In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Harvard Business Review

• When It Comes to Influencers, Smaller Can Be Better
  Companies that rely on celebrities with lots of followers are missing out.
• Professor Zhang, DEFEND YOUR RESEARCH
  MIT Sloan School of Management’s Juanjuan Zhang and three coresearchers—Shiyang Gong (Beijing Normal University), Qian Li (Beijing Foreign Studies University), and Song Su (Beijing Normal University)—explored the relationship between genetics and sales performance. They studied 117 salespeople at an Asian telemarketing company over the course of 13 months. They cross-referenced employee DNA with performance metrics, such as revenue produced, the ability to identify selling opportunities, and effort. The conclusion: There Really Is a “Sales Gene”
• New Rules for Teamwork
  Collaboration is more complex than ever—and more difficult to get right. Here’s how organizations can build better teams.
• Teamwork at the Top
  Teamwork is difficult at any level, but for top teams, the challenges expand exponentially. They are responsible for addressing their organization’s weightiest and most complex problems, so their struggles are almost existential.
• The Art of Leading Teammates
  When our society talks about leaders, we focus on formal roles, such as the CEO. This view undervalues the role of informal leaders—team members who influence outcomes by the tone they set, how they conduct themselves, and how they interact with their peers. Their job title doesn’t include the word “manager,” but they play an outsize role in how teams perform.
• AI Won’t Give You a New Sustainable Advantage
  But using it may amplify the ones you already have.
• The Legacy Company’s Guide to Innovation
  How to collaborate well and scale up fast
• Moving Beyond ESG
  The framework has its detractors. Here’s a new playbook for responsible business.
• How AI Can Power Brand Management
  It can automate creative tasks and improve the customer experience.
• SAFETY SHOULD BE A PERFORMANCE DRIVER
  Safety is regarded as an indispensable right for customers and employees. Government agencies exist to enforce standards, and firms spend millions testing their products and creating safe workplace environments. And yet products are frequently recalled, and workplace accidents continue to happen. Why aren’t companies doing better on safety?
• Boards Need a New Approach to Technology
  By worrying primarily about security and IT, they’re missing out on big opportunities across the sciences.
• WHY MULTIBUSINESS STRATEGIES FAIL AND HOW TO MAKE THEM SUCCEED
  Enterprises that own multiple businesses often have a flawed approach to strategy: They focus too much on the makeup of their portfolios and too little on enhancing the businesses in them.
• Embracing Gen AI at Work
  The skills you need to succeed in the era of large language models
• Will Psychedelics Propel Your Career?
  With executive experimentation on the rise, experts weigh in.
• Build Better Teams
  From championship NFL teams to the boardrooms of top corporations, effective teamwork is a crucial ingredient in success—but it’s extremely challenging to achieve. Here’s how to get the most from your teams. | page 43
• Connie Chung
  As the youngest of five sisters in a Chinese family—the only one born in the United States—Chung was a soft-spoken child who eventually found her voice in student government and then as one of the first prominent nonwhite female TV news reporters. Her career high came in 1993, when she was made a coanchor of the CBS Evening News, but she held the seat for only two years. She took time off to be a mom, hosted a few other programs, and later settled into retirement. Her memoir, Connie, is out now.