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Manage Your Time Without Annoying Your Coworkers

Harvard Business Review

A lot of time management advice is about saying no to meeting invites or checking email less often. How can you manage your time while keeping relationships intact? But that shouldn’t stop you from trying, says Julie Morgenstern, a time management expert and author of Never Check E-Mail in the Morning. What the Experts Say.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. But it would take a lot of social capital. Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved.

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How to Get the Most Out of a Conference

Harvard Business Review

“Today, probably even more than ever before, networks are a key form of social capital for achieving goals in both your professional and personal lives.” Manage your existing connections. Case Study #1: Organize small group gatherings and take time to recharge. ” Put simply: Skip happy hour.

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Reimagining Capitalism

Harvard Business Review

The global economy and the Internet have heightened our sense of interconnectedness and sharpened our awareness that when a business focuses only on enriching investors, it implies that managers view the interests of customers, employees, communities and the fate of the planet as little more than cost trade-offs in a quarter-by-quarter game.

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What Africa's Entrepreneurs Can Teach the World

Harvard Business Review

Sifting through case studies, anecdotes, questionnaire responses, and many other snapshots of entrepreneurial activity in Ghana and a few other places on the continent I was drawn to two major characteristics of African entrepreneurship. On the whole, the businesspeople we studied appeared to run an average of six businesses.

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Should You Talk About Politics at Work?

Harvard Business Review

In fact, he says, learning how to talk about politics in a productive manner can help you “manage other difficult conversations at work ,” including peer performance reviews or disagreements over strategy and policy. ” If that doesn’t work, she suggests asking your boss for help managing the situation.