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Keeping Meaning Alive as Your Workload Surges
By: EBR | Tuesday, April 13, 2021
In this period of quarantined workload surge, exhaustion is an ever-present risk. The first line of defence against burnout is, of course, supportive and empathetic management

Can Managers Who Wear Many Hats Be Trusted?
By: EBR | Monday, April 5, 2021
The more diverse your goals are, the greater the temptation to muddy the waters on performance

From Fear to Enlightenment: Building Resilience During Covid Year One
By: EBR | Monday, March 29, 2021
"When I first saw the now-viral chart ’Who do I want to be during COVID-19?’, it resonated with my own journey"

How to Tame a Belligerent Colleague
By: EBR | Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Antagonistic behaviour is usually rooted in low self-esteem

How Happiness, Anger and Anxiety Can Help You Negotiate
By: EBR | Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Will, a marketing manager, was anxious about his upcoming review as he knew that his company was about to cut his department budget once again
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A Post-Mortem on Product Management
By: EBR | Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Product management as we’ve known it up ‘til now – as a limited function or role – is effectively dead

The Next Decade Will Be a Leadership Game Changer
By: EBR | Tuesday, February 23, 2021
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What It Means to Embark on a Journey of Change
By: EBR | Wednesday, February 10, 2021
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Why policy-makers need a climate toolbox, not a silver bullet
By: EBR | Monday, January 18, 2021
Since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed in 2015, 64 jurisdictions have implemented or are planning to implement carbon-pricing mechanisms

How corporate leaders can apply ESG tools to help overcome global challenges
By: EBR | Thursday, January 14, 2021
The gradual pace of social progress is occasionally punctuated by periods of rapid change

4 essential steps CEOs should take to minimize digital risk
By: EBR | Wednesday, January 13, 2021
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Teams in Evolution – and Revolution – After the Pandemic
By: EBR | Tuesday, January 12, 2021
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What Servant Leadership Is Not
By: EBR | Tuesday, January 5, 2021
As the world becomes increasingly complex and volatile, the nature of effective leadership itself is changing fast

Product Development: When to Crowdsource and When to Commit
By: EBR | Tuesday, December 22, 2020
In 2006, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings was keen on improving the software his firm used to recommend movies to users

Seven Tools for Turning Your Ideas Into Reality
By: EBR | Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Innovation is built on great ideas, usually about solving a customer need. Successful innovation, the sort that makes fortunes and sometimes change lives, is also built on financial and other kinds of support to implement those ideas

The Great Covid-Driven Teamwork Divide
By: EBR | Thursday, October 15, 2020
What makes a team more than the sum of its parts? Its cohesion or connectedness, which allows for pooling of individual members’ strengths and compensates for their weaknesses

Leadership in Wicked Times
By: EBR | Wednesday, October 14, 2020
This extraordinary year has brought to the fore an unprecedented number of wicked problems – like Covid-19 or systemic racism

3 ways to improve diversity and inclusion in your organization
By: EBR | Friday, October 2, 2020
The global pandemic has put much of everyday life on hold, including many important corporate initiatives