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.
Unexpected, petrifying beeping costs extra...
August 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Unexpected, petrifying beeping costs extra...
I love this headline! Hate the subject matter. But love the headline.
It’s supposed to be a World Series or bust for the New York Yankees. They’ve been playing average baseball for months, and Pinstripe Nation is getting nervous.
The Yankees Are Pretty Good. What a Disaster.
It was supposed to be a World Series or bust for the Bombers. They’re not running away with anything, and Pinstripe Nation is getting nervous.
on.wsj.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I love this headline! Hate the subject matter. But love the headline.
Can we talk about the image for a second? It's a tank but with a book for its body. A think tank.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has scanned the horizon for threats, and sure enough, he has found a new group of dangerous adversaries: think-tanks
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Pentagon Against the Think Tanks
Pete Hegseth finds a new enemy.
www.theatlantic.com
July 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Can we talk about the image for a second? It's a tank but with a book for its body. A think tank.
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Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
June 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.
Speechless. Jackie Robinson? Cmon.
March 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Speechless. Jackie Robinson? Cmon.
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.
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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-...
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,...
hbr.org
February 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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-...
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-...
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🚨 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🧵
January 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
🚨 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🧵
Yo this is bonkers
TikTok tells LA staff impacted by wildfires to use personal/sick hours if they can’t work from home
TikTok tells LA staff impacted by wildfires to use personal/sick hours if they can’t work from home
Wildfires are currently devastating the greater Los Angeles area, burning over 45 square miles, torching over 1,300 structures, and putting nearly 180,000 people under evacuation orders as of Thursday. And yet, TikTok’s LA-based employees are being told…
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January 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Yo this is bonkers
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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.
December 23, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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.
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 “emerging” skills that don’t have a clear here-and-now application.
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...
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December 10, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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 “emerging” skills that don’t have a clear here-and-now application.
"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-...
hbr.org/2025/01/the-...
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...
hbr.org
December 10, 2024 at 3:16 PM
"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-...
hbr.org/2025/01/the-...
"What’s driving resistance to AI? Fundamental human perceptions that AI is too opaque, emotionless, rigid, and independent, and that interacting with humans is far more preferable." By Julian De Freitas.
hbr.org/2025/01/why-...
hbr.org/2025/01/why-...
Why People Resist Embracing AI
The success of AI depends not only on its capabilities, which are becoming more advanced each day, but on people’s willingness to harness them. Unfortunately, many people view AI negatively, fearing i...
hbr.org
December 10, 2024 at 3:15 PM
"What’s driving resistance to AI? Fundamental human perceptions that AI is too opaque, emotionless, rigid, and independent, and that interacting with humans is far more preferable." By Julian De Freitas.
hbr.org/2025/01/why-...
hbr.org/2025/01/why-...
"Executives need to think broadly about how people, data, technology, AI, and analytics come together to improve business performance. Process needs to lie at the core."
Another excellent feature by Tom Davenport and Tom Redman.
Another excellent feature by Tom Davenport and Tom Redman.
How to Marry Process Management and AI
Process management, which swept the business world in the 1990s and then fell out of favor, is experiencing a renaissance, thanks to AI. The two reinforce each other: AI helps firms significantly scal...
hbr.org
December 10, 2024 at 3:07 PM
"Executives need to think broadly about how people, data, technology, AI, and analytics come together to improve business performance. Process needs to lie at the core."
Another excellent feature by Tom Davenport and Tom Redman.
Another excellent feature by Tom Davenport and Tom Redman.
This made me lol
December 8, 2024 at 3:19 PM
This made me lol
I’ve never had a hard time ruling out serious suitors. 🤷♂️
With the Winter Meetings right around the corner, Scott Boras said Juan Soto has begun the process of ruling out serious suitors, a group that includes the #Yankees, #Mets, #RedSox, #BlueJays and #Dodgers.
Scott Boras: Juan Soto has ‘begun the process of eliminating teams’
With the Yankees hoping for a reunion, Juan Soto is starting to narrow his options.
www.nydailynews.com
December 4, 2024 at 1:57 AM
I’ve never had a hard time ruling out serious suitors. 🤷♂️
This #Knicks team plays harder than any team I’ve ever followed in ANY sport. @ny-knicks.bsky.social
December 4, 2024 at 1:28 AM
This #Knicks team plays harder than any team I’ve ever followed in ANY sport. @ny-knicks.bsky.social
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Intel has announced that CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired.
In recent years the company has struggled to compete with chipmakers in China, leading Intel to set up a new made-in-America project in Ohio. Read more: www.wired.com/story/intel-...
In recent years the company has struggled to compete with chipmakers in China, leading Intel to set up a new made-in-America project in Ohio. Read more: www.wired.com/story/intel-...
The Great American Microchip Mobilization
Under Donald Trump and Joe Biden alike, the US has been determined to “reshore” chipmaking. Now money and colossal infrastructure are flowing to a vast Intel site in Ohio—just as the company may be fa...
www.wired.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Intel has announced that CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired.
In recent years the company has struggled to compete with chipmakers in China, leading Intel to set up a new made-in-America project in Ohio. Read more: www.wired.com/story/intel-...
In recent years the company has struggled to compete with chipmakers in China, leading Intel to set up a new made-in-America project in Ohio. Read more: www.wired.com/story/intel-...
Is this real?!
December 2, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Is this real?!
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I love my fellow New Yorkers and this wear pattern evidence that they aren't reopening the elevator doors for anyone who comes running...
November 27, 2024 at 3:04 PM
I love my fellow New Yorkers and this wear pattern evidence that they aren't reopening the elevator doors for anyone who comes running...
You! Watch Silo on AppleTV. Don’t be dumb.
a woman says you 're the one while a man looks on
ALT: a woman says you 're the one while a man looks on
media.tenor.com
November 30, 2024 at 5:25 AM
You! Watch Silo on AppleTV. Don’t be dumb.
Say what now?
Nvidia claims a new AI audio generator can make sounds never heard before - https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/25/24305584/nvidia-fugatto-ai-audio-generator-music
Nvidia claims a new AI audio generator can make sounds never heard before
Like a saxophone barking.
www.theverge.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Say what now?
whaaaaaa?!
Breaking News: A Macy’s employee improperly accounted for $154 million in delivery expenses over the past few years, forcing the retailer to delay its earnings report.
Macy’s Discovers Employee Hid Millions in Delivery Expenses
The department store chain said it had found the erroneous accounting entries while preparing its results for the third quarter.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:57 PM
whaaaaaa?!
The horrid start to my week is definitely a harbinger of Juan Soto signing with the Red Sox
November 25, 2024 at 1:24 PM
The horrid start to my week is definitely a harbinger of Juan Soto signing with the Red Sox