The Knowledge Centre has recently added more HBR's 10 must reads to the print collection. Each book combines 10 archived Harvard Business Review articles relating to different management topics. These articles have been curated into different subjects and the total collection now includes: negotiation, teams, strategic marketing, communication, innovation, managing people, leadership, strategy, managing yourself, the essentials and change.
Below are some more details about some of the recent additions.
HBR's 10 must reads - On Managing People has a collection of articles that includes: featured article "Leadership That Gets Results" by Daniel Goleman, "One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?" "The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome," "Saving Your Rookie Managers from Themselves," "What Great Managers Do," "Fair Process: Managing in the Knowledge Economy," "Teaching Smart People How to Learn," "How (Un)ethical Are You?" "The Discipline of Teams," and "Managing Your Boss."
Topics include how to tailor your management styles to fit your people, motivate with more responsibility instead of more money, support first-time managers, build trust by soliciting input, teach smart people how to learn from failure, build high-performing teams, manage your boss.
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HBR's 10 must reads On Leadership includes a selection of curated articles including featured article "What Makes an Effective Executive" by Peter F. Drucker, "What Makes a Leader?" "What Leaders Really Do," "The Work of Leadership," "Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?" "Crucibles of Leadership," "Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve," "Seven Transformations of Leadership," "Discovering Your Authentic Leadership," and "In Praise of the Incomplete Leader."
Topics covered include how to motivate others to excel, build your team's self-confidence in others, provoke positive change, set direction, encourage smart risk-taking, manage with tough empathy, credit others for your success, increase self-awareness and draw strength from adversity.
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This collection of curated articles includes: featured article "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter, "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy," "Building Your Company's Vision," "Reinventing Your Business Model," "Blue Ocean Strategy," "The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution," "Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System," "Transforming Corner-Office Strategy into Frontline Action," "Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance," and "Who Has the D? How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance."
Topics include how to distinguish your company from rivals, clarify what your company will and won't do, craft a vision for an uncertain future, create blue oceans of uncontested market space, use the Balanced Scorecard to measure your strategy, capture your strategy in a memorable phrase, make priorities explicit, allocate resources early and clarify decision rights for faster decision making.
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This collection of articles includes: bonus article “How Will You Measure Your Life?” by Clayton M. Christensen, "Managing Oneself," "Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey?" "How Resilience Works," "Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time," "Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People Underperform," "Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life," "Reclaim Your Job," "Moments of Greatness: Entering the Fundamental State of Leadership," "What to Ask the Person in the Mirror," and "Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance."
Topics include how to tap into your deepest values, solicit candid feedback, replenish physical and mental energy, balance work, home, community and self , spread positive energy throughout your organisation, rebound from tough times, decrease distractibility and frenzy and how to delegate and develop employee's initiative.
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This collection of archived articles includes: featured article "Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail" by John P. Kotter, "Change Through Persuasion," "Leading Change When Business Is Good: An Interview with Samuel J. Palmisano," "Radical Change, the Quiet Way," "Tipping Point Leadership," "A Survival Guide for Leaders," "The Real Reason People Won't Change," "Cracking the Code of Change," "The Hard Side of Change Management," and "Why Change Programs Don't Produce Change."
Topics covered include how to lead change through eight critical stages, establish a sense of urgency, overcome addiction to the status quo, mobilize commitment, silence naysayers, minimize the pain of change, concentrate resources and motivate change when business is good.
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