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Eight essential qualities of successful leaders
Rebecca Knight, Harvard Business ReviewBecoming a great leader is a journey of continuous learning and growth. It’s a process — one that thrives on embracing challenges, seeking feedback, fostering connections, and cultivating understanding. In this article, the author outlines the eight most essential leadership qualities, according to Harvard Business...
adaptive leadership
To craft a purpose that motivates your team, balance pragmatism and idealism
Darren Ashby and Atif Sheikh, Harvard Business ReviewWhile many leaders strive to energise and motivate their teams to do work that matters, the unfortunate reality is that employees often feel...
adaptive leadership
motivation
Claire Kimball on managing strong opinions as a leader
Helen McCabe, Future Women Leadership SeriesCan you be authentic and professional at the same time?
adaptive leadership
Workplace discrimination saps everyone’s motivation − even if it works in your favour
Brent Simpson, The ConversationWhen people work for discriminatory managers, they put in less effort. That’s true both when managers are biased against them and when they’re biased in their favour.
adaptive leadership
The art of setting expectations as a project manager
Amy Shoenthal, Harvard Business ReviewManaging the expectations of a wide range of stakeholders is one of the most challenging jobs of a project manager. Yet there’s no educational program or training for this skill because everyone’s expectations are unique and often deeply personal. PMs need to use a combination of intuition, listening, iterating,...
adaptive leadership
Best practices for engaging a multigenerational workforce
Catherine Collinson and Michael Hodin, Harvard Business ReviewPeople have the potential to live longer than ever before, which is prompting workers to rethink their time in the workforce relative to retirement. Many workers — whether by choice or by necessity — now seek to extend their working lives beyond the traditional retirement age. An individual’s working years can now...
adaptive leadership
The Secret to Making Difficult Decisions
04 October 2023Management decisions almost always involve uncertainty. But what if you just can’t get the facts you need—or if your colleagues disagree about what you should decide? Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Badaracco calls these grey area problems. In this podcast episode, you’ll learn which questions to ask...
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How to be a purpose-driven leader without burning out
Lisa Earle McLeod and Elizabeth Lotardo, Harvard Business ReviewThe idea of servant leadership — putting your team’s needs ahead of your own — brought us to a more compassionate, human-centred work environment. But in today’s environment, it’s a recipe for burnout. Instead, the authors suggest a more impact-driven philosophy called “noble-purpose leadership,” that ties leaders...
workplace
adaptive leadership
Three ways our brains undermine our ability to be a good leader
Cian McEnroe and David Rock, Harvard Business ReviewTo be successful, researchers at the Neuroleadership Institute have found we must excel across three core domains of great leadership: being future-focused, being good with people, and being able to drive results. And yet, as we develop as leaders, our brains evolve in ways that challenge our ability to excel in...
adaptive leadership
managing yourself