HBR's 10 Must Reads
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership 2-Volume Collection
by Harvard Business Review
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
If you read nothing else on leadership, read these definitive articles from Harvard Business Review.
Leadership skills are not innate-they can be acquired and honed. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership 2-Volume Collection provides enduring ideas and practical advice on how to harness inspiring, transformational leadership qualities and spearhead change. Bringing together HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership, Vol. 1 and HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership, Vol. 2, this collection includes twenty articles selected by HBR's editors and features the indispensable article "What Makes an Effective Executive" by Peter F. Drucker.
From timeless classics to the latest game-changing ideas from thought leaders Jim Collins, Daniel Goleman, John Kotter, and more, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership 2-Volume Collection will inspire you to:
• Identify areas for personal growth
• Develop a more dynamic and sophisticated communication style
• Transform yourself from a problem solver to an agenda setter
• Embrace the challenges of adaptive work
• Draw strength from adversity
• Build trust with and among your fellow employees
• Inspire others to give their all
HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever—changing business environment.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Teams (With Featured Article "The Discipline of Teams" by Jon R. Katzenbach a
by Jon R. Katzenbach
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Most teams underperform. Yours can beat the odds.
If you read nothing else on building better teams, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you assemble and steer teams that get results.
Leading experts such as Jon Katzenbach, Teresa Amabile, and Tamara Erickson provide the insights and advice you need to:
Boost team performance through mutual accountability
Motivate large, diverse groups to tackle complex projects
Increase your teams' emotional intelligence
Prevent decision deadlock
Extract results from a bunch of touchy superstars
Fight constructively with top-management colleagues
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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2015
The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review (with bonus McKinsey Award
by Daniel Goleman
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place.
We've combed through ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to help you get up to speed fast on the freshest, most relevant thinking driving business today. With authors from Clayton Christensen to Roger Martin and company examples from Netflix to Unilever, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations to your fingertips.
This book will inspire you to:
Lead by focusing your attention on the right things
Import new management practices into your organization the right way-whether they come from other companies or across the globe
Better manage your organization's-and your leaders'-time
Rethink vital functions such as HR and marketing
Move from a yearly planning cycle to building a winning strategy
Make long-term organizational decisions with an eye to national and global economic trends
This collection of best-selling articles includes:
"Beware the Next Big Thing," by Julian Birkinshaw
"The Capitalist's Dilemma," by Clayton M. Christensen and Derek Van Bever
"The Focused Leader," by Daniel Goleman
"The Big Lie of Strategic Planning," by Roger L. Martin
"Contextual Intelligence," by Tarun Khanna
"How Netflix Reinvented HR," by Patty McCord
"Blue Ocean Leadership," by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne
"The Ultimate Marketing Machine," by Marc de Swaan Arons, Frank van den Driest, and Keith Weed
"Your Scarcest Resource," by Michael Mankins, Chris Brahm, and Gregory Caimi
"How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management," by David A. Garvin
"21st-Century Talent Spotting," by Claudio Fernández-Aráoz
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Collaboration (With Featured Article "Social Intelligence and the Biology of
by Daniel Goleman
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Join forces with others inside and outside your organization to solve your toughest problems.
If you read nothing else on collaborating effectively, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you work more productively with people on your team, in other departments, and in other organizations.
Leading experts such as Daniel Goleman, Herminia Ibarra, and Morten Hansen provide the insights and advice you need to:
Forge strong relationships up, down, and across the organization
Build a collaborative culture
Bust silos
Harness informal knowledge sharing
Pick the right type of collaboration for your business
Manage conflict wisely
Know when not to collaborate
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Diversity (With Bonus Article "Making Differences Matter: A New Paradigm for
by David A. Thomas
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Reap the benefits of a diverse workforce.
If you read nothing else on promoting diversity and realizing its benefits, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you create a culture that seeks and celebrates difference.
This book will inspire you to:
Identify and address bias
Short-circuit discrimination instead of unintentionally feeding it
Attract, retain, and engage talented people who represent myriad identities
Ensure that everyone has equal access to growth opportunities
Trade outdated policies for practices that are proven to foster inclusion
Harness employees' unique skills and perspectives to transform how your company operates
This collection of articles includes "Making Differences Matter: A New Paradigm for Managing Diversity," by David A. Thomas and Robin J. Ely; "Why Diversity Programs Fail," by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev; "'Numbers Take Us Only So Far,'" by Maxine Williams; "Race Matters: The Truth About Mentoring Minorities," by David A. Thomas; "Leadership in Your Midst: Tapping the Hidden Strengths of Minority Executives," by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Carolyn Buck Luce, and Cornel West; "What Most People Get Wrong About Men and Women," by Catherine H. Tinsley and Robin J. Ely; "Hacking Tech's Diversity Problems," by Joan C. Williams; "Why Men Still Get More Promotions Than Women," by Herminia Ibarra, Nancy M. Carter, and Christine Silva; "When No One Retires," by Paul Irving; "Neurodiversity as a Competitive Advantage," by Robert D. Austin and Gary P. Pisano; "Managing Multicultural Teams," by Jeanne Brett, Kristin Behfar, and Mary C. Kern; and "7 Myths About Coming Out at Work," by Raymond Trau, Jane O'Leary, and Cathy Brown.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Reinventing HR (With Bonus Article "People Before Strategy" by Ram Charan, Do
by Marcus Buckingham
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
How HR can lead.
If you read nothing else on reinventing human resources, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones on how HR leaders can partner with the C-suite, drive change throughout the organization, and develop the workforce of the future.
This book will inspire you to:
Overhaul performance management practices to jump-start motivation and engagement
Use agile processes to transform how you hire, develop, and manage people
Establish diversity programs that increase innovation and competitiveness as well as inclusion
Use people analytics to bring unprecedented insight to hiring and talent management
Prepare your company for the double waves of artificial intelligence and an older workforce
Close the gap between HR and strategy
This collection of articles includes: "People Before Strategy: A New Role for the CHRO," by Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey; "How Netflix Reinvented HR," by Patty McCord; "HR Goes Agile," by Peter Cappelli and Anna Tavis; "Reinventing Performance Management," by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall; "Better People Analytics," by Paul Leonardi and Noshir Contractor; "21st-Century Talent Spotting," by Claudio Fernandez-Araoz; "Tours of Duty: The New Employer-Employee Contract," by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh; "Creating the Best Workplace on Earth," by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones; "Why Diversity Programs Fail," by Frank Dobbins and Alexandra Kalev; "When No One Retires," by Paul Irving; and "Collaborative Intelligence: Humans and AI Are Joining Forces," by H. James Wilson and Paul R. Daugherty.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2023
The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year From Harvard Business Review (With Bonus Article "Persua
by Harvard Business Review
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place.
We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up to date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. With authors from Francesca Gino to Adam Grant and company examples from Pfizer to Microsoft, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations right to your fingertips.
This book will inspire you to:
• Adopt the best practices for creating a truly flexible workplace
• Refocus your strategy to prioritize the few initiatives with the greatest potential impact
• Navigate the challenges of role transitions, and learn how those in changing roles can get up to speed faster
• Implement diversity training that will help employees overcome bias and commit to improvement
• Overcome roadblocks during the innovation process so rapid experimentation will pay off
• Lead with a commitment to sustainability
This collection of articles includes "The Future of Flexibility at Work," by Ellen Ernst Kossek, Patricia Gettings, and Kaumudi Misra, "Eliminate Strategic Overload," by Felix Oberholzer-Gee, "Drive Innovation with Better Decision-Making," by Linda A. Hill, Emily Tedards, and Taran Swan, "Unconscious Bias Training that Works," by Francesca Gino and Katherine Coffman, "Why You Aren't Getting More from Your Marketing AI," by Eva Ascarza, Michael Ross, and Bruce G.S. Hardie, "Net Promoter 3.0," by Fred Reichheld, Darci Darnell, and Maureen Burns, "How Chinese Retailers are Reinventing the Customer Journey," by Mark J. Greeven, Katherine Xin, and George S. Yip, "The Circular Business Model," by Atalay Atasu, Céline Dumas, and Luk N. Van Wassenhove, "How to Succeed Quickly in a New Role," by Rob Cross, Greg Pryor, and David Sylvester, "Accounting for Climate Change," by Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna, and "Persuading the Unpersuadable," by Adam Grant.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People, Volume 2 (with bonus article "The Feedback Fallacy" by Marcu
by Harvard Business Review
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Are you a good boss--or a great one?
Get more of the management ideas you want, from the authors you trust, with HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People (Vol. 2). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you master the innumerable challenges of being a manager.
With insights from leading experts including Marcus Buckingham, Michael D. Watkins, and Linda Hill, this book will inspire you to:
• Draw out your employees' signature strengths
• Support a culture of honesty and civility
• Cultivate better communication and deeper trust among global teams
• Give feedback that will help your people excel
• Hire, reward, and tolerate only fully formed adults
• Motivate your employees through small wins
• Foster collaboration and break down silos across your company
This collection of articles includes "Are You a Good Boss--or a Great One?," by Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback; "Let Your Workers Rebel," by Francesca Gino; "The Feedback Fallacy," by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall; "The Power of Small Wins," by Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer; "The Price of Incivility," by Christine Porath and Christine Pearson; "What Most People Get Wrong About Men and Women," by Catherine H. Tinsley and Robin J. Ely; "How Netflix Reinvented HR," by Patty McCord; "Leading the Team You Inherit," by Michael D. Watkins; "The Overcommitted Organization," by Mark Mortensen and Heidi K. Gardner; "Global Teams That Work," by Tsedal Neeley; "Creating the Best Workplace on Earth," by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Nonprofits and the Social Sectors (Featuring "What Business Can Learn from No
by Peter F. Drucker
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Nonprofits and the social sectors are taking on an increasing share of the world's most vital work. Make sure your organization is ready for the challenge.
If you read nothing else on nonprofits and the social sectors, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you align your organization's mission and strategy, deliver immediate impact, and create lasting change.
This book will inspire you to:
Choose the right problem to solve
Understand when the best practices of for-profits don't apply
Assemble an engaged and goal-driven board of directors
Make the most of for-profit initiatives and corporate partnerships
Drive demand, scale up, and be ready to change course
Learn from the success stories of the world's most respected nonprofit leaders
This collection of articles includes "Lofty Missions, Down-to-Earth Plans," by V. Kasturi Rangan; "What Business Can Learn from Nonprofits," by Peter F. Drucker; "Life's Work: An Interview with Desmond Tutu"; "Are You Solving the Right Problem?" by Dwayne Spradlin; "Life's Work: An Interview with George Mitchell"; "Enterprising Nonprofits," by J. Gregory Dees; "Life's Work: An Interview with Wynton Marsalis"; "State Street's CEO on Creating Employment for At-Risk Youths," by Joseph Hooley; "Life's Work: An Interview with Salman Khan"; "Do Better at Doing Good," by V. Kasturi Rangan, Sohel Karim, and Sheryl K. Sandberg; "AEI's President on Measuring the Impact of Ideas," by Arthur C. Brooks; "Life's Work: An Interview with Michelle Bachelet"; "The New Work of the Nonprofit Board," by Barbara E. Taylor, Richard P. Chait, and Thomas P. Holland; "Life's Work: An Interview with Bill T. Jones"; "Reaching the World's Poorest Consumers," by Muhammad Yunus, Frederic Dalsace, David Menasce, and Benedicte Faivre-Tavignot; "Life's Work: An Interview with Muhammad Yunus"; and "Audacious Philanthropy: Lessons from 15 World-Changing Initiatives," by Susan Wolf Ditkoff and Abe Grindle.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management, Volume 2
by Harvard Business Review
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Lead change amid constant turbulence and disruption.
Get more of the ideas you want, from the authors you trust, with HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management (Vol. 2). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you successfully transform your organization.
With insights from leading experts including John Kotter, Tim Brown, and Roger Martin, this book will inspire you to:
• Master the eight accelerators of strategic change
• Turn your culture into a catalyst for transformation
• Use your network ties to win over resisters
• Apply design thinking to secure buy-in
• Scale agile practices across your organization
• Get reorgs right
• Avoid pursuing the wrong changes
This collection of articles includes "What Everyone Gets Wrong About Change Management," by N. Anand and Jean-Louis Barsoux; "Cultural Change That Sticks," by Jon R. Katzenbach, Ilona Steffen, and Caroline Kronley; "Culture Is Not the Culprit," by Jay W. Lorsch and Emily McTague; "The Network Secrets of Great Change Agents," by Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro; "Design for Action," by Tim Brown and Roger L. Martin; "Agile at Scale," by Darrell K. Rigby, Jeff Sutherland, and Andy Noble; "The Merger Dividend," by Ron Ashkenas, Suzanne Francis, and Rick Heinick; "Getting Reorgs Right," by Stephen Heidari-Robinson and Suzanne Heywood; and "Your Workforce Is More Adaptable Than You Think," by Joseph B. Fuller, Judith K. Wallenstein, Manjari Raman, and Alice de Chalendar.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Boards
With Bonus Article "What Makes Great Boards Great" by Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld
by Harvard Business Review
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Keep shareholders happy and manage for the long term. Earning a board seat is a rite of passage. But directors must juggle many responsibilities, from steering company strategy, managing risk, and appointing leaders to setting the right incentives, meeting shareholder expectations, and dealing with activist investors. How do you balance it all? If you read nothing else on boards, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you set your board up for success. This book will inspire you to:
• Ensure you have directors who can meet company goals
• Establish a robust succession-planning process
• Encourage the risk-taking that will generate breakthrough innovation
• Prioritize the health of the enterprise without neglecting shareholders
• Provide the critical support a new CEO needs to succeed
• Ignite nonprofit board members by engaging them in work that matters
• Take on the world's toughest economic, social, and environmental problems.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Talent
With Bonus Article "Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy" by Douglas A. Ready
by Harvard Business Review
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Invest in your most valuable resource: your people.
Top talent is hard to come by. And seeing your stars walk out the door is painful and expensive. You need to take steps to ensure that you attract, develop, and retain your best people.
If you read nothing else on managing talent in your organization, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you boost the engagement, skills, and commitment of your highest performers.
This book will inspire you to:
• Build a winning talent strategy
• Recruit and hire the best candidates
• Identify and develop high-potential employees
• Foster a just and inclusive workplace
• Overcome the challenges of hybrid work
• Prepare your workforce for the future
This collection of articles includes "Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy," by Douglas A. Ready, Linda A. Hill, and Robert J. Thomas, "Your Approach to Hiring Is All Wrong," by Peter Cappelli, "'A Players' or 'A Positions'?: The Strategic Logic of Workforce Management," by Mark A. Huselid, Richard W. Beatty, and Brian E. Becker, "Turning Potential into Success: The Missing Link in Leadership Development," by Claudio Fernandez-Araoz, Andrew Roscoe, and Kentaro Aramaki, "Making Business Personal," by Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey, Andy Fleming, and Matthew Miller, "The Power of Hidden Teams," by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, "The Performance Management Revolution," by Peter Cappelli and Anna Tavis, "People Before Strategy: A New Role for the CHRO," by Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey, "Toward a Racially Just Workplace," by Lauren Morgan Roberts and Anthony J. Mayo, "How to Do Hybrid Right," by Lynda Gratton, and "Your Workforce Is More Adaptable Than You Think," by Joseph Fuller, Judith K. Wallenstein, Manjari Raman, and Alice de Chalendar.
HBR's 10 Must Reads series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever—changing business environment.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People 2
by Harvard Business Review
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
If you read nothing else on managing people, read these definitive articles from Harvard Business Review.
Managing people is fraught with challenges, even if you're a seasoned manager. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People 2-Volume Collection provides enduring ideas and practical advice on managing people to help you handle these difficulties and maximize your employees' performance. Bringing together HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People, Vol. 1 and HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People, Vol. 2, this collection includes twenty articles selected by HBR's editors and features the indispensable article "Leadership That Gets Results" by Daniel Goleman.
From timeless classics to the latest game-changing ideas from thought leaders Marcus Buckingham, W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne, and more, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People 2-Volume Collection will inspire you to:
• Tailor your management style to fit your people and organizational goals
• Give feedback the right way
• Support first-time managers
• Manage emotional culture on your team
• Push your people to collaborate and break silos
• Overcome organizational obstacles to effective management
• Manage up and across
• Manage your boss
HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever—changing business environment.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Career Resilience (with bonus article "Reawakening Your Passion for Work"
by Harvard Business Review
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Building a successful career starts with you.
It's easy to get caught up in the day-to-day demands of your current job and lose sight of the big picture, but with a typical career spanning 50 years or more, you do so at your own peril. It's up to you to chart your own course to professional success.
If you read nothing else on effectively managing your career, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you develop yourself, make the right career moves, navigate inevitable detours and disruptions, and turn your professional dreams into reality.
This book will inspire you to:
• Identify and leverage your strengths
• Cultivate the curiosity, skills, and knowledge you need to maintain your professional relevance far into the future
• Navigate messy job transitions gracefully
• Build and sustain a network that supports and encourages your growth
• Restore meaning and passion to your work
• Bounce back from career setbacks big and small
• Reinvent yourself, even in tough times
This collection of articles includes "Managing Oneself," by Peter F. Drucker; "How to Play to Your Strengths," by Laura Morgan Roberts, Gretchen Spreitzer, Jane Dutton, Robert Quinn, Emily Heaphy, and Brianna Barker Caza; "How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career," by Herminia Ibarra; "Five Ways to Bungle a Job Change," by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams; "Learning to Learn," by Erika Andersen; "The Strategic Side Gig," by Ken Banta and Orlan Boston; "How Leaders Create and Use Networks," by Herminia Ibarra and Mark Lee Hunter; "How to Bounce Back from Adversity," by Joshua D. Margolis and Paul G. Stoltz; "Rebounding from Career Setbacks," by Mitchell Lee Marks, Philip Mirvis, and Ron Ashkenas; "Reawakening Your Passion for Work," by Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee, and Daniel Goleman; and "Next-Gen Retirement," by Heather C. Vough, Christine D. Bataille, Leisa Sargent, and Mary Dean Lee.
HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever—changing business environment.
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Hbr's 10 Must Reads on High Performance (With Bonus Article "The Right Way to Form New Habits" An
by Harvard Business Review
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Set yourself on the path to greatness.
If you read nothing else on performing at your highest level, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you focus on what matters, manage your energy and attention, and achieve remarkable results.
This book will inspire you to:
• Improve on your weaknesses, not just your strengths
• Identify what's holding you back
• Rise above the pack
• Take care of your physical health for sustained mental performance
• Make small changes in your habits that lead to big results
• Understand what motivates you
• Use short-term goals to achieve long-term aspirations
• Inspire others to reach their potential
HBR's 10 Must Reads series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever—changing business environment.
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HBR'S 10 Must Reads: The Essentials
by Peter F. Drucker
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Change is the one constant in business, and we must adapt or face obsolescence. Yet certain challenges never go away. That's what makes this book "must read." These are the 10 seminal articles by management's most influential experts, on topics of perennial concern to ambitious managers and leaders hungry for inspiration--and ready to run with big ideas to accelerate their own and their companies' success.
If you read nothing else - full stop - read:
Michael Porter on creating competitive advantage and distinguishing your company from rivals
John Kotter on leading change through eight critical stages
Daniel Goleman on using emotional intelligence to maximize performance
Peter Drucker on managing your career by evaluating your own strengths and weaknesses
Clay Christensen on orchestrating innovation within established organizations
Tom Davenport on using analytics to determine how to keep your customers loyal
Robert Kaplan and David Norton on measuring your company's strategy with the Balanced Scorecard
Rosabeth Moss Kanter on avoiding common mistakes when pushing innovation forward
Ted Levitt on understanding who your customers are and what they really want
C. K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel on identifying the unique, integrated systems that support your strategy
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HBR's 10 Must Reads for CEOs (With Bonus Article "Your Strategy Needs a Strategy" by Martin Reeves a
by Various Authors
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
As CEO, you set the vision, the strategy, and the tone of your organization.
You establish priorities, anticipate and address challenges, champion and lead change efforts, set people up for success, and manage risk. Though you may have a great senior executive team and a top-flight board, the success of your organization depends on your leadership.
If you read nothing else on being an effective chief executive, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the best ones to help you toggle between long- and short-term views, manage risk and innovation, and cultivate productive relationships with your staff and your board.
This book will inspire you to:
• Navigate the changing global business environment
• Customize your company's strategy to the environment you're working in
• Attract, engage, and retain the best talent
• Anticipate and address legislative and regulatory issues
• Sharpen your awareness of the tactical and soft skills you need to lead
• Adopt a founder's mindset and build new offerings, move into new markets, and create next-generation solutions
• Manage and build relationships with your board -- and your shareholders
This collection of articles includes "Your Strategy Needs a Strategy," by Martin Reeves, Claire Love, and Philipp Tillmanns; "Managing Your Innovation Portfolio," by Bansi Nagji and Geoff Tuff; "Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail," by John P. Kotter; "Reinventing Your Business Model," by Mark W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen, and Henning Kagermann; "Leadership Is a Conversation," by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind; "Strategic Intent," by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad; "When Growth Stalls," by Matthew S. Olson, Derek van Bever, and Seth Verry; "The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution," by Gary L. Neilson, Karla L. Martin, and Elizabeth Powers; "The Focused Leader," by Daniel Goleman; "Managing Risks: A New Framework," by Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes; "21st-Century Talent Spotting," by Claudio Fernandez-Araoz; and "How CEOs Can Work with an Active Board," by Ken Banta and Stephen D. Garrow.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy
by Various Authors
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Is your company spending too much time on strategy development - with too little to show for it?
If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles (featuring "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution.
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy will inspire you to:
• Distinguish your company from rivals
• Clarify what your company will and won't do
• Craft a vision for an uncertain future
• Create blue oceans of uncontested market space
• Use the Balanced Scorecard to measure your strategy
• Capture your strategy in a memorable phrase
• Make priorities explicit
• Allocate resources early
• Clarify decision rights for faster decision making
This collection of best-selling articles includes: featured article "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter, "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy," "Building Your Company's Vision," "Reinventing Your Business Model," "Blue Ocean Strategy," "The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution," "Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System," "Transforming Corner-Office Strategy into Frontline Action," "Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance," and "Who Has the D? How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance."
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself, Volume 2
by Harvard Business Review
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Position yourself for success.
Get more of the management ideas you want, from the authors you trust, with HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (Vol. 2). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you stay engaged, be productive, and continue to grow throughout your working life.
With insights from leading experts including Susan David, Joseph Badaracco, and Laura Morgan Roberts, this book will inspire you to:
• Identify your purpose and translate it into action
• Make time to learn-and stay relevant in a world of rapid change
• Turn your strengths into superpowers
• Spend more time on the work that matters
• Tackle even your toughest decisions with confidence
• Reduce burnout from collaboration
• Take a stand for yourself and for others
This collection of articles includes "From Purpose to Impact," by Nick Craig and Scott A. Snook; "Learning to Learn," by Erika Andersen; "Making Yourself Indispensable," by John H. Zenger, Joseph R. Folkman, and Scott K. Edinger; "Make Time for the Work That Matters," by Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen; "Collaboration Without Burnout," by Rob Cross, Scott Taylor, and Deb Zehner; "Emotional Agility," by Susan David and Christina Congleton; "How to Tackle Your Toughest Decisions," by Joseph L. Badaracco; "How Dual-Career Couples Make It Work," by Jennifer Petriglieri; "Cultivating Everyday Courage," by James R. Detert; "Be Your Own Best Advocate," by Deborah M. Kolb; "Building an Ethical Career," by Maryam Kouchaki and Isaac H. Smith; "When and How to Respond to Microaggressions," by Ella F. Washington, Alison Hall Birch, and Laura Morgan Roberts.
HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever, changing business environment.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation (With Featured Article "Reinventing Your Business M
by Clayton M. Christensen
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Rethink how your organization creates, delivers, and captures value--or risk becoming irrelevant.
If you read nothing else on business model innovation, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you reach new customers and stay ahead of your competitors by reinventing your business model.
This book will inspire you to:Assess whether your core business model is going strong or running out of gasFend off free and discount entrants to your marketReinvigorate growth by adding a second business modelAdopt the practices of lean startupsDevelop a platform around your key productsMake business model innovation an ongoing discipline within your organizationThis collection of articles includes "Why Business Models Matter," by Joan Magretta; "Reinventing Your Business Model," by Mark W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen, and Henning Kagermann; "When Your Business Model Is in Trouble," an interview with Rita Gunther McGrath by Sarah Cliffe; "Four Paths to Business Model Innovation," by Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine; "The Transformative Business Model," by Stelios Kavadias, Kostas Ladas, and Christoph Loch; "Competing Against Free," by David J. Bryce, Jeffrey H. Dyer, and Nile W. Hatch; "Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything," by Steve Blank; "Finding the Platform in Your Product," by Andrei Hagiu and Elizabeth J. Altman; "Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy," by Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Geoffrey G. Parker, and Sangeet Paul Choudary; "When One Business Model Isn't Enough," by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Jorge Tarzijan; and "Reaching the Rich World's Poorest Consumers," by Muhammad Yunus, Frederic Dalsace, David Menasce, and Benedicte Faivre-Tavignot.
HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further.
HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever-changing business environment.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2020
The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review
by Michael E. Porter
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place.
We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up-to-date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. With authors from Michael E. Porter to Katrina Lake and company examples from Alibaba to 3M, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations right to your fingertips.
This book will inspire you to:
• Ask better questions to boost your learning, persuade others, and negotiate more effectively
• Create workplace conditions where gender equity can thrive
• Boost results by allowing humans and AI to enhance one another's strengths
• Make better connections with your customers by giving them a glimpse inside your company
• Scale your agile processes from a few teams to hundreds
• Build a commitment to both economic and social values in your organization
• Prepare your company for a rapidly aging workforce and society
This collection of articles includes "The Surprising Power of Questions," by Alison Wood Brooks and Leslie K. John; "Strategy Needs Creativity," by Adam Brandenburger; "What Most People Get Wrong about Men and Women," by Catherine H. Tinsley and Robin J. Ely; "Collaborative Intelligence: Humans and AI Are Joining Forces," by H. James Wilson and Paul R. Daugherty; "Stitch Fix's CEO on Selling Personal Style to the Mass Market," by Katrina Lake; "Strategy for Start-Ups," by Joshua Gans, Erin L. Scott, and Scott Stern; "Agile at Scale," by Darrell K. Rigby, Jeff Sutherland, and Andy Noble; "Operational Transparency," by Ryan W. Buell; "The Dual-Purpose Playbook," by Julie Battilana, Anne-Claire Pache, Metin Sengul, and Marissa Kimsey; "How CEOs Manage Time," by Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria; and "When No One Retires," by Paul Irving.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2017
The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review
by Various Authors
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place.
We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up-to-date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. With authors from Clayton M. Christensen to Adam Grant and company examples from Intel to Uber, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations to your fingertips.
This book will inspire you to:
• Rethink the way you work in the face of advancing automation
• Transform your business using a platform strategy
• Apply design thinking to create innovative products
• Identify where too much collaboration may be holding your people back
• See the theory of disruptive innovation in a brand new light
• Recognize the signs that your cross-cultural negotiation may be falling apart
This collection of articles includes:
• "Collaborative Overload," by Rob Cross, Reb Rebele, and Adam Grant
• "Algorithms Need Managers, Too," by Michael Luca, Jon Kleinberg, and Sendhil Mullainathan
• "Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy," by Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Geoffrey G. Parker, and Sangeet Paul Choudary
• "What Is Disruptive Innovation?," by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald
• "How Indra Nooyi Turned Design Thinking into Strategy," an interview with Indra Nooyi by Adi Ignatius
• "Engineering Reverse Innovations," by Amos Winter and Vijay Govindarajan
• "The Employer-Led Health Care Revolution," by Patricia A. McDonald, Robert S. Mecklenburg, and Lindsay A. Martin
• "Getting to Sí, Ja, Oui, Hai, and Da," by Erin Meyer
• "The Limits of Empathy," by Adam Waytz
• "People Before Strategy: A New Role for the CHRO," by Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey
• "Beyond Automation," by Thomas H. Davenport and Julia Kirby.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing in a Downturn
With bonus article "Reigniting Growth" By Chris Zook and James Allen
by Various Authors
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
How do the most resilient companies survive--and even thrive--during a slowdown?
If you read nothing else on preparing for a tough economy and coming back stronger, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help your company persevere through economic challenges and continue to grow even as your competitors stumble.
This book will inspire you to:
Get your company ready before a downturn strikes
Learn the right lessons from previous recessions
Minimize pain while cutting costs and managing risk
Foster a healthy organizational culture during anxious times
Seize the opportunity to innovate and reinvent your business
This collection of articles includes "Seize Advantage in a Downturn," by David Rhodes and Daniel Stelter; "How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward: A Research Roundup," by Walter Frick; "How to Bounce Back from Adversity," by Joshua D. Margolis and Paul G. Stoltz; "Rohm and Haas's Former CEO on Pulling Off a Sweet Deal in a Down Market," by Raj Gupta; "Leadership in a (Permanent) Crisis," by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander, Grashow, and Marty Linsky; "How to Be a Good Boss in a Bad Economy," by Robert I. Sutton; "Layoffs That Don't Break Your Company," by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta; "Getting Reorgs Right," by Stephen Heidari-Robinson and Suzanne Heywood; "Reigniting Growth," by Chris Zook and James Allen; "Reinvent Your Business Model Before It's Too Late," by Paul Nunes and Tim Breene; and "How to Protect Your Job in a Recession," by Janet Banks and Diane Coutu.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (With Bonus Article "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Cl
by Peter F. Drucker
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
The path to your professional success starts with a critical look in the mirror.
If you read nothing else on managing yourself, read these 10 articles (plus the bonus article "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton M. Christensen). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles to select the most important ones to help you maximize yourself.
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself will inspire you to:
Stay engaged throughout your 50+-year work life
Tap into your deepest values
Solicit candid feedback
Replenish physical and mental energy
Balance work, home, community, and self
Spread positive energy throughout your organization
Rebound from tough times
Decrease distractibility and frenzy
Delegate and develop employees' initiative
This collection of best-selling articles includes: bonus article "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton M. Christensen, "Managing Oneself," "Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey?" "How Resilience Works," "Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time," "Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People Underperform," "Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life," "Reclaim Your Job," "Moments of Greatness: Entering the Fundamental State of Leadership," "What to Ask the Person in the Mirror," and "Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance."
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Lessons from Sports (Featuring Interviews With Sir Alex Ferguson,
by Various Authors
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
The world's elite athletes and coaches achieve high performance through inspiring leadership, mental toughness, and direction-setting strategic choices. Harvard Business Review has talked to many of these high performers throughout the years to learn how their success translates to the world of business.
If you read nothing else on management lessons from the world of sports, read these 10 articles by athletes, coaches, and leadership experts. We've combed through our archive and selected the articles that will best help you drive performance.
This book will inspire you to:
• Improve on your weaknesses, not just your strengths
• Take care of your body for sustained mental performance
• Increase your confidence and manage your energy before an important event
• Turn a struggling team around
• Understand the limits of performance metrics
• Focus on long-term goals to overcome setbacks
• Understand where the analogy of sports and business doesn't work
This collection of articles includes:
• "Ferguson's Formula," by Anita Elberse with Sir Alex Ferguson
• "Life's Work: An Interview with Greg Louganis"; "The Making of a Corporate Athlete," by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
• "The Tough Work of Turning a Team Around," by Bill Parcells
• "How an Olympic Gold Medalist Learned to Perform Under Pressure: An Interview with Alex Gregory"; "Mental Preparation Secrets of Top Athletes, Entertainers, and Surgeons," an interview with Daniel McGinn by Sarah Green Carmichael
• "SoulCycle's CEO on Sustaining Growth in a Faddish Industry," by Melanie Whelan
• "Life's Work: An Interview with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar"; "Major League Innovation," by Scott D. Anthony
• "Looking Past Performance in Your Star Talent," by Mark de Rond, Adrian Moorhouse, and Matt Rogan
• "Life's Work: An Interview with Mikhail Baryshnikov"; "How the Best of the Best Get Better and Better," by Graham Jones; • "Life's Work: An Interview with Joe Girardi"; "Why There Is an I in Team," by Mark de Rond
• "Life's Work: An Interview with Andre Agassi"; and "Why Sports Are a Terrible Metaphor for Business," by Bill Taylor.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Women and Leadership (With Bonus Article "Sheryl Sandberg: The HBR Interview"
by Herminia Ibarra
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
What will it take to create a more gender-balanced workplace?
If you read nothing else on leadership and gender at work, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you understand where gender equality is today--and how far we still have to go.
This book will inspire you to:
Better understand the path women must take to leadership
Learn the root causes of the barriers that exist for women in the workplace
Check your own gender biases and distinguish between confidence and competence in your colleagues
Manage a more effective gender-diversity program
Recognize the issues women face when speaking up about bias or harassment
Help women reenter the workforce after taking time off--and create opportunities for them to reach their ambitions.
This collection of articles includes "Women and the Labyrinth of Leadership," by Alice H. Eagly and Linda L. Carli; "Do Women Lack Ambition?" by Anna Fels; "Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers," by Herminia Ibarra, Robin Ely, and Deborah Kolb; "Women and the Vision Thing," by Herminia Ibarra and Otilia Obodaru; "The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why," by Deborah Tannen; "The Memo Every Woman Keeps in Her Desk," by Kathleen Reardon; "Why Diversity Programs Fail," by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev; "Now What?" by Joan C. Williams and Suzanne Lebsock; "The Battle for Female Talent in Emerging Markets," by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid; "Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success," by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce; and "Sheryl Sandberg: The HBR Interview," by Sheryl Sandberg and Adi Ignatius.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2019
The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review
by Various Authors
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place.
We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up-to-date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. With authors from Thomas H. Davenport to Michael E. Porter and company examples from Facebook to DHL, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations right to your fingertips.
This book will inspire you to:
• Make stronger connections and build greater trust among people who work on multiple teams
• Engage customers and employees alike with the help of artificial intelligence
• Channel your outrage about sexual harassment in the workplace into effective action
• Consider how CEO activism can generate goodwill for your company -- and weigh its risks
• Pair data with qualitative research to increase diversity in your organization
• Remain competitive in a hub economy by using your company's assets and capabilities differently
This collection of articles includes: "The Overcommitted Organization," by Mark Mortensen and Heidi K. Gardner; "Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management?" by Raffaella Sadun, Nicholas Bloom, and John Van Reenen; "'Numbers Take Us Only So Far,'" by Maxine Williams; "The New CEO Activists," by Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel; "Artificial Intelligence for the Real World," by Thomas H. Davenport and Rajeev Ronanki; "Why Every Organization Needs an Augmented Reality Strategy," by Michael E. Porter and James E. Heppelmann; "Thriving in the Gig Economy," by Gianpiero Petriglieri, Susan Ashford, and Amy Wrzesniewski; "Managing Our Hub Economy," by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani; "The Leader's Guide to Corporate Culture," by Boris Groysberg, Jeremiah Lee, Jesse Price, and J. Yo-Jud Cheng; "The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership," by Joseph L. Bower and Lynn S. Paine; and "Now What?" by Joan C. Williams and Suzanne Lebsock.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2018
The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review
by Various Authors
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place.
We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up-to-date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. With authors from Michael E. Porter to Daniel Kahneman and company examples from P&G to Adobe, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations to your fingertips.
This book will inspire you to:
• Reconsider what keeps your customers coming back
• Create visualizations that send a clear message
• Assess how quickly disruptive change is coming to your industry
• Boost engagement by giving your employees the freedom to break the rules
• Understand what blockchain is and how it will affect your industry
• Get your product in customers' hands faster by accelerating your research and development phase
This collection of articles includes:
• "Customer Loyalty Is Overrated," by A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin;
• "Noise: How to Overcome the High, Hidden Cost of Inconsistent Decision Making," by Daniel Kahneman, Andrew M. Rosenfield, Linnea Gandhi, and Tom Blaser
• "Visualizations That Really Work," by Scott Berinato
• "Right Tech, Wrong Time," by Ron Adner and Rahul Kapoor
• "How to Pay for Health Care," by Michael E. Porter and Robert S. Kaplan
• "The Performance Management Revolution," by Peter Cappelli and Anna Tavis
• "Let Your Workers Rebel," by Francesca Gino
• "Why Diversity Programs Fail," by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev
• "What So Many People Don't Get About the U.S. Working Class," by Joan C. Williams
• "The Truth About Blockchain," by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani
• "The Edison of Medicine," by Steven Prokesch.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership for Healthcare (With Bonus Article by Thomas H. Lee, MD, and Toby
by Thomas H. Lee
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Go from being a good practitioner to being an extraordinary leader of healthcare professionals.
If you read nothing else on leadership, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on leadership and selected the most important ones for healthcare leaders to help you and your team excel, maximize performance, and live into your mission.
Leading experts, such as Thomas H. Lee, Daniel Goleman, Peter F. Drucker, John P. Kotter, and Warren G. Bennis, provide the insights and advice you need to:
Motivate others to excel
Build your team's self-confidence
Inspire positive change
Have an impact not only on your organization but on the surrounding system
Maintain your identity and values as a clinician as you move into an organizational leadership role
Encourage smart risk taking
Work in complex systems where authority is diffuse
Manage with tough empathy
Draw strength from adversity
HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further.
HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever-changing business environment.
Classic ideas, enduring advice, the best thinkers: HBR's 10 Must Reads.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2016
The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review
by Various Authors
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place.
We've examined the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to bring you the latest, most significant thinking driving business today. With authors from Marcus Buckingham to Herminia Ibarra and company examples from Google to Deloitte, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations to your fingertips.
This book will inspire you to:
• Tap into the new technologies that are changing the way businesses compete
• Fuel performance by redesigning your organization's practices around feedback
• Learn techniques to move beyond intuition for better decision making
• Understand why your strategy execution isn't working - and how to fix it
• Lead with authenticity by moving beyond your comfort zone
• Transform your physical office space to promote creativity and productivity
This collection of best-selling articles includes:
• "Reinventing Performance Management," by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall
• "The Transparency Trap," by Ethan Bernstein
• "Profits Without Prosperity," by William Lazonick
• "Outsmart Your Own Biases," by Jack B. Soll, Katherine L. Milkman, and John W. Payne
• "The 3-D Printing Revolution," by Richard D'Aveni
• "Why Strategy Execution Unravels - and What to Do About It," by Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes, and Charles Sull
• "The Authenticity Paradox," by Herminia Ibarra
• "The Discipline of Business Experimentation," by Stefan Thomke and Jim Manzi
• "When Senior Managers Won't Collaborate," by Heidi K. Gardner
• "Workspaces That Move People," by Ben Waber, Jennifer Magnolfi, and Greg Lindsay
• "Digital Ubiquity: How Connections, Sensors, and Data Are Revolutionizing Business," by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Negotiation (With Bonus Article "15 Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer" by Dee
by Daniel Kahneman
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Learn to be a better negotiator--and achieve the outcomes you want.
If you read nothing else on how to negotiate successfully, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you avoid common mistakes, find hidden opportunities, and win the best deals possible.
This book will inspire you to:
Control the negotiation before you enter the room
Persuade others to do what you want--for their own reasons
Manage emotions on both sides of the table
Understand the rules of negotiating across cultures
Set the stage for a healthy relationship long after the ink has dried
Identify what you can live with and when to walk away
This collection of articles includes: "Six Habits of Merely Effective Negotiators" by James K. Sebenius; "Control the Negotiation Before It Begins" by Deepak Malhotra; "Emotion and the Art of Negotiation" by Alison Wood Brooks; "Breakthrough Bargaining" by Deborah M. Kolb and Judith Williams; "15 Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer" by Deepak Malhotra; "Getting to Si, Ja, Oui, Hai, and Da" by Erin Meyer; "Negotiating Without a Net: A Conversation with the NYPD's Dominick J. Misino" by Diane L. Coutu; "Deal Making 2.0: A Guide to Complex Negotiations" by David A. Lax and James K. Sebenius; "How to Make the Other Side Play Fair" by Max H. Bazerman and Daniel Kahneman; "Getting Past Yes: Negotiating as if Implementation Mattered" by Danny Ertel; "When to Walk Away from a Deal" by Geoffrey Cullinan, Jean-Marc Le Roux, and Rolf-Magnus Weddigen.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Innovation (With Featured Article "The Discipline of Innovation" by Peter F.
by Peter F. Drucker
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
To innovate profitably, you need more than just creativity. Do you have what it takes?
If you read nothing else on inspiring and executing innovation, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you innovate effectively.
Leading experts such as Clayton Christensen, Peter Drucker, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter provide the insights and advice you need to:
Decide which ideas are worth pursuing
Innovate through the front lines-not just from the top
Adapt innovations from the developing world to wealthier markets
Tweak new ventures along the way using discovery-driven planning
Tailor your efforts to meet customers' most pressing needs
Avoid classic pitfalls such as stifling innovation with rigid processes
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategic Marketing (With Featured Article "Marketing Myopia" by Theodore Lev
by Clayton M. Christensen
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Stop pushing products-and start cultivating relationships with the right customers.
If you read nothing else on marketing that delivers competitive advantage, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you reinvent your marketing by putting it-and your customers-at the center of your business.
Leading experts such as Ted Levitt and Clayton Christensen provide the insights and advice you need to:
Figure out what business you're really in
Create products that perform the jobs people need to get done
Get a bird's-eye view of your brand's strengths and weaknesses
Tap a market that's larger than China and India combined
Deliver superior value to your B2B customers
End the war between sales and marketing
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HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers
With Bonus Article "How Managers Become Leaders" by Michael D. Watkins
by Linda A. Hill
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Develop the mindset and presence to successfully manage others for the first time.
If you read nothing else on becoming a new manager, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you transition from being an outstanding individual contributor to becoming a great manager of others.
This book will inspire you to:
Develop your emotional intelligence
Influence your colleagues through the science of persuasion
Assess your team and enhance its performance
Network effectively to achieve business goals and for personal advancement
Navigate relationships with employees, bosses, and peers
Get support from above
View the big picture in your decision making
Balance your team's work and personal life in a high-intensity workplace
This collection of articles includes "Becoming the Boss," by Linda A. Hill; "Leading the Team You Inherit," by Michael D. Watkins; "Saving Your Rookie Managers from Themselves," by Carol A. Walker; "Managing the High-Intensity Workplace," by Erin Reid and Lakshmi Ramarajan; "Harnessing the Science of Persuasion," Robert B. Cialdini; "What Makes a Leader?" by Daniel Goleman; "The Authenticity Paradox," by Herminia Ibarra; "Managing Your Boss," by John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter; "How Leaders Create and Use Networks," by Herminia Ibarra and Mark Lee Hunter; "Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey?" by William Oncken, Jr., and Donald L. Wass; and BONUS ARTICLE: "How Managers Become Leaders," by Michael D. Watkins.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy for Healthcare (Featuring Articles by Michael E. Porter and Thomas H
by Michael E. Porter
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Is your healthcare organization spending too much time on strategy--with too little to show for it?
If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones for healthcare professionals to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution.
Leading strategy experts, such as Michael E. Porter, Jim Collins, W. Chan Kim, and Renee Mauborgne, provide the insights and advice you need to:
Understand how the rules of corporate competition translate to the healthcare sector
Craft a vision for an uncertain future
Segment your market to better serve diverse patient populations
Achieve the best health outcomes--at the lowest cost
Learn what disruptive innovation means for healthcare
Use the Balanced Scorecard to measure your progress
This collection of articles includes "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter; "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy," by Michael E. Porter; "Health Care Needs Real Competition," by Leemore S. Dafny and Thomas H. Lee; "Building Your Company's Vision," by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras; "Reinventing Your Business Model," by Mark W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen, and Henning Kagermann; "Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care?" by Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Bohmer, and John Kenagy; "Blue Ocean Strategy," by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne; "Rediscovering Market Segmentation," by Daniel Yankelovich and David Meer; "The Office of Strategy Management," by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton; and "The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care," by Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership, Volume 2 (with bonus article "The Focused Leader" By Daniel Golem
by Harvard Business Review
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Stay on top of your leadership game.
Leadership isn't something you're born with or gifted as a reward for an abundance of charisma; true leadership stems from core skills that can be learned.
Get more of the leadership ideas you want, from the authors you trust, with HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership (Vol. 2). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your own and your organization's performance.
With insights from leading experts including Michael D. Watkins, Herminia Ibarra, and Michael E. Porter, this book will inspire you to:
• Identify areas for personal growth
• Build trust with and among your employees
• Develop a more dynamic and sophisticated communication style
• Try out different leadership styles and behaviors to find the right approach for you--and your organization
• Transform yourself from a problem solver to an agenda setter
• Harness the power of connections
• Become an adaptive and strategic leader
This collection of articles includes "Leadership Is a Conversation," by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind; "How Managers Become Leaders: The Seven Seismic Shifts of Perspective and Responsibility," by Michael D. Watkins; "Strategic Leadership: The Essential Skills," by Paul J.H. Schoemaker, Steve Krupp, and Samantha Howland; "The Authenticity Paradox," by Herminia Ibarra; "'Both/And' Leadership," by Wendy K. Smith, Marianne W. Lewis, and Michael L. Tushman; "Are You a Collaborative Leader?" by Herminia Ibarra and Morten T. Hansen; "Cross-Silo Leadership," by Tiziana Casciaro, Amy C. Edmondson, and Sujin Jang; "How CEOs Manage Time," by Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria; "The Best Leaders Are Great Teachers," by Sydney Finkelstein; "Nimble Leadership," by Deborah Ancona, Elaine Backman, and Kate Isaacs; and "The Focused Leader," by Daniel Goleman.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Risk
by Harvard Business Review
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Is your business playing it safe-or taking the right risks?
If you read nothing else on managing risk, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help your company make smart decisions and thrive, even when the future is unclear.
This book will inspire you to:
• Avoid the most common errors in risk management
• Understand the three distinct categories of risk and tailor your risk-management processes accordingly
• Embrace uncertainty as a key element of breakthrough innovation
• Adopt best practices for mitigating political threats
• Upgrade your organization's forecasting capabilities to gain a competitive edge
• Detect and neutralize cyberattacks originating inside your company
This collection of articles includes "Managing Risks: A New Framework," by Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes; "How to Build Risk into Your Business Model," by Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine; "The Six Mistakes Executives Make in Risk Management," by Nassim N. Taleb, Daniel G. Goldstein, and Mark W. Spitznagel; "From Superstorms to Factory Fires: Managing Unpredictable Supply-Chain Disruptions," by David Simchi-Levi, William Schmidt, and Yehua Wei; "Is It Real? Can We Win? Is It Worth Doing?: Managing Risk and Reward in an Innovation Portfolio," by George S. Day; "Superforecasting: How to Upgrade Your Company's Judgment," by Paul J. H. Schoemaker and Philip E. Tetlock; "Managing 21st-Century Political Risk," by Condoleezza Rice and Amy Zegart; "How to Scandal-Proof Your Company," by Paul Healy and George Serafeim; "Beating the Odds When You Launch a New Venture," by Clark Gilbert and Matthew Eyring; "The Danger from Within," by David M. Upton and Sadie Creese; and "Future-Proof Your Climate Strategy," by Joseph E. Aldy and Gianfranco Gianfrate.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness
With Bonus Interview
by Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph. D.
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Come back from every setback a stronger and better leader
If you read nothing else on mental toughness, read these ten articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you build your emotional strength and resilience--and to achieve high performance.
This book will inspire you to:
Thrive on pressure like an Olympic athlete
Manage and overcome negative emotions by acknowledging them
Plan short-term goals to achieve long-term aspirations
Surround yourself with the people who will push you the hardest
Use challenges to become a better leader
Use creativity to move past trauma
Understand the tools your mind uses to recover from setbacks.
This collection of articles includes "How the Best of the Best Get Better and Better," by Graham Jones; "Crucibles of Leadership," by Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas; "Building Resilience," by Martin E.P. Seligman; "Cognitive Fitness," by Roderick Gilkey and Clint Kilts; "The Making of a Corporate Athlete," by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz; "Stress Can Be a Good Thing If You Know How to Use It," by Alla Crum and Thomas Crum; "How to Bounce Back from Adversity," by Joshua D. Margolis and Paul G. Stoltz; "Rebounding from Career Setbacks," by Mitchell Lee Marks, Philip Mirvis, and Ron Ashkenas; "Realizing What You're Made Of," by Glenn E. Mangurian; "Extreme Negotiations," by Jeff Weiss, Aram Donigian, and Jonathan Hughes; and "Post-Traumatic Growth and Building Resilience," by Martin Seligman and Sarah Green Carmichael.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Platforms and Ecosystems
by Harvard Business Review
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Help your company adapt to the new rules of competition.
If you read nothing else on creating value with business platforms and ecosystems, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you reap the rewards of multisided platforms (MSPs)-or defend your company against these formidable opponents.
This book will inspire you to:
• Assess the threat of disruption from platforms in your industry
• Decide whether and how to play with increasingly powerful platform businesses
• Choose the right strategy for transforming your product into a platform
• Harness network effects to maximize value for the partners in your ecosystem
• Shift from managing products to managing interactions
• Learn when moving first and growing fast will work-and when it won't
• Manage winner-take-all dynamics
This collection of articles includes "Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy," by Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Geoffrey G. Parker, and Sangeet Paul Choudary; "Strategies for Two-Sided Markets," Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall W. Van Alstyne; "Finding the Platform in Your Product," by Andrei Hagiu and Elizabeth Altman; "What's Your Google Strategy?," by Andrei Hagiu and David B. Yoffie; "In the Ecosystem Economy, What's Your Strategy?," by Michael G. Jacobides; "Right Tech, Wrong Time," by Ron Adner and Rahul Kapoor; "Managing Our Hub Economy," by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani; "Why Some Platforms Thrive and Others Don't," by Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti; "Spontaneous Deregulation," by Benjamin Edelman and Damien Geradin; "Alibaba and the Future of Business," by Ming Zeng; and "Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces," by Ray Fisman and Michael Luca.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on AI, Analytics, and the New Machine Age (With Bonus Article "Why Every Company
by Michael E. Porter
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Machine learning and data analytics are powering a wave of groundbreaking technologies. Is your company ready?
If you read nothing else on how intelligent machines are revolutionizing business, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you understand how these technologies work together, how to adopt them, and why your strategy can't ignore them.
In this book you'll learn how:
Data science, driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning, is yielding unprecedented business insights
Blockchain has the potential to restructure the economy
Drones and driverless vehicles are becoming essential tools3-D printing is making new business models possible
Augmented reality is transforming retail and manufacturing
Smart speakers are redefining the rules of marketing
Humans and machines are working together to reach new levels of productivity
This collection of articles includes "Artificial Intelligence for the Real World," by Thomas H. Davenport and Rajeev Ronanki; "Stitch Fix's CEO on Selling Personal Style to the Mass Market," by Katrina Lake; "Algorithms Need Managers, Too," by Michael Luca, Jon Kleinberg, and Sendhil Mullainathan; "Marketing in the Age of Alexa," by Niraj Dawar; "Why Every Organization Needs an Augmented Reality Strategy," by Michael E. Porter and James E. Heppelmann; "Drones Go to Work," by Chris Anderson; "The Truth About Blockchain," by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani; "The 3-D Printing Playbook," by Richard A. D'Aveni; "Collaborative Intelligence: Humans and AI Are Joining Forces," by H. James Wilson and Paul R. Daugherty; "When Your Boss Wears Metal Pants," by Walter Frick; and "Managing Our Hub Economy," by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People (With Featured Article "Leadership That Gets Results" by Dani
by Daniel Goleman
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Managing people is fraught with challenges-even if you're a seasoned manager. Here's how to handle them.
If you read nothing else on managing people, read these 10 articles (featuring "Leadership That Gets Results," by Daniel Goleman). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your employees' performance.
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People will inspire you to:
Tailor your management styles to fit your people
Motivate with more responsibility, not more money
Support first-time managers
Build trust by soliciting input
Teach smart people how to learn from failure
Build high-performing teams
Manage your boss
This collection of best-selling articles includes: featured article "Leadership That Gets Results" by Daniel Goleman, "One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?" "The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome," "Saving Your Rookie Managers from Themselves," "What Great Managers Do," "Fair Process: Managing in the Knowledge Economy," "Teaching Smart People How to Learn," "How (Un)ethical Are You?" "The Discipline of Teams," and "Managing Your Boss."
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Across Cultures (With Featured Article "Cultural Intelligence" by P.
by Various Authors
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Put an end to miscommunication and inefficiency-and tap into the strengths of your diverse team.
If you read nothing else on managing across cultures, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you manage culturally diverse employees, whether they're dispersed around the world or you're working with a multicultural team in a single location.
This book will inspire you to:
Develop your cultural intelligence
Overcome conflict on a team where cultural norms differ
Adopt a common language for more efficient communication
Use the diverse perspectives of your employees to find new business opportunities
Take varying cultural practices into account when resolving ethical issues
Accommodate and plan for your expatriate employees
This collection of articles includes "Cultural Intelligence," by P. Christopher Earley and Elaine Mosakowski; "Managing Multicultural Teams," by Jeanne Brett, Kristin Behfar, and Mary C. Kern; "L'Oreal Masters Multiculturalism," by Hae-Jung Hong and Yves Doz; "Making Differences Matter: A New Paradigm for Managing Diversity," by David A. Thomas and Robin J. Ely; "Navigating the Cultural Minefield," by Erin Meyer; "Values in Tension: Ethics Away from Home," by Thomas Donaldson; "Global Business Speaks English," by Tsedal Neeley; "10 Rules for Managing Global Innovation," by Keeley Wilson and Yves L. Doz; "Lost in Translation," by Fons Trompenaars and Peter Woolliams; and "The Right Way to Manage Expats," by J. Stewart Black and Hal B. Gregersen.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management
by Various Authors
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Most company's change initiatives fail. Yours don't have to.
If you read nothing else on change management, read these 10 articles (featuring "Leading Change," by John P. Kotter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you spearhead change in your organization.
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management will inspire you to:
Lead change through eight critical stages
Establish a sense of urgency
Overcome addiction to the status quo
Mobilize commitment
Silence naysayers
Minimize the pain of change
Concentrate resources
Motivate change when business is good
This collection of best-selling articles includes: featured article "Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail" by John P. Kotter, "Change Through Persuasion," "Leading Change When Business Is Good: An Interview with Samuel J. Palmisano," "Radical Change, the Quiet Way," "Tipping Point Leadership," "A Survival Guide for Leaders," "The Real Reason People Won't Change," "Cracking the Code of Change," "The Hard Side of Change Management," and "Why Change Programs Don't Produce Change."
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy 2-Volume Collection
by Harvard Business Review
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
If you read nothing else on strategy, read these definitive articles from Harvard Business Review.
Defining-and executing-the best strategy for your company is fraught with challenge. Do you have the right strategy to lead your company into the future? HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy 2-Volume Collection provides enduring ideas and practical advice on how to accelerate your organization's strategy development and execution. Bringing together HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy, Vol. 1 and HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy, Vol. 2, this collection includes twenty articles selected by HBR's editors and features the indispensable article "What is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter.
From timeless classics to the latest game-changing ideas from thought leaders W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne, Jim Collins, and more, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy 2-Volume Collection will inspire you to:
• Distinguish your companies from your rivals
• Reinvent your business model to keep you on the competitive map
• Craft a vision for an uncertain future
• Create and capture new markets-and break free from overcrowded ones
• Clarify decision roles for faster decision making
• See the growing relevance of data analytics in your organization
• Transform your products and services into platforms
• Identify the signals of future disruption and take steps to avoid it
HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever—changing business environment.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence (With Featured Article "What Makes a Leader?" by Danie
by Various Authors
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
In his defining work on emotional intelligence, bestselling author Daniel Goleman found that it is twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership.
If you read nothing else on emotional intelligence, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you boost your emotional skills-and your professional success.
This book will inspire you to:
Monitor and channel your moods and emotions
Make smart, empathetic people decisions
Manage conflict and regulate emotions within your team
React to tough situations with resilience
Better understand your strengths, weaknesses, needs, values, and goals
Develop emotional agility
This collection of articles includes: "What Makes a Leader" by Daniel Goleman, "Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance" by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee, "Why It's So Hard to Be Fair" by Joel Brockner, "Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions" by Andrew Campbell, Jo Whitehead, and Sydney Finkelstein, "Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups" by Vanessa Urch Druskat and Steve B. Wolff, "The Price of Incivility: Lack of Respect Hurts Morale-and the Bottom Line" by Christine Porath and Christine Pearson, "How Resilience Works" by Diane Coutu, "Emotional Agility: How Effective Leaders Manage Their Negative Thoughts and Feelings" by Susan David and Christina Congleton, "Fear of Feedback" by Jay M. Jackman and Myra H. Strober, and "The Young and the Clueless" by Kerry A. Bunker, Kathy E. Kram, and Sharon Ting.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2025
The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review (with bonus article "Use St
by Harvard Business Review
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place.
We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up to date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. With authors from Ginni Rometty to Robert I. Sutton and company examples from Maersk to Nvidia, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations right to your fingertips.
This book will inspire you to:
• Reskill your organization in the age of AI
• Rid your company of the obstacles that infuriate everyone
• Understand what today's rainmakers do differently
• Market sustainable products effectively
• Choose the right sources of demand to grow your company at the right speed
• Use strategic thinking to create the life you want
This collection of articles includes "Reskilling in the Age of AI," by Jorge Tamayo, Leila Doumi, Sagar Goel, Orsolya Kovacs-Ondrejkovic, and Raffaella Sadun; "How Fast Should Your Company Really Grow?," by Gary P. Pisano; "How to Sustain Your Empathy in Difficult Times," by Jamil Zaki; "The New-Collar Workforce," by Colleen Ammerman, Boris Groysberg, and Ginni Rometty; "Rid Your Organization of Obstacles That Infuriate Everyone," by Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao; "Where Does DEI Go from Here?," by Laura Morgan Roberts; "What Today's Rainmakers Do Differently," by Matthew Dixon, Ted McKenna, Rory Channer, and Karen Freeman; "The New Era of Industrial Policy Is Here," by Willy C. Shih; "How to Market Sustainable Products," by Frederic Dalsace and Goutam Challagalla; "What Does 'Stakeholder Capitalism' Mean to You?," by Lynn S. Paine; and "Use Strategic Thinking to Create the Life You Want," by Rainer Strack, Susanne Dyrchs, and Allison Bailey.
HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever‐changing business environment.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leading Winning Teams (Featuring "Tom Brady on the Art of Leading Teammates"
by Harvard Business Review
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Elevate your team's performance.
If you read nothing else on leading winning teams, read this book. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you communicate effectively, build trust, and cultivate a learning culture. From Tom Brady's advice on leading high-performing teams from within to Amy Edmondson's best practices for building psychological safety, this book will inspire you to:
• Create a culture of open communication
• Build unwavering trust, even from afar
• Manage conflict and drive change
• Set and achieve ambitious goals
• Hold each other-and yourself-to high standards
This collection of articles includes "The Secrets of Great Teamwork," by Martine Haas and Mark Mortensen; "Begin with Trust," by Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss; "Great Teams Are About Personalities, Not Just Skills," by Dave Winsborough and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic; "Discipline of Teams," by Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith; "New Rules for Teamwork," by Angus Dawson and Katy George; "The Feedback Fallacy," by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall; "How to Preempt Team Conflict," by Ginka Toegel and Jean-Louis Barsoux; "20 Questions to Ask When Your Team's Vibe Is Off," by Liane Davey; "Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups," by Vanessa Urch Druskat and Steven B. Wolff; "How Are You Protecting Your High Performers from Burnout?," by Matt Plummer; "Use Learning to Engage Your Team," An interview with Whitney Johnson by Sarah Green Carmichael; "Global Teams That Work," by Tsedal Neeley; "Leading the Team You Inherit," by Michael D. Watkins; "Teamwork at the Top," by Gregory LeStage, Sara Nilsson DeHanas, and Pete Gerend; and "Tom Brady on the Art of Leading Teammates," by Tom Brady and Nitin Nohria.
HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads for Business Students
by Harvard Business Review
Part of the HBR's 10 Must Reads series
Take your business education to the next level-and drive your career forward.
If you read nothing else to stand out in class and prepare for what's next, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the best ones to help you learn the most important ideas in leadership and management, feel confident in your business classes, and be ready to thrive in any role you take on.
This book will inspire you to:
• Succeed by playing to your strengths
• Learn to be more persuasive
• Give killer presentations
• Perfect your business-writing skills
• Find your authentic voice and leadership style
• Build a purposeful career
This collection of articles includes "Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life," by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams, "Harnessing the Science of Persuasion," by Robert B. Cialdini, "How to Give a Killer Presentation," by Chris Anderson, "The Science of Strong Business Writing," by Bill Birchard, "How High Achievers Overcome Their Anxiety," by Morra Aarons-Mele, "How to Play to Your Strengths," by Laura Morgan Roberts, Gretchen Spreitzer, Jane Dutton, Robert Quinn, Emily Heaphy, and Brianna Barker Caza, "You're Not Powerless in the Face of Imposter Syndrome," by Keith D. Dorsey, "The Feedback Fallacy," by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, "The Authenticity Paradox," by Herminia Ibarra, "The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most," by Raffaella Sadun, Joseph Fuller, Stephen Hansen, and PJ Neal, "Building an Ethical Career," by Maryam Kouchaki and Isaac Smith, and "From Purpose to Impact," by Nick Craig and Scott Snook.
HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever‐changing business environment.