Putting together an issue of Harvard Business Review is a balancing act. We want to include the best academic thinking—and best-practice insights from organizations. New ideas—and ways to apply old ideas to new challenges. Fresh thinking about problems in the global economy—and about the problems people face every day at work.
If we get this balance right issue after issue, larger themes emerge over the course of a full year. That was certainly the case here: As we selected this group of articles, their authors almost seemed to be talking to one another. Several lines of thought stand out: An increased focus on how we spend our professional time, given that it feels (and is) ever scarcer. All the ways we find to avoid making tough ...
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