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   12 Oct 2026 · 4 minNew

   The Explainer: Solving Problems by Opening with the Worst Idea Imaginable

   The Explainer: Solving Problems by Starting with the Worst Idea Possible 11 Jun 2019 --- Sometimes wrong thinking can lead to the right answer. There are many creative tools a designer uses to think differently, but none is more counter-intuitive than “wrong thinking,” also called reverse thinking. Wrong thinking is when you intentionally think of the worst idea possible — the exact opposite of the accepted or logical solution, ideas that can get you laughed at or even fired — and work back from those to find new ways of solving old problems.…

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   12 Oct 2026 · 3 minNew

   Introducing HBR Executive: Premier Course

   Introducing HBR Executive: Masterclass 2 Jun 2025 --- Level up your leadership with our new HBR Executive offering. Subscribe here: https://s.hbr.org/4mGyOVy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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   12 Oct 2026 · 32 minNew

   How Do I Navigate a Bad Boss? | S1E2 | New Here

   How Do I Handle a Bad Boss? | S1E2 | New Here 1 Nov 2023 --- So, you have your first bad boss. How do you protect yourself? This week on New Here, we learn how to deal with a difficult manager and heal afterward. Leadership coach and TikTok creator Robyn L. Garrett helps host Elainy Mata understand how many managers think — and shares how she handled a bad boss early in her career Plus, Elainy’s own former boss Anita Sen gives us three tips that we can use to protect ourselves from a difficult manager. Have a career question? Let us know at [email protected]. Key topics include: communication,…

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   12 Oct 2026 · 3 minNew

   How Creativity Is Shattered in Silicon Valley

   How Creativity Is Broken in Silicon Valley 27 May 2025 --- Are tech companies stuck on what made them successful in the past? Long-time technologist Telle Whitney says it is time for a reboot. 🎧 Listen to the IdeaCast episode here: https://s.hbr.org/3SkRAUH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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   12 Oct 2026 · 7 minNew

   Democracy Is Faltering. Business Must Help Strengthen It.

   Democracy Is in Trouble. Business Must Help Fix It. 27 Jul 2020 --- Strengthening democracy is the only way to ensure the survival of free-market capitalism. Recent survey data paints a sobering picture: Fifty-five percent of Americans say that their democracy is “weak,” and 68% fear it is getting weaker. Roughly half agree that America is in “real danger of becoming a nondemocratic, authoritarian country.” If government is the counterweight to the free market, democracy is the force that ensures that governments do not devolve into tyranny, seizing control of the markets in the process. The…

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   12 Oct 2026 · 40 minNew

   IDEO’s CEO, Sandy Speicher, Asks: What Is an Office Even For Now?

   IDEO’s CEO, Sandy Speicher, Asks: What Is an Office Even For Now?Uploaded 15-12-2115 Dec 2021---Speicher explains how design thinking can help guide us to new ways of collaborating as we rethink work and the workplace in a post-Covid world.This interview part of a series called “The New World of Work,” which explores how top-tier executives see the future and how their companies are trying to set themselves up for success. Each week, Adi will interview a leader on LinkedIn Live — and then share an inside look at those conversations and solicit questions for future discussions in a newsletter…

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   12 Oct 2026 · 39 minNew

   Delta CEO Ed Bastian on Leading an Airline Through Two Years of Pandemic Disruptions

   Delta CEO Ed Bastian on Leading an Airline Through Two Years of Pandemic DisruptionsUploaded 21-01-2221 Jan 2022---Ed Bastian, CEO of Delta Air Lines, leads a company that has been on the front lines of pandemic challenges. The majority of Delta’s workforce doesn’t have the option of working from home. Over the past two years, Delta has won widespread praise for its handling of the complexities resulting from Covid, and Bastian has developed ideas and strategies for how a company can not only survive during crisis, but thrive.This interview part of a series called “The New World of Work,”…

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   12 Oct 2026 · 3 minNew

   Office Politics Got You Down?

   Office Politics Got You Down? 18 Nov 2024 --- Office politics got you down? Executive coach Muriel Wilkins is here with advice and strategies that can help — delivered in one minute or less. Wilkins is the host of HBR’s Coaching Real Leaders, available wherever you get your podcasts. You can also listen here: https://s.hbr.org/33irYhy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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   12 Oct 2026 · 3 minNew

   Brands Must Learn to Navigate the Echo Universe

   Brands Must Learn to Navigate the Echoverse 2 Aug 2024 --- The internet and AI tools are transforming marketing communications within a complex, interactive landscape called the echoverse. While marketing has evolved since the proliferation of the internet, in the echoverse, a diverse network of human and nonhuman actors — consumers, brands, AI agents, and more — continuously interact, influence, and reshape messages across digital platforms. Traditional one-way and two-way communication models have given way to omnidirectional communication. Marketers need to adapt to this looser, more…

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    12 Oct 2026 · 40 minNew

    Dr. Anthony Fauci on What It Will Take to End the Pandemic

    Dr. Anthony Fauci on What It Will Take to Beat the Pandemic 3 Jul 2020 --- The U.S. is still dealing with the first wave of Covid-19, he says. This video was recorded live on July 2, 2020. Dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, offers his thinking on the current state of the pandemic. "We should not be thinking about a second wave," he warns. "We are still knee-deep in the first wave." He discusses how to balance safety vs. the need to return the economy to some sense of normality, and what a realistic timeline for a vaccine might look like.…