July 07, 2025

The Best Leaders Encourage “Spacious Thinking”

To give employees permission to spend time thinking, learning, innovating, and collaborating, you’ll need to rethink how you communicate—and which behaviors you reward.

Research: Being Well Connected Isn’t Always Good for Your Career

A new study finds that the same prestigious connections that help a candidate land a new job can backfire when it comes time for performance evaluations.

Research: The Best Ways to Connect with Colleagues Outside of Work

Settings that have these four characteristics lead to stronger relationships between coworkers.

The Right Way to Prepare for a High-Stakes Conversation

Perform a quick “curiosity check” to assess your openness to vital new information.

It’s Time for Your Company to Invest in AI. Here’s How.

When to build, buy, blend, or partner.

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Welcome to the Metaverse: Unlocking the Potential of Virtual Worlds

By David L. Shrier

While speculation and predictions about the metaverse are varied, one thing is clear: it is impacting the world of business as well as people's lives, and it will continue to do so in the future. The global metaverse market is predicted to be worth about $1 trillion by 2030. There's a reason why companies are investing heavily in spatial computing and why platforms like Roblox are thriving. The metaverse is still evolving, but it will eventually offer more ways for people to experience the world and each other.

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Leading to Win Toolkit: Four Practices to Define Your Leadership Advantage

By Harvard Business Review

The Leading to Win Toolkit: Four Practices to Define Your Leadership Advantage includes actionable exercises to help you apply the new leadership framework from A.G. Lafley and Roger Martin, along with additional articles that support the authors’ framework and cover strategies based on the following four practices: the theory of comparative advantage, identifying and developing your strengths, effective delegation, and building trust in teams.

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