Weekly Hotlist: Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing

Are you having trouble viewing this email? If so, click here to see it in a web browser. HOME   |   BLOGS   |   THE MAGAZINE   |   BOOKS   |   AUTHORS   |   STORE RSS   |   Mobile Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing Rob Wheeler The deals site pursued growth over profits and is paying the price. STRATEGY Google's Strategic Mistakes Drove Motorola Buy Horace Dediu The path that has cost the search giant at least $12.5 billion. Read more. MANAGING UP Managing Multiple Bosses Best Practices How to survive, and thrive, when you have more than one manager. Read more. WORK LIFE BALANCE Should Leaders Go on Vacation? Rosabeth Moss Kanter Five considerations to ponder before leaving for your holiday. Read more. Balancing Work and Life (HBR OnPoint Executive Edition) HBR Newsstand Special Issue Harvard Business Review OnPoints are single-theme collections of both classic and recent articles and blog posts written by some of the world's leading management scholars and practitioners. The editors of HBR handpick each article for its relevance and insight. To help busy managers quickly absorb and apply the concepts, these collections also include short summaries ("The Idea in Brief") and lists of key ideas and company examples ("The Idea in Practice"), plus suggestions for further reading. This issue focuses on work/life balance. TALENT MANAGEMENT Keeping Great People with Three Kinds of Mentors Anthony Tjan Different kinds of guidance are needed at different stages of a career. Read more. COMMUNICATION Learning Presenting Skills by Learning to Swim Jerry Weissman To succeed in front of a crowd, deconstruct the basics, then reconstruct. Read more. INNOVATION Act Boldly, with Caution Grant McCracken How should innovative companies balance risk and safety? Read more. ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE How IBM Is Changing Its HR Game Cathy N. Davidson The 100-year-old behemoth has remade its company culture to fit its changing workforce. Read more. DECISION MAKING The Danger of Reading Something into Nothing Ted Cadsby How the inborn tendency to overinterpret leads decision-makers astray. Read more. ADVERTISEMENT MOST READ Three Questions that Help Me Live a Fulfilling Life The Problem with Perfection Are You a Role Model? Google Concedes that Technology Isn't Free Why You Should Automate Parts of Your Job to Save It COMMENT OF THE WEEK "A prime success criteria for a leader should be making himself dispensable. Leaders develop leaders. If things cannot work without a leader always present, there is a problem." posted by SACHIN KUNDU ON "SHOULD LEADERS GO ON VACATION?" JOIN THE DISCUSSION ADVERTISEMENT Free HBR Interactive Issue Download the iPad app HBR Reads, and get your issue with audio and video interviews and multimedia slideshows. Learn more » UNSUBSCRIBE   |   UPDATE YOUR PROFILE   |   MORE EMAIL NEWSLETTERS   |   PRIVACY POLICY Was this email forwarded to you? If so, sign up to start receiving your own copy. ABOUT THIS MAILING LIST You have received this message because you subscribed to the "Weekly Hotlist" email newsletter from Harvard Business Review. If at any point you wish to remove yourself from this list, change your email address, or sign up for other email newsletters and alerts, please visit the Harvard Business Review Email Newsletter Preference Center. OPT OUT If you do not wish to receive any email messages from Harvard Business Review, click here. ADVERTISE WITH HBR This enewsletter is read by thousands of decision makers every week. Learn more about connecting your brand with this audience. Copyright © 2011 Harvard Business School Publishing, an affiliate of Harvard Business School. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing | 60 Harvard Way | Boston, MA 02163 Customer Service: 800-545-7685 (+1-617-783-7600 outside the U.S. and Canada)