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  1. Leaders, Bring Your Best Self into the New Year

    Jan 2, 2026 · Despite a well-established science of identifying leaders and no shortage of reliable tools to assess leaders’ potential, half of senior executives can be expected to fail. What explains this ...

  2. How Leaders Undermine Their Own Authority - Harvard Business Review

    Jul 23, 2025 · Executive coach Peter Bregman on how indecision, poor judgment, and misplaced values chip away at a leader’s impact.

  3. Great Leaders Make People Feel Noticed - Harvard Business Review

    May 29, 2025 · Second, leaders must deliberately make space and use time for connection. Finally, they must ask questions and check in, in order to gather information and address their people’s concerns.

  4. 8 Essential Qualities of Successful Leaders - Harvard Business Review

    Dec 13, 2023 · Becoming a great leader is a journey of continuous learning and growth. It’s a process — one that thrives on embracing challenges, seeking feedback, fostering connections, and cultivating ...

  5. 5 Ways Leaders Can Communicate Power - Harvard Business Review

    Jul 16, 2025 · An often overlooked aspect of successful leadership communication is speakers’ ability to convey power through their diction, phrasing, topics, and patterns. Research points to five techniques ...

  6. What Leaders Really Do - Harvard Business Review

    Leadership is different from management, but not for the reasons most people think. Leadership isn’t mystical and mysterious. It has nothing to do with having “charisma” or other exotic ...

  7. What Makes a Great Leader? - Harvard Business Review

    Sep 19, 2022 · Tomorrow’s leaders master three key roles — architect, bridger, and catalyst, or ABCs — to access the talent and tools they need to drive innovation and impact. As architects, they build the ...

  8. Strategic Leadership: The Essential Skills

    Reprint: R1301L The more uncertain your environment, the greater the opportunity—if you have the leadership skills to capitalize on it. Research at the Wharton School and at the authors ...

  9. Leaders Can’t Make Up for Bad Behavior by Being Nice Later

    Nov 20, 2024 · Although both prevailing wisdom and existing research have often supported the idea that managers can “make up” for abusive behavior by subsequently acting ethically, a recent study …

  10. The Most Important Leadership Competencies, According to Leaders …

    Mar 15, 2016 · Research over the past few decades has shown us that the most important leadership qualities are centered around soft skills and emotional intelligence. But do these skills point to deeper ...