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HBR On Leadership

Leadership isn’t just a personality trait, it’s a set of skills that you can build. Whether you’re managing up or motivating a team, HBR On Leadership is your destination for insights and inspiration from the world’s top leadership practitioners and experts. Every Wednesday, the editors at the Harvard Business Review hand-picked case studies and conversations with global business leaders, management experts, academics, from across HBR to help you unlock the best in those around you.

Episodes

This podcast episode focuses on developing executive presence, particularly for remote workers. Host Amy Bernstein interviews Megan Bock, a COO, and Laura Sicola, an executive coach, to offer advice to a listener struggling with visibility while working remotely. The discussion covers three key elements of executive ...

How CEO Ed Bastian Is Transforming DEI at Delta Air Lines

12 Feb 2025

30m

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This HBR podcast episode interviews Harvard Business School Professor Linda Hill about her case study on Delta Airlines' diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) initiatives. The discussion covers Delta's historical people-centric culture, CEO Ed Bastian's leadership in prioritizing skills over degrees and i...

How to Give Your Team the Feedback They Actually Need

05 Feb 2025

23m

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This HBR IdeaCast episode interviews Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, authors of Nine Lies About Work, about their critique of traditional performance feedback methods. The discussion challenges the common practice of focusing on weaknesses, arguing that developing employees' strengths—defined as activities that ...

How to Make Better Decisions Under Pressure

29 Jan 2025

28m

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This HBR IdeaCast episode interviews Carol Kauffman, discussing her book "Real-Time Leadership," which focuses on improving decision-making in high-stakes situations. The interview explores the limitations of relying on past experience and introduces the "MOVE" framework (Mindfully Alert, Options Generator, Validate V...