Harvard Business Review imprint: 574 books
The Differentiated Workforce
Translating Talent into Strategic Impact
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Do you think of your company's talent as an investment to be managed like a portfolio? You should, according to authors Becker, Huselid, and Beatty, if you're interested in strategy execution.
Many companies fall into the trap of spending too much time and money on low performers, while high...
The Workforce Scorecard
Managing Human Capital To Execute Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2005
In a marketplace fueled by intangible assets, anything less than optimal workforce success can threaten a firm's survival. Yet, in most organizations, employee performance is both poorly managed and underutilized. The Workforce Scorecard argues that current management and human resources practices...
Give Your Speech, Change the World
How To Move Your Audience to Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2005
Do you remember the topic of the last speech you heard? If not, you're not alone. In fact, studies show that audiences remember only 10% to 30% of speech or presentation content. Given those bleak statistics, why do we give speeches at all? We give them, says communications expert Nick Morgan, because...
The Innovator's Guide to Growth
Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
More than a decade ago, Clayton Christensen's breakthrough book The Innovator's Dilemma illustrated how disruptive innovations drive industry transformation and market creation. Christensen's research demonstrated how growth-seeking incumbents must develop the capability to deflect disruptive attacks...
Winning Investors Over
Surprising Truths About Honesty, Earnings Guidance, and Other Ways to Boost Your Stock Price
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Pleasing Wall Street used to be easy for executives. Not anymore. The stock market is an uncertain place, and every day executives have to figure out what investors really want. There are right ways and wrong ways to do this. Get it wrong, and you risk alienating investors as well as employees, consumers,...
by B. Joseph Pine II, James H. Gilmore
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
In 1999, Joseph Pine and James Gilmore offered this idea to readers as a new way to think about connecting with customers and securing their loyalty. As a result, their book The Experience Economy is now a classic, embraced by readers and companies worldwide and read in more than a dozen languages.
And...
The High Potential's Advantage
Get Noticed, Impress Your Bosses, and Become a Top Leader
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Do You Know What It Takes to Be a High Potential in Your Organization?
Being seen as a high-potential leader is essential to getting promoted and reaching your organization's upper echelons, but most companies keep their top-talent list a closely guarded secret. And the assessment process they...
The Progress Principle
Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
What really sets the best managers above the rest? It’s their power to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives-consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. The worst managers undermine inner...
The Devil's Derivatives
The Untold Story of the Slick Traders and Hapless Regulators Who Almost Blew Up Wall Street . . . an
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
A compelling narrative on what went wrong with our financial system-and who’s to blame.
From an award-winning journalist who has been covering the industry for more than a decade, The Devil’s Derivatives charts the untold story of modern financial innovation-how investment banks invented...
Shine
Using Brain Science to Get the Best from Your People
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2011
A manager's job is getting harder to do. But the central question for all managers - the one that separates great managers from the rest- is how to get the most from your people. What do you do when your most talented people fall short of their potential, or worse, fall off their game for awhile?...
by Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 1996
New competitive realities have ruptured industry boundaries, overthrown much of standard management practice, and rendered conventional models of strategy and growth obsolete. In their stead have come the powerful ideas and methodologies of Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, whose much-revered thinking...
Beyond Competitive Advantage
How to Solve the Puzzle of Sustaining Growth While Creating Value
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Your company is turning in regular profits every year, and its market share is only getting bigger. Competitors can’t touch you. So why is your stock price so sluggish? The answer is as simple as it is cruel: investors aren’t interested in history, and they already know you’re profitable and...
Becoming a Resonant Leader
Develop Your Emotional Intelligence, Renew Your Relationships, Sustain Your Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2008
What distinguishes great leaders? Exceptional leaders capture passion. They lead for real: from the heart, smart and focused on the future, and with a commitment to being their very best.
As Annie McKee and Richard Boyatzis have shown in their bestselling books Primal Leadership and Resonant...
Creative Conspiracy
The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Embracing the Counterintuitive Side of Collaboration
Think of your to-do list at work. Chances are the most important tasks require you to work with others-and the success of those endeavors depends on the effectiveness of your collaboration.
According to management expert Leigh Thompson,...