Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Weekly Hotlist: What Great Managers Do Daily

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THE WEEKLY HOTLIST: Harvard Business Review

December 19, 2016

What Great Managers Do Daily

By Ryan Fuller, Nina Shikaloff

Currency

India's Botched War on Cash by Bhaskar Chakravorti

A case study in poor policy and even poorer execution.

Career planning

Don't Set Too Many Goals for Yourself by Dorie Clark

Instead, focus on two projects that really matter.

Hiring

6 Ways to Screen Job Candidates for Strategic Thinking by John Sullivan

Give them a real problem to solve.

Project management

How to Prioritize Your Company's Projects by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez

The wrong priorities lead to bad decisions.

Ethics

Why Ethical People Make Unethical Choices by Ron Carucci

Companies unintentionally provoke bad behavior.

Policy

If Trump Abandons the TPP, China Will Be the Biggest Winner by Pankaj Ghemawat

China is starting to position itself as the reliable superpower.

Strategy

Stop Letting Quarterly Numbers Dictate Your Strategy by David Hersh

How CEOs can change the conversation.

Psychology

Research: Why Americans Are So Impressed by Busyness by Silvia Bellezza, Neeru Paharia, Anat Keinan

And Italians aren't.

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