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New this month     HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Lessons from Sports The world's elite athletes and coaches achieve high performance through inspiring leadership, mental toughness, and direction-setting strategic choices. Harvard Business Review has talked to many of these high performers throughout the years to learn how their success translates to the world of business. If you read nothing else on management lessons from the world of sports, read these 10 articles by athletes, coaches, and leadership experts. We've combed through our archive and selected the articles that will best help you drive performance.     BUY NOW       Join HBR’s Executive Book Club

The High Potential's Advantage Do You Know What It Takes to Be a High Potential in Your Organization? The High Potential's Advantage takes you behind the scenes and shows how you can get on, and stay on, your company's fast track. Leadership development experts Jay Conger and Allan Church draw upon decades of research and experience to show what sets people apart across companies of all types. This new book is your essential guide to getting noticed and becoming a top leader in your organization.     BUY NOW

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness Our professional lives are full of challenges and setbacks, but those who achieve elite performance are able to consistently rally their emotional strength in the pursuit of their goals—no matter what gets thrown at them. If you read nothing else on mental toughness, read these ten articles by experts in the field. We've combed through the HBR archive and selected the most important ones to help you build your emotional strength and resilience—and to achieve high performance.     BUY NOW

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January 31, 2018 To Keep Your Employees Engaged, Be Curious and Challenging Leaders play a significant role in helping employees understand why their jobs matter, but it’s not just about connecting their work to a larger purpose. You can also do it by demonstrating curiosity: Explore, ask questions, and engage people on their ideas about the future. Make clear that there is a wide range of possibilities for how work gets done and that you want your employees to try new things. At the same time, keep them focused on meeting goals and making progress. Remain ambitious in the face of both failure and success, and push your people to continually accomplish more. You want employees to feel a sense of progress, reinvention, and growth, which results in a more meaningful and positive work experience. Adapted from "How to Make Work More Meaningful for Your Team," by Lewis Garrad and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

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FEATURED PRODUCT HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Lessons from Sports By Harvard Business Review, Alex Ferguson, Bill Parcells, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar The world's elite athletes and coaches achieve high performance through inspiring leadership, strategic choices, and mental toughness. These 10 articles will help you hold everyone to high standards—especially your stars; take care of your body for sustained mental performance; identify the right rivalries to bring out the best in you; build your team from the bottom up; understand the limits of performance metrics; focus on long-term goals to overcome setbacks; and understand where the analogy of sports and business doesn't work. $24.95 Buy Now

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