HBR’s 10 Must Reads 2024: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review
Perhaps no better way to close 2023 than by digesting HBR’s 10 Must Reads 2024. These articles are a great overview to insights by authors over the last year. Digital transformation is the most impactful as organizations are jumping into AI in markets still impacted by the pandemic.
This actually leads with a challenge for leaders. In “Managers Can’t Do It All” the combination of reengineering, digitization, AI initiatives and the lingering pandemic remote work efforts, the idea of what any “manager” role today has been completely altered.
Organizations must now realize that hiring new managers into your organization require making teams more successful than in the past, prior to the pandemic. their role in coaching has also dramatically changed.
To succeed, organizations must re-define a manager’s role. Case studies with Standard Chartered, IBM, and Telstra reveal these organizations help managers develop new skills, alter long standing processes yet also redefine roles and responsibilities in order to strengthen new organizational priorities.