Harvard Business Review Press: 568 books
Everyday Chaos
Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Our approach to the future has been rooted in imagining what it might be and preparing for the eventuality that is to come. But no more. Now the future arrives all at once, and our strategies for dealing with it must change, too.
Readers will learn about the core idea of interoperability and...
Failure to Communicate
How Conversations Go Wrong and What You Can Do to Right Them
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Your stomach's churning; you're hyperventilating -- you're in a badly deteriorating conversation at work. Such exchanges, which run the gamut from firing subordinates to parrying verbal attacks from colleagues, are so loaded with anger, confusion, and fear that most people handle them poorly: they...
Breaking Bad Habits
Why Best Practices Are Killing Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Have you ever wondered why most newspapers are so large? Or why management consultants work such long hours? Or why hotels still insist on having check-in desks? Ask anyone in these industries, and their answer will be the same: "That's the way we've always done it."
"Best practices" may be...
An Everyone Culture
Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
A Radical New Model for Unleashing Your Company’s Potential
In most organizations nearly everyone is doing a second job no one is paying them for-namely, covering their weaknesses, trying to look their best, and managing other people’s impressions of them. There may be no greater waste...
Entering StartUpLand
An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Entering StartUpLand is your practical guide to what it’s like to work in a start-up, deconstructing the responsibilities and skills of the actual roles.
Lays out expectations of what it means to join a start-up.
Clear descriptions of jobs and responsibilities.
Portraits of...
White Working Class
Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
"I recommend a book by Professor Williams, it is really worth a read, it's called White Working Class." -- Vice President Joe Biden on Pod Save America
An Amazon Best Business and Leadership book of 2017
Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white...
Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition
A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Inc. magazine calls it one of the best, clearest guides to the numbers” on the market. Readers agree, saying it’s exactly what I need to know” and calling it a must-read” for decision makers without expertise in finance.
Since its release in 2006, Financial Intelligence has become...
Getting Beyond Better
How Social Entrepreneurship Works
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Who drives transformation in society? How do they do it?
In this compelling book, strategy guru Roger L. Martin and Skoll Foundation President and CEO Sally R. Osberg describe how social entrepreneurs target systems that exist in a stable but unjust equilibrium and transform them into entirely...
The Entrepreneurial Mindset
Strategies for Continuously Creating Opportunity in an Age of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2000
The Entrepreneurial Mindset offers a refreshingly practical blueprint for thinking and acting in environments that are fast-paced, rapidly changing, and highly uncertain. It provides both a guide to energizing the organization to find tomorrow's opportunities and a set of entrepreneurial principles...
by Herminia Ibarra
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
You aspire to lead with greater impact. The problem is you’re busy executing on today’s demands. You know you have to carve out time from your day job to build your leadership skills, but it’s easy to let immediate problems and old mind-sets get in the way. Herminia Ibarra-an expert on professional...
The Pirate Organization
Lessons from the Fringes of Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A short history of piracy and capitalism
When capitalism spread along the trade routes toward the Indies
when radio opened an era of mass communication . . . when the Internet became part of the global economy
pirates were there. And although most people see pirates as solitary anarchists...
Becoming a Manager
How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2003
New managers must learn how to lead others rather than do the work themselves, to win trust and respect, to motivate, and to strike the right balance between delegation and control. It is a transition many fail to make. This book traces the experiences of nineteen new managers over the course of their...
The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
When change requires you to challenge people's familiar reality, it can be difficult, dangerous work. Whatever the context--whether in the private or the public sector--many will feel threatened as you push though major changes. But as a leader, you need to find a way to make it work.
Ron Heifetz...
Groundswell, Expanded and Revised Edition
Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Corporate executives struggle to harness the power of social technologies. Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube are where customers discuss products and companies, write their own news, and find their own deals but how do you integrate these activities into your broader marketing efforts? It's an unstoppable...