Robert Kaplan: 63 books
Earning the Rockies
How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
An incisive portrait of the American landscape that shows how geography continues to determine America’s role in the world
Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “There is more insight here into the Age of Trump than in bushels of political-horse-race...
The Return of Marco Polo's World
War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades from the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy
“[Kaplan] has emerged not only as an eloquent defender of foreign-policy realism but as a grand strategist to whom the Pentagon...
An Empire Wilderness
Traveling Into America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Having reported on some of the world's most violent, least understood regions in his bestsellers Balkan Ghosts and The Ends of the Earth, Robert Kaplan now returns to his native land, the United States of America. Traveling, like Tocqueville and John Gunther before him, through a political and cultural...
Surrender or Starve
Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Robert D. Kaplan is one of our leading international journalists, someone who can explain the most complicated and volatile regions and show why they’re relevant to our world. In Surrender or Starve, Kaplan illuminates the fault lines in the Horn of Africa, which is emerging as a crucial region...
by Robert D. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
In Mediterranean Winter, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts and Eastward to Tartary, relives an austere, haunting journey he took as a youth through the off-season Mediterranean. The awnings are rolled up and the other tourists are gone, so the damp, cold weather takes him back...
by Robert Steven Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Curated by Harvard Business Review, this digital collection brings together the ideas of leadership expert Robert Steven Kaplan. Successful leaders know that leadership is less often about having all the answers-and more often about asking the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step...
Soldiers of God
With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
First time in paperback, with a new Introduction and final chapter
World affairs expert and intrepid travel journalist Robert D. Kaplan braved the dangers of war-ravaged Afghanistan in the 1980s, living among the mujahidin—the “soldiers of god”—whose unwavering devotion to Islam fueled...
What You Really Need to Lead
The Power of Thinking and Acting Like an Owner
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
WHAT MAKES A LEADER? CAN YOU REALLY LEARN TO LEAD?
You might believe that leaders are born, not made. Perhaps you think that you need to hold an important job to be a leader—that you need permission to lead. Leadership is one of the most important aspects of our society. Yet there is enormous...
What You're Really Meant to Do
A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
How do you create your own definition of success—and reach your unique potential?
Building a fulfilling life and career can be a daunting challenge. It takes courage and hard work. Too often, we charge down a path leading to “success” as defined by those around us—and ultimately, are...
Strategy Maps
Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
More than a decade ago, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton introduced the Balanced Scorecard, a revolutionary performance measurement system that allowed organizations to quantify intangible assets such as people, information, and customer relationships. Then, in The Strategy-Focused Organization,...
by Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This collection highlights the most important ideas and concepts from Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, authors of The Balanced Scorecard, a revolutionary performance measurement system that allows organizations to quantify intangible assets such as people, information, and customer relationships....
The Strategy-Focused Organization
How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2000
The creators of the revolutionary performance management tool called the Balanced Scorecard introduce a new approach that makes strategy a continuous process owned not just by top management, but by everyone. In The Strategy-Focused Organization, Robert Kaplan and David Norton share the results of...
by Robert D. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Eastward to Tartary*,* Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future.
Kaplan takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of...
by Robert D. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Author of Balkan Ghosts, Robert D. Kaplan now travels from West Africa to Southeast Asia to report on a world of disintegrating nation-states, warring nationalities, metastasizing populations, and dwindling resources. He emerges with a gritty tour de force of travel writing and political journalism....