Harvard Business Review imprint: 574 books
by Heidi Grant Halvorson
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Are you at the top of your game—or still trying to get there? Take your cues from the short, powerful Nine Things Successful People Do Differently, where the strategies and goals of the world’s most successful people are on display—backed by research that shows exactly what has the biggest impact...
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,...
The Intention Economy
When Customers Take Charge
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Caveat venditor-let the seller beware
While marketers look for more ways to get personal with customers, including new tricks with big data,” customers are about to get personal in their own ways, with their own tools. Soon consumers will be able to:
Control the flow and use of...
Reinventing You
Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
A step-by-step guide to reinventing you
Are you where you want to be professionally?
Whether you want to advance faster at your present company, change jobs, or make the jump to a new field entirely, the goal is clear: to build a career that thrives on your unique passions and talents....
The $10 Trillion Prize
Captivating the Newly Affluent in China and India
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Meet your new global consumer
You’ve heard of the burgeoning consumer markets in China and India that are driving the world economy. But do you know enough about these new consumers to convert them into customers?
Do you know that:
There will be nearly one billion middle-class consumers...
Collaboration
How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Build Common Ground, and Reap Big Results
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
In Collaboration, author Morten Hansen takes aim at what many leaders inherently know: in today's competitive environment, companywide collaboration is an imperative for successful strategy execution, yet the sought-after synergies are rarely, if ever, realized. In fact, most cross-unit collaborative...
How to Be Good at Performance Appraisals
Simple, Effective, Done Right
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Do you supervise people? If so, this book is for you.
One of a manager’s toughest-and most important-responsibilities is to evaluate an employee’s performance, providing honest feedback and clarifying what they’ve done well and where they need to improve.
In How to Be Good at Performance...
Succession
Are You Ready?
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
A leader's greatest challenge can be knowing when it's time to step aside. A great deal has been written for corporate boards on the issue of succession planning. But most executives have few resources to help guide them through the process. How do you start preparing yourself--and your successor--for...
by Fifty Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Wondering how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges? Now you can find out-with Lessons Learned. Concise and engaging, each volume in this new series offers 12-14 insightful essays by top leaders in industry, the public sector, and academia on the...
The Power of Little Ideas
A Low-Risk, High-Reward Approach to Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Conventional wisdom today says that to survive, companies must move beyond incremental, sustaining innovation and invest in some form of radical innovation. "Disrupt yourself or be disrupted!" is the relentless message company leaders hear. The Power of Little Ideas argues there's a "third...
Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor
The New Way to Fast-Track Your Career
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Who’s pulling for you? Who’s got your back? Who’s putting your hat in the ring? Odds are this person is not a mentor but a sponsor. Mentors can build your self-esteem and provide a sounding board-but they’re not your ticket to the top.
If you’re interested in fast-tracking your career,...
Stop Spending, Start Managing
Strategies to Transform Wasteful Habits
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Stop Wasting Precious Time and Money
You have a complex problem at work, and you know the standard solutions: hire a consultant, enlist a superstar employee, have more meetings about it. In short, spend money and hours to dig your way out. But you’ve been down this road before-the so-called...
3-d Negotiation
Powerful Tools to Change the Game in Your Most Important Deals
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
When discussing being stuck in a "win-win vs. win-lose" debate, most negotiation books focus on face-to-face tactics. Yet, table tactics are only the "first dimension" of David A. Lax and James K. Sebenius' pathbreaking 3-D Negotiation (TM) approach, developed from their decades of doing deals and...
by John J. Gabarro, John P. Kotter
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
Managing your boss: Isn't that merely manipulation? Corporate cozying up? Not according to John Gabarro and John Kotter. In this handy guidebook, the authors contend that you manage your boss for a very good reason: to do your best on the job—and thereby benefit not only yourself but also your supervisor...