Adjusting to Remote Work During the Coronavirus Crisis
Tsedal Neeley, a professor at Harvard Business School, says that there are simple ways leaders can help their employees stay productive, focused, and psychologically healthy as they work from home dur...
24 Mar 202027min
Real Leaders: Abraham Lincoln and the Power of Emotional Discipline
In 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln wrote a scathing letter to his top Union general, who had squandered a chance to end the Civil War. Then Lincoln folded it up and tucked it away in his desk. He...
19 Mar 202027min
Square’s Cofounder on Discovering — and Defending — Innovations
Jim McKelvey, entrepreneur and cofounder of Square, says that most companies that think of themselves as innovative are really just copycats. True innovation, he argues, is about fearlessly exploring ...
17 Mar 202027min
Real Leaders: Rachel Carson Seeds the Environmental Movement
In 1958, writer Rachel Carson began her exhaustive research on the effects of widespread pesticide use for her next book, Silent Spring. Over the next four years, she built up an airtight case showing...
12 Mar 202025min
Why Capitalists Need to Save Democracy
Rebecca Henderson, professor at Harvard Business School, says that both capitalism and democracy are failing us. She argues that it will take public and private leaders working together to simultaneou...
10 Mar 202027min
Real Leaders: Ernest Shackleton Leads a Harrowing Expedition
In 1915, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship became trapped in ice, north of Antarctica. For the next two years, he kept his crew of 27 men alive on a drifting ice cap, then led them in their esca...
5 Mar 202030min
How Workplaces — Not Women — Need to Change to Improve Equality
Michelle King, director of inclusion at Netflix, says it’s time to stop telling women to adapt to the male-dominated workplace and time for the workplace itself to change. Her prior academic research ...
3 Mar 202020min
Rules for Effective Hiring — and Firing
Joel Peterson, chairman of JetBlue Airways, has spent a career leading teams, building businesses, and managing people at every level. Along the way, he's learned valuable lessons about the best ways ...
25 Feb 202024min
