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December 08, 2014 How to Quit Your Job Without Burning Bridges By Rebecca Knight Keep important relationships intact and the rumor mill at bay.

Decision making Managing 3 Types of Bad Bosses by Vineet Nayar Strategies for dealing with their weaknesses. Time management Conquer Your To-Do List with Your Phone by Alexandra Samuel A task management strategy for the overwhelmed. Decision making Use Behavioral Economics to Achieve Wellness Goals by David A. Asch, MD Stop educating people about what they already know. Managing up How to Get Out from Under Your Boss's Shadow by Priscilla Claman Raise your profile without upsetting your manager. Innovation What the Two Most Innovation-Friendly States Have in Common by Anne Marie Knott They put employees first. Social media The 7 Attributes of CEOs Who Get Social Media by Ted Coiné They're there to connect, not to promote. Generational issues What's Lost When Experts Retire by Dorothy Leonard Certain kinds of knowledge are hard to transfer. Economy How "Quality Time" Is Killing American Innovation by Marc J. Dunkelman Our horizons have narrowed.

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FEATURED PRODUCT Well-Designed: How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love HBR Press Book In this refreshingly jargon-free and practical book, product design expert Jon Kolko maps out this process, demonstrating how it will help you and your team conceive and build successful, emotionally resonant products again and again. The key, says Kolko, is empathy. You need to deeply understand customer needs and feelings, and this understanding must be reflected in the product. In successive chapters of the book, we see how leading companies use a design process of storytelling and iteration that evokes positive emotions, changes behavior, and creates deep engagement. Here are the four key steps: (1) Determine a product-market fit by seeking signals from communities of users, (2) Identify behavioral insights by conducting ethnographic research, (3) Sketch a product strategy by synthesizing complex research data into simple insights, and (4) Polish the product details using visual representations to simplify complex ideas. Kolko walks the reader through each step, sharing insights from his fifteen-year career in product design along the way. Whether you're a designer, a product developer, or a marketer thinking about your company's next offering, this book will forever change the way you think about--and create--successful products. Buy It Now

FEATURED PRODUCT HBR Guide to Coaching Your Employees HBR Press Book When you're swamped with your own work, how can you make time to coach your employees—and do it well? If you don't help them build their skills, they'll keep coming to you for answers instead of finding their own solutions. Got a star on your team who's eager to advance? An underperformer who's dragging the group down? A steady contributor who feels bored and neglected? You'll need to agree on goals for growth, motivate your people to achieve them, support their efforts, and measure their progress. This guide gives you the tools to do that. You'll get better at (1) Matching people's skills with your organization's needs; (2) Creating realistic but inspiring plans for growth; (3) Customizing your approach; (4) Prompting with questions before you dispense advice; (5) Providing the support your employees need to achieve peak performance; (6) Giving them feedback they'll actually apply; (7) Tapping their learning styles to make greater progress; (8) Giving people room to grapple with problems and discover solutions; (9) Engaging your employees and fostering independence. Buy It Now

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