HBR’s editors have compiled a list of some of our — and your — favorite of the nearly 2000 blog posts we published in 2012. As usual, the topics that most preoccupied our authors and readers reflected our shared anxieties: the pressures exerted on our businesses by technology and the global economy — no end to economic uncertainty, the need to make sense of vast amounts of data, the problem and opportunity of disruptive innovation; as well as perennial personal worries — finding work that matters, never getting enough done. We hope you’ll find some insights here you may have missed the first time around, and that they’ll help you make 2013 a productive and innovative year for your company and yourself. Innovation, Especially the Disruptive Kind, Seemed as Difficult as Ever Why Big Companies Can’t Innovate Maxwell Wessel Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple? James Allworth Which Best Practice Is Ruining Your Business? Freek Vermeulen How Introverts Can Become Better Innovators Francesca Gino Pig Wings: Creating Demand in a New Category Eddie Yoon Why We Can’t See What’s Right in Front of Us Tony McCaffrey It’s Still Tough to Get Hired (and to Quit) I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here’s Why. Kyle Wiens (This was by far the most commented-upon post of the year.) Find a Job Using Disruptive Innovation Jeff Dyer and Hal Gregersen Looking for a Job When You’re No Longer Young Anne Kreamer How to (Finally) Quit Your Job Daniel Gulati The Robots Coming for Your Job Andy McAfee The U.S. Needs to Make More Jobs More Creative Roger Martin We Contemplated Winning and Losing Ten Reasons Winners Keep Winning, Aside from Skill Rosabeth Moss Kanter When My Business Failed Dan Pallotta J.C. Penney: Ditch the Risky Pricing Strategy Rafi Mohammed None of Us Thought We Got Enough Done The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time Tony Schwartz (The most-read post of the year.) Boring Is Productive Robert C. Pozen The Responsiveness Trap Sarah Green Stop Email Overload Amy Gallo The Disciplined Pursuit of Less Greg McKeown We Sought Balance and Meaning in Our Work Lives Making the Choice Between Money and Meaning Umair Haque Be Proud of Your Accomplishments, Not Your Affiliations Daniel Gulati Moving Around Without Losing Your Roots Gianpiero Petriglieri How to Attend a Conference as Yourself Peter Bregman Just How Powerful Are You? Nilofer Merchant And Obsessed About What We Could and Couldn’t Measure Big Data’s Management Revolution Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee The Science of Building a Scalable Sales Team Mark Roberge Leadership’s Full Measure Chris Meyer & Julia Kirby The Hard Science of Teamwork Alex “Sandy” Pentland The Analytics Lesson from the Obama Campaign an interview with Andy McAfee by Sarah Green What Does Nate Silver’s ‘80.9% Chance of Winning’ Mean, Anyway? Justin Fox Are Women Better Leaders than Men? Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman It’s More Important to Be Kind Than Clever Bill Taylor Happy New Year, from all of us at HBR.
