Harvard Business Review Press: 568 books
Build an A-Team
Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
What's the secret to having an engaged and productive team? It's having a plan for developing all employees--no matter where they are on their personal learning curves.
Better morale and higher performance happen through learning, argues Whitney Johnson. In over twenty years of coaching, investing,...
Juice
The Creative Fuel That Drives World-Class Inventors
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Building value in our global economy increasingly demands creating new opportunities and solving new problems. In a nutshell, that's what inventors do. Just as software has driven growth and opened new markets over the past generation, invention is poised to become the X-factor for the future. With...
by Fifty Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 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 business, the public sector, and academia on the...
Fail Better
Design Smart Mistakes and Succeed Sooner
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
If you’re aiming to innovate, failure along the way is a given. But can you fail better?
Whether you’re rolling out a new product from a city-view office or rolling up your sleeves to deliver a social service in the field, learning why and how to embrace failure can help you do better,...
by Scott D. Anthony, David S. Duncan
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Introducing the Four Components That Make Innovation Repeatable
Even the best-performing companies eventually stall. Sustaining momentum-and remaining a great growth company-takes a system.
Scott Anthony and David Duncan call this system a Growth Factory.” They’ve seen it work...
by Orit Gadiesh, Hugh Macarthur
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008
Private equity firms are snapping up brand-name companies and assembling portfolios that make them immense global conglomerates. They're often able to maximize investor value far more successfully than traditional public companies.
How do PE firms become such powerhouses? Learn how, in Lessons...
Ben Bernanke's Fed
The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
Ben Bernanke's swearing in as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006 marked the end of Alan Greenspan's long, legendary career. To date, the new chair has garnered mixed reviews. Business economists see him as the best-qualified successor to Greenspan, while many traders and investors worry that he's too...
It's Not the How or the What but the Who
Succeed by Surrounding Yourself with the Best
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Succeed by mastering the art of the who
Why surround yourself with the best? Because it matters-in all aspects of life.
In fact, in professional environments, getting people right-what global leadership authority Claudio Fernández-Aráoz calls the art of great who’ decisions”-marks...
The India Way
How India's Top Business Leaders Are Revolutionizing Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Exploding growth. Soaring investment. Incoming talent waves. India's top companies are scoring remarkable successes on these fronts - and more.
How? Instead of adopting management practices that dominate Western businesses, they're applying fresh practices of their ownin strategy, leadership,...
Own the Room
Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Find your signature voice
People are drawn to and influenced by leaders who communicate authentically, connect easily with people, and have immediate impact. So how do you become one of them? How can you learn to own the room”? This book will help you develop your leadership presence.
According...
Why Should Anyone Work Here?
What It Takes to Create an Authentic Organization
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Imagine designing the best company on earth to work for . . .
What would that company be like? How would you build and sustain it? As a leader, you need to know. In the past, businesses made people conform to the organization’s needs. But the old paradigm has shifted. Now leaders must transform...
Strategy That Works
How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
How to close the gap between strategy and execution
Two-thirds of executives say their organizations don’t have the capabilities to support their strategy. In Strategy That Works, Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why. They identify conventional business practices that unintentionally...
Executing Innovation
Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009
The Pocket Mentor series offers immediate solutions to the challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a...
Agile Talent
How to Source and Manage Outside Experts
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
How to Leverage Talent You Don’t Own
Campbell Soup Company and PepsiCo seek advice from anthropologists to understand customer tastes and preferences. Google and Intel engage experts in social science and biomechanics to assess how people think about and use technology.
Companies are...