by Jeanne Meister, Contributor | Forbes For proof that recruiting has entered a new era, one need look no further than an exceptionally novelinternship applicationsubmitted this summer by Shawn McTigue. This playful 2:50 video by Shawn was a respo ...

  by Ron Ashkenas. For most of us, starting at a new company brings up those same anxieties we felt when starting in a new school as a child. All of a sudden you don't have any friends, you're not sure what you're supposed to do, and it's hard ...

by Christina Warren | Mashable   When Patrick Wensink was commissioning the cover for his book, Broken Piano For President, he probably wasn’t expecting a cease-and-desist letter from Jack Daniel’s Properties — the owner of the Jack D ...

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by Mark de Rond | HBR Blog Managers often worry about conflict in their teams, afraid that any sign of trouble will undermine performance. A typical response to conflict is to ignore it — to avoid getting to the root of the problem and hope tha ...

by Lauren Stiller Rikleen Throughout my career as a lawyer, and now as a consultant, I've seen hundreds of successful women whose careers stalled at levels that didn't match their ambitions for themselves. They weren't held back by their work e ...

by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic There is no bigger cliché in business psychology than the idea that high self-confidence is key to career success. It is time to debunk this myth. In fact, low self-confidence is more likely to make you successful. Af ...

by David Rock While Facebook's rise took many by surprise, its success was little surprise to the hundreds of researchers who study social interactions in neuroscience labs across the country. Over the last decade, these neuroscientists have un ...

by David Silverman | HBR Blog In the face of global implosion of markets, we've been rethinking everything from executive compensation to the business schools to trust to the future of capitalism itself. Here's one small step in a better directio ...

by Prasad Kaipa | HBR Blog Not long ago, I called a friend of mine who had promised to help me with a project. He was very sincere when he offered his help, so I assumed that he would return my phone call soon enough for me to get on with the n ...

by David Silverman  | HBR Blog A Google search for "résumé" results in over 178,000,000 hits, whereas "possum" nets only 5,340,000. Thus the documentation of work experience is 33 and 1/3 more popular than arboreal marsupials. But what ...

by David Silverman | HBR Blog In my last post I talked about how to make your résumé more likely to catch the attention of a hiring manager. As a follow up, I'd like to discuss cover letters. Here's my basic philosophy on them: don't bother. That ...

by Peter Bregman  | HBR Blog It had been three weeks since my throat started to feel sore, and it wasn't getting better. The pain was most acute when I spoke. So I decided to spend a few days speaking as little as possible. Every time ...

by John Beeson | HBR Blog It's often said there's nothing certain in life except death and taxes. The parallel in organizational life is that at some point in your career you'll have a bad boss — or at least a boss who's bad for you. Bad bosses ...