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The Leader's Calendar
Porter, Michael E.; Nohria, Nitin; Gentile, Tom; McGinn, Daniel; Higgins, SarahArticle HBS-R1804B-EChief executives have tremendous resources at their disposal, but they face an acute scarcity in one critical area: time. This package examines the unique challenges CEOs face in deciding how to allocate it. In "How CEOs Manage Time," Harvard Business School's Porter and Nohria describe an in-depth 12-year study in which they tracked what 27 large-company CEOs did every hour for 13 weeks, and then interviewed them--and hundreds of other CEOs--abo...Starting at €8.20
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Being More Productive
Allen, David; Schwartz, Tony; McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1105D-EAllen, the author of the best seller Getting Things Done, and Schwartz, the author of the best seller Be Excellent at Anything and the CEO of The Energy Project, are two of the world's foremost authorities on increasing personal efficiency. Yet although they agree on much, their ideas on how to maximize the output of knowledge workers are fundamentally different. In this edited conversation with HBR, they discuss their own approaches and what the...Starting at €8.20
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Life's Work: Scott Adams
Adams, Scott; McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1311N-EThe creator of Dilbert on stumbling your way to success.Starting at €8.20
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Life's Work: Ken Burns
Burns, Ken; McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1507M-EThe noted documentarian on waning attention spans and why business leaders should study history.Starting at €8.20
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Life's Work: Katie Couric
Couric, Katie; McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1512M-EKatie Couric talks about the difference between network news and digital news and between morning and evening shows.Starting at €8.20
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Life's Work: Desmond Tutu
Tutu, Desmond; McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1107S-EThe South African archbishop, civil rights leader, and Nobel Peace Prize winner talks about finding the patience to overcome apartheid and how he has benefited from the prayers of others.Starting at €8.20
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Battling Back from Betrayal
McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1012M-ELeadership and People ManagementStephen Greer's Hong Kong-based scrap-metal-recycling company, Hartwell Pacific, was enjoying a period of fantastic growth in the late 1990s: Within 18 months, the firm grew from two employees to 200 and opened locations in seven countries. But Greer's experience offers a vivid illustration of what can go wrong when an entrepreneur ambitiously expands without understanding that emerging markets operate by very different rules. Greer didn't realiz...Starting at €8.20
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The Science of Pep Talks
McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1704L-EThe ability to deliver an energizing pep talk is a prerequisite for any business leader. But few managers receive formal training in how to give one. Instead, they learn mostly by emulating inspirational bosses, coaches, or even fictional characters. However, research shows there is a science to psyching people up for better performance. According to motivating language theory, most winning formulas include three key elements: direction giving, o...Starting at €8.20
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Changing Gender on the Job
McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1011M-ELeadership and People ManagementMichael Wallent, twice married and the father of three, had been working at Microsoft for more than 11 years when he decided-with the full support of his wife-to transition to living as a woman. Rejecting the standard approach at big companies, whereby the HR department announces a transgendering (often at a meeting from which the affected employee is absent), Wallent chose to inform his superiors and his direct reports himself. He also urged the...Starting at €8.20
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Practicing in Dreams Can Improve Your Performance
Erlacher, Daniel; McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-F1204D-EWhen people imagine practicing a skill or sport during "lucid dreaming," the state in which a sleeping person recognizes he's in a dream and takes control of it, their performance in that activity improves in real life.Starting at €8.20