Consultants

Featured Guests: HarvardBusiness.org Senior Editor Katherine Bell, author of the Conversation Starter blog post The MFA is the New MBA; Harvard Business Review editor Thomas A. Stewart.

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:38:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 91: Be a Social Technology Provocateur

Featured Guest: Josh Bernoff, coauthor of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies.

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:47:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 90: Negotiation Strategies for a Downturn

Featured Guest: Mark Gordon, coauthor of The Point of the Deal: How to Negotiate When Yes is Not Enough.

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:12:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 89: Should Managers Have a Green Hippocratic Oath?

Featured Guest: Rakesh Khurana, coauthor of the HBRGreen.org post "Should Managers Have a Green Hippocratic Oath?"

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:03:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 88: Reverse Engineering Google's Innovation Machine

Featured Guest: Tom Davenport, coauthor of the Harvard Business Review article "Reverse Engineering Google's Innovation Machine."

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:08:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 87: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life & HBR Editor's Preview

Featured Guests: Stewart Friedman, author, "Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life"; Thomas A. Stewart, Editor, Harvard Business Review.

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:11:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 86: Grooming Top Performers

Featured Guest: Boris Groysberg, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School.

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:53:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 85: Keep Your Ideas to Yourself

Featured Guest: Marshall Goldsmith, author of the "Ask the Coach" blog on HarvardBusiness.org.

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:13:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 84: Talent Management

Featured Guest: Peter Cappelli, author of the March 2008 Harvard Business Review article "Talent Management for the Twenty-First Century."

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:21:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 83: Learning Organizations & HBR Editor's Preview

Featured Guests: Harvard Business School professors David Garvin and Amy Edmonson; Harvard Business Review editor Thomas A. Stewart.

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:14:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 82: The Power of Unreasonable People

Featured Guest: John Elkington, Founder and Chief Entrepreneur of SustainAbility and author of The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets that Change the World.

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:47:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 81: Disruptive Innovation

Featured Guest: Scott Anthony, author of the "Innovation Insights" blog at HarvardBusiness.org.

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:46:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 80: Where Does Strategic Innovation Come From?

Featured Guest: George Stalk, author of 5 Future Strategies You Need Right Now, a new book in the Harvard Business Press Memo to the CEO series.

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:09:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 79: Managing Generation Y & HBR Editor's Preview

Featured Guests: Tammy Erickson, author of the "Across the Ages" blog on HarvardBusiness.org; Thomas A. Stewart, Editor, Harvard Business Review.

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:37:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 78: Don't Bother with the Green Consumer

Featured Guest: Steve Bishop, global lead of Design for Sustainability at IDEO.

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:36:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 77: Ask the Coach

Featured Guest: Marshall Goldsmith, author of the "Ask the Coach" blog on HarvardBusiness.org and the book What Got You Here Won't Get You There.

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:28:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 76: The New Science of Human Capital

Featured Guest: John W. Boudreau, coauthor, Beyond HR: The New Science of Human Capital.

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:00:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 75: Managing B Players & HBR Editor's Preview

Featured Guests: Thomas J. DeLong, Professor, Harvard Business School; Thomas A. Stewart, Editor, Harvard Business Review.

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:16:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 74: Thinking Inside the Box

Featured Guest: Kevin Coyne, coauthor of the Harvard Business Review article "Breakthrough Thinking from Inside the Box."

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:15:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 73: GE & Wal-Mart Aren't Game Changers

Featured Guest: Bill Taylor, co-author of "Mavericks at Work" and writer of the "Game Changer" blog at Harvardbusiness.org.

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:49:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 72: Are You Making Things Too Complex?

Featured Guest: Ron Ashkenas, managing partner of consulting firm Robert H. Schaffer & Associates and author of the December 2007 Harvard Business Review article "Simplicity-Minded Management."

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:33:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 71: How to Manage Conflict

Featured Guest: Gill Corkindale, executive coach and author of the "Letter from London" blog on HarvardBusiness.org.

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:13:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 70: The Point of the Deal

The Point of the Deal: Harvardbusiness.org's Paul Michelman talks with Danny Ertel, co-author of The Point of the Deal: How to Negotiate When Yes Is Not Enough.

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:07:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 69: Rapid Transformation

Rapid Transformation: Harvard Business Digital's Paul Michelman talks with Stanford University's Behnam Tabrizi, author of Rapid Transformation: A 90-Day Plan for Fast and Effective Change.

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:06:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 68: The CEO Within

The CEO Within: Harvard Business Digital's Paul Michelman talks with Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Bower, author of The CEO Within: Why Inside Outsiders Are the Key to Succession Planning.

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:50:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 66: Chinese Cost Innovation

Chinese Cost Innovation: Harvard Business Onlineâs Steve Singer talks with Peter Williamson, co-author of Dragons at Your Door: How Chinese Cost Innovation is Disrupting Global Competition.

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:43:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 65: Disclosing Climate Risk

Disclosing Climate Risk: Harvard Business Review's Christina Bortz talks with Alyson Slater, director of strategy for the Global Reporting Initiative, about how companies should disclose climate risk.

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:41:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 64: Sustainable Innovation

Sustainable Innovation: Harvard Business Online's Steve Singer talks with Cheryl Perkins, President and Founder of Innovation Edge.

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:20:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 63: Making Judgment Calls

Making Judgment Calls: Harvard Business Online's Paul Michelman talks with Noel Tichy, co-author of Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls.

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:38:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 62: Customize Your Career

Customize Your Career: Harvard Business Online's Steve Singer talks with Cathleen Benko, co-author of Mass Career Customization: Aligning the Workplace with Today's Nontraditional Workforce.

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:51:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 61: How Women Become Leaders

How Women Become Leaders: Harvard Business Onlineâs Steve Singer talks with Alice Eagly, co-author of Through the Labyrinth: The Truth About How Women Become Leaders.

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:28:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 60: iPhone or iPhony?

iPhone or iPhony? Harvard Business Onlineâs Steve Singer talks with Joe Pine, co-author of the upcoming book Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want, about Appleâs recent iPhone decisions.

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:37:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 59: Redefining Global Strategy

HBR IdeaCastâ 59: Redefining Global Strategy

Redefining Global Strategy: Harvard Business Online's Steve Singer talks with Pankaj Ghemawat, author of the upcoming book Redefining Global Strategy: Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter.

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:55:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 58: Three Signs of a Miserable Job

Three Signs of a Miserable Job: Harvard Business Online's Paul Michelman talks with Patrick Lencioni, author of the new book The Three Signs of a Miserable Job.

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:21:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 57: Recruit or Die

Recruit or Die: Harvard Business Online's Paul Michelman talks with Chris Resto, co-author of the new book Recruit or Die: How Any Business Can Beat the Big Guys in the War for Young Talent.

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:10:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 56: The New Science of Ideas

The New Science of Ideas: Harvard Business Onlineâs Paul Michelman talks with Richard Ogle, author of the new book Smart World: Breakthrough Creativity and the New Science of Ideas.

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:28:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 55: The Marketing Mavens

HBR IdeaCastâ 55: The Marketing Mavens

The Marketing Mavens: Harvard Business Online producer Steve Singer talks with Noel Capon, author of the new book The Marketing Mavens.

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 13:40:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 54: Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed

Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed: Harvard Business School Press editor Jeff Kehoe talks with Deborah Ancona, co-author of the new book X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, and Succeed.

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:03:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeasCast 53: Mid-Year Business Book Review

Mid-Year Business Book Review: Harvard Business Review's John Landry talks with Steve Singer about some of the business books that have crossed his desk since the beginning of 2007.

HBR in Brief: And in our HBR in Brief segment, Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail.

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:26:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 52: Everything Is Miscellaneous

Everything Is Miscellaneous: David Weinberger, a fellow at Harvard Law Schoolâs Berkman Center for the Internet & Society, discusses his new book, Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, with Harvard Business Onlineâs Steve Singer.

HBR in Brief: And in our HBR in Brief segment: Cracking the Code of Change.

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:03:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 51: Six Rules for Effective Forecasting

Six Rules for Effective Forecasting: Harvard Business Review's Cathy Olofson talks with veteran Silicon Valley-based forecaster Paul Saffo about his article in the July-August 2007 issue of Harvard Business Review entitled "Six Rules for Effective Forecasting."

HBR in Brief: And in our HBR in Brief segment, Managing Change: The Art of Balancing.

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:41:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 50: The Science of Human Capital

The Science of Human Capital: This week, Julie Devoll, of the Harvard Business School Press, talks with John Boudreau, author of Beyond HR: The New Science of Human Capital.

HBR in Brief: And in our HBR in Brief segment: Reclaim Your Job.

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:17:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 49: What Makes Gen Xers Tick?

What Makes Gen Xers Tick? This week, HBR IdeaCast host Paul Michelman sits down with Tammy Erickson, author of the Across the Ages column on Harvard Business Online, to discuss what drives Generation X, what they want from work, and how to get the most out of them.

HBR in Brief: And, in our HBR in Brief segment, Diamonds in the Data Mine.

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:45:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 48: Saving the Internet

Saving the Internet: This week, HBR Senior Editor Lew McCreary sits down with Jonathan Zittrain to discuss his Harvard Business Review article, âSaving the Internet,â a precursor to his forthcoming book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. There are many advantages to the Internetâs open design, says Zittrain, but along with them come flaws. These flaws, he says, will need to be fixed before people give up on the Internet altogether.

HBR in Brief: And, in our HBR in Brief segment, Do Your Commitments Match Your Convictions?

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:16:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast: Trust: The Secret Weapon

Trust: The Secret Weapon: This week Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay puts in a call to Kathy Bloomgarden, CEO of Ruder Finn and author of the new book Trust: The Secret Weapon of Effective Business Leaders. In the interview, Bloomgarden explains that for modern-day business leaders to be successful, they must create for themselves a reputation of trustworthiness, both for their own job security and for the future success of their organizations.

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:47:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 47: The New Rules of Power

The New Rules of Power: Harvard Business Online's Steve Singer interviews Alan Murray, author of the recently published Revolt in the Boardroom: The New Rules of Power in Corporate America. According to Murray, previously all-powerful CEOs must now earn the support of their boards, unions, NGOs, and the public, at times campaigning like politicians just to keep their jobs.

HBR in Brief: And, in our HBR in Brief segment, How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight.

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:04:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 46: Unleash Your Hidden Assets

HBR IdeaCast 46: Unleash Your Hidden Assets

Unleash Your Hidden Assets: HBS Press editor Melinda Merino is joined by Bain & Companyâs Chris Zook to discuss some of the ideas from his new book, Unstoppable: Finding Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Profitable Growth. In the near future, Zook says, the only way for the vast majority of companies to grow will be to redefine their core business. While this is no small challenge, Zookâs ideas will point you in the right direction.

HBR in Brief: And, in our HBR in Brief Segment, Creating New Market Space.

Thu, 31 May 2007 14:27:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 45: What Holds Leaders Back

What Holds Leaders Back: This week, Harvard Management Update Editor Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay sits down with Marshall Goldsmith, world-renowned coach to executive leaders and author of the recently published What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful. In our HBR IdeaCast interview, Goldsmith identifies some of the habits that hold leaders back and explains what they can do to change these self-limiting behaviors.

And, in our HBR in Brief segment: Change: The Art of Balancing.

Thu, 24 May 2007 15:00:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 44: Retaining Talented Women

Retaining Talented Women: This week, Harvard Business School Press Editor Melinda Merino catches up with Sylvia Ann Hewlett, author of Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success. As Hewlett explains, there are a number of practices and policies that companies can--and should--adopt to keep from permanently losing valuable female employees.

HBR in Brief: And in our HBR in Brief segment, leadership that gets results.

Thu, 17 May 2007 14:46:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 43: Authentic Leadership

Authentic Leadership: This week Harvard Business School's Jim Aisner talks with Bill George, Professor of Management Practice at HBS and the author of True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership, about how leaders who are true to themselves add significant value to their organizations.

And, in our second segment, Beware the Busy Manager.

Thu, 10 May 2007 13:31:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 42: Viral Marketing for the Real World

Viral Marketing for the Real World: This week, HBR's Cathy Olofson sits down with Columbia University professor Duncan Watts to discuss his new article in the May 2007 issue of Harvard Business Review, "Viral Marketing for the Real World." Watts explains that while marketing messages may not exactly spread like disease, viral marketing, if used correctly, can be an extremely successful and cost-effective means for getting the word out.

Thu, 03 May 2007 15:53:00 -0600 -

Why PR Matters

Why PR Matters: This week, Christina Bielaszka-DuVernay sits down with Kevin Sullivan, Chief Marketing Officer of the employment law firm Fisher & Phillips LLP, and author of an article in the May issue of Harvard Management Update. In the interview, Sullivan shows that good public relations may be more beneficial and easier to accomplish than you may think.

Thu, 03 May 2007 15:46:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 41: Preparing for a Pandemic

Preparing for a Pandemic: Dr. Leonard Marcus and Dr. Barry Dorn of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative discuss the looming threat of a pandemic flu and what businesses need to do to prepare for it.

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:45:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 40: Hidden in Plain Sight

Hidden in Plain Sight: This week, Harvard Business School Press' Julie Devoll talks with Erich Joachimsthaler, founder and CEO of Vivaldi Partners and author of the new book Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Find and Executive Your Company's Next Big Growth Strategy. In the interview, Joachimsthaler shows us how to spot growth opportunities and jump on them before someone else does.

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Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:25:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 39: The Upside

The Upside: This week, Online Editorial Director Paul Michelman sits down with consultant and author Adrian Slywotzky, whose latest book is entitled The Upside: The 7 Strategies for Turning Big Threats into Growth Breakthroughs. In the interview, Slywotzky explains how managing strategic threats as forms of risk can not only diminish their impact, but also transform the threats into new growth opportunities.

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:56:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 38: What Your Leader Expects of You

What Your Leader Expects of You: This week, Online Editorial Director Paul Michelman talks with Larry Bossidy, former chairman and CEO of both AlliedSignal and Honeywell, and the author of an April 2007 HBR article "What Your Leader Expects of You." In our interview, Bossidy will guide us through the key tenets of what he calls "the CEO compact," which comprises both the behaviors bosses should expect from their direct reports, and what direct reports should expect in return. We also look at some of the hurdles that can stand in the way of effective behavior and how to overcome them. Copyright 2007 Harvard Business School Publishing

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:53:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 37: Five Minds for the Future

Five Minds for the Future: This week, IdeaCast Producer Steve Singer talks with Howard Gardner, author of the new Harvard Business School Press book Five Minds for the Future. We live in a time of vast changes, and those changes, says Gardner, call for entirely new ways of learning and thinking. In our HBR IdeaCast interview, Gardner defines the cognitive abilities that will command a premium in the years ahead, and helps us understand how we can cultivate them.

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:28:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 36: Getting Unstuck

Getting Unstuck: This week, Julie Devoll, from Harvard Business School Press, talks with Tim Butler, author of the new book Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New Paths. Butler, director of career development at Harvard Business School, discusses a phenomenon that he claims all of us experience at some point in our lives: "impasse"--that feeling of uncertainty about our next move in life. Butler helps us understand how we can manage through such challenges and move to a more meaningful place in our career and in our lives.

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:42:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 35: What It Means to Work Here

What It Means to Work Here: This week, Harvard Business Review's Cathy Olofson talks with Tammy Erickson, co-author of the March HBR article, "What It Means to Work Here." Erickson contends that in competing for top-quality talent, every company needs to develop and nurture what she calls a "signature experience"--that is, something to help make the company stand out in the minds of current and prospective employees. We'll help you think about how to create and promote such an experience at your firm.

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:31:00 -0600 -

HBR IdeaCast 34: Competing on Analytics

Competing on Analytics: This week's program features an interview with Tom Davenport and Jeanne Harris, co-authors of Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning. In their talk with IdeaCast correspondent Angelia Herrin, Davenport and Harris explain how more and more leading companies are building their strategies around data-driven insights. The key to doing this successfully, they say, is analytics: a sophisticated approach to analysis and modeling supported by data-savvy senior leaders and powerful information technology. Davenport and Harris explain the benefits of this approach and how it's being put to use across a range of industries.

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:29:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 33: Made to Stick

Made to Stick: This week, IdeaCast producer Steve Singer is joined by Chip Heath, author of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. According to Heath, the ideas that make it--what he calls "sticky ideas"--share a series of common traits, which include both simplicity and unexpectedness. By crafting ideas and the way they are presented according to these and several other guidelines, Heath says leaders will increase their influence and their effectiveness. And he'll begin to show us how.

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:44:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 32: The Rewards of Innovation

The Rewards of Innovation: In our feature segment, Jim Andrew, co-author of Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation, takes a call from IdeaCast producer Steve Singer. Andrew helps us see through the cloudy thinking that often surrounds organizational innovation efforts, and gets us focused on what really matters: generating cash returns from new ideas. To elucidate the innovation-guiding principles that Andrew and his co-authors have developed, our segment today hones in on the current state of the mobile telecommunications industry, including the imminent arrival of Apple's iPhone.

HBR In Brief: An HBR Classic, "Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey?"

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:55:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 31: What Is Wikinomics?

What Is Wikinomics? This week, IdeaCast producer Steve Singer talks with Don Tapscott, co-author, with Anthony D. Williams, of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. In its latest incarnation, Tapscott says, the World Wide Web has become a communal experience--collaborators from anywhere and any walk of life now have the ability to solve problems and produce results through the use of collective wisdom. Although some business leaders may find the prospect of this kind of openness rather frightening, Tapscott believes that leveraging the new wave of community is the way of the future.

HBR In Brief: And in our HBR In Brief segment, What Great Managers Do.

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:11:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 30: Paths to Power

Paths to Power: In our first segment, Harvard Business School Press executive editor Melinda Merino sits down with Anthony Mayo, director of the Harvard Business School Leadership Initiative, for a look at the changing face of leadership in the 21st century. Mayo draws on some of the core ideas in his new book, Paths to Power, which he co-authored with Nitin Nohria and Laura Singleton, to help us understand how the road to the top is being repaved for better access, at least by some.

HBR In Brief: And in our HBR In Brief segment: Transforming corner-office strategy into front-line action.

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:56:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 29: The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2007

The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2007: In this podcast, we welcome back Harvard Business Review senior editor Paul Hemp to the hot seat. In his chat with IdeaCast producer Steve Singer, Paul introduces us to a few of the more intriguing concepts on HBR's List of Breakthrough Ideas for 2007. Among them: what Harry Potter can teach us about branding...

HBR In Brief: In our HBR In Brief segment, leadership that gets results.

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:43:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 28: Chris Trimble

Chris Trimble: This week, in our first segment, Harvard Business School Publishing's online editorial director Paul Michelman sits down with Chris Trimble, co-author, with Vijay Govindarajan, of Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution. As Trimble explains, even world-class companies, with powerful and proven business models, eventually discover limits to their growth. That's what makes the ongoing process of strategic innovation so important. But constructing tomorrow's businesses while simultaneously sustaining excellence in today's competitive environment demands a delicate balance. Trimble helps us understand the barriers faced by strategic innovators and how to get around them.

HBR In Brief: In our HBR In Brief segment, success that lasts.

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:09:00 -0700 -

HBR IdeaCast 27: Ram Charan on Leadership

Ram Charan: This week, HBR IdeaCast producer Steve Singer talks with Ram Charan, author of Know How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't. Among his many insights into leadership, Charan helps us understand how to identify, coach, and develop those people with the potential for leadership, and how to nurture leadership in oneself.

Making Decisions: In our HBR In Brief segment: What you don't know about making decisions.

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:20:00 -0700 -

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