-every-leader-should-ask
Harvard Business Review
The Types of Questions Every Leader Should Ask
Harvard Business School’s Leslie John and Alison Wood Brooks on how curiosity, listening, and phrasing can strengthen trust and improve decisions.
The Emotional Strength You Need to Lead Through Change
https://hbr.org/2025/09/the-resilience-you-need-to-lead-through-change
https://hbr.org/2025/09/the-resilience-you-need-to-lead-through-change
Harvard Business Review
The Emotional Strength You Need to Lead Through Change
If you’re a leader of transformation, you might feel like you’re in a constant “inner battle,” torn between the agency that fuels action and the ambivalence that breeds hesitation. This clash isn’t a defect; it’s the very tension that enables transformational…