Two episodes ago, we heard our friend and HBS colleague Joe Badaracco suggest that we give ourselves permission to step back and reflect, at least for a few minutes every day. Turn…

Our guest in this episode in Peter Sawyer, a New York-based agent who negotiates for a living. Peter has represented Hollywood stars and Broadway actors, along with authors and pro athletes, too.…

Our guest in this episode is HBS Professor Joe Badaracco. His latest book, Step Back: Bringing Reflection Back into Your Life.  He begins with a story about a private equity guy who invests…

What do you owe others—if anything—in regard to honesty, fairness, and how you use power? That’s a core question every time you negotiate. And it’s just as important when you’re leading a…

Big cities and small towns have at least one thing in common: they are hot houses for breeding costly conflicts. In a leafy suburb, one family’s application for a zoning variance to…

Here’s the challenge. Imagine you want to change your career—radically. Perhaps you’re tired of what you’ve been doing. Maybe your excited about doing something very different. It could be both. But how…

Let’s say you’ve got a great idea. No, amp that up. Your idea is truly brilliant. For example, if you’re in business, let’s say that you’ve come up something that will disrupt…

Our colleague Hannah Riley Bowles, from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, joins us in this episode of Agility at Work to share her research on the subtle role that gender plays…

Your boss just announced a bold new initiative. But you and your colleagues who do the nitty-gritty work on the ground know that his plan is bound to crash. He says that her…

In this episode we have an encore visit with Professor Debbie Kolb, author of Negotiating at Work: Turn Small Wins into Big Gains.  In an earlier conversation, we discussed how gender issues play…