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2023
The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives (with Josiah Ober), Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023)
“Renewing the Civic Bargain,” Princeton University Press Ideas (with Josiah Ober), September 27, 2023
2020
“What Leaders Should We Celebrate In Tomorrow’s Monuments?” Forbes.com, August 17, 2020.
“How To Thrive If You Have A Boss Like Caligula,” Forbes.com, June 5, 2020.
“Coronavirus to America: You Need To Up Your Game,” Forbes.com, May 17, 2020.
“Let’s Bet On Network Innovation To Reopen America,” Forbes.com, April 19, 2020.
“Less Coronavirus Briefing, More Strategy Please,” Forbes.com, April 13, 2020.
“Are We Really Fighting Coronavirus ‘Like A War’?” Forbes.com, April 2, 2020
2019
“Why Reinventing Systems Beats Just Solving Problems,” Forbes.com, April 21, 2019
“You Don’t Have To Be A CEO To Be A Visionary Leader,” HBR.org, April 4, 2019
“In Search of Democracy 4.0: Is Democracy As We Know It Destined To Die?” (with Josiah Ober), IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Vol. 38, no. 1, March 2019
“If Robert Mueller Won’t Save Our Democracy, Who Will?” Forbes.com, March 27, 2019
“What If Xenophon Were Your Executive Coach?” Forbes.com, March 3, 2019
“How To Position Yourself For The Next Step In Your Career,” Ladders, January 11, 2019
The Harvard Business Review Leader’s Handbook (with Ron Ashkenas. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2019)
2018
“A Novel New Year’s Resolution: Stop Chasing Novelty In Your Leadership Development,” Forbes.com, December 31, 2018
“Six Practices You Need To Master As A Leader Today,” (with Ron Ashkenas), Association of MBAs, November 18, 2019
“The Fundamentals Of Leadership Still Haven’t Changed,” (with Ron Ashkenas), HBR.org, November 7, 2018
“We’ve Studied Leaders For Decades. Maybe It’s Time To Elect A Few To Office,” LinkedIn, November 5, 2018
“The Six Fundamental Skills Every Leader Should Practice,” (with Ron Ashkenas), HBR.org, October 24, 2018
“Why A Crumbling World Order Urgently Needs U.S. Leadership,” Forbes.com, October 14, 2018
“A Different Set Of Questions For Judge Kavanaugh,” Forbes.com, July 29, 2018
“How To Get Ready For Big System Failure Headed Your Way,” Forbes.com, July 8, 2018
“To Renew Our Democracy, Get Back To The Core,” Forbes.com, January 2, 2018
“Want To Achieve Impact In The Nonprofit Sector? Here’s Why And How,” Forbes.com, December 3, 2018
2017
“Bigger Than Baseball: Leadership Lessons From The 2017 World Series,” Forbes.com, November 8, 2017
“What To Do When Strategic Goals Conflict,” (with Ron Ashkenas), HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2017), 145-152.
“Why Managers And Leaders Have A Lot To Learn From Trump’s Presidency,” Forbes.com, August 6, 2017
“How To Be A Horizontal And Vertical Leader At The Same Time,” Forbes.com, June 28, 2017
“How To Hire And Develop Critical Thinkers,” Forbes.com, April 22, 2017
“Today’s Democracy: Amend It, Don’t End It,” Forbes.com, March 15, 2017
“A New Perspective On Meritocracy,” opensource.com, February 21, 2017
“Time To Disrupt Our Powdered-Wig Democracy,” Forbes.com, January 8, 2017
2016
“Will President Donald Trump Learn On The Job?” Forbes.com, November 21, 2016
“Building Community As If People Mattered,” Forbes.com, November 6, 2016
“Clinton Vs. Trump: Make ‘Em Answer The Five Strategic Questions For Democratic-Style Leaders,” Forbes.com, Oct. 17, 2016
“How To Manage Know-It-Alls Who Sometimes Don’t Know It All,” Forbes.com, September 19, 2016
“Wisdom For The Teaming Masses,” Forbes.com, September 7, 2016
“Creative Collaboration for Wicked Problems,” How To Be Awesome At Your Job (podcast series), August 16, 2016
“Stan McChrystal Takes Network War To The Corporate Sector,” Forbes.com, August 7, 2016
“Mobilizing ‘Big Teams’ For The World’s Biggest Challenges,” Forbes.com, July 5, 2016
“Six Principles For A Networked Community Strategy,” Forbes.com, May 29, 2016
“Six Leadership Practices For ‘Wicked’ Problem Solving,” Forbes.com, May 15, 2016
“Companies Of The People, By The People, For The People,” Forbes.com, May 8, 2016
“Want To Be A CEO? Five Essential Qualities Boards Look For,” Forbes.com, April 10, 2016
“How A Stint In ‘Dead-End HR’ Made Anne Mulcahy A Better CEO,” Forbes.com, April 3, 2016
“How Dominic Barton Cultivated Community Change at McKinsey,” Forbes.com, Feb. 24, 2016
“Are Platform Businesses Eating the World?” Forbes.com, Feb. 14, 2016
“Red Hat’s Open-ish Organization,” Forbes.com, Jan. 28, 2016
“How Winning Professional Manage The Three Eras of Their Careers,” Forbes.com, Jan. 16, 2016
“The Evolution of the Open Source Organization,” opensource.com, Jan. 5, 2016
2015
“More Creative Leadership Lessons From Director Ethan McSweeny,” Forbes.com, Dec. 30, 2015
“Creating Creativity: Leadership Lessons From Theatrical Director Ethan McSweeny,” Forbes.com, Dec. 20, 2015
“Should You Follow Your Passion? Or Your Boss?” Forbes.com, Dec. 5, 2015
“Is It OK For Leaders To Lie?” Forbes.com, Nov. 15, 2015
“Thinking Differently About Inclusiveness,” Forbes.com, Oct. 25, 2015
“‘Steve Jobs’: See The Movie, Then Search Your Soul,” Forbes.com, Oct. 17, 2015
“Network Leaders Connect The Dots To Innovate,” Forbes.com, Oct. 10, 2015
“How Open Should Open Be? Learning From The EU Migrant Crisis,” Forbes.com, Sep. 29, 2015
“Labor Day 2025: Four Issues Shaping Tomorrow’s Workplace,” Forbes.com, Sep. 7, 2015
“Reframe Before You Blame: Managing Performance In The Network Economy,” Forbes.com, Sep. 3, 2015
“Unlearning Command And Control,” Forbes.com, Aug. 10, 2015
“Network Lessons From The Leader Who Brought You “Downton Abbey,’” Forbes.com, Aug. 3, 2015
“How To Get The Smartest People In The World To Work For You,” Forbes.com, Jul. 24, 2015
“Should Open Source Leaders Go Native?” opensource.com, Jul. 7, 2015
2014
“To Fight Ebola, Stop Pointing Fingers,” HBR.org, Oct.21, 2014
“You Need a Community, Not a Network,” HBR.org, Sep.15, 2014
“CEOs Sometimes Need Outside Help,” HBR.org, Jun.19, 2014
“6 Questions to Accelerate Open Source In Non-Tech Companies,” opensource.com, Sep. 9, 2014
2013-2011
“From the Judgment of Leadership to the Leadership of Judgment: The Fallacy of Heroic Decision Making,” (with Tom Davenport), Leader to Leader, Fall 2012, 26-32
“Congressional Judgment: Built to Lapse?” (with Tom Davenport), HBR.org, Jan.27, 2012
Judgment Calls. Twelve Stories of Big Decisions And The Teams That Got Them Right (with Tom Davenport. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2012)
“Is Your Consultant Enriching Your Judgment—or Retarding It?” HBR.org, Jan.11, 2011
2010 (and earlier)
“The Next Frontier of Judgment-Across Enterprises,” Harvard Business Review, Sep. 30, 2010
“What’s the Narrative About Your Leadership?” HBR.org. Oct. 28, 2010
“The Fall of Adrian Fenty and its Lesson in Judgment,” HBR.org, Sep. 23, 2010
“Does Better Judgment Come With Age?” HBR.org, Aug. 24, 2010
“United Way: The Knowledge Solution,” Inside Knowledge Magazine, March 2008 (cover story), 15-17
“Mission-Driven Leadership” (podcast). Circles of Change: A Conversation with Dr. Zara Larsen, June 22, 2008.
“Redefining Leadership in A Community Impact Organization: A Case Study of Reframing CEO Skills Amidst Transformational Change,” in R. Edwards and John A. Yankey (edd.), Effectively Managing Nonprofit Organizations (Washington, D.C.: National Association of Social Workers Press, 2006), 457-468
“Building Customer Communities of Practice for Business Value: Success Factors Profiled from Saba Software and other Case Studies,” in P. Hildreth and C. Kimble (edd.), Knowledge Networks: Innovation Through Communities of Practice (London: Idea Group, Inc., 2004), ch. 10
“Learning Culture Through History: From Ancient Athens to Yesterday,” in M. Conner and J. Clawson (edd.), Creating a Learning Culture (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 245-262
“Learning in the Knowledge Era,” in J. Chatzkel (ed.), Knowledge Capital: How Knowledge-Based Businesses Really Get Built (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 224-236
“Organizing Enterprise-wide E-Learning and Human Capital Management,” Chief Learning Officer Magazine, May 2003
A Company of Citizens. What the World’s First Democracy Teaches Leaders About Building Great Organizations (with Josiah Ober. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2003)
“Beyond Empowerment: Building a Company of Citizens,” (with Josiah Ober), Harvard Business Review, January 2003
“In Praise of Jargon” (Letter to the Editor), Harvard Business Review, November 2001
“Learning in the New Economy,” Leader to Leader (Drucker Foundation). Spring, 2001
“What Makes Virtual Organizations Work” (with Lynn Markus and Carol Agres), Sloan Management Review. Fall 2000, 13-26
“U1: E-Learning” (profile of Brook Manville), Fast Company. October 2000
“Learning 101” (interview with Lucy McCauley), Fast Company, September 2000
“An Anthropologist at Work” (profile of PBM, by Stuart Silverstone). Knowledge Management. August 2000, 44-48
“Knowledge Management and Complex Adaptive Systems: The Case of McKinsey & Co”. J. Clippinger (ed.), The Biology of Business (New York: Jossey-Bass, 1999)
“A Complex Adaptive Approach to Knowledge Sharing,” Knowledge Management Review, May-June 1999, 26-31
“Looking Ahead” (Letter to the Editor), Harvard Business Review, January-February, 1998
“How to Find Success,” Fast Company, February-March 1997
“Ancient Athenian Democracy and Reflections on the Modern Knowledge-Based Corporation,” in J. Ober and C. Hedrick (edd.), Demokratia. A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press: 1996), 377-399
“Harvest Your Workers’ Knowledge” (with Nathaniel Foote), Datamation. June 1996
“Strategy as if Knowledge Mattered” (with Nathaniel Foote), Fast Company, March-April 1996
“Knowledge Management Structures” (profile). Tom Peters, Liberation Management. Knopf: 1992
“Will Full Text Electronic Publishing Bypass the Need for Secondary Services?” Council of Biology Editor Views: 1986
“Does Online Distribution Diminish Print Usage?” Proceedings of 1984 Online Conference: 1984