HBRs 10 Must Reads Leadership Collection 4 Books Set
Description Change Management



If you read nothing else on change management; read these 10 articles (featuring 'Leading Change; by John P. Kotter). We have combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you spearhead change in your organization.


HBRs 10 Must Reads on Change Management will inspire you 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
Motivate change when business is good



Strategy



If you read nothing else on strategy; read these 10 articles (featuring 'What Is Strategy? by Michael E. Porter). We have combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution.


HBRs 10 Must Reads on Strategy will inspire you 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
Clarify decision rights for faster decision making



The Essentials



Change is the one constant in business; and we must adapt or face obsolescence. Yet certain challenges never go away. Thats what makes this book 'must read.' These are the 10 seminal articles by managements 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




Emotional Intelligence


If you read nothing else on emotional intelligence; read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We have combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you boost your emotional skills and your professional success.


This book will inspire you to:


Monitor and channel your moods and emotions
Make smart; empathetic people decisions
Manage conflict and regulate emotions within your team
React to tough situations with resilience
Better understand your strengths; weaknesses; needs; values; and goals
Develop emotional agility