Fierce Resources: The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

This week’s Fierce Resource was first published on Tuesday, on the Harvard Business Review blog, and was written by Katherine Bell.

The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013 avoids giving an end of year list that focuses on the best or most important ideas of this past year. Instead, this piece explores 7 ideas that impacted how we look at leadership, management, and our bigger world.

“It’s always tempting at this time of year to try to make a definitive list of the best ideas from the past 12 months. But then we end up debating what counts as best — important? useful? original? all three?… So this year, instead, we thought about the pieces that most surprised us or provoked us to think differently about an intractable problem or perennial question in management, we reviewed the whole year of data to remind ourselves what our readers found most compelling, and we looked for patterns in the subjects our authors raised most frequently and independently of our editorial urging. The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013.”

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