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
- Balancing a flexible work environment – Steven Sinofsky, February 2013
- Why the Lean Start Up Changes Everything – Harvard Business Review, May 2013
- Embracing digital technology – MIT Sloan Management Review, October 2013
- How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management – Harvard Business Review, December 2013
- The art of strategic renewal – MIT Sloan Management Review, December 2013
- How Netflix Reinvented HR – Harvard Business Review, January 2014
Career
- Do you play to win — or to not lose? – Harvard Business Review, March 2013
- Defining your career path: journey or destination – Steven Sinofsky, March 2013
- Benefitting from skip-level one-on-ones – Steven Sinofsky, March 2013
- Make yourself an expert – Harvard Business Review, April 2013
- Constructing your career castle – Harvard Business Review, August 2013
- Considering a new job with patience and timing – Steven Sinofsky, August 2013
Leadership
- The Price of Incivility – Harvard Business Review, January 2013
- Managing through disagreement – Steven Sinofsky, January 2013
- Being a leader, not a micromanaging editor – Steven Sinofsky, March 2013
- Connect Then Lead – Harvard Business Review, July 2013
- 8 steps for engineering leaders to keep the peace – Steven Sinofsky, September 2013
Productivity
- Using meetings to be more effective – Steven Sinofsky, April 2013
- Continuous productivity: New tools and a new way of working for a new era – Steven Sinofsky, August 2013
- Make Time for the Work That Matters – Harvard Business Review, September 2013
- Please Stop Complaining About How Busy You Are – Harvard Business Review, September 2013
- To Reduce Email, Get Execs to Send Fewer Messages – Harvard Business Review, September 2013
Product Management
- Rethinking the 4 P’s – Harvard Business Review, January 2013
- Balancing tradeoffs across different customers – Steven Sinofsky, January 2013
- Learning from competition – Steven Sinofsky, January 2013
- Embracing ideas is how new things happen – Steven Sinofsky, February 2013
- Designing for scale and the tyranny of choice – Steven Sinofsky, March 2013
- Surviving legacy code – Steven Sinofsky, April 2013
- Forking responsibly – Steven Sinofsky, April 2013
- Coding through silos (5 tips on sharing code) – Steven Sinofsky, October 2013
Project Management
- Engineering and social science lead to plans – Steven Sinofsky, January 2013
- Focus on the work, not the methodology – Steven Sinofsky, February 2013
- Learning by slipping – Steven Sinofsky, May 2013
- Special Forces Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems – Harvard Business Review, October 2013