Why Employees Cannot Disconnect From Work During PTO

Why Employees Aren’t Transparent About Their AI Usage

Employees hide their AI use from managers, creating a transparency gap with serious trust implications.

I need to give my employees more positive feedback

Leaders who struggle to give positive feedback get concrete, research-grounded techniques to fix that habit.

HBR Executive Panel: Leading Change Without Losing Trust

HBR executive panel examines how leaders sustain employee trust while driving organizational change.

Workers Can Now Look Up CEO Pay in Seconds. Leaders Need a New Playbook

Pay transparency tools now expose CEO compensation instantly, forcing leaders to rebuild their pay narrative.

AI Is Creating a New Kind of Workplace Burnout—and Most Bosses Are Completely Unprepared for It

AI-driven burnout emerges as a distinct workplace threat most managers have no framework to address.

Bonuses Don’t Create Employee Buy-In. Research Shows What Leaders Are Getting Wrong

Research confirms bonuses fail to build employee commitment, pointing leaders toward what actually works.

How Great Leaders Build Teams That Never Stop Improving

HBR examines the specific habits and practices that distinguish leaders who build continuously improving teams.

employee is using disability protections to do whatever he wants

Managers face real legal and cultural complexity when disability accommodations begin to affect team performance.

Most people want humans to lead on candidate selection

New data shows workers still want humans making final hiring decisions, challenging AI-driven talent strategies.

Learn From High-Stakes Decisions Like an Elite Coach

HBR draws decision-making lessons from elite coaches that executives can apply to high-stakes leadership moments.

Layoffs don’t have to feel inhumane

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

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.

New Data on How We’re Really Using AI

New HBR data reveals actual patterns in how workers are integrating AI into daily tasks.

We All Hate Meetings—Here’s How to Make Them Work

HBR identifies specific structural changes that make meetings productive rather than performative obligations.

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.

my team isn’t happy I was promoted to manager, boss edits my work with ChatGPT (badly), and more

New manager facing team resentment and a boss using ChatGPT to edit work poorly surfaces two common leadership credibility threats.

HR Monitor 2026: A turning point for the people function

McKinsey's 2026 HR data identifies a turning point in how people functions must evolve to stay relevant.