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Episode 113
Over the next four weeks, we’re highlighting some of the best conversations from the 2025 HBR Leadership Summit held in April. In this episode, Jane Sun, CEO of Trip.com Group, shares her leadership …
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Don’t Just Coach Your Employees—Teach Them
Episode 112
Sydney Finkelstein, a professor of management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, encourages leaders to approach their direct reports like teachers. As Finkelstein explains, being a …
Published on 7 months ago
How to Resolve Team Conflict
Episode 111
People management consists of a fair amount of mediation and diplomacy, and you can’t expect to get the hang of it right away. You’re in the middle of a lot now. Initiating difficult conversations, a…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
The Best Leaders Ask the Right Questions
Episode 110
Few leaders have been trained to ask great questions. That might explain why they tend to be good at certain kinds of questions, and less effective at other kinds. Unfortunately, that hurts their abi…
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago
How to Fix Dysfunctional Team Dynamics
Episode 109
Is your teamwork not working? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR:, cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Amy Edmondson, a professor at Harvard Busi…
Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago
How to Bring Out the Best in Your Team
Episode 108
Frances Frei, professor at Harvard Business School, says that trust, empathy—and even a bit of tough love—are all essential ingredients to strong leadership in today’s world. Successful managers focu…
Published on 8 months ago
When Over-Collaboration Leads to Indecision
Episode 107
Being too collaborative can actually hold you back at work, argues leadership coach Rebecca Shambaugh. Instead of showing how well you build consensus and work with others, it can look like indecisio…
Published on 8 months, 1 week ago
How—and When—to Adapt Your Leadership Style
Episode 106
In the past, executives were usually taught to practice command-and-control leadership. Today they’re often advised to be nimbler, more adaptive, and less controlling. The truth is that most executiv…
Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago
When One of Your Employees Is Working Against You
Episode 105
Do you have an employee working against you? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR:, cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Adrian Gostick, an executiv…
Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago
Why Your Frontline Employee Turnover Is High
Episode 104
Many people blame the shortage of low-wage workers on the enduring impact of the pandemic. But management professor Joseph Fuller and senior researcher Manjari Raman of Harvard Business School say th…
Published on 8 months, 4 weeks ago