HR Is Not Your Friend. This Woman Built The Company That Is.

Why Employees Cannot Disconnect From Work During PTO

IBM’s $17 million DOJ settlement makes the case for civility

IBM's $17 million DOJ settlement over workplace conduct makes a direct cost argument for civil culture.

KPMG Sells ‘AI Trust’ to Clients—but It Just Pulled Its Own Report Over Alleged AI Hallucinations

KPMG pulls its own AI trust report over hallucinations, exposing credibility risk for firms selling AI confidence.

HBR Executive Panel: Leading Middle Managers in the AI Era

HBR panel examines how the AI era is changing expectations and pressures on middle management layers.

Help Employees Get Better—Not Just Faster—with AI

HBR argues AI should develop employee capabilities, not just speed, reshaping how leaders deploy the technology.

The Pros and Cons of Continually Assessing Performance

HBR examines trade-offs of continuous performance assessment versus periodic reviews for managers.

Psychologist Adam Grant: Uncertainty Is More Stressful Than Difficulty 

Adam Grant's research shows uncertainty stresses teams more than difficulty — leaders who don't communicate clearly pay for it.

Collective action, collective success: A CEO’s role in transformations

McKinsey research identifies CEO behaviors that make or break major organizational transformations.

Most Executives Don’t Realize They’re Slowing Their Organizations Down

Senior executives routinely create organizational drag without recognizing it, new research finds.

Layoffs don’t have to feel inhumane

Fast Company argues layoffs can be handled with dignity, offering communicators a concrete framework for humane messaging.

Employees are staying silent about the issues HR most needs to hear

Employees are withholding critical feedback from HR, leaving leaders blind to their most pressing problems.

The leadership crisis nobody is talking about: why your high performers might be your most vulnerable employees

High performers are quietly burning out and leaving, and most leaders are not recognizing the warning signs.

Trust is broken. Here’s how we rebuild it

Trust between leaders and employees is at a breaking point, and new research maps how to rebuild it.

AI is “quietly eroding trust”in the workplace

AI adoption in the workplace is quietly eroding employee trust, creating a hidden leadership credibility risk.

HBR Executive Panel: Leading Change Without Losing Trust

HBR executive panel examines how leaders can drive organizational change without sacrificing employee trust.

I need to give my employees more positive feedback

A manager's candid struggle with giving positive feedback surfaces a common leadership gap worth examining.

Ineffective employee engagement efforts may be fuelling burnout rather than fixing it

Poorly designed engagement programs are actively worsening burnout, research finds, reversing their intended effect.

Masterclass: Designing Organizational Change That Actually Sticks

HBR masterclass offers executives a structured approach to making organizational change actually last.

The Empathy Tax Female Leaders Pay

MIT Sloan research shows female leaders pay a measurable empathy tax that undermines their perceived authority and credibility.