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Juan Martinez

@juanmartinez.bsky.social

Senior Editor at Harvard Business Review. I edit long-form features, books, and blogposts. I also ghostwrite. My main coverage areas are technology, sales, marketing, and all management research. Knicks and Yankees.

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Stop trying to fix it.

26.10.2025 14:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Unexpected, petrifying beeping costs extra...

01.08.2025 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Am I missing something? He meant "excuse" as in, "Stop making excuses, Yankees." Not, "Now I expect them to win it all because they've solved everything."

01.08.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I love this headline! Hate the subject matter. But love the headline.

31.07.2025 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

NOOOOO

31.07.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Look at that list. You have to be an AMAZING hitter to strike out 2k times.

31.07.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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30.07.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

COVER fire! Yes!

30.07.2025 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can we talk about the image for a second? It's a tank but with a book for its body. A think tank.

30.07.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1

Those witnesses should come out and tell their story. They don't have to discuss the proceedings, just their experiences.

30.07.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's more errors than homers though during that time, no?

30.07.2025 15:18 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It β€˜s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

28.06.2025 02:15 β€” πŸ‘ 31878    πŸ” 13513    πŸ’¬ 1283    πŸ“Œ 1359

"In life, if you fall down, get back up (and catch the projectile falling at 110 miles per hour)."

30.04.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great piece!

28.04.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You forgot the apostrophe =)

23.04.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Speechless. Jackie Robinson? Cmon.

19.03.2025 21:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How Salespeople Game the System Salespeople often exploit incentive programs to maximize their gain through various schemes, with damaging effects on company performance. Common cheating tactics include sandbagging, falsifying data,...

Do your salespeople cheat?

Researchers conducted a poll of approximately 100 sales compensation professionals at a 2023 sales incentive conference. They learned that 83% struggled to prevent salespeople from cheating.

hbr.org/2025/03/how-...

13.02.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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27.01.2025 04:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 The explosion of consumer-facing AI raise questions about who is more likely to adopt it. We examined how people’s knowledge of AI impact AI receptivity. Against most people’s expectations, it's not tech experts! And not for the reason you may be thinking🧡

16.01.2025 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Yo this is bonkers

09.01.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Beautifully written.

09.01.2025 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please give it a full season as a holiday gift to me...someone who respects and appreciates your work!

23.12.2024 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Diplomat over Silo?!

23.12.2024 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy Festivus everyone. Always amazed this crazy episode birthed a real celebration that seems to be enjoyed by so many around the world. So may your feats be strong and your grievances few. Enjoy.

23.12.2024 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 37625    πŸ” 5069    πŸ’¬ 944    πŸ“Œ 292
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It’s a shame they all said people should return to the office!

17.12.2024 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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99,999,999 sexbots

17.12.2024 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's a concept of a manifesto.

11.12.2024 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

People wrongly assumed this was personal, which was much, much easier to empathize with. That wouldn't have been okay, either. But it was easier to accept.

11.12.2024 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Learning Emerging Skills Doesn’t Always Pay Off It’s crucial for your company to invest in training that will have a lasting and meaningful impact on your organization. You may think that means focusing on new cutting-edge skills employees will use...

A recent Gartner survey of 3,375 employees found that training workers in the core skills essential to their roles right now has five times more impact on their performance than teaching β€œemerging” skills that don’t have a clear here-and-now application.

10.12.2024 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Secret to Successful AI-Driven Process Redesign Employee empowerment has long been a key principle of continuous improvement programs. Now that natural-language interfaces have made gen AI accessible to nontechnical employees, people throughout org...

"Successfully reimagining business processes isn’t as easy as asking ChatGPT to audit workflows. To get up to speed, leaders need to learn which processes are ripe for algorithm-powered redesign." By H. James Wilson and Paul Daugherty.

hbr.org/2025/01/the-...

10.12.2024 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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