HBR's 10 Must Reads 2019: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review (with bonus article "Now What?" by Joan C. Williams and Suzanne Lebsock) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)

Assess current and future external conditions and strategic choices and determine which cultural styles will need to be strengthened or diminished in response.

Companies with a strategy that seeks to stabilize or maintain their market position prioritize learning, whereas organizations operating with a turnaround strategy tend to prioritize order and safety in their efforts to redirect or reorganize unprofitable units.

Results ranked first, and caring second. This pattern is consistent across company types, company sizes, regions, and industries. Order and learning ranked among the third and fourth most common styles in many cultures.

Metcalfe’s law states that a network’s value increases with the number of nodes (connection points) or users—the dynamic we think of as network effects.

the positive abnormal returns associated with the announcement of a hedge fund intervention are, in part, a transfer of wealth from workers to shareholders. The study found that workers’ hours decreased and their wages stagnated in the three years after an intervention.

The authors have reviewed the literature on culture and distilled eight distinct culture styles: caring, focused on relationships and mutual trust; purpose, exemplified by idealism and altruism; learning, characterized by exploration, expansiveness, and creativity; enjoyment, expressed through fun and excitement; results, characterized by achieveme

Then a program was launched to promote cultural alignment within 30 top teams, with an emphasis on clarifying priorities, making authentic connections, and developing team norms that would bring the new culture to life.

In a merger, designing a new culture on the basis of complementary strengths can speed up integration and create more value over time.

sexual harassment is part of a continuum of interconnected