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Redesigning How We Work

Two years ago, as much of the world was gradually emerging from lockdown, I argued in an HBR article (“How to Do Hybrid Right,” May–June 2021) that we had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to adopt a new hybrid model

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The Permissionless Corporation

The idea that digital technologies are fundamentally changing knowledge work is not new. We’ve been talking about the paperless office for decades. But what is less well understood is

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What Does Your Company Really Stand For?

For years, as scholars of organizational behavior and as corporate consultants, we’ve researched what you might think of as the value of values. We’ve conducted dozens of studies designed to determine

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A New Social Contract for Teams

Eric Starkloff was on a mission to reinvent his company. As the incoming CEO of NI (formerly National Instruments), a Texas-based automated test and measurement engineering firm, he wanted to speed up 

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Designing Work That People Love

As record numbers of people have quit their jobs, all sectors of the economy are struggling to fill vacancies. To get people back to work, organizations are changing long-standing policies and offering unprecedented incentives. 

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Managers Can’t Do It All

Jennifer stares at her upward-feedback report and wonders how she got to this point. How could a veteran like her, someone who was once celebrated as manager of the year, receive such negative ratings? 

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