Quick view Press Book Shaping the Game: The New Leader's Guide to Effective Negotiating By Michael D. Watkins, Michael D. Watkins' best-selling book The First 90 Days has become the business bible for accelerating leadership transitions. Now, Watkins zeroes in on the most critical skill leaders must master to secure new roles and accelerate their transitions:... July 10, 2006 $26.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition By Michael E. Porter, For the past two decades, Michael Porter's work has towered over the field of competitive strategy. "On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition" brings together more than a dozen of Porter's landmark articles from the "Harvard Business Review." Five... October 01, 2008 $45.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance By Larry Downes, Chunka Mui, Companies great and small are constantly in search of the killer app--the radical, unexpected creative combination of technology, product, and service--that will redefine value propositions, transform the competitive landscape, and all but annihilate the... April 10, 2000 $16.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Teaching Smart People How to Learn (Harvard Business Review Classics) By Chris Argyris, Why are your smartest and most successful employees often the worst learners? Likely, they haven't had the opportunities for introspection that failure affords. So when they do fail, instead of critically examining their own behavior, they cast blame... May 19, 2008 $9.99 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees? (Harvard Business Review Classics) By Frederick Herzberg, Imagine overseeing a workforce so motivated that employees relish more hours of work, shoulder more responsibility themselves; and favor challenging jobs over paychecks or bonuses. In "One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?" Frederick Herzberg... July 14, 2008 $8.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Managing Global Innovation: Frameworks for Integrating Capabilities around the World By Yves L. Doz, Keeley Wilson, The key to bridging your global innovation gap... In today's global economy, it would be short-sighted to rely solely on local resources for new-product innovations. Instead, knowledge and activity critical to innovation most likely lie outside your... November 20, 2012 $35.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Control in an Age of Empowerment (Harvard Business Review Classics) By Robert Simons, In "Control in an Age of Empowerment," Robert Simons explains how to give employees the freedom to innovate while protecting your firm from loose cannons. Using powerful examples, Simons shows how to apply four powerful management "levers" to balance... October 01, 2008 $9.99 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book The Necessary Art of Persuasion (Harvard Business Review Classics) By Jay Conger, In an age when managers can no longer rely on formal power, persuading people is more important than ever. Persuasion is a process of learning from colleagues and employees and negotiating shared solutions to solving problems and achieving goals. In "The... September 08, 2008 $9.99 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model By John Mullins, Randy Komisar, You have a new venture in mind. And you've crafted a business plan so detailed it's a work of art. Don't get too attached to it. As John Mullins and Randy Komisar explain in "Getting to Plan B," new businesses are fraught with uncertainty. To succeed,... September 08, 2009 $35.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Strategic Alliances: Three Ways to Make Them Work By Steve Steinhilber, As a top executive, you've almost certainly forged strategic alliances with other companies. Some of these deals have worked--but many others have likely failed. In fact, companies worldwide launch more than two thousand strategic alliances every year,... November 03, 2008 $25.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges By Andrew McAfee, "Web 2.0" is the portion of the Internet that's interactively produced by many people; it includes Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, and prediction markets. In just a few years, Web 2.0 communities have demonstrated astonishing levels of... December 01, 2009 $29.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations By John P. Kotter, Dan S. Cohen, Moving beyond the process of change... Why is change so hard? Because in order to make any transformation successful, you must change more than just the structure and operations of an organization--you need to change people's behavior. And that is never... August 01, 2002 $29.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage By Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton, In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area--not with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures,... August 04, 2008 $45.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Ethics for the Real World: Creating a Personal Code to Guide Decisions in Work and Life By Ronald A. Howard, Clinton D. Korver, We often make small ethical compromises for "good" reasons: We lie to a customer because our boss asked us to. We exaggerate our accomplishments on our resume to get an interview. Temptation blindsides us. And we make snap decisions we regret. Minor... June 24, 2008 $35.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Marketing as Strategy: Understanding the CEO's Agenda for Driving Growth and Innovation By Nirmalya Kumar, CEOs are more than frustrated by marketing's inability to deliver results. Has the profession lost its relevance? Nirmalya Kumar argues that, although the function of marketing has lost ground, the importance of marketing as a mind-set--geared toward... May 05, 2004 $35.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Rocking the Boat: How to Effect Change Without Making Trouble By Debra Meyerson, Most people feel at odds with their organizations at one time or another: Managers with families struggle to balance professional and personal responsibilities in often unsympathetic firms. Members of minority groups strive to make their organizations... March 01, 2008 $28.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Manage the Media: (Don't Let the Media Manage You) By William J. Holstein, From our new Memo to the CEO series--solutions-focused advice from today's leading practitioners.Today's CEOs are facing a major public-relations problem: They're getting shellacked by the media. And this is costing companies more than lost... April 03, 2008 $18.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book How to Write a Great Business Plan (Harvard Business Review Classics) By William A. Sahlman, Judging by all the hoopla surrounding business plans, you'd think the only things standing between would-be entrepreneurs and spectacular success are glossy five-color charts, bundles of meticulous-looking spreadsheets, and decades of month-by-month... March 01, 2008 $9.99 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Five Future Strategies You Need Right Now By George Stalk, It's easy to miss many innovations in strategy until they appear on the front page of a major business publication. But by then everyone--including all your competitors--is using them. As a CEO or senior executive, your job is to detect these... January 29, 2008 $18.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Leading Teams By Harvard Business School Press, Leading productive teams requires laying the groundwork for success and following through effectively. This guide offers immediately actionable advice on how to choose the right team members; clarify goals, rules, and responsibilities; foster trust,... April 04, 2006 $15.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change By Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony, Erik A. Roth, Every day, individuals take action based on how they believe innovation will change industries. Yet these beliefs are largely based on guesswork and incomplete data and lead to costly errors in judgment. Now, internationally renowned innovation expert... September 21, 2004 $35.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Dismissing an Employee By Harvard Business School Press, 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... October 05, 2007 $9.95 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Rapid Transformation: A 90-day Plan for Fast and Effective Change By Behnam Tabrizi, Profound organizational transformation takes years and in most cases is unsuccessful, right? Not according to change expert Behnam Tabrizi. In "Rapid Transformation: A 90-Day Plan for Fast and Effective Change," Tabrizi shows you how to accomplish... November 20, 2007 $35.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers By Karen Berman, Joe Knight, Using the groundbreaking formula they introduced in their book "Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean," Karen Berman and Joe Knight present the essentials of finance specifically for entrepreneurial managers... October 07, 2008 $32.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Financial Intelligence for IT Professionals: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers By Karen Berman, Joe Knight, John Case, As an IT manager, you're expected to make key decisions and recommend major investments. And that means understanding your decisions' financial impact on your company. But if you're like many information technology practitioners, you may feel... May 26, 2008 $30.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Financial Intelligence for HR Professionals: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers By Karen Berman, Joe Knight, John Case, As an HR manager, you're expected to use financial data to make decisions, allocate resources, and budget expenses. But if you're like many human resource practitioners, you may feel uncertain or uncomfortable incorporating financial numbers into your... April 22, 2008 $32.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Data Driven: Profiting from Your Most Important Business Asset By Thomas C. Redman, Your company's data has the potential to add enormous value to every facet of the organization -- from marketing and new product development to strategy to financial management. Yet if your company is like most, it's not using its data to create... September 22, 2008 $35.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking By Roger Martin, If you want to be as successful as Jack Welch, Larry Bossidy, or Michael Dell, read their autobiographical advice books, right? Wrong, says Roger Martin in The Opposable Mind. Though following best practice can help in some ways, it also poses a... July 07, 2009 $35.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Reward Systems: Does Yours Measure Up? By Steve Kerr, It's one of the thorniest management problems around: dealing with unmotivated, low-performing employees. It's easy to point the finger of blame at them. But in most companies, it's the reward system, not the workforce, that's causing poor attitudes and... December 04, 2008 $18.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book The Leadership Code: Five Rules to Lead By By Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood, Kate Sweetman, What makes a great leader? It's a question that has been tackled by thousands. In fact, there are literally tens of thousands of leadership studies, theories, frameworks, models, and recommended best practices. But where are the clear, simple answers we... January 08, 2009 $35.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book The Big Pivot: Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World By Andrew Winston, We live in a fundamentally changed world. It's time for your approach to strategy to change, too. The evidence is all around us. Extreme weather, driven by climate change, is shattering records all over the planet. Our natural resources are in greater... April 15, 2014 $30.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results By Morten T. Hansen, 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,... May 12, 2009 $35.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Stats and Curiosities: From Harvard Business Review By Harvard Business Review, Fascinating stats... useful tips... entertaining topics. Did you know that to make a task seem easier, all you have to do is lean back a little? Or that retail salespeople who mimic the way their customers speak and behave end up selling more? If you... October 15, 2013 $18.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book How to Sell More: Tools and Techniques from Harvard Business Review By Harvard Business Review, Over the last decade, technology has dramatically changed the role of salespeople at companies of all sizes. But one crucial fact remains: Sales is the most vital function of every business. In How to Sell More, the editors of Harvard Business Review... February 26, 2013 $9.99 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win? By George Stalk, Rob Lachenauer, Great companies stumble and fall when they lose it. Highfliers crash when a competitor notices they don't have it. Start-ups shut down if they can't develop it. "It" is a strategy so powerful and an execution-driven mindset so relentless that companies... October 12, 2004 $25.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Private Label Strategy: How to Meet the Store Brand Challenge By Nirmalya Kumar, Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp, As retailers have become more powerful and global, they have increasingly focused on their own brands at the expense of manufacturer brands. Rather than simply selling on price, retailers have transformed private labels into brands. Consequently,... February 13, 2007 $35.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters By Barbara Kellerman, How is Saddam Hussein like Tony Blair? Or Kenneth Lay like Lou Gerstner? Answer: They are, or were, leaders. Many would argue that tyrants, corrupt CEOs, and other abusers of power and authority are not leaders at all--at least not as the word is... September 27, 2004 $40.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities By Thomas H. Davenport, Go ahead, be skeptical about big data. The author was--at first. When the term "big data" first came on the scene, bestselling author Tom Davenport ("Competing on Analytics," "Analytics at Work") thought it was just another example of technology hype... February 25, 2014 $35.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Critical Knowledge Transfer: Tools for Managing Your Company's Deep Smarts By Dorothy Leonard, Walter Swap, Gavin Barton, How to transfer your organization's most important knowledge--before it walks out the door. When highly skilled subject matter experts, engineers, and managers leave their organizations, they take with them years of hard-earned, experience-based... December 02, 2014 $32.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book The Innovator's Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization By Nathan R. Furr, Jeffrey H. Dyer, Have you ever come up with an idea for a new product or service but didn’t take any action because you thought it would be too risky? Or at work, have you had what you thought could be a big idea for your company--perhaps changing the way you... September 09, 2014 $35.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book How CEOs Can Fix Capitalism By Raymond Gilmartin, Steven E. Prokesch, The financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession caused a crisis of public confidence in business and American-style capitalism, with its focus on maximizing shareholder value. Corporate leaders understood that reform was needed and that they needed... July 09, 2013 $9.99 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Through the Labyrinth: The Truth About How Women Become Leaders By Alice H. Eagly, Linda L. Carli, Despite real progress, women remain rare enough in elite positions of power that their presence still evokes a sense of wonder. In "Through the Labyrinth," Alice Eagly and Linda Carli examine why women's paths to power remain difficult to traverse... October 16, 2007 $35.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation By George Westerman, Didier Bonnet, Andrew McAfee, Become a Digital Master--No Matter What Business You're In. If you think the phrase "going digital" is only relevant for industries like tech, media, and entertainment--think again. In fact, mobile, analytics, social media, sensors, and cloud computing... October 14, 2014 $32.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization By Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey, A recent study showed that when doctors tell heart patients they will die if they don't change their habits, only one in seven will be able to follow through successfully. Desire and motivation aren't enough: even when it's literally a matter of life or... February 15, 2009 $35.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Becoming a Resonant Leader: Develop Your Emotional Intelligence, Renew Your Relationships, Sustain Your Effectiveness By Annie McKee, Richard Boyatzis, Fran Johnston, 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... March 06, 2008 $32.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book How I Did It: Lessons from the Front Lines of Business By Harvard Business Review, Daniel McGinn, Powerful stories from the world's top CEOs to help prepare you for the hard decisions ahead. The essays in "How I Did It" teach and inspire. Pulled directly from the pages of one of the most popular columns in "Harvard Business Review," these essays... September 09, 9999 $0.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, Second Edition: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know By David A. Moss, Understanding the Ground Rules for the Global Economy. In this revised and updated edition of "A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics," David A. Moss draws on his years of teaching at Harvard Business School to explain important macro concepts using clear and... August 05, 2014 $35.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World By John P. Kotter, Based on the award-winning article in Harvard Business Review, from global leadership expert John Kotter. It's a familiar scene in organizations today: a new competitive threat or a big opportunity emerges. You quickly create a strategic initiative in... April 08, 2014 $28.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Reorganize for Resilience: Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business By Ranjay Gulati, In an era of raging commoditization and eroding profit margins, survival depends on resilience: staying one step ahead of your customers. Sure, most companies say they're "customer-focused," but they don't deliver solutions to customers' thorniest... January 19, 2010 $38.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book It's Not the How or the What but the Who: Succeed by Surrounding Yourself with the Best By Claudio Fernandez-Araoz, 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 Fernandez-Araoz calls "the art... June 03, 2014 $0.00 (USD) Choose Options
Quick view Press Book Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming, and How to Prevent Them By Max H. Bazerman, Michael D. Watkins, Were the earth-shattering events of September 11, 2001 predictable, or were they a surprise? What about the collapse of Enron in bankruptcy and scandal? Max Bazerman and Michael Watkins argue that they were actually "predictable surprises"--disastrous... April 16, 2008 $25.00 (USD) Choose Options