Optimism is one of the most powerful predictors of happiness, performance, and success—but sustaining it through uncertainty, setbacks, and pressure is a challenge. Drawing on the latest neuroscience and her work with thousands of leaders, Michelle Gielan reveals five repeatable behaviors that define resilient optimists: recalibrating your mindset, transforming your stress response, triaging commitments, recharging smarter, and connecting the dots. |
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Great careers don’t happen by accident. Take charge of yours.
This essential collection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles will help you create opportunities, navigate career transitions, and achieve your most ambitious goals. Discover what drives you, craft a meaningful career, build a standout personal brand, negotiate your role, bounce back from setbacks, and stay relevant in a changing world of work. |
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Most people use generative AI alone, but the most important work in organizations happens in teams. HBR Guide to Generative AI for Teams shows how to bring AI into meetings, brainstorming sessions, reviews, and other collaborative work to unlock better ideas and decisions. Packed with practical prompts, tools, and case studies, it helps leaders and teams use AI as an active collaborator, avoid common pitfalls, and build more effective human + AI ways of working. |
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In Eat, Sleep, Innovate, innovation expert Scott Anthony and his team of coauthors use ground-breaking research in behavioral science to provide a playbook for empowering individuals and teams to be their most curious and creative—every single day. Throughout the book, the authors reveal a collection of BEANs—behavior enablers, artifacts, and nudges—they’ve collected from workplaces across the globe. Now, you can run your own workshop to make innovation a natural habit on your team. Developed by Innosight, the “Eat, Sleep, Innovate BEANstorming Workshop Toolkit” will guide you through the process. The toolkit includes: an ebook version of Eat, Sleep, Innovate; a PDF of the HBR article “Breaking Down the Barriers to Innovation”; a behavioral survey; editable worksheets and templates; a workshop slide deck; and more. |
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