December 15, 2025

The 5 AI Tensions Leaders Need to Navigate

Based on insights from more than 100 builders, executives, investors, advisors, and researchers from across the globe.

The Project-Driven Organization

CEOs must put projects, not operations, at the center of how their companies create value. Here’s how.

Being Adaptable Isn’t Enough. You Have to Demonstrate It.

Even the most capable leaders can unintentionally signal rigidity or complacency.

When Supply Chains Become Autonomous

A new simulation demonstrates how these might work—and how leadership will need to change to succeed with them.

Do You Know If Your Team Is Overwhelmed?

How to spot and manage the exhausting—and often invisible—tipping point when the stressors people face begin to exceed their ability to cope with them.

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Lead with purpose—and joy.

Get weekly insights from The Leader’s Happiness Reset, a six-week newsletter on happiness at work from HBR and Arthur C. Brooks.

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The Octopus Organization: A Guide to Thriving in a World of Continuous Transformation

By Phil Le-Brun and Jana Werner

One of nature’s most intelligent and curious creatures, the octopus is everything your organization needs to be: smart, endlessly adaptable, and highly resilient. Its eight tentacles work in concert, but each can also think for itself.

Drawing on their experience at companies such as Amazon and McDonald’s and work with hundreds of global companies, AWS executives Phil Le-Brun and Jana Werner show you how to break away from the broken model of transformation and embrace continuous change. They share thirty-six “antipatterns”—conditioned habits—that keep us stuck and, in their place, provide “levers” that create meaningful improvement in months, not years.

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HBR Guide to Better Recruiting and Hiring Toolkit

By Harvard Business Review

An open position on your team presents both a challenge and an opportunity. You need to understand what skills and capabilities will add value now and in the future, all while juggling the hiring process with the day-to-day demands of your job as a manager.

In the HBR Guide to Better Recruiting and Hiring Toolkit, you’ll find practical tips and exercises for rethinking your hiring process and becoming more strategic about it.

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