"Our working identity is not a hidden treasure waiting to be discovered at the very core of our inner being. Rather, it is made up of many possibilities ..." Working Identity: Unconventional strategies for reinventing your career by Herminia Ibarra (2023) HBR Press Herminia Ibarra is Charles Handy Professor of Organizationa...

Compassionate Leadership: How to do hard things in a human way. Rasmus Hougaard & Jacqueline Carter (2022). HBR Press. The authors of The Mind of the Leader (2018) present an illuminating exploration of leadership by examining the tension between creating a more human world of work and the demand to make hard decisions – deliveri...

She calls it "Kanter's Law": "Everything looks like a failure in the middle."  In a Harvard Business Review article in 2009  Rosabeth Moss Kanter wrote that "Everyone loves inspiring beginnings and happy endings; it is just the middles that involve hard work." It's an interesting thought and the pr...

Is what you do who you want to be? As we start into a new year, it's a useful time to be intentional about what we want to achieve in the year ahead: what's important to us, what has value, where our focus should be. Every day we do things - usually in conscious or unconscious pursuit of things we want for ourselves, for others or ...

We live in an "attention economy"; our precious and limited cognitive resources are constantly being enticed, attracted, lured, tempted, assaulted, and distracted. Not only by global online businesses, but also the constant aural and visual messages that bombard us in our physical environments, as well the people around us. And that...