Harvard Has Bloggers

HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER

Title: Harvard Voices

Competencies: leadership, finance, innovation, customer service, talent management, career development, information technology, strategic planning, and more

Who benefits: leaders, managers, supervisors, business professionals, students of business, and those engaged in career growth

Consultant Usage: Great place to keep up with the newest trends and hot buttons

What’s it about?  Harvard has blogs.

Harvard has lots and lots of blogs.  By my last count they have 46 regular blog sites, some authors quite well known.  The link above takes you to the page where all blogger are listed.

But I thought I might save you some time and list a few of my favorites along with a brief description and a link to his/her latest posting.  (Note: This posting was written several weeks in advance of publication.  The authors listed below may have updated their Blogs.  You may have to scroll back to find the posting described today.  Or, heck, just read their latest!)

Got to start with my fav, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who writes in her latest post about unemployment, the underemployed, uneasily employed, or overemployed, and what the high-performing companies of the 21st century are doing differently than the good-to-great companies of the 20th century. 

Then there is “The Man”, Marshall Goldsmith, the leadership and personal development guru of renown.  In his September 4 posting Don’t Give Up on Change he discusses five reasons why people give up on their goals. If you are not acquainted with Marshall Goldsmith, his Blog is a great way to meet “The Man.”

There is a short and very interesting posting on using the social media for customer contact (and presumably, customer service) by Peter Merholz (not his most recent posting).  I was not previously acquainted with the name or person; but my interest was piqued when I discovered that he was the person who coined the term “Blog” back in the last century (1999).  I also confess that I am putting this one on the list to make sure my boss Andy is aware of this site! 

Here are some quickies:  Financial Intelligence ,  Winning the Talent War and Having IT Your Way 

My final entry is a category called Conversation Starter, with a number of Harvard Bloggers making occasional posts.  “Behind the breaking business news is often a management idea gone right or wrong.”  That’s where the Conversation Starter comes in. This blog hopes “to shed new light on major events and trends in the business world by helping unearth the bigger ideas at work and discussing how those ideas are shaping our lives every day.”  The latest entry as of this writing is The Disadvantage of Twitter and Facebook (hey Andy, gotta check out this one too!) 

There are nearly 40 more blogs to choose from.  So I strongly recommend you go to the top of this page and click on the general site link to see who or what you like.  Reading them regularly is an easy way to stay current in your areas of interest.

Catch you later.

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Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley (mostly) retired after 35 years in organizational consulting, training and management development. During those years he worked internally with seven organizations and trained and consulted externally with more than 90 large and small businesses, government agencies, hospitals and schools.