Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2024

Learning how to delegate well is a skill every first-time manager needs to learn from the very start. Many people are promoted into management for doing their previous job well. But once you’re promoted into a leadership role, you must accept that you can’t do everything on your own — nor should you. Though it may seem counterintuitive, the more senior you become in an organization, the less you’ll be involved in doing the day-to-day work.

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Manager 143

Lolly Daskal

JUNE 14, 2024

Meetings are a fundamental component of business operations, yet all too often, they’re viewed as unproductive time sinks. Statistics reveal a telling story: a study by Atlassian found that the average employee attends 62 meetings a month, with half of that time considered wasted. Furthermore, excessive meetings are reported to cost businesses in the United States upwards of $37 billion annually.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2024

While companies say they champion diversity, there are glaring disparities in diverse representation within managerial ranks. The authors examine the impact of various management practices on diverse representation in managerial roles and how often each management practice is utilized in organizations, shedding light on why organizations are not making greater progress toward diverse representation.

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BetterUp

JUNE 14, 2024

Stress is part of life — but that doesn’t mean we have to like it. Fortunately, we can build resilience by learning how to calm ourselves down when upset. Here are 36 ways to calm yourself down in stressful situations.

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Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2024

Delayed and ineffective commercial integration can turn a good deal into a loser, because sales growth ultimately determines whether a merger achieves its value-creation goals. To create value, mergers need top-line gains: More sales to more customers, expansion into new territories or market adjacencies, new products and services to sell to existing customers.

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BetterUp

JUNE 14, 2024

Creative thinking refers to the ability to consider something in a new way, from a fresh perspective, or with novel ideas and solutions. It involves using one's imagination to generate original ideas, make new connections between seemingly unrelated concepts, and explore multiple possibilities.

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Manager 98

Alison Green

JUNE 14, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. This comment section is open for any non-work-related discussion you’d like to have with other readers, by popular demand. Here are the rules for the weekend posts. Book recommendation of the week: The Paris Novel , by Ruth Reichl. When her difficult mother dies, a woman is left a plane ticket and instructions to go to France, where she finds the unexpected. * I make a commission if you use that Amazon link.

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Manager 92

Ascend

JUNE 14, 2024

After connecting with a potential investor and booking a meeting, you might think now what? How can I sell my company to this investor? You'll need a solid pitch deck with information on your company. While you could go into every detail because you know your business inside and out, investors don't want to sit and listen to you go on and on. They want to know why you'd be a good investment for them.

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Alison Green

JUNE 14, 2024

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on any work-related questions that you want to talk about (that includes school). If you want an answer from me, emailing me is still your best bet*, but this is a chance to take your questions to other readers. * If you submitted a question to me recently, please do not repost it here, as it may be in my queue to answer.

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Performance Review Manager 72

Leadership Freak

JUNE 14, 2024

Roger Federer is one of the world's great athletes. His commencement talk at Dartmouth blew me away. Life lessons: #1. Effortless is a myth. #2. It's only a point. #3. Life is bigger than a tennis court. This post summarizes Federer's key points in his own words. Don't miss it!

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Leadership Development 75

Speaker: Jeremy York

2024 has tested every organization, and 2025 promises no less - the warning signs are everywhere. If you’re relying on superficial approaches to diversity, you might find yourself scrambling to catch up. Thought diversity - the fuel for new ideas, fresh perspectives, and disruptive innovation - is more than a buzzword. It's a survival strategy. And if you’re not building it into your workplace culture right now , you’re heading for trouble.

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Help Scout Leadership

JUNE 14, 2024

While you’re the only one who can decide if Help Scout is the right tool for you, here’s the advice our support team would give someone trying to make that decision for their business.

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Get Lighthouse

JUNE 14, 2024

“Hi - Thanks for coming in to meet the team last week. Unfortunately…” Ah those dreaded words, “Unfortunately…we’re not going to be moving forward with your candidacy for the role.” Interviewing for a management position can feel like a brutal obstacle course. You need to demonstrate your leadership skills while explaining how you'll hit the ground running.

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Ed Batista

JUNE 14, 2024

A CEO attempting to hot-swap an exec. * A theme in my practice is the CEO who's concluded that one of their executives is under-performing and must be managed out. Sometimes the CEO holds out hope that the transition will be perfectly seamless, with no disruption to operations, no awkwardness, no mess. A client once called this "hot-swapping," referring to technical components that can be replaced without powering down the system.

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UVA Darden

JUNE 14, 2024

Autonomous Vehicles: A Winding Road Toward US Adoption fosterl Fri, 06/14/2024 - 10:00 Image 14 June 2024 Entrepreneurship & Innovation Operations & Technology In partnership with Sharon Zhou Darden faulty author “I think we’re quite close to having the car be fully autonomous.” So declared Tesla CEO Elon Musk in February. Just two months later, he surprised investors with a post on X announcing Tesla would unveil a robotaxi in August.

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Speaker: Radhika Samant and Todd Wuestenberg

Employee recognition has often been deemed a "feel-good" initiative, tied closely to rewards. While we understand its importance, we tend to associate recognition with intangible outcomes like engagement and sentiment, rather than direct impacts on retention and high performance. In today’s workplace, the true ROI of recognition lies in its ability to regenerate tangible, business-driven results.

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