HBR IdeaCast

By: Harvard Business Review
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  • A weekly podcast featuring the leading thinkers in business and management.
    Copyright 2025 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved.
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  • The Conversations You Should Be Having with Your Manager

    The Conversations You Should Be Having with Your Manager
    Apr 15 2025
    As you advance in your career, you develop the skills to lead teams and manage direct reports. But no matter your role or seniority, you’ll always need to manage those above you and to develop the right relationships to progress. The secret to managing up, says Melody Wilding, is being strategic and thoughtful in several key kinds of conversations with your boss and boss’s boss—including finding alignment, setting boundaries, getting visibility for your work, and winning a promotion. She explains how the effort pays off both in future opportunities and your day-to-day satisfaction on the job. Wilding is an executive coach and the author of the book Managing Up: How to Get What You Need from the People in Charge.
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    27 mins
  • What All Leaders Can Learn from Taylor Swift

    What All Leaders Can Learn from Taylor Swift
    Apr 8 2025
    Whether you're a fan of Taylor Swift or not, no one can deny her success as both a music star and businesswoman. Her career has been a masterclass in everything from customer connection to innovation, decision-making to digital adaption, offering lessons for people in any industry. HBR senior editor Kevin Evers investigated Swift's rise and evolution for his new book, There's Nothing Like This: The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift, and found interesting patterns. He explains how she's kept audiences loyal, why her Eras tour was so successful, and the vision and "productive paranoia" that have kept her on top. Evers also wrote the HBR article "The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift."
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    25 mins
  • Navigating the Hybrid Work Dilemma

    Navigating the Hybrid Work Dilemma
    Apr 1 2025
    Many organizational leaders believe remote work is here to stay. Others are requiring employees return to the workplace. But Prithriwaj “Raj” Choudhury, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, says it’s not a simple managerial choice between two options. He explains three main variations of hybrid work: quarterly, monthly, and weekly. And he shares three key challenges to remote work: isolation, communication, and socialization. And he breaks down the specific management practices necessary to make those hybrid arrangements succeed most effectively, adding that AI is making some of those practices easier and cheaper than ever. Choudhury’s new book is The World Is Your Office: How Work from Anywhere Boosts Talent, Productivity, and Innovation.
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    30 mins
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Empowerment and action steps for rewarding work!

A casual conversation while thinking about the ideas to improve your life and work. Always very easy actionable advice while linking to other podcasts and further in depth information at your convenience. So relationships and life gets better and simpler less complex.

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