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Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
by Harvard Business School Press (Hardcover)

Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Managing Oneself (Harvard Business Review Classics) (Harvard Business Review Classics) (Harvard Business Review Classics)
by Harvard Business School Press (Paperback)

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: with ambition, drive, and talent, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession regardless of where you started out.But with opportunity comes responsibility. Companies today aren't managing their knowledge workers' careers. Instead, you must be your own chief executive officer. That means it's up to you to carve out your place in the world and know when to change course. And it's up to you to keep yourself engaged and productive during a career that may span some 50 years.In Managing Oneself, Peter Drucker explains how to do it. The keys: Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself by identifying your most valuable strengths and most dangerous weaknesses. Articulate how you learn and work with others and what your most deeply held values are. Describe the type of work environment where you can make the greatest contribution.Only when you operate with a combination of your strengths and self-knowledge can you achieve true and ...

Richard Luecke
Managing Change and Transition
by Harvard Business School Press (Paperback)

Harvard Business Essentials Your Guide and Mentor to Doing Business Effectively In the faced-paced world of business today, everyone needs a personal resource-a place to go for advice, coaching, background information, or answers. Bosses and colleagues aren't always available when you need them-and they might not always have the most reliable solutions to your business problems right at hand. The Harvard Business Essentials series fills the gap. Concise and straightforward, these books provide highly practical advice for readers at all levels of experience. Whether you are a new manager interested in expanding your skills or an experienced executive looking to stay on top, these solution-oriented books give you the reliable tips and tools you need to improve your performance and get the job done. Harvard Business Essentials titles will quickly become your constant companions and the trusted guides you'll turn to throughout your business career. Managing Change and ...

Mark A. Huselid, Brian E. Becker, Richard W. Beatty
The Workforce Scorecard: Managing Human Capital To Execute Strategy
by Harvard Business School Press (Hardcover)

Driving strategy through workforce performance In a marketplace fueled by intangible assets, anything less than optimal workforce success can threaten a firm's survival. Yet in most organizations, employee performance is both poorly managed and underutilized. The Workforce Scorecard argues that current management and human resource practices hinder employees' ability to contribute to strategic goals. To maximize the power of their workforce, organizations must meet three challenges: view their workforce in terms of contribution rather than cost; replace benchmarking metrics with measures that differentiate levels of strategic impact; and make line managers and HR professionals jointly responsible for executing workforce initiatives. Building on the proven model outlined in their bestselling book The HR Scorecard, Mark Huselid, Brian Becker, and coauthor Richard Beatty show how to create a Workforce Scorecard that identifies and measures the behaviors, competencies, ...

Clayton M. Christensen, Michael Overdorf, Ian MacMillan, Rita McGrath, ...
Harvard Business Review on Innovation
by Harvard Business School Press (Paperback)

The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series is designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. From the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefine the way we think about business, here are the leading minds and landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required reading for ambitious businesspeople in organizations around the globe. In today's ever-changing economic landscape, innovation has become even more of a key factor influencing strategic planning. This comprehensive volume will help the reader recognize and seize innovation opportunities.

Barbara Kellerman
Followership: How Followers Are Creating Change and Changing Leaders (Center for Public Leadership)
by Harvard Business School Press (Hardcover)

There is no leader without at least one follower - that's obvious. But this groundbreaking volume is the first to provide a sweeping view of followers both in their own right - and in relation to their leaders. It deliberately departs from the leader-centric approach that has for too long dominated our thinking about leadership and management.Barbara Kellerman argues that followers have always mattered more than we generally understand - and that they matter more now than they ever did before. Moreover the trend is accelerating. Followers are becoming more important, and leaders less. Through gripping stories about a range of people and places--from multinational corporations such as Merck, to Nazi Germany, to the American military after 9/11--Kellerman makes all-important distinctions among five different types of followers: Isolates, Bystanders, Participants, Activists, and Diehards. And she explains the significance not only of how they relate to their leaders, but also of how ...

Harvard Business School
Managing Time: Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges (Pocket Mentor)
by Harvard Business School Press (Paperback)

When faced with packed schedules, endless emails, and towering in-boxes, it’s easy to become overwhelmed and ineffective at work. This guide will put readers back in charge of their time and workload by showing how to: Set goals and prioritize tasks Utilize appropriate scheduling tools Control distractions and interruptions Delegate wisely

John Hagel III, John Seely Brown
The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends on Productive Friction and Dynamic Specialization
by Harvard Business School Press (Hardcover)

Many firms have used outsourcing and offshoring to shave costs and reduce operating expenses. But as opportunities for innovation and growth migrate to the peripheries of companies, industries, and the global economy, efficiency will no longer be enough to sustain competitive advantage. In Your Next Business Strategy, renowned business thinkers John Hagel and John Seely Brown argue that the only sustainable advantage in the future will come from an institutional capacity to work closely with other highly specialized firms to get better faster. Enabled by the emergence of global process networks, firms will undergo a three-stage transformation: deepening specialization within firms; mobilizing best-in-class capabilities across enterprises; and, ultimately, accelerating learning across broad networks of enterprises. Hagel and Seely Brown discuss the strategic levers that will accelerate this migration, and they outline a new approach to strategy development that will help ...

Chris Argyris, Warren G. Bennis, Robert J. Thomas, Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business Review on Developing Leaders (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)
by Harvard Business School Press (Paperback)

Most organizations struggle with the question of leadership. How do you identify leaders in the making? How do you train them, taking into account their unique strengths and weaknesses? This collection of articles examines the ways in which managers and executives develop as leaders, and then helps readers apply successful tactics in real-life settings. Using innovative as well as time-honored approaches, Harvard Business Review on Developing Leaders guides readers through the challenges of leadership development.

Harvard Business School Staff
Harvard ManageMentor on Project Management: A Practical Guide to Managing Tasks and People
by Harvard Business School Press (Paperback)

Harvard ManageMentor guides are practical, portable advice for managers, especially designed to support just-in-time and other corporate training needs. Project management is the ultimate juggling act, involving the use of sometimes scarce resources like people, time, and money to meet a goal or solve a problem. This essential guide shows a new project manager or one who desires a refresher how to scope out a project, develop schedules, set deadlines, manage and monitor progress, and overcome some typical project snags, such as mission creep and schedule slippage. It also covers the four phases of planning, buildup, implementation, and phaseout and the tasks associated with each. Written in an engaging style designed for easy scanning by the business reader, the guide is packed with advice, tips, worksheets, and more to help any manager become a more efficient and effective multitasker.

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