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2013 reading recap

I have read many great articles this year about business, management and career and have grouped them in categories for you. Here are the best articles I read in 2013 — I highly recommend all of them. Apart from the traditional Harvard Business Review excellent articles, the pleasant surprising gem of the year was Steven Sinofsky’s blog “Learning by Shipping“.

Business Management

  1. Balancing a flexible work environment – Steven Sinofsky, February 2013
  2. Why the Lean Start Up Changes Everything – Harvard Business Review, May 2013
  3. Embracing digital technology – MIT Sloan Management Review, October 2013
  4. How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management – Harvard Business Review, December 2013
  5. The art of strategic renewal – MIT Sloan Management Review, December 2013
  6. How Netflix Reinvented HR – Harvard Business Review, January 2014

Career

  1. Do you play to win — or to not lose? – Harvard Business Review, March 2013
  2. Defining your career path: journey or destination – Steven Sinofsky, March 2013
  3. Benefitting from skip-level one-on-ones – Steven Sinofsky, March 2013
  4. Make yourself an expert – Harvard Business Review, April 2013
  5. Constructing your career castle – Harvard Business Review, August 2013
  6. Considering a new job with patience and timing – Steven Sinofsky, August 2013

Leadership

  1. The Price of Incivility – Harvard Business Review, January 2013
  2. Managing through disagreement – Steven Sinofsky, January 2013
  3. Being a leader, not a micromanaging editor – Steven Sinofsky, March 2013
  4. Connect Then Lead – Harvard Business Review, July 2013
  5. 8 steps for engineering leaders to keep the peace – Steven Sinofsky, September 2013

Productivity

  1. Using meetings to be more effective – Steven Sinofsky, April 2013
  2. Continuous productivity: New tools and a new way of working for a new era – Steven Sinofsky, August 2013
  3. Make Time for the Work That Matters – Harvard Business Review, September 2013
  4. Please Stop Complaining About How Busy You Are – Harvard Business Review, September 2013
  5. To Reduce Email, Get Execs to Send Fewer Messages – Harvard Business Review, September 2013

Product Management

  1. Rethinking the 4 P’s – Harvard Business Review, January 2013
  2. Balancing tradeoffs across different customers – Steven Sinofsky, January 2013
  3. Learning from competition – Steven Sinofsky, January 2013
  4. Embracing ideas is how new things happen – Steven Sinofsky, February 2013
  5. Designing for scale and the tyranny of choice – Steven Sinofsky, March 2013
  6. Surviving legacy code – Steven Sinofsky, April 2013
  7. Forking responsibly – Steven Sinofsky, April 2013
  8. Coding through silos (5 tips on sharing code) – Steven Sinofsky, October 2013

Project Management

  1. Engineering and social science lead to plans – Steven Sinofsky, January 2013
  2. Focus on the work, not the methodology – Steven Sinofsky, February 2013
  3. Learning by slipping – Steven Sinofsky, May 2013
  4. Special Forces Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems – Harvard Business Review, October 2013

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