What we learned from six months of business books

We read an estimated 6,000-plus pages of the latest business and management offerings—here are our takeaways and recommendations.

Workplace racism and mental health, employee board members, air curtains

What Naomi Osaka's French Open withdrawal can tell us about race and mental health in the workplace, how workers are emboldened, what "codetermination" means for businesses, and more.

What Naomi Osaka's frank talk can teach us about mental health, race, and the workplace

Dr. Kali Cyrus, a psychiatrist and assistant professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, on how recognition, flexibility, and individual trust can help address mental health and racial issues in the workplace.

'Leading at a Distance' by James M. Citrin and Darleen DeRosa: Remote work tips for leaders

'Leading at a Distance' gives the impression that many top executives found positives in the past 15 months of remote work. Some especially love the ability to communicate easily with staff by video.

Getting onboarding right, investor climate pushback, fashion exuberance

How to onboard remote employees, how investors and governments are getting traction in their battles with energy giants, weeping at work, and more.

Navigating the return to the workplace

Reset Work spoke about the top questions around the return to the workplace with with Tsedal Neeley and Katie Burke. Neeley is a Harvard Business School professor who studies global,

How to onboard new employees when you're remote or hybrid

Christy Johnson, founder and CEO of Artemis, has led a remote organization for the past six years, and offers an important case study in how to get new staff started.

‘Unfrozen’ companies, resignations rising, events return

London Business School's Lynda Gratton on best practices for hybrid work, the health dangers of working long hours, how to keep antsy emloyees, and more.

Organizations are now 'unfrozen' and can change before they 'refreeze'

Lynda Gratton of London Business School on how trial and error is essential for organizational change in this moment.

'Framers' by Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, and Francis de Véricourt: Mental models, why we use them and how to improve yours

'Framers' provides an exciting intellectual tour of how people throughout history have developed mental models that have advanced human progress.

Tackling remote harassment, unmasking at work, Covid dreams

What's behind the counterintuitive rise in harassment while workers are remote, and a look at what the CDC's new mask guidance means for businesses.

Why gender and race harassment increased while workers have been remote

Project Include CEO Ellen Pao explains what's behind the counterintuitive research finding that toxic behavior rose when people weren’t in physical proximity.

'How to Change' by Katy Milkman: The fresh-start effect and how to change as the pandemic recedes

Katy Milkman's book argues that new chapters in our lives are especially ripe moments for pursuing our goals, and America’s emergence from the pandemic and the re-establishment of something approximating normal life is gifting us such an opportunity.

‘Cranky about Mother’s Day,’ new job perks, trusted professions

The fallout of this pandemic year for working mothers, and how best to support them as many organizations transition back to the workplace.

Why companies can best help working mothers by helping all caregivers

Brigid Schulte, director of the Better Life Lab at New America, on how myths about working mothers are garbage.

Why we're at an inflection point for working mothers

Katherine Goldstein, a journalist who created and hosts The Double Shift podcast, on the need for a radical overhaul in how we think about care work done by mothers.

'How Boards Work' by Dambisa Moyo: An insider explains what boards actually do

“Boards will become ever more important in a world of interlocking and clashing cultural values,” writes Moyo, an economist and board member at 3M, Chevron, and Conde Nast.

Hybrid work performance management, Google office gear, new survey results

MIT's Bob Pozen on best practices for performance assessment and other hybrid work considerations, a look at the Basecamp workplace politics turmoil, and the new gear Google is using for its return to the office.

How to shift mindset and practices for hybrid work

Managers say that some of the most important challenges of remote and hybrid work relate to performance management. MIT's Robert C. Pozen on the best practices for tackling them.

Return-to-office decision makers favor hybrid, have concerns about whether organizations and managers will be ready

We surveyed the people deciding how organizations will return to their workplaces after the pandemic subsides in the US. You can download a pdf with the findings.

'Wellbeing at Work' by Jim Clifton and Jim Harter: A recipe for thriving at work

Wellbeing at Work clearly articulates why and how employers should make an effort to ensure that workers are thriving both in their jobs and in other key areas of their lives.

Disclosing individuals’ pay, ambiverts

A case study in pay transparency at Buffer, how to understand burnout and dropping our of the workforce, and research suggesting ambiverts are the best leaders.

Why this company makes its employees' salaries public

Buffer, a San Francisco social media tools company, adopted pay transparency in 2013 and makes all individual workers’ salaries public externally as well.

Hybrid work best practices, cognitive fog

Stanford's Nicholas Bloom on how to make hybrid work arrangements successful, and the latest news on the economy, executive pay, Amazon, worker job descriptions, and tips for managing yourself and others.

What research says about how to make hybrid work succeed

Stanford's Nicholas Bloom says companies should adopt centralized hybrid work approaches.