Business, Finance & Law Books

Book SynopsisThe best entrepreneurs balance brilliant business ideas with a rigorous commitment to serving their customers' needs.If you read nothing else on entrepreneurship and startups, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you build your company for enduring success.Leading experts and practitioners such as Clayton Christensen, Marc Andreessen, and Reid Hoffman provide the insights and advice that will inspire you to: Understand what makes entrepreneurial leaders tick Know what matters in a great business plan Adopt lean startup practices such as business model experimentation Be prepared for the race for scale in Silicon Valley Better understand the world of venture capital--and know what you'll get along with VC funding Take an alternative approach to entrepreneurship: buy an existing business and run it as CEO This collection of articles includes "Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader," by Timothy Butler; "How to Write a Great Business Plan," by William A. Sahlman; "Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything," by Steve Blank; "The President of SRI Ventures on Bringing Siri to Life," by Norman Winarsky; "In Search of the Next Big Thing," an interview with Marc Andreessen by Adi Ignatius; "Six Myths About Venture Capitalists," by Diane Mulcahy; "Chobani's Founder on Growing a Start-Up Without Outside Investors," by Hamdi Ulukaya; "Network Effects Aren’t Enough," by Andrei Hagiu and Simon Rothman; "Blitzscaling," an interview with Reid Hoffman by Tim Sullivan; "Buying Your Way into Entrepreneurship," by Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff; and "The Founder's Dilemma," by Noam Wasserman.

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Book SynopsisDon't let a fear of numbers hold you back.Today's business environment brings with it an onslaught of data. Now more than ever, managers must know how to tease insight from data--to understand where the numbers come from, make sense of them, and use them to inform tough decisions. How do you get started?Whether you're working with data experts or running your own tests, you'll find answers in the HBR Guide to Data Analytics Basics for Managers. This book describes three key steps in the data analysis process, so you can get the information you need, study the data, and communicate your findings to others.You'll learn how to: Identify the metrics you need to measure Run experiments and A/B tests Ask the right questions of your data experts Understand statistical terms and concepts Create effective charts and visualizations Avoid common mistakes

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Book SynopsisDon't wait for someone else to manage your career.The days of HR-sponsored development plans are over. Managing your career--and the skills you need to be successful--is your responsibility. If you're looking to push yourself to the next level, it can be hard to determine where to start.The HBR Guide to Your Professional Growth will be your coach, transforming your abstract hopes and ideas into a concrete action plan. No matter where you are in your career, this guide will help you: Assess your current skills--and acquire new ones Elicit feedback you can use Set meaningful--and achievable--goals Make time for learning Play to your strengths Identify your next challenge Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, from a source you trust. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.

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Book SynopsisNew Tools for Succeeding GloballyWhy do so many global strategies fail--despite companies' powerful brands and other border-crossing advantages? Because a one-size-fits-all strategy no longer stands a chance.When firms believe in the illusions of a "flat" world and the death of distance, they charge across borders as if the globe were one seamless marketplace. But cross-border differences are larger than we assume. Most economic activity--including trade, real and financial investment, tourism, and communication--happens locally, not internationally. In this "semiglobalized" approach, companies can cross borders more profitably by basing their strategies on the geopolitical differences that matter; they must identify the barriers their strategies will have to overcome, and they must build bridges to cross those barriers. Based on rigorous research, Pankaj Ghemawat shows how to create successful strategies and provides practical management tools so you can: Assess the cultural, administrative, geographic, and economic differences between regions at the industry level--and decide which ones require attention Track the implications of the specific border-crossing actions that will impact your company's ability to create value the most Generate superior performance through strategies that are optimized for the three A's: adaptation (adjusting to differences), aggregation (overcoming differences), and arbitrage (exploiting differences) Using in-depth examples, Ghemawat reveals how companies such as Cemex, Toyota, Procter & Gamble, Tata Consultancy Services, IBM, and GE Healthcare are adroitly managing cross-border differences. He also shares examples of other well-known companies that have failed at this challenge. Crucial for any business competing across borders, Redefining Global Strategy will help you make the most of our semiglobalized world.Trade ReviewPraise for Redefining Global Strategy:Samuel J. Palmisano, former Chairman of the Board and CEO, IBM Corporation--"Pankaj Ghemawat has created an important strategic guidebook for leaders of the globally integrated enterprises of the twenty-first century. His analytical framework is both visionary and pragmatic—aware of the broad historic trajectories of globalization, but grounded in the real kinds of decisions business leaders have to make now. His caveats about 'semiglobalization' provide a salutary reminder that massive change of this kind doesn't happen overnight. By basing his analysis on real-world case studies and a mastery of economic data, Ghemawat helps CEOs and leaders make smart decisions on one of the most important challenges we all face."Michael Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School--"Pankaj Ghemawat is one of those rare individuals who combines world-class scholarship with a deep knowledge of business practice. Redefining Global Strategy tackles the crucial balance between local and global that will often define success in an increasingly globalized world economy."Prof. Dr. Ulrich Lehner, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Telekom and Thyssenkrupp AG--"Pankaj Ghemawat's differentiated industry- and company-specific views on globalization offer essential insights and thought-provoking impulses for today's decision makers. For anyone who aims to realize the full potential of globalization, it clearly confirms: the world isn't flat!"Jose Ignacio Goirigolzarri, President, Bankia--"International firms have to reflect more deeply on how to coordinate their commitments around the world. Pankaj Ghemawat's pioneering book offers an innovative approach for how to deal with this critical challenge."Ratan Tata, former Chairman, Tata Group--"Pankaj Ghemawat's Redefining Global Strategy has very appropriately identified the world we live in as only 'semiglobalized.' He builds on this definition to present some very valuable and innovative frameworks for developing strategies for internationalization and global value creation. The book offers a comprehensive treatment of one of the most important issues engaging the business community."

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Book SynopsisLearn how to deal with difficult colleagues and clients.At the heart of dealing with difficult people is handling their--and your own--emotions. How do you stay calm in a tough conversation? How do you stay unruffled in the face of passive-aggressive comments? And how do you know if you're difficult to work with?This book explains the research behind our emotional response to awful colleagues and shows how to build the empathy and resilience to make those relationships more productive.Books in this series are based on the work of experts including: Daniel Goleman Tony Schwartz Nick Morgan Daniel Gilbert This collection of articles includes "To Resolve a Conflict, First Decide: Is It Hot or Cold?" by Mark Gerzon; "Taking the Stress Out of Stressful Conversations," by Holly Weeks; "The Secret to Dealing with Difficult People: It's About You," by Tony Schwartz; "How to Deal with a Mean Colleague," by Amy Gallo; "How To Deal with a Passive-Aggressive Colleague," by Amy Gallo; "How to Work with Someone Who's Always Stressed Out," by Rebecca Knight; "How to Manage Someone Who Thinks Everything Is Urgent," by Liz Kislik; and "Do You Hate Your Boss?" by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries.HOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK.The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

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Book SynopsisThe guide all MBAs and exec ed students need.If you're enrolled in an MBA or executive education program, you've probably encountered a powerful learning tool: the business case. But if you're like many people, you may find interpreting and writing about cases mystifying and time-consuming. In The Case Study Handbook, Revised Edition, William Ellet presents a potent new approach for efficiently analyzing, discussing, and writing about cases. Early chapters show how to classify cases according to the analytical task they require (making a decision, performing an evaluation, or diagnosing a problem) and quickly establish a base of knowledge about a case. Strategies and templates, in addition to several sample Harvard Business School cases, help you apply the author's framework. Later in the book, Ellet shows how to write persuasive case-analytical essays based on the process laid out earlier. Examples of effective writing further reinforce the methods. The book also includes a chapter on how to talk about cases more effectively in class. Any current or prospective MBA or executive education student needs this guide.

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Book SynopsisForget what you know about the world of workYou crave feedback. Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. Your competencies should be measured and your weaknesses shored up. Leadership is a thing.These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually, they're lies. As strengths guru and bestselling author Marcus Buckingham and Cisco Leadership and Team Intelligence head Ashley Goodall show in this provocative, inspiring book, there are some big lies--distortions, faulty assumptions, wrong thinking--that we encounter every time we show up for work. Nine lies, to be exact. They cause dysfunction and frustration, ultimately resulting in workplaces that are a pale shadow of what they could be.But there are those who can get past the lies and discover what's real. These freethinking leaders recognize the power and beauty of our individual uniqueness. They know that emergent patterns are more valuable than received wisdom and that evidence is more powerful than dogma.With engaging stories and incisive analysis, the authors reveal the essential truths that such freethinking leaders will recognize immediately: that it is the strength and cohesiveness of your team, not your company's culture, that matter most; that we should focus less on top-down planning and more on giving our people reliable, real-time intelligence; that rather than trying to align people's goals we should strive to align people's sense of purpose and meaning; that people don't want constant feedback, they want helpful attention.This is the real world of work, as it is and as it should be. Nine Lies About Work reveals the few core truths that will help you show just how good you are to those who truly rely on you.Trade Review"Nine Lies About Work, by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall, the year's best management book, challenges the assumptions that underlie contemporary managerial practices, many of which date back to Drucker's day. In doing so, the book offers a glimpse of a new management paradigm that may prove to be better suited to the times." -- strategy+business magazineNamed one of "Our 10 favorite new books for people managers" by SHRM (Society for Human Resource Managers)One of the Financial Times "Business Books of the Month"Named a Bloomberg Businessweek pickNamed one of "14 business books everyone will be reading in 2019" by Business InsiderNamed one of "10 Leadership Books to Watch for in 2019" by the Washington PostNamed one of "10 Business Books You Need to Read in 2019" by Inc. magazineNamed one of "The 19 New Leadership Books to Read in 2019" by Adam Grant on LinkedIn"Nine Lies is utterly readable, often entertaining, and not just polite, but carefully reasoned and argued using some unusual real-world examples and even some from literature." - Human Resource Executive (hrexecutive.com)"leads to some free thinking about the way we do our jobs and how we can approach what we do in a different way." -- Financial Times"If a business book teaches me something new--and offers a fresh perspective on leadership--then I know it's a rare find in the category. Nine Lies About Work is just such a book. It's so thought provoking, I contacted the authors to speak with them directly." -- Forbes"…should be on every boss's bookshelf." -- Management Today"a stimulating, no-nonsense, research-based look at things you likely believe that aren't true – and how to apply the new findings." -- The Globe and Mail"The act of work is human. Leading and following and working together is about human interaction and human relationships. The workplace, and the marketplace beyond it, is about emotions and attention and the desire to be seen. It is about trust and, yes, it is about love. I am always grateful to be reminded of that, to see it again clearly, to have it acknowledged. Nine Lies About Work is a great reminder, and a great guide." -- 800 CEO READ"Give a copy of this book to everyone in your organization who's leading a team and make it essential reading." -- The Hamilton Spectator"If you're looking for a refreshing read that challenges the conventional wisdom of the business world, this is a book for your shelf." -- TD magazine (Association for Talent Development)"There is much we can learn about managing and leading our schools from its pages." -- Inside Higher EdAdvance Praise for Nine Lies About Work:In today's complex world, we instinctively seek simplicity. But in many cases, it's easier to lie to ourselves than it is to face the harsh reality--to see more of what want to see than how things really are. In Nine Lies About Work, Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall shine a light on just how dangerous those lies can be, especially in the context of our careers. Combining engaging stories about the modern workplace with nuanced quantitative analysis, Nine Lies About Work debunks the myths that surround leadership, planning, and balance in the corporate world. Everyone who reads this book is sure to be a better employee, but more importantly, a better leader. -- Gen. Stan McChrystal (Ret’d), United States Army

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Book SynopsisBecome a mindful listener at work.Listening is a critical skill that leaders and managers often take for granted. By learning to listen mindfully, you can keep your employees more engaged, foster the discovery of new ideas, and hear what you need to hear in a discussion rather than what you expect to hear.The book will teach you what great listeners do, how to stay fully present in challenging conversations, and how empathic listening can help others learn and grow.This volume includes the work of: Peter Bregman Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter Amy Jen Su and Muriel Maignan Wilkins How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

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Book SynopsisWhat will it take to create a more gender-balanced workplace?If you read nothing else on leadership and gender at work, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you understand where gender equality is today--and how far we still have to go.This book will inspire you to: Better understand the path women must take to leadership Learn the root causes of the barriers that exist for women in the workplace Check your own gender biases and distinguish between confidence and competence in your colleagues Manage a more effective gender-diversity program Recognize the issues women face when speaking up about bias or harassment Help women reenter the workforce after taking time off--and create opportunities for them to reach their ambitions. This collection of articles includes "Women and the Labyrinth of Leadership," by Alice H. Eagly and Linda L. Carli; "Do Women Lack Ambition?" by Anna Fels; "Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers," by Herminia Ibarra, Robin Ely, and Deborah Kolb; "Women and the Vision Thing," by Herminia Ibarra and Otilia Obodaru; "The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why," by Deborah Tannen; "The Memo Every Woman Keeps in Her Desk," by Kathleen Reardon; "Why Diversity Programs Fail," by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev; "Now What?" by Joan C. Williams and Suzanne Lebsock; "The Battle for Female Talent in Emerging Markets," by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid; "Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success," by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce; and "Sheryl Sandberg: The HBR Interview," by Sheryl Sandberg and Adi Ignatius.

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Book SynopsisRethink how your organization creates, delivers, and captures value--or risk becoming irrelevant.If you read nothing else on business model innovation, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you reach new customers and stay ahead of your competitors by reinventing your business model.This book will inspire you to: Assess whether your core business model is going strong or running out of gas Fend off free and discount entrants to your market Reinvigorate growth by adding a second business model Adopt the practices of lean startups Develop a platform around your key products Make business model innovation an ongoing discipline within your organization This collection of articles includes "Why Business Models Matter," by Joan Magretta; "Reinventing Your Business Model," by Mark W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen, and Henning Kagermann; "When Your Business Model Is in Trouble," an interview with Rita Gunther McGrath by Sarah Cliffe; "Four Paths to Business Model Innovation," by Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine; "The Transformative Business Model," by Stelios Kavadias, Kostas Ladas, and Christoph Loch; "Competing Against Free," by David J. Bryce, Jeffrey H. Dyer, and Nile W. Hatch; "Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything," by Steve Blank; "Finding the Platform in Your Product," by Andrei Hagiu and Elizabeth J. Altman; "Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy," by Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Geoffrey G. Parker, and Sangeet Paul Choudary; "When One Business Model Isn't Enough," by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Jorge Tarzijan; and "Reaching the Rich World's Poorest Consumers," by Muhammad Yunus, Frederic Dalsace, David Menasce, and Benedicte Faivre-Tavignot.HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further.HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever‐changing business environment.

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Book SynopsisNonprofits and the social sectors are taking on an increasing share of the world's most vital work. Make sure your organization is ready for the challenge.If you read nothing else on nonprofits and the social sectors, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you align your organization's mission and strategy, deliver immediate impact, and create lasting change.This book will inspire you to: Choose the right problem to solve Understand when the best practices of for-profits don't apply Assemble an engaged and goal-driven board of directors Make the most of for-profit initiatives and corporate partnerships Drive demand, scale up, and be ready to change course Learn from the success stories of the world's most respected nonprofit leaders This collection of articles includes "Lofty Missions, Down-to-Earth Plans," by V. Kasturi Rangan; "What Business Can Learn from Nonprofits," by Peter F. Drucker; "Life's Work: An Interview with Desmond Tutu"; "Are You Solving the Right Problem?" by Dwayne Spradlin; "Life's Work: An Interview with George Mitchell"; "Enterprising Nonprofits," by J. Gregory Dees; "Life's Work: An Interview with Wynton Marsalis"; "State Street's CEO on Creating Employment for At-Risk Youths," by Joseph Hooley; "Life's Work: An Interview with Salman Khan"; "Do Better at Doing Good," by V. Kasturi Rangan, Sohel Karim, and Sheryl K. Sandberg; "AEI's President on Measuring the Impact of Ideas," by Arthur C. Brooks; "Life's Work: An Interview with Michelle Bachelet"; "The New Work of the Nonprofit Board," by Barbara E. Taylor, Richard P. Chait, and Thomas P. Holland; "Life's Work: An Interview with Bill T. Jones"; "Reaching the World's Poorest Consumers," by Muhammad Yunus, Frederic Dalsace, David Menasce, and Benedicte Faivre-Tavignot; "Life's Work: An Interview with Muhammad Yunus"; and "Audacious Philanthropy: Lessons from 15 World-Changing Initiatives," by Susan Wolf Ditkoff and Abe Grindle.

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Book SynopsisBusiness Models for Transforming Customer RelationshipsWhat if there were a way to turn occasional, sporadic transactions with customers into long-term, continuous relationships--while simultaneously driving dramatic improvements in operational efficiency? What if you could break your existing trade-offs between superior customer experience and low cost?This is the promise of a connected strategy. New forms of connectivity--involving frequent, low-friction, customized interactions--mean that companies can now anticipate customer needs as they arise, or even before. Simultaneously, enabled by these technologies, companies can create new business models that deliver more value to customers. Connected strategies are win-win: Customers get a dramatically improved experience, while companies boost operational efficiency.In this book, strategy and operations experts Nicolaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch reveal the emergence of connected strategies as a new source of competitive advantage. With in-depth examples from companies operating in industries such as healthcare, financial services, mobility, retail, entertainment, nonprofit, and education, Connected Strategy identifies the four pathways--respond-to-desire, curated offering, coach behavior, and automatic execution--for turning episodic interactions into continuous relationships. The authors show how each pathway creates a competitive advantage, then guide you through the critical decisions for creating and implementing your own connected strategies.Whether you're trying to revitalize strategy in an established company or disrupt an industry as a startup, this book will help you: Reshape your connections with your customers Find new ways to connect with existing suppliers while also activating new sources of capacity Create the right revenue model Make the best technology choices to support your strategy Integrating rich examples, how-to advice, and practical tools in the form of "workshop chapters" throughout, this book is the ultimate resource for creating competitive advantage through connected relationships with your customers and redefined connections in your industry.Trade Review"…enlightening and easy to read… The book is a worthwhile read for those looking to build new business models based on digital strategies. It is a useful resource for C-suite executives, strategic planners, consumer researchers, and others responsible for operations, marketing, consumer research, finance, and technology functions." — RTM (Research Technology Management)Advance Praise for Connected Strategy:Adam Grant, author, New York Times bestsellers Originals and Give and Take--"In a connected world, companies live and die on their ability to create great customer experiences. In this book, two leading experts on strategy and innovation team up to explore how to create those experiences in a rapidly changing world. Their lively, practical book offers rich cases, evidence, and frameworks for gaining and maintaining a competitive advantage."Reid Hoffman, cofounder, LinkedIn; Partner, Greylock Partners; and coauthor, Blitzscaling--"This insightful book blends academic rigor with practical, step-by-step tools that can help you design innovative business models for the Networked Age. Connected Strategy shows how to leverage continuous connectivity and emerging AI to make deep relationships that benefit customers and businesses alike. Read this book if you want to build a business model of the future."William P. Lauder, Executive Chairman, The Estee Lauder Companies--"A timely and practical guide and a great resource for how to create deeper relationships with consumers. In today's increasingly competitive environment, connected strategies that seamlessly link consumers, companies, and suppliers will be the future in many industries."William McNabb, former Chief Executive, The Vanguard Group--"In their brilliant new book, Nicolaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch upend traditional thinking about how to build enduring customer relationships that create competitive advantage. What makes this book special--and a must-read--is the combination of a novel way of thinking about customer relationships with specific, practical advice on how to implement these ideas. I just ordered a stack of copies for my colleagues!"Michael E. Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School--"Siggelkow and Terwiesch's important book addresses the major transformation in how companies interact with customers in the Digital Age--a transformation that is reshaping almost every dimension on which companies compete. These changes have led to customer information sharing, collaborative marketing, the development of new kinds of products and services together with new support models, and new business models based on product usage instead of conventional purchasing. The book provides a rich, accessible, and actionable road map for understanding these important changes and their implications, which every company and its leadership team needs to understand and address."

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Book Synopsis"Unleashed is worth an afternoon of your time, whether or not you are already a leader. It is sparkily written and personal, drawing on the experiences of co-authors (and spouses) Frei and Morriss."— Financial TimesLeadership isn't easy. It takes grit, courage, and vision, among other things, that can be hard to come by on your toughest days. When leaders and aspiring leaders seek out advice, they're often told to try harder. Dig deeper. Look in the mirror and own your natural-born strengths and fix any real or perceived career-limiting deficiencies.Frances Frei and Anne Morriss offer a different worldview. They argue that this popular leadership advice glosses over the most important thing you do as a leader: build others up. Leadership isn't about you. It's about how effective you are at empowering other people—and making sure this impact endures even in your absence. As Frei and Morriss show through inspiring stories from ancient Rome to present-day Silicon Valley, the origins of great leadership are found, paradoxically, not in worrying about your own status and advancement, but in the unrelenting focus on other people's potential.Unleashed provides radical advice for the practice of leadership today. Showing how the boldest, most effective leaders use a special combination of trust, love, and belonging to create an environment in which other people can excel, Frei and Morriss offer practical, battle-tested tools—based on their work with companies such as Uber, Riot Games, WeWork, and others—along with interviews and stories from their own personal experience, to make these ideas come alive. This book is your indispensable guide for unleashing greatness in other people . . . and, ultimately, in yourself.To learn more, please visit theleadersguide.com.Trade ReviewSilver Medal Winner for Best Leadership Book in the 2021 Axiom Business Book AwardsShortlisted for the OWL (Outstanding Works of Literature) Awards in Management and CultureNamed one of "8 New Books That Will Make You a Better Leader In 2021" — Forbes"Full of superb stories, this book first dispels an enduring misapprehension for many leaders—it's just not about you—then makes clear that a leader's job above all else is to unleash potential in others." — SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management)"Their book is generous, humane—and yes, empowering." — BizEd magazineAdvance Praise for Unleashed:"Frei and Morriss have written the definitive guide to leadership today, just when we need it most. In voices that are fresh, playful, and unapologetically direct, they give us permission to look beyond ourselves and focus instead on the true challenge of leadership: how to help others unlock their full potential." — Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO, Thrive Global"Through insight drawn from their extensive work teaching leaders and companies how to thrive, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss offer more proof that trust is a competitive advantage and the key to building effective, happy teams." — Doug McMillon, President and CEO, Walmart "No matter where you are on your leadership journey, the engaging stories and real-life examples Frei and Morriss use to illustrate the traits of effective leaders will help you empower others to do their best work and create lasting impact." — Peggy Johnson, Executive Vice President, Business Development, Microsoft"Frei and Morriss have a unique gift of understanding how to empower leaders to unlock the potential in themselves, their teams, and their businesses. The guidance they share in Unleashed is invaluable for me and for the leadership teams I work with." — Jacqui Canney, Chief People Officer, WPP"In Unleashed, Frei and Morriss provide an incredibly compelling case for effective leadership by distilling what leadership is all about. The stories and frameworks have helped me take meaningful steps on my lifelong journey toward being a better person and a better leader." — Marc Merrill, cofounder and Cochairman, Riot Games"Frei and Morriss have brilliantly encapsulated what normally takes a leader many years and many mistakes to learn and have given it back to the reader in the form of a beautiful blueprint for successful leadership. Unleashed is full of relevant experiences I wish I'd had when I moved from leading individuals to leading teams—and realized it was no longer about me." — Jennifer Morgan, Co-CEO and Member of the Executive Board, SAP"The first step to breakthrough is self-realization. The next step is harnessing the career-catapulting lessons in Unleashed." — Bozoma Saint John, Chief Marketing Officer, Endeavor

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Book SynopsisAs CEO, you set the vision, the strategy, and the tone of your organization.You establish priorities, anticipate and address challenges, champion and lead change efforts, set people up for success, and manage risk. Though you may have a great senior executive team and a top-flight board, the success of your organization depends on your leadership.If you read nothing else on being an effective chief executive, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the best ones to help you toggle between long- and short-term views, manage risk and innovation, and cultivate productive relationships with your staff and your board. This book will inspire you to: Navigate the changing global business environment Customize your company's strategy to the environment you're working in Attract, engage, and retain the best talent Anticipate and address legislative and regulatory issues Sharpen your awareness of the tactical and soft skills you need to lead Adopt a founder's mindset and build new offerings, move into new markets, and create next-generation solutions Manage and build relationships with your board--and your shareholders This collection of articles includes "Your Strategy Needs a Strategy," by Martin Reeves, Claire Love, and Philipp Tillmanns; "Managing Your Innovation Portfolio," by Bansi Nagji and Geoff Tuff; "Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail," by John P. Kotter; "Reinventing Your Business Model," by Mark W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen, and Henning Kagermann; "Leadership Is a Conversation," by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind; "Strategic Intent," by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad; "When Growth Stalls," by Matthew S. Olson, Derek van Bever, and Seth Verry; "The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution," by Gary L. Neilson, Karla L. Martin, and Elizabeth Powers; "The Focused Leader," by Daniel Goleman; "Managing Risks: A New Framework," by Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes; "21st-Century Talent Spotting," by Claudio Fernandez-Araoz; and "How CEOs Can Work with an Active Board," by Ken Banta and Stephen D. Garrow.

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Book SynopsisA good visualization can communicate the nature and potential impact of ideas more powerfully than any other form of communication.For a long time, dataviz was left to specialists--data scientists and professional designers. No longer. A new generation of tools and massive amounts of available data make it easy for anyone to create visualizations that communicate ideas far more effectively than generic spreadsheet charts ever could. The Harvard Business Review Good Charts Collection brings together two popular books to help you become more sophisticated in understanding and using dataviz to communicate your ideas and advance your career.In Good Charts, dataviz maven and Harvard Business Review editor Scott Berinato provides an essential guide to how visualization works and how to use this new language to impress and persuade. He lays out a system for thinking visually and building better charts through a process of talking, sketching, and prototyping.

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Book SynopsisGold Medal Winner for Best Leadership Book in the 2021 Axiom Business Book AwardsNamed one of the "Top Ten Technology Books Of 2020" — ForbesNamed one of the "10 Best New Business Books of 2020" by Inc. magazine"Johnson and Suskewicz have raised a battle cry for the kind of leadership we need in these uncertain times." -- Sandi Peterson, Member, Board of Directors, MicrosoftWe all know a visionary leader when we see one. They're bold and prophetic and at the same time pragmatic. They don't just promote change--they drive it, while inspiring and mobilizing others to do the same. Visionaries like Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos possess a host of innate qualities that make them extraordinary, but what truly sets them apart is their ability to turn vision into action.In Lead from the Future, Innosight's Mark W. Johnson and Josh Suskewicz introduce a new way of thinking and managing, called "future-back," that enables any manager to become a practical visionary. Addressing the many barriers to change that exist in established organizations, they present a systematic approach to overcoming them that includes: The principles and mind-set that allow leadership teams to look beyond typical short-term planning horizons A method for turning emerging challenges into the growth opportunities that can define an organization's future A step-by-step approach for translating a vision into a strategic plan that teams can align around and commit to Ways to ensure that visionary thinking becomes a repeatable organizational capability As practical as it is inspiring, Lead from the Future is the guide you and your team need to develop a vision and translate it into transformative growth.Trade ReviewGold Medal Winner for Best Leadership Book of 2021 — Axiom Business Book AwardsNamed one of the "Top Ten Technology Books Of 2020" — ForbesNamed one of the "10 Best New Business Books of 2020" — Inc. magazine"6 Business Books You Need to Read to Level Up" — Success magazine"The book is both a philosophical treatise on managing in a world filled with ambiguity and a practical step-by-step guide for what strategic planning should be." — CHOICE, the publication of the American Library AssociationAdvance Praise for Lead from the Future:"A powerful manifesto for long-view thinking, Lead from the Future offers step-by-step guidance for leadership teams that want to let go of the past and seize a new future. I recommend it wholeheartedly to any manager who wants to become a visionary leader." -- Scott Cook, cofounder and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Intuit; Member of the Board, Procter & Gamble and eBay"Lead from the Future shares invaluable examples of 'future-back' thinkers and companies that have exhibited long-term focus, sustained investments, and life-changing innovations. The book provides actionable insights and operating models to challenge your leadership teams to create a better tomorrow." -- Wendell P. Weeks, Chairman and CEO, Corning"Not only does it make a powerful case for the need for long-term vision, Lead from the Future gives leaders the tools they need to set a new course for their organizations and navigate toward a better future." -- Admiral James Stavridis, U.S. Navy (Ret.), former Supreme Allied Commander, NATO; Operating Executive, The Carlyle Group"Effective leadership today is about building an environment in which people are willing and able to cocreate a better future. Lead from the Future explains why that can be so difficult in large organizations--and it shows how barriers to breakthrough innovation can be overcome." -- Linda Hill, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; coauthor, Collective Genius"The next decade will be far too noisy for conventional present-forward strategies. Leaders must look back from the future but act now. Johnson and Suskewicz show us how to discover the present value of future-back thinking." -- Bob Johansen, Distinguished Fellow, Institute for the Future; author, Full-Spectrum Thinking"Lead from the Future's central premise is deceptively straightforward but decidedly revolutionary. In short, before an organization can master its future, its leaders must think about it systematically--with vision and creativity, but also with discipline, rigor, and realism. The rest is sound management. Johnson and Suskewicz have raised a battle cry for the kind of leadership we need in these uncertain times." -- Sandi Peterson, Operating Partner, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice; Member, Board of Directors, Microsoft; and former Group Worldwide Chairman, Johnson & Johnson

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Book SynopsisYour Company Isn't Fast Enough. Here's How to Change That.The traditional hierarchical organization is dead, but what replaces it? Numerous new models--the agile organization, the networked organization, and holacracy, to name a few--have emerged, but leaders need to know what really works. How do you build an organization that is responsive to fast-changing markets? What kind of organization delivers both speed and scale, and how do you lead it?Arthur Yeung and Dave Ulrich provide leaders with a much-needed blueprint for reinventing the organization. Based on their in-depth research at leading Chinese, US, and European firms such as Alibaba, Amazon, DiDi, Facebook, Google, Huawei, Supercell, and Tencent, and drawing from their synthesis of the latest organization research and practice, Yeung and Ulrich explain how to build a new kind of organization (a "market-oriented ecosystem") that responds to changing market opportunities with speed and scale. While other books address individual pieces of the puzzle, Reinventing the Organization offers a practical, integrated, six-step framework and looks at all the decisions leaders need to make--choosing the right strategies, capabilities, structure, culture, management tools, and leadership--to deliver radically greater value in fast-moving markets.For any leader eager to build a stronger, more responsive organization and for all those in HR, organizational development, and consulting who will shape and deliver it, this book provides a much-needed roadmap for reinvention.Trade ReviewAdvance Praise for Reinventing the Organization:"Yeung and Ulrich bring rich observations and clear advice on the radical changes in organization and work design, governance, and leadership style needed to thrive in the digital era." -- Diane Gherson, Chief Human Resources Officer, IBM"Yeung and Ulrich offer evidence-based, practical ways to create organizations capable of winning in today's world." -- Jeffrey Pfeffer, Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business; author, Dying for a Paycheck"The principles and practices of the market-oriented ecosystem, as introduced by Yeung and Ulrich, have proven highly useful and relevant to companies like ours that need to constantly explore new frontiers in fast-changing markets." -- Pony Ma, Chairman and CEO, Tencent"Rarely does such a paradigm-defining book appear that will change our understanding of organizations." -- Ram Charan, adviser to CEOs; director on five boards; award-winning teacher; and author of three bestsellers"Yeung and Ulrich have succinctly described and prescribed the principles and practices for the next-generation organizational model." -- Cheng Wei, founder, Chairman, and CEO, DiDi"Reinventing the Organization is a complete roadmap and a must-read for those leading and transforming organizations that are scaling up." -- Cindy Mi, founder and CEO, VIPKid"Ulrich and Yeung have identified a new way of thinking about organizations, as market-oriented ecosystems that will help all of us thrive in a fast-changing environment." -- Sandy Ogg, founder, CEO.works

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Book SynopsisReap the benefits of a diverse workforce.If you read nothing else on promoting diversity and realizing its benefits, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you create a culture that seeks and celebrates difference.This book will inspire you to: Identify and address bias Short-circuit discrimination instead of unintentionally feeding it Attract, retain, and engage talented people who represent myriad identities Ensure that everyone has equal access to growth opportunities Trade outdated policies for practices that are proven to foster inclusion Harness employees' unique skills and perspectives to transform how your company operates This collection of articles includes "Making Differences Matter: A New Paradigm for Managing Diversity," by David A. Thomas and Robin J. Ely; "Why Diversity Programs Fail," by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev; "'Numbers Take Us Only So Far,'" by Maxine Williams; "Race Matters: The Truth About Mentoring Minorities," by David A. Thomas; "Leadership in Your Midst: Tapping the Hidden Strengths of Minority Executives," by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Carolyn Buck Luce, and Cornel West; "What Most People Get Wrong About Men and Women," by Catherine H. Tinsley and Robin J. Ely; "Hacking Tech's Diversity Problems," by Joan C. Williams; "Why Men Still Get More Promotions Than Women," by Herminia Ibarra, Nancy M. Carter, and Christine Silva; "When No One Retires," by Paul Irving; "Neurodiversity as a Competitive Advantage," by Robert D. Austin and Gary P. Pisano; "Managing Multicultural Teams," by Jeanne Brett, Kristin Behfar, and Mary C. Kern; and "7 Myths About Coming Out at Work," by Raymond Trau, Jane O'Leary, and Cathy Brown.

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Book SynopsisYou can change your company's culture.Organizational culture often feels like something that has a life of its own. But leaders are the stewards of a company's culture and have the power to shape and even change it.If you read nothing else on building a better organizational culture, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you identify where your culture can be improved, communicate change, and anticipate and address implementation challenges.This book will inspire you to: See what your company culture is currently like--and what it could be Explore your company's emotional culture Gather input on what needs to be fixed or initiated Improve collaboration Foster a culture of trust Articulate the new culture's mission, values, and expectations Deal with resistance and roadblocks This collection of articles includes "The Leader's Guide to Corporate Culture," by Boris Groysberg, Jeremiah Lee, Jesse Price, and J. Yo-Jud Cheng; "Manage Your Emotional Culture," by Sigal Barsade and Olivia A. O'Neill; "The Neuroscience of Trust," by Paul J. Zak; "Creating a Purpose-Driven Organization," by Robert E. Quinn and Anjan V. Thakor; "Creating the Best Workplace on Earth," by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones; "Cultural Change That Sticks," by Jon R. Katzenbach, Ilona Steffen, and Caroline Kronley; "How to Build a Culture of Originality," by Adam Grant; "When Culture Doesn't Translate," by Erin Meyer; "Culture Is Not the Culprit," by Jay W. Lorsch and Emily Gandhi; "Conquering a Culture of Indecision," by Ram Charan; and "Radical Change, the Quiet Way," by Debra E. Meyerson.

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Book SynopsisLearn how to make better; faster decisions.You make decisions every day--from prioritizing your to-do list to choosing which long-term innovation projects to pursue. But most decisions don't have a clear-cut answer, and assessing the alternatives and the risks involved can be overwhelming.You need a smarter approach to making the best choice possible. The HBR Guide to Making Better Decisions provides practical tips and advice to help you generate more-creative ideas, evaluate your alternatives fairly, and make the final call with confidence.You'll learn how to: Overcome the cognitive biases that can skew your thinking Look at problems in new ways Manage the trade-offs between options Balance data with your own judgment React appropriately when you've made a bad choice Communicate your decision--and overcome any resistance Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, from a source you trust. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.

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Book SynopsisQ. Who should take the lead in fixing market capitalism?A. Business—not government alone.The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion, mass migrations from poor to rich countries, religious fundamentalism, the misuse of social media, and cyberattacks—these are just a few of the threats to continuing prosperity that we see dominating the headlines every day.How can capitalism be sustained? And who should spearhead the effort? Critics turn to government. In their groundbreaking book, Capitalism at Risk, Harvard Business School professors Joseph Bower, Herman Leonard, and Lynn Paine argue that while robust governments must play a role, leadership by business is essential. For enterprising companies—whether large multinationals, established regional players, or small startups—the current threats to market capitalism present important opportunities.In this updated and expanded edition of Capitalism at Risk, Bower, Leonard, and Paine set forth a renewed and more urgent call to action. With three additional chapters and a new preface, the authors explain how the eleven original disruptors of the global market system clash with the digital age, and they provide lessons on how to take action. Presenting examples of companies already making a difference, Bower, Leonard, and Paine show how business must serve both as innovator and activist—developing corporate strategies that effect change at the community, national, and international levels.Filled with rich insights, this new edition of Capitalism at Risk presents a compelling and constructive vision for the future of market capitalism.Trade ReviewAdvance Praise for Capitalism at Risk, Updated and Expanded edition:"When this book was first published, in 2011, the authors broke new ground by identifying a number of disrupters that had emerged to challenge the global economic system. Today our world is in even greater turmoil because of these and other developments, and the authors' original call for business action as a force for good is more pressing than ever. By providing timely guidance for companies, and by connecting corporate action to economic outcomes, the authors make the case that we must collectively improve and strengthen our global system to be fairer, more inclusive, and more robust. This is a call for action that no company should ignore." — Victor K. Fung, Group Chairman, Fung Group"Professors Bower, Leonard, and Paine have laid down a massive challenge that should be accepted not only by business leaders—the essential wealth creators—to whom it is specifically addressed, but by all who aspire to lead the political, administrative, and investment processes throughout the world. This is even more vital today as the socioeconomics of the business world are facing even stronger headwinds." — Sir David Scholey, Senior Adviser, UBS Investment Bank"The message of this book is clear. To survive and prosper over the long term, learn how to adapt your business model by making it a servant to society and the environment. Not the other way around." — Paul Polman, Co-founder and Chair, IMAGINE; former CEO, Unilever"An important book. The authors argue that the future of market-driven capitalism is at risk unless business leaders develop new strategies that reduce the negative fallouts of the system, such as growing income disparity and environmental degradation. A clarion call for business to take the lead in saving the system of market capitalism." — Barbara Hackman Franklin, President and CEO, Barbara Franklin Enterprises; former US Secretary of Commerce

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Book SynopsisLong-term value creation—the board's new agenda.A big shift in public ownership has created a new set of challenges for boards. Index funds managed by firms like Vanguard, BlackRock, and State Street represent an emerging class of permanent institutional investors who are focused on creating and preserving long-term corporate value. These investors are stating in no uncertain terms that simply managing for short-term shareholder profit is not acceptable.Bill McNabb, Ram Charan, and Dennis Carey have been on the front lines of these changes with the investment community, corporate boards, and top-level management teams. Since TSR (total shareholder return) cannot keep the short and long term in balance, the authors argue, boards should focus on a different kind of TSR—talent, strategy, and risk—because decisions and actions around these factors, more than any others, determine whether or not a company creates long-term value. This book redefines the board's agenda and explains how to: Build and incentivize the right leadership team Help leaders take a longer view and communicate it to investors Refresh board composition and create diversity to meet the new challenges Keep major risks, such as cyberattacks and sexual harassment allegations, front and center Analyze the business through the eyes of a shareholder activist With the new realities of corporate ownership, boards need to lead for the long term. This authoritative book shows them how.Trade ReviewAdvance Praise for Talent, Strategy, Risk:"Talent, Strategy, Risk is a must-read for directors, management, and all students of modern twenty-first-century business." — Muhtar Kent, former Chairman and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company; Board Director, 3M"Read this book before your investors do! The authors provide fresh new ideas that will forever change the relationship between those who invest in the company, oversee the company, and manage the company." — Maggie Wilderotter, former Chairman and CEO, Frontier Communications; Board Director, Sana Biotechnology, Lyft, DocuSign, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Costco Wholesale"This is the first book I know of that powerfully establishes the links between talent, strategy, and risk and explains how these three foundations of value creation are being evaluated by investors. A timeless and timely book indeed." — Dinesh Paliwal, Partner, KKR; former President and CEO, Harman International; and Board Director, Bristol Myers Squibb, Nestle, and RTX Corporation"This book covers new ground with fresh ideas about how CEOs need to rethink the impact of a rapidly changing investor landscape. I especially enjoyed reading Warren Buffet's formula for M&A risk mitigation, as told by Warren himself! These three authors hit it out of the park." — Ed Breen, Executive Chairman and CEO, DuPont; Board Director, Comcast"A groundbreaking guide to reshaping board members' concept of their role as companies move into more complex environments requiring greater and more tactical oversight." — Denise Ramos, former President and CEO, ITT Inc.; Board Director, Phillips 66, Bank of America, and Raytheon Technologies"There is no better explanation of, and validation for, shareholder and stakeholder governance than this stunning book." — Marty Lipton, Founding Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz"While many companies approach talent, strategy, and risk independently, the authors successfully argue the need for boards to address them holistically in order to create positive outcomes for each and to advance long-term shareholder value." — Ken Chenault, Chairman and Managing Director, General Catalyst; former Chairman and CEO, American Express; and Board Director, Airbnb and Berkshire Hathaway

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Book SynopsisFrom the author of The Little Black Book of Innovation, a new guide for using the power of habit to build a culture of innovationLeaders have experimented with open innovation programs, corporate accelerators, venture capital arms, skunkworks, and innovation contests. They've trekked to Silicon Valley, Shenzhen, and Tel Aviv to learn from today's hottest, most successful tech companies. Yet most would admit they've failed to create truly innovative cultures. There's a better way. And it all starts with the power of habit.In Eat, Sleep, Innovate, innovation expert Scott Anthony and his impressive team of coauthors use groundbreaking research in behavioral science to provide a first-of-its-kind playbook for empowering individuals and teams to be their most curious and creative—every single day.Throughout the book, the authors reveal a collection of BEANs—behavior enablers, artifacts, and nudges—they've collected from workplaces across the globe that will unleash the natural innovator inside everyone. In addition to case studies of "normal organizations doing extraordinary things," they provide readers with the tools to create their own hacks and habits, which they can then use to build and sustain their own models of a culture of innovation.Fun, lively, and utterly unique, Eat, Sleep, Innovate is the book you need to make innovation a natural and habitual act within your team or organization.Trade Review"The good news is, innovators inside large companies can access the same tools as entrepreneurs," the authors note near the end of the book. "They can combine those tools with hard-earned assets of scale. And that combination can be absolutely magical." After making my way through this enthusiastic yet captivating treatise on the confusing yet ultimately inspiring world of contemporary commerce, I could not agree more. Highly recommended." — Bowling Green Daily News"Making creativity a habit may seem like a paradox, but that is exactly the case the authors make in Eat, Sleep, Innovate. The timing of the book's release could not have been better. While we have all intuitively understood the need to innovate, COVID-19 has created a world where creativity is an essential pillar for thriving." — TD magazine (Association for Talent Development)Advance Praise for Eat, Sleep, Innovate:"If you want to unleash more creativity in your organization, you can't simply tell people what you want; you need to create a culture that emboldens them to behave like innovators. And you need to trust that this is what they want to do. If your goal is to promote new ways of thinking, Eat, Sleep, Innovate is an indispensable guide. I highly recommend it." — Ed Catmull, cofounder, Pixar; retired President, Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios; and coauthor, Creativity, Inc."Culture change does not come from a wish or a prayer. It can only happen through an orchestrated program that changes and shapes people's behavior. Eat, Sleep, Innovate presents a great way to achieve behavioral change through BEANs. The approach is unconventional but, trust me, it works!" — Piyush Gupta, CEO, DBS Bank"This dynamic read offers practical exercises and principles you can use to create an environment that fosters innovation and delivers extraordinary results. Eat, Sleep, Innovate expertly blends creative insights with intriguing case studies. I highly recommend it." — James Quincey, Chairman and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company"Innovation has never been more important. Always motivated by the need to produce new products and services that fuel growth expectations and satisfy ever-shifting customer needs, today's companies must navigate a host of new challenges in the face of the dramatic uncertainty brought on by the global pandemic and widespread social unrest. This compelling and engaging guide serves as a timely and powerful resource for making innovation an organizational habit." — Amy C. Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School; author, The Fearless Organization"This book is a wonderful reference on how to craft an innovation culture and help normal organizations do extraordinary things. Use it to unlock your team's innovation power." — Alexander Osterwalder, cofounder and CEO, Strategyzer; bestselling author; and cocreator, the Business Model Canvas

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Book SynopsisImagine if the multinational hotel groups had founded Airbnb, or the big auto companies had launched Uber and Tesla, or Blockbuster had created Netflix. Large companies can start new ventures. You have ideas, talent, brand, capital—you have customers—you can strike back.In The Unicorn Within, Mach49 founder and CEO Linda Yates empowers large companies to beat startups at their own game—to build a pipeline and portfolio of new ventures to drive meaningful growth. How? With a teachable, repeatable, scalable method focused 100 percent on execution across the spectrum of venture creation from Ideate to Incubate, Accelerate, and Scale. She also offers keys to managing the Mothership and seizing the Mothership advantage to ensure your ventures reach escape velocity and thrive.And don't stop at just one venture. Yates also lays out her blueprint for building a Venture Factory capable of becoming your company's growth engine for years to come.The next Unicorns don't have to come from Silicon Valley. Regardless of your company's industry, geography, or history, they can come from you. Whether you're the CEO, a member of the C-suite, or an internal entrepreneur, you can help your company grow. With this book's proven method, you can unleash the Unicorn within.Trade ReviewNamed one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2022 by Forbes"Newly released, The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed is a practical guide to a repeatable and scalable methodology. Yates and her Mach49 team use it to steer Global 1,000 corporations towards sustained internal venture generation." — CEO World magazineAdvance Praise for The Unicorn Within:"I've known Linda Yates for over thirty-five years. She is one of the top growth and innovation experts in the world. Her new book, The Unicorn Within, is a playbook for executives of large companies who are tasked with making the monumental shift from being the disrupted to becoming the disruptor. Her book is a highly practical guide to help you drive growth for your company, your shareholders, your customers, your people, your community, and, given her strong ethos that you can do well by doing good, the world." — Reed Hastings, cofounder, Chairman, and CEO, Netflix"We can prove to the world that there is no better time for the long-established legacy companies to launch our own startups and, yes, even our own Unicorns. We have ideas, brands, talent, capital, and customers we can leverage. The Unicorn Within teaches us all how to stay 100 percent focused on execution and unleash those assets in a repeatable, scalable way for the long term. I predict this book will become a how-to resource for companies across the globe." — Richard J. Kramer, Chairman, CEO, and President, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company"A must-read for innovation-minded corporate business leaders. I've seen firsthand how effective Linda's strategies are when applied to the real world of venture creation and disruptive growth. I am confident that The Unicorn Within will be a coveted read and an important book." — Ira Ehrenpreis, founder and Managing Partner, DBL Partners; early investor, Tesla, SpaceX, and several other successful startups

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Book SynopsisAgile has the power to transform work--but only if it's implemented the right way.For decades business leaders have been painfully aware of a huge chasm: They aspire to create nimble, flexible enterprises. But their day-to-day reality is silos, sluggish processes, and stalled innovation. Today, agile is hailed as the essential bridge across this chasm, with the potential to transform a company and catapult it to the head of the pack.Not so fast. In this clear-eyed, indispensable book, Bain & Company thought leader Darrell Rigby and his colleagues Sarah Elk and Steve Berez provide a much-needed reality check. They dispel the myths and misconceptions that have accompanied agile's rise to prominence--the idea that it can reshape an organization all at once, for instance, or that it should be used in every function and for all types of work. They illustrate that agile teams can indeed be powerful, making people's jobs more rewarding and turbocharging innovation, but such results are possible only if the method is fully understood and implemented the right way.The key, they argue, is balance. Every organization must optimize and tightly control some of its operations, and at the same time innovate. Agile, done well, enables vigorous innovation without sacrificing the efficiency and reliability essential to traditional operations. The authors break down how agile really works, show what not to do, and explain the crucial importance of scaling agile properly in order to reap its full benefit. They then lay out a road map for leading the transition to a truly agile enterprise.Agile isn't a goal in itself; it's a means to becoming a high-performance operation. Doing Agile Right is a must-have guide for any company trying to make the transition--or trying to sustain high agility.Trade ReviewNamed one of the "Top Ten Technology Books Of 2020" — ForbesNamed one of "Ten Mind-Opening Business Books for 2020" by ForbesShortlisted for the OWL (Outstanding Works of Literature) Awards in Management and Culture"I highly encourage you to…consider reading Doing Agile Right, a wonderful book with numerous use cases that highlight how agile really works, what to avoid, the importance of scaling agile correctly to gain full benefits." — ZDNetAdvance Praise for Doing Agile Right:"Doing Agile Right resists extremes and introduces a much-needed, balanced model. It marries innovation with the timeless principles of management to support enduring success." -- John Donahoe, President and CEO, Nike"Doing Agile Right will help those who truly want to be agile, not just do agile." -- Maya Leibman, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, American Airlines"Nearly half of agile transformations fail, and many more fall short of expectations. For the thousands of companies pursuing agile transformation--as well as for agile practitioners--Doing Agile Right is a must-read that will put them on the path to results instead of the road to disappointment." -- Jeff Sutherland, Cocreator, Scrum; Creator, Scrum@Scale"A must-read if you want to improve innovation. Doing Agile Right is a timely and targeted resource for driving change, whether the goal is to address customer needs or change internal processes." -- Craig Menear, Chairman, CEO, and President, The Home Depot"Compelling and pragmatic, Doing Agile Right lays out a blueprint not just for weathering change but also for embracing it. This book describes how to apply agile values--customer obsession, focus, continuous improvement--to practical organizational systems like planning and budgeting, talent processes, and executive decision-making to embed agility into the organization's DNA." -- Christine A. Leahy, CEO, CDW"A hugely useful guidebook. It will arm leaders to be better change agents." -- Simon Mulcahy, Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer, Salesforce"A lot of business leaders I know are skeptical that agile can deliver real business performance improvements. This book will change their minds. Doing Agile Right helps dispel misconceptions and focuses on how to get real business results from agile." -- W. Mitt Romney, business and government executive

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Book SynopsisThe key to advancing gender equality? Men.Women are at a disadvantage. At home, they often face an unequal division of household chores and childcare, and in the workplace, they deal with lower pay, lack of credit for their contributions, roadblocks to promotion, sexual harassment, and more. And while organizations are looking to address these issues, too many gender-inclusion initiatives focus on how women themselves should respond, reinforcing the perception that these are "women's issues" and that men—often the most influential stakeholders in an organization—don't need to be involved.Gender-in-the-workplace experts David G. Smith and W. Brad Johnson counter this perception. In this important book, they show that men have a crucial role to play in promoting gender equality at work. Research shows that when men are deliberately engaged in gender-inclusion programs, 96 percent of women in those organizations perceive real progress in gender equality, compared with only 30 percent of women in organizations without strong male engagement.Good Guys is the first practical, research-based guide for how to be a male ally to women in the workplace. Filled with firsthand accounts from both men and women, and tips for getting started, the book shows how men can partner with their female colleagues to advance women's leadership and equality by breaking ingrained gender stereotypes, overcoming unconscious biases, developing and supporting the talented women around them, and creating productive and respectful working relationships with women.Trade ReviewGold Medal Winner for Best Human Resources/Employee Training Book in the 2021 Axiom Business Book AwardsNamed one of the Globe & Mail's "Best Business Books of 2020"Named one of Behavioral Scientist's "Notable Books of 2020""…readers of all ranks and levels of leadership in the military will benefit from this important, timely, and welcome book on how to work with women and help them advance professionally." — Proceedings magazine, U.S. Naval Institute"As long as gender inequality is a "women's issue," men aren't going to feel any responsibility to fix it—and that has to change, write assistant sociology professor Smith and psychology professor Johnson (co-authors, Athena Rising) in this persuasive call to arms." — Publisher's WeeklyAdvance Praise for Good Guys:"Men who care about gender equality often ask, 'How can I be a better colleague to the women I work with?' Good Guys is the playbook for how to do that, filled with practical advice and wisdom from leaders across many backgrounds. If you want to do your part to build a more equal and inclusive workplace, this book will help." — Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer, Facebook; founder, LeanIn.Org and OptionB.Org"Thank you, David Smith and Brad Johnson, for giving us a practical, evidence-based guide for what men can—and must—do to support women at work, at home, and in our communities." — Stew Friedman, organizational psychologist and Practice Professor of Management, Emeritus, The Wharton School; bestselling author, Total Leadership"An amazing how-to book to pivot equality in our homes, offices, and societies. Smith and Johnson offer indispensable advice for how to achieve gender parity—both because it's the right thing to do and it's the smart thing to do." — Dana Born, Codirector, Center for Public Leadership, and lecturer in public policy, Harvard Kennedy School"Many men want to be better allies to women, but we aren't always sure where to begin. Look no further than this book by two excellent guides who draw on their expertise as social scientists, their experiences in organizations, and their interviews with women to show how we can all improve in our efforts to level the playing field." — Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author, Give and Take and Originals; host of the TED podcast, WorkLife with Adam Grant

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Book SynopsisNamed to the longlist for the 2021 Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award in the Sales & Marketing categoryIn this smart, practical, and research-based guide, Harvard Business School professor Frank Cespedes offers essential sales strategies for a world that never stops changing.The rise of e-commerce. Big data. AI. Given these trends (and many others), there's no doubt that sales is changing. But much of the current conventional wisdom is misleading and not supported by empirical data.If you as a manager fail to separate fact from hype, you will make decisions based on faulty assumptions and, in a competitive market, eventually fall behind those with a keener grasp of the current selling environment.In this no-nonsense book, sales expert and Harvard Business School professor Frank Cespedes provides sales managers and executives with the tools they need to separate the signal from the noise. These include how to: Hire and deploy the right talent Pay and incentivize your sales force Improve ROI from your training programs Create a comprehensive sales model Set and test the right prices Build and manage a multichannel approach Brimming with fascinating examples, insightful research, and helpful diagnostics, Sales Management That Works will help sales managers build a great sales team, create an optimal strategy, and steer clear of hype and fads. Salespeople will be better equipped to respond to changes, executives will be able to track and accelerate ROI, and readers will understand why improving selling is a social as well as an economic responsibility of business.Trade ReviewNamed to the Longlist for Porchlight's Best Business Book Award in the Marketing & Sales CategoryShortlisted for the Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award in the Sales & Marketing Category"The epitome no-nonsense book...comprised of fascinating examples, insightful research, and helpful diagnostics...a 'must read' for all business and sales managers." — Midwest Book ReviewAdvance Praise for Sales Management That Works:"Frank Cespedes has developed an essential guide to help companies reconfigure their selling motions and create collaborative internal relationships to deal with changing buying habits. This is a must-read for sales and marketing leaders alike." — Tiffani Bova, Chief Growth Evangelist, Salesforce; author, Wall Street Journal bestseller Growth IQ"Sales Management That Works is phenomenal. Packed with practical examples, compelling insights, and real-world takeaways, the book presents evidence-based strategies for navigating today's challenging marketplace. I highly recommend it!" — David Hoffeld, CEO, Hoffeld Group; bestselling author, The Science of Selling"Sales Management That Works separates the signal from the noise and clearly explains how to be successful in today's world of perpetual change." — Julie Weissman Havsy, Market Insights and Analytics Leader, Philips North America"Mastering the complexities of the omnichannel landscape requires more than just new software; it demands a thoughtful understanding of how channels and incentives come together to drive meaningful growth. Sales Management That Works provides precisely that explanation. Frank Cespedes presents an exceptional, case-backed framework that is destined to become an essential book for any leader looking to transform their sales operations." — Neil Hoyne, Chief Measurement Strategist, Google"Frank Cespedes has done it again. Using his trademark pragmatism, developed over decades of teaching the world's top business leaders, he provides the tools needed to build essential strategies for sales excellence that all too often are suboptimized in today's companies. Sales Management That Works will help you drive enormous value." — Jay Galeota, former President and CEO, Inheris Biopharma; former Chief Strategy and Business Development Officer and President, Emerging Businesses, Merck

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Book SynopsisSet your company up for long-term success.Every company needs a strategy. A focused strategy aligns decision making throughout the organization and helps establish a competitive edge in the marketplace. But with so many options to consider, how do you define a unique strategy that will ensure growth?Whether you're starting a business from scratch or leading an existing company facing new threats, this book offers the direction you need. The HBR Guide to Setting Your Strategy provides practical tips and advice that break down the process of crafting strategy so you can identify the areas your company should build on to help it thrive long into the future.You'll learn to: Understand what strategy is—and what it isn't Define where you'll play and how you'll win Conduct more-effective strategic discussions with your team Test your strategy before you implement it Communicate your strategy to key stakeholders Ensure your strategy is flexible and adaptable Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.

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Book SynopsisMore than a buzzword, agile is a powerful business tool for all.To the uninitiated, agile is a software development and project management process involving white boards, colored Post-it Notes, and stand-up meetings. It may seem as though agile doesn’t and won't ever apply to you. But agile is here to stay, and its benefits can be realized beyond IT and project management into other areas of your business. If you're a leader, it's worth exploring how your group can benefit from the higher productivity and morale agile brings.Agile: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review brings you today's most essential thinking on agile, from exploring the conditions under which agile is most effective and easiest to implement to reducing new-product development risk to bringing the most valuable products and features to market faster and more predictably. The lessons in this book will help you introduce agile into a broader range of activities and accelerate profitable growth for your company.Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues--blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more--each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow. You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas--and prepare you and your company for the future.

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Book SynopsisIs your company ready for the next wave of analytics?Data analytics offer the opportunity to predict the future, use advanced technologies, and gain valuable insights about your business. But unless you're staying on top of the latest developments, your company is wasting that potential--and your competitors will be gaining speed while you fall behind.Strategic Analytics: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will provide you with today's essential thinking about what data analytics are capable of, what critical talents your company needs to reap their benefits, and how to adopt analytics throughout your organization--before it's too late.Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues--blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more--each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow. You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas--and prepare you and your company for the future.

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Book SynopsisAre you a good boss--or a great one?Get more of the management ideas you want, from the authors you trust, with HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People (Vol. 2). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you master the innumerable challenges of being a manager.With insights from leading experts including Marcus Buckingham, Michael D. Watkins, and Linda Hill, this book will inspire you to: Draw out your employees' signature strengths Support a culture of honesty and civility Cultivate better communication and deeper trust among global teams Give feedback that will help your people excel Hire, reward, and tolerate only fully formed adults Motivate your employees through small wins Foster collaboration and break down silos across your company This collection of articles includes "Are You a Good Boss--or a Great One?," by Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback; "Let Your Workers Rebel," by Francesca Gino; "The Feedback Fallacy," by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall; "The Power of Small Wins," by Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer; "The Price of Incivility," by Christine Porath and Christine Pearson; "What Most People Get Wrong About Men and Women," by Catherine H. Tinsley and Robin J. Ely; "How Netflix Reinvented HR," by Patty McCord; "Leading the Team You Inherit," by Michael D. Watkins; "The Overcommitted Organization," by Mark Mortensen and Heidi K. Gardner; "Global Teams That Work," by Tsedal Neeley; "Creating the Best Workplace on Earth," by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones.

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Book SynopsisTurning Insight into ActionIn this collection of essays, Peter F. Drucker focuses on the steps leaders can take today to prepare themselves and their organizations for tomorrow. Covering key areas such as technology, economics, people, and the organization, Drucker shows managers how to put his advice and ideas into action.Throughout the book, Drucker brings clear-sighted analysis to an array of subjects that remain as relevant today as they were when he first wrote about them. Using examples from a wide range of industries, this book equips executives to better understand and address the practical implications of topics such as: Managing workers Spotting opportunities for innovation Evaluating company performance Assessing global business Both applicable and inspiring, Peter F. Drucker on Practical Leadership is essential reading for leaders preparing for tomorrow.

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Book SynopsisThe $22 trillion opportunity that can be unlocked only if you rethink everything you think you know about people over sixty.In the time it takes you to read this, another twenty Americans will turn sixty-five. Ten thousand people a day are crossing that threshold, and that number will continue to grow. In fifteen years, Americans aged sixty-five and over will outnumber those under age eighteen. Nearly everywhere in the world, people over sixty are the fastest-growing age group.Longevity presents an opportunity that companies need to develop a strategy for. Estimates put the global market for this demographic at a whopping $22 trillion across every industry you can imagine. Entertainment, travel, education, health care, housing, transportation, consumer goods and services, product design, tech, financial services, and many others will benefit, but only if marketers unlearn what they think they know about this growing population.The key is to stop thinking of older adults as one market. Stage (Not Age) is the concise guide to helping companies understand that people over sixty are a deeply diverse population. They're traveling through different life stages and therefore want and need different products and services.This book helps you reset your understanding of what an "old person" is. It demonstrates how three people, all seventy years old, may not even be in the same market segment. It identifies the systemic barriers to entering this market and provides ways to overcome them. And it shares the best practices of companies that have successfully shifted to a Stage (Not Age) mentality.This practical guide prepares companies and marketers for an inevitable shift they can't ignore.Trade Review"Stage (Not Age) is a fascinating read…" — Kiplinger's"The author provides a guide for companies to understand how retirement age can actually mean many different markets and stages." — Forbes"In her new book, Stage (Not Age), Golden makes a case that chronological age no longer defines us, especially in the second half of life. It's the stage of life we're in that's most important." — Next Avenue"Citing trillions of dollars in spending power, Golden says companies should cater more products and services toward the people with the most wealth: those in their golden years." — McKinsey Author TalksAdvance Praise for Stage (Not Age):"Stage (Not Age) is your own personal master class for understanding, entering, and thriving in the fast-growing, $22 trillion longevity market. The profiles of companies that successfully serve this market will cause you to rethink everything you thought you knew about aging." — Jo Ann Jenkins, CEO, AARP"We can continue viewing the aging of the world's population as an imminent crisis, or we can choose to see it as an opportunity for business and policy innovations. This book guides us toward the latter view, and brilliantly." — Michelle A. Williams, Dean of the Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health"People, like wine, get better with age. Susan Golden's important book demonstrates how an aging population presents extraordinary opportunities for businesses. While some complain about the costs of an older population, Stage (Not Age) offers a thoughtful roadmap for understanding the ways in which the fastest-growing demographic can drive value." — Larry Summers, President, Emeritus, Harvard University; former Secretary of the Treasury of the United States"Susan Golden's book offers an inspiring roadmap for entrepreneurs and innovators to grow with the longevity economy." — Jonathan Levin, Dean, Stanford Graduate School of Business"An insightful and practical guide to an amazing and multifaceted business. Stage (Not Age) is the indispensable guide for companies to develop a strategy for this opportunity—as we did at Best Buy." — Hubert Joly, former Chairman and CEO, Best Buy; author, The Heart of Business; and senior lecturer, Harvard Business School"In Stage (Not Age), Susan Golden makes an eloquent case for investing in one of the most compelling business opportunities of our time. Her book is a clearly written, insightful guide. A must-read for changemakers of all ages." — Marc Freedman, founder, President, and CEO, Encore.org; author, How to Live Forever"How do you reach a generation (or two) of people who don't feel, look, or act as old as they are? By not focusing on the number on their birth certificate. That's the message of Susan Golden's enlightening new book. Companies and marketers willing to listen should find themselves at an advantage." — Jean Chatzky, founder and CEO, HerMoney Media; New York Times bestselling coauthor, AgeProof

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Book SynopsisNegotiation is stuck. It's time for something new.Almost everything is negotiable. Almost every interaction is a negotiation. And in no field is this clearer than in business, where every day we work with others to get things done. But when we have real differences, is win-win always possible? Or must every negotiation be a zero-sum battle, with a winner and a loser?Over the last half century, two opposing philosophies have ruled the field of negotiation: the win-lose, tooth-and-nail approach of training guru Chester Karrass; and the win-win, "principled" creed of Getting to Yes, developed by Roger Fisher and William Ury. But neither approach fully meets the challenge of today's volatile, disruptive, ultracompetitive business environment, where strategic problem-solving is of critical importance.In Creative Conflict, negotiation experts Bill Sanders and Frank Mobus provide something new. They use a dynamic, dialectical approach to show how negotiations are driven by competition and cooperation at the same time. Counterintuitively, they reveal that conflict lies at the heart of more profitable agreements. They believe that when we tiptoe around conflict, we negotiate in a half-hearted way that limits our results. By contrast, creative negotiators probe and push until they hit a wall of disagreement, and then they figure out how to get past it. The authors construct a clear and useful framework based on three distinct negotiating contexts: Bargaining, Creative Dealmaking, and Relationship Building. They instruct readers on how to skillfully pursue their fair share while simultaneously seeking ways to expand a deal's scope and value for both sides.Trade ReviewAdvance Praise for Creative Conflict:"Creative Conflict takes us down a negotiation road less traveled. Whether you're just starting out in business or an experienced executive, applying this practical guide can transform your negotiation results and provide your business a significant competitive advantage." — Howard Levy, Vice President, Global Sourcing, Zimmer Biomet"Creative Conflict takes on the challenge of making a deal where no deal exists. Bill Sanders and Frank Mobus successfully move the immovable negotiation by developing a multidiscipline, multidimensional approach and providing tools and examples to the reader that can create success almost immediately." — Paul Koch, Vice President of Estimating, Skanska USA"During thirty-five years in the coaching profession at all levels of football competition, I gradually learned how valuable it was to build trusting relationships through effective and sincere negotiating practices. I wish I'd had Creative Conflict early in my career. Great book!" — Dick Vermeil, NFL Coach of the Year (1999)"Creative Conflict explains the evolution and the psychology of negotiation in a way that will empower you with the skills to reach better outcomes. This is the best single book I have read on the topic. A must-read." — Ron Fleisher, coach, Vistage"Sanders and Mobus highlight important and useful concepts for deploying negotiation strategies. Our North American sales team completed the Creative Negotiation seminar, and it was very impactful to our business success." — John Kowal, President, Varian Medical Systems, Americas"Creative Conflict will refocus your thinking from negotiating better to negotiating smarter. An important addition to the negotiation literature." — Ed Brodow, author, Negotiation Bootcamp

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Book SynopsisNamed one of the best strategy books of 2021 by strategy+businessGet to better, more effective strategy.In nearly every business segment and corner of the world economy, the most successful companies dramatically outperform their rivals. What is their secret? In Better, Simpler Strategy, Harvard Business School professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee shows how these companies achieve more by doing less. At a time when rapid technological change and global competition conspire to upend traditional ways of doing business, these companies pursue radically simplified strategies. At a time when many managers struggle not to drown in vast seas of projects and initiatives, these businesses follow simple rules that help them select the few ideas that truly make a difference.Better, Simpler Strategy provides readers with a simple tool, the value stick, which every organization can use to make its strategy more effective and easier to execute. Based on proven financial mechanics, the value stick helps executives decide where to focus their attention and how to deepen the competitive advantage of their business.How does the value stick work? It provides a way of measuring the two fundamental forces that lead to value creation and increased financial success—the customer's willingness-to-pay and the employee's willingness-to-sell their services to the business. Companies that win, Oberholzer-Gee shows, create value for customers by raising their willingness-to-pay, and they provide value for talent by lowering their willingness-to-sell. The approach, proven in practice, is entirely data driven and uniquely suited to be cascaded throughout the organization.With many useful visuals and examples across industries and geographies, Better, Simpler Strategy explains how these two key measures enable firms to gauge and improve their strategies and operations. Based on the author's sought-after strategy course, this book is your must-have guide for making better strategic decisions.Trade ReviewNamed one of "The 10 Best Business Books of 2021" by Forbes"This book lives up to the promise of its title by distilling strategy into a beautifully simple premise…" — strategy+businessAdvance Praise for Better, Simpler Strategy:"In our fast-evolving and complex world, it's crucial to mobilize our teams with a clear and compelling strategy. In this enlightening and practical book, Oberholzer-Gee leads you to design a simple strategy statement and helps you understand how to maximize the gap between willingness-to-pay and willingness-to-sell." — Florent Menegaux, CEO, Michelin"Simplicity is a virtue, and Better, Simpler Strategy cuts through the jargon of business to provide an invaluable first-principles strategic guide. Illustrated by a wealth of in-depth examples, this book puts forward a new value-based framework for coming up with breakthrough strategies." — Adam Brandenburger, J.P. Valles Professor, NYU Stern School of Business; coauthor, Co-opetition"The value stick is an incredible tool based on Oberholzer-Gee's twenty years of research and practice in the field of strategy. It reveals the essence of strategic issues in a simple and intuitive manner, making formerly complex and difficult strategic decisions easy and effective." — Liu Xiaoyan, CEO, E Fund Management, China’s largest fund manager"Strategy is an art and a science, and often a mystery. Better, Simpler Strategy demystifies value creation, making strategy accessible and exceptional performance achievable to all levels of leaders." — Aman Bhutani, CEO, GoDaddy"Oberholzer-Gee expertly distills the complex topic of strategy down to the simplicity of the value stick, using hard data and real-life examples that bring the pitfalls and opportunities of a bad or good strategy to life. This book will change the way you think about strategy and competition." — Helen Riley, CFO, Google X

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Book SynopsisHave you taken time for yourself today?Too many working parents focus solely on those around them—their families, their work, and a never-ending list of other commitments—only to lose sight of what they need themselves. But neglecting your own needs and wants can prevent you from being happy, healthy, and productive.Taking Care of Yourself provides expert advice to help you identify what you value most at work and at home, make choices that align with those values, and be the best version of yourself for your job and for your family.You'll learn to: Prioritize the tasks that are most meaningful to you—and let go of the rest Deal with complex feelings, including parental guilt and perfectionism Carve out time for self-care, including friends, hobbies, exercise, and sleep Communicate your needs to your boss and your family Feel more present, both at work and at home The HBR Working Parents Series with Daisy Dowling, Series Editor, supports readers as you anticipate challenges, learn how to advocate for yourself more effectively, juggle your impossible schedule, and find fulfillment at home and at work. Whether you're up with a newborn or planning the future with your teen, you'll find the practical tips, strategies, and research you need to make working parenthood work for you.

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Book SynopsisA revolutionary guide to flourishing in times of flux and angst by harnessing the overlooked power of our uncertainty.In an era of terrifying unpredictability, we race to address complex crises with quick, sure algorithms, bullet points, and tweets. How could we find the clarity and vision so urgently needed today by being unsure? Uncertain is about the triumph of doing just that. A scientific adventure tale set on the front lines of a volatile era, this epiphany of a book by award-winning author Maggie Jackson shows us how to skillfully confront the unexpected and the unknown, and how to harness not-knowing in the service of wisdom, invention, mutual understanding, and resilience.Long neglected as a topic of study and widely treated as a shameful flaw, uncertainty is revealed to be a crucial gadfly of the mind, jolting us from the routine and the assumed into a space for exploring unseen meaning. Far from luring us into inertia, uncertainty is the mindset most needed in times of flux and a remarkable antidote to the narrow-mindedness of our day.In laboratories, political campaigns, and on the frontiers of artificial intelligence, Jackson meets the pioneers decoding the surprising gifts of being unsure. Each chapter examines a mode of uncertainty-in-action, from creative reverie to the dissent that spurs team success. Step by step, the art and science of uncertainty reveal being unsure as a skill set for incisive thinking and day-to-day flourishing.

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Book SynopsisIn 1978 animation director Yoshiyuki Tomino set forth to change the Japanese animation industry. For decades prior, Japanese science fiction had churned out numerous tales of semi-autonomous robots that would often come to the aide of humanity, but as someone who worked on a number of those works, Tomino came to the realization that he wanted to see a more realistic robot narrative. His vision was one where the robot while just slightly more human in appearance, was utilized more as a tool manipulated by man. With renowned artist Yoshikazu Yasuhiko by his side, and occasionally as his artistic rival, Tomino would change the way the whole world came to see Japanese animation and the broader toy and comics industries built around it. This evolution would be a war in its own right! Battles were fought in the offices of the animation studio! Conflicts were equally as heated in the recording booth!

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Book SynopsisDisasters, including technological, natural, and manmade, haveincreased exponentially, making this book essential for organizationsand students in areas such as Business Management, BusinessContinuity, Disaster Recovery, Information Security, Risk Management,Project Management, Audit, Compliance, and IT.This book takes a complicated subject and breaks it down intoplain English, allowing for concepts, definitions, and so much more tobe absorbed and understood. It offers a detailed understanding ofwhat is crucial in Business Continuity Management, and the practicalsteps and stories help the reader implement each phase of planningincluding: Project Management, Gap Analysis, Risk Evaluation andControl, Business Impact Analysis, Strategic Planning, EmergencyResponse and Operations, Awareness and Training, Maintaining andExercising Plans, Public Relations and Crisis Coordination, and more.Unlike other books where you are offered only a checklist, thisbook teaches through stories, practical applications, and yes, bulletpointed checklists, too.

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Book SynopsisDoes Adaptive Project Management make sense for you?Are you using waterfall/PMP project management and……your stakeholders expect innovation, a predictable schedule, and a fixed budget without padding?…it’s impossible to build a Work Breakdown Structure because your team doesn’t understand the solution yet?…you’re using new technology making it impossible to estimate durations accurately?Are you using agile project management and……your project includes hardware and your plan includes complex dependencies?…it takes weeks to complete and test a build?Are you trying to get a project completed without any project management and……priorities aren’t clear, so the wrong tasks are being worked on?…your delivery dates are just guesses and things are always late?…when your projects are complete the end users say “That’s not what I need or want”?If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then Adaptive Project Management is for you.In Adaptive Project Management, the project manager does just enough planning to be confident that the team is working on the correct tasks. Those tasks might be risk reduction, on the critical path, or building prototypes to better understand what the end-user wants. The goal is to be constantly reducing risk and uncertainty as you move through a project, always updating the plan as you increase your knowledge. This book explains how to succeed or fail fast for projects that are too uncertain to use waterfall project management and too complex to succeed with agile project management.

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Book Synopsis“Laura Meier’s The Family Nest Egg gives parents the tools they need to find confidence, stop worrying, and secure the financial future for their loved ones. . . . a trustworthy resource.” —Barbara Corcoran, Founder of the Corcoran Group and Shark on ABC's Shark Tank Earn and save more money while protecting your finances and your family Wouldn’t it be great if life were perfect, or just predictable? Recent times have been anything but. With rising rents, expensive mortgages, student loans, debts, and dreams deferred, most of us parents found our lives far from perfect or predictable even before the global pandemic and economic turmoil. But with the right guidance and actionable advice, we can get ourselves closer—taking back our future, building wealth, and protecting our families against the worst unforeseen events. In The Family Nest Egg, estate planning attorney and parent Laura Meier provides a breakthrough program of inspiring real-life stories and time-tested legal, financial, and practical tips to move our families from stress to success and security. Let’s get planning. • Build Your IF LIFE WERE PERFECT Vision • Follow the 21-Day Family Nest Egg Plan • Follow the Three Ps for Prosperity • Engage in a Budgeting P.E.A.C.E. Process • Invest, Build Wealth, and Fund Life Milestones • Create Your Family Emergency Fund • Find the Right Insurance and Asset Protection • Learn About Wills and Trusts • Build a Team of S.T.A.R. Financial and Estate AdvisersTrade ReviewAdvance Praise for The Family Nest Egg “Laura Meier’s The Family Nest Egg gives parents the tools they need to find confidence, stop worrying, and secure the financial future for their loved ones. Laura’s real-life stories and actionable advice make this read a trustworthy resource for budgeting, investing, and preparing for a financial crisis.” —Barbara Corcoran, Founder of The Corcoran Group and Shark on ABC’s Shark Tank Praise for Good Parents Worry, Great Parents Plan “Laura Meier is bright, knowledgeable and insightful. Her book hits the nail right on the head when it comes to estate planning for young families. It contains lots of important and valuable information that every young couple with children should (no, must) have.” —Jeffrey R. Matsen, Esq., Worth magazine “Top 100 National Attorney”, Author of The Ladder of Success “You can pay a lot of different professionals a lot of money to educate you on what you need to do to plan for your young children, or you can read this book. I suggest you read the book!” —Jamie Hargrove, JD, CPA, Co-Founder & CEO of Netlaw “Wise mothers and fathers realize that any one of us could be gone tomorrow; therefore, we need clear instructions for the guardians, trustees, fiduciaries, trust protectors, executors, and other people who will attempt to reflect parental values to the next generation in our absence. Thank God, Laura has taken the time to write a book that can help all of us. Laura is uniquely gifted to write this book.” —Tim Voorhees, JD, MBA, Author of The Best Zero Tax Planning Tools

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Book SynopsisFarming is a business, as well as a way of life. Whole Farm Management is a comprehensive guide developed by the Small Farms Program at Oregon State University to help aspiring and beginner farmers make smart business decisions to ensure lasting success. In clear, accessible language, this book covers every essential step, from developing a strategic plan to acquiring equipment, establishing infrastructure, finding markets, budgeting, managing day-to-day operations, and selecting a business structure for long-term viability. The emphasis throughout is on using sustainable agricultural systems and managing the whole farm, whether raising grass-based livestock, perennial food crops, or annual crops such as flowers. Case studies of successful farms, along with guidance and solutions to common problems from long-time farmers, round out this essential handbook.

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