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People Management

How to manage teams to help them give the best of themselves? Which style to choose? How to deal with difficult situations?

Overcome the Eight Barriers to Confidence

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

A useful reminder of the traps that easily make us lose confidence and undermine our motivation and willpower.

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To Raise Productivity, Let More Employees Work from Home

Nicholas Bloom

A study on the impact of telework on the productivity of employees at the Chinese travel site Ctrip. 

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Can a goldfish show you how to excite your customers?

Fabian Hieronimus

Ten ways to inspire your consumers to lead them to talk about you.

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The Authenticity Trap for Workers Who Are Not Straight, White Men

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

Should we fit into the mold of the dominant leadership model or should we stay true to ourselves? A dilemma that is all the more acute for leaders coming from minorities.

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Be Yourself, but Carefully

Lisa Rosh, Lynn Offermann

While leaders, including managers of managers, are sometimes tempted to overdo authenticity, this approach should be used wisely to avoid undermining the trust of subordinates.

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Restoring Trust: How to Unlock the True Potential of Your Organization

Eric Sauvage, Samuel Cazin, Charles-Etienne Bost, Luca Olivari

The sense of trust has been shaken in business organizations. Four principles can help companies restore trust and capitalize on it to face a complex and uncertain environment.

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Three Myths About Your Strengths

Jack Zenger, Joseph Folkman

This article assesses a change that occurred over the past several years, which consists in focusing on the strengths of the staff rather than on the axes of development.

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Tours of Duty: The New Employer-Employee Compact

Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, Chris Yeh

An in-depth article on the new relationship between the enterprise and its staff, and the deep consequences on talent management.

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17 Ways To Be Indispensable At Work

Jacquelyn Smith

Concrete advice to develop your added value and make it acknowledged inside the company.

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Developing better change leaders

Aaron De Smet, Johanne Lavoie, Elizabeth Schwartz Hioe

The risk of underestimating the soft skills required to manage change.

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