Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

The best managers hire smart people to work for them. How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? “It’s a beginning of the shift in your career.” It’s natural to feel worried or insecure about your ability to manage someone who has superior experience or knowhow.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

Or think of Nathan Myhrvold, the former Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft, who said (and then confirmed to me in person for this article), "The top software developers are more productive than average software developers not by a factor of 10x or 100x or even 1,000x, but by 10,000x."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How should you establish a positive, productive working relationship with your new manager? “Recognize that people do draw some impressions about you pretty quickly,” says Karen Dillon, coauthor of Competing Against Luck and the HBR Guide to Office Politics. . How do you get to know them without seeming like a kiss-up?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Now back at work as a single parent, she’ll face a choice: To find ways to continue to pursue an intense professional life without support from a spouse, or to throttle back her career to give her more time to focus on parenting. My manager suggested I take a staff role for a while to create a less busy schedule.

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