Harperbusiness: 138 books
Built to Last
Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
"This is not a book about charismatic visionary leaders. It is not about visionary product concepts or visionary products or visionary market insights. Nor is it about just having a corporate vision. This is a book about something far more important, enduring, and substantial. This is a book...
Executive Presence
The Missing Link Between Merit and Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Are you “leadership material?” More importantly, do others perceive you to be? Sylvia Ann Hewlett, a noted expert on workplace power and influence, shows you how to identify and embody the Executive Presence (EP) that you need to succeed.
You can have the experience and qualifications of...
Fascinate, Revised and Updated
How to Make Your Brand Impossible to Resist
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
A newly revised and updated edition of the influential guide that explores one of the most powerful ways to attract attention and influence behavior—fascination—and how businesses, products, and ideas can become irresistible to consumers.
In an oversaturated culture defined by limited time...
A Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug
The Working Woman's Guide to Overthrowing the Patriarchy
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
A rallying cry for working mothers everywhere that demolishes the "distracted, emotional, weak" stereotype and definitively shows that these professionals are more focused, decisive, and stronger than any other force.
Working mothers aren’t a liability. They are assets you—and...
The Person You Mean to Be
How Good People Fight Bias
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
"Favorite Books of 2018" The Greater Good Magazine
Foreword by Laszlo Bock, the bestselling author of Work Rules! and former Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google
An inspiring guide from Dolly Chugh, an award-winning social psychologist at the New York University...
Gen Z Work
How the Next Generation Is Transforming the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
A generations expert and author of When Generations Collide and The M-Factor teams up with his seventeen-year-old son to introduce the next influential demographic group to join the workforce—Generation Z—in this essential study, the first on the subject.
They were born between between...
Kiss Your BUT Good-Bye
How to Get Beyond the One Word That Stands Between You and Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
A simple, engaging, and eminently practical guide to overcoming your weaknesses—your "Buts"—to achieve the career and personal relationships you want
Imagine a workplace where all the employees are aware of the things they do—or fail to do—that prevent them from being more...
Good to Great
Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
The Challenge
Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning.
But what about the company that is not born with great DNA?...
Never Split the Difference
Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations—whether in the boardroom or at home.
After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator...
The Confidence Code
The Science and Art of Self-Assurance---What Women Should Know
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Following the success of Lean In and Why Women Should Rule the World, the authors of the bestselling Womenomics provide an informative and practical guide to understanding the importance of confidence—and learning how to achieve it—for women of all ages and at all stages of their career.
Working...
by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
In this timely manifesto, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework broadly reject the prevailing notion that long hours, aggressive hustle, and "whatever it takes" are required to run a successful business today.
In Rework, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson introduced...
The Golden Passport
Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
With The Firm, financial journalist Duff McDonald pulled back the curtain on consulting giant McKinsey & Company. In The Golden Passport, he reveals the inner works of a singular nexus of power, ambition, and influence: Harvard Business School.
Harvard University still occupies a unique...
Dear Chairman
Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
A sharp and illuminating history of one of capitalism’s longest running tensions—the conflicts of interest among public company directors, managers, and shareholders—told through entertaining case studies and original letters from some of our most legendary and controversial investors and activists.
Recent...
Play Bigger
How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innovators Create and Dominate Markets
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The founders of a respected Silicon Valley advisory firm study legendary category-creating companies and reveal a groundbreaking discipline called category design.
Winning today isn’t about beating the competition at the old game. It’s about inventing a whole new game—defining a new market...