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Hbr's 10 Must Reads: The Essentials

Hbr's 10 Must Reads: The Essentials

By Harvard Business Review, Peter F Drucker, Clayton M Christensen, Michael E Porter, and Daniel Goleman

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An introduction to the most enduring ideas on management from Harvard Business Review Change is the one constant in business, and we must adapt or face obsolescence. Yet certain challenges never go away. That's what makes this book "must read. " These are the 10 seminal articles by management's most influential experts, on topics of perennial concern to ambitious managers and leaders hungry for inspiration--and ready to run with big ideas to accelerate their own and their companies' success.

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Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press.
Publish Date: 11/08/2010
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781633694569
ISBN-10: 1633694569
Language: English

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An introduction to the most enduring ideas on management from Harvard Business Review

Change is the one constant in business, and we must adapt or face obsolescence. Yet certain challenges never go away. That's what makes this book "must read." These are the 10 seminal articles by management's most influential experts, on topics of perennial concern to ambitious managers and leaders hungry for inspiration--and ready to run with big ideas to accelerate their own and their companies' success.

If you read nothing else - full stop - read:

  • Michael Porter on creating competitive advantage and distinguishing your company from rivals
  • John Kotter on leading change through eight critical stages
  • Daniel Goleman on using emotional intelligence to maximize performance
  • Peter Drucker on managing your career by evaluating your own strengths and weaknesses
  • Clay Christensen on orchestrating innovation within established organizations
  • Tom Davenport on using analytics to determine how to keep your customers loyal
  • Robert Kaplan and David Norton on measuring your company's strategy with the Balanced Scorecard
  • Rosabeth Moss Kanter on avoiding common mistakes when pushing innovation forward
  • Ted Levitt on understanding who your customers are and what they really want
  • C. K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel on identifying the unique, integrated systems that support your strategy

About the Authors

Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, 12 international licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.

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Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005) is one of the best-known and most widely influential thinkers on the subject of management theory and practice, and his writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern corporation.

Often described as the father of modern management theory, Drucker explored how people are organized across the business, government, and nonprofit sectors of society; he predicted many of the major business developments of the late twentieth century, including privatization and decentralization, the rise of Japan to economic world power, the critical importance of marketing, and the emergence of the information society with its implicit necessity of lifelong learning. I

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Clayton M. Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In addition to authoring a number of highly influential Harvard Business Review articles, he is the author of eight critically acclaimed books, including the bestsellers The Innovator's Dilemma, The Innovator's Solution, How Will You Measure Your Life?<

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Michael E. Porter, one of the world's leading authorities on competitive strategy and international competitiveness, is the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. In 1983, Professor Porter was appointed to President Reagan's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness, the initiative that triggered the competitiveness debate in America.

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Daniel Goleman, PH. D. is also the author of the worldwide bestseller Working with Emotional Intelligence and is co-author of Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence, written with Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee.

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