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Explore the biggest ideas in business from Harvard Business Review Press, with bestselling titles covering topics like effective leadership, work-life balance, finance, managing people, burnout, and much more.

Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World

Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty delivers a powerful combination of memoir, leadership lessons, and big ideas on how we can all drive meaningful change. Ginni Rometty led one of the world's most iconic companies, and in.

The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter

Named one of 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime by Amazon Editors The world's most trusted guide for leaders in transition. Transitions are a critical time for leaders. In fact, most agree that moving into a new role is the.

Love and Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life

World-renowned researcher and New York Times bestselling author Marcus Buckingham helps us discover where we're at our best--both at work and in life. You've long been told to "Do what you love." Sounds simple, but the real challenge is how to do this in.

The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI

The pressure to "be digital" has never been greater, but you can meet the challenge.The digital revolution is here, changing how work gets done, how industries are structured, and how people from all walks of life work, behave, and relate to each other.

Competing in the New World of Work: How Radical Adaptability Separates the Best from the Rest

The #1 "New York Times" bestselling author on how to use radical adaptability to win in a world of unprecedented change. You've shed antiquated systems and processes. You went all-in on digital. Your teams settled into new, often better, ways of doing.

Smart Growth: How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company

Creating a culture of learning and growth. Growth is the goal. Helping people develop their potential--enabling them to articulate and become the self they want to be, are capable of being, and that best serves them and others in the short and long.

The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller How to unleash "human magic" and achieve improbable results. Hubert Joly, former CEO of Best Buy and orchestrator of the retailer's spectacular turnaround, unveils his personal playbook for achieving extraordinary.

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The Burnout Epidemic: The Rise of Chronic Stress and How We Can Fix It

In this important and timely book, workplace well-being expert Jennifer Moss helps leaders and individuals prevent burnout and create healthier, happier, and more productive workplaces. We tend to think of burnout as a problem we can solve with.

The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right

You've landed a job. Now what? No one tells you how to navigate your first day in a new role. No one tells you how to take ownership, manage expectations, or handle workplace politics. No one tells you how to get promoted. The answers to these.

Anti-Racist Leadership: How to Transform Corporate Culture in a Race-Conscious World

Building anti-racist companies by design creates great places to work for all.Business leaders ready to take a bold stance to make the world better for employees, for consumers, and for the greater community: Read this book.As leaders, you have the.

Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way

Leadership is hard. How can you balance compassion for your people with effectiveness in getting the job done? A global pandemic, economic volatility, natural disasters, civil and political unrest. From New York to Barcelona to Hong Kong, it can feel as.

Beyond Digital: How Great Leaders Transform Their Organizations and Shape the Future

Two world-renowned strategists detail the seven leadership imperatives for transforming companies in the new digital era. Digital transformation is critical. But winning in today's world requires more than digitization. It requires understanding that the.

Getting Along Toolkit: Practical Techniques for Dealing with Difficult People at Work

Learn how to work productively with even the most difficult of colleagues. Work relationships can be hard. The stress of dealing with difficult people dampens our creativity and productivity, causing us to disengage. Too often we grin and bear it as if.

Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being

A plan for conquering collaborative overload to drive performance and innovation, reduce burnout, and enhance well-being. Most organizations have created always-on work contexts that are burning people out and hurting performance rather than delivering.

Our Separate Ways, With a New Preface and Epilogue: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity

Addressing gender alone won't help women rise to the top. Although women come from widely diverse backgrounds, they share a common assumption upon entering the workforce: "I have a chance." Along the way, however, they discover that people question their.

Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take

"An advocate of sustainable capitalism explains how it's done" -- The Economist "…Polman has been one of the most significant chief executives of his era and that his approach to business and its role in society has been both valuable and.

Collision Course: Carlos Ghosn and the Culture Wars That Upended an Auto Empire

In Japan it's called the "Ghosn Shock"--the stunning arrest of Carlos Ghosn, the jet-setting CEO who saved Nissan and made it part of a global automotive empire. Even more shocking was his daring escape from Japan, packed into a box and put on a private.

Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance

Get 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.

The Art of Being Indispensable at Work: Win Influence, Beat Overcommitment, and Get the Right Things Done

What's the secret to being indispensable--a true go-to person--in today's workplace? With new technology, constant change and uncertainty, and far-flung virtual teams, getting things done at work is tougher and more complex than ever. We're in the midst.

Results: Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work Done

A Leader's Guide to Executing Change and Delivering Results.Governor Charlie Baker, one of the most popular governors in the United States, with a reputation for getting things done, wants to put the service back into public service: "Wedge issues may be.

Winning on Purpose: The Unbeatable Strategy of Loving Customers

Great leaders embrace a higher purpose to win. The Net Promoter System shines as their guiding star. Few management ideas have spread so far and wide as the Net Promoter System (NPS). Since its conception almost two decades ago by customer loyalty guru.

When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency

American democratic capitalism is in danger. How can we save it? For its first two hundred years, the American economy exhibited truly impressive performance. The combination of democratically elected governments and a capitalist system worked, with.

Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life

There's an 80 percent chance you're poor. Time poor, that is. Four out of five adults report feeling that they have too much to do and not enough time to do it. These time-poor people experience less joy each day. They laugh less. They are less healthy.

The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed

Imagine 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.

Bias Interrupted: Creating Inclusion for Real and for Good

A cutting-edge, relentless, objective approach to inclusion. Companies spend billions of dollars annually on diversity efforts with remarkably few results. Too often diversity efforts rest on the assumption that all that's needed is an earnest.

Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience

Rethinking How to Build Inclusive Organizations. "Race, Work, and Leadership" is a rare and important compilation of essays that examines how race matters in people's experience of work and leadership. What does it mean to be black in corporate America.

Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You

"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 Times Leadership isn't easy. It takes.

Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos

Agile 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.

Workparent: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids

An all-in-one resource for every working mother and father. Sure, there are plenty of parenting books out there. But as working moms and dads, we've never had a trusted, go-to guide all our own--one that coaches us on how to do well at work, be the.

What Is Strategy?: An Illustrated Guide to Michael Porter

When it comes to strategy, the mistake most managers make is thinking they have one when they don't. Joan Magretta, author of the bestselling book "Understanding Michael Porter," has teamed up with illustrator Emile Holmewood to capture essential.

Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence

We've outsourced too much of our thinking. How do we get it back? Have you ever followed your GPS device to a deserted parking lot? Or unquestioningly followed the advice of an expert--perhaps a doctor or financial adviser--only to learn later that your.

How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart about the Numbers

Based on a popular class taught by a Harvard Business School professor. If you're not a numbers person, then finance can be intimidating and easy to ignore. But if you want to advance in your career, you'll need to make smart financial decisions and.

What's Your Problem?: To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve

Are you solving the right problems? Have you or your colleagues ever worked hard on something, only to find out you were focusing on the wrong problem entirely? Most people have. In a survey, 85 percent of companies said they often struggle to solve the.

Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?: (And How to Fix It)

Look around your office. Turn on the TV. Incompetent leadership is everywhere, and there's no denying that most of these leaders are men. In this timely and provocative book, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic asks two powerful questions: Why is it so easy for.

White Working Class, With a New Foreword by Mark Cuban and a New Preface by the Author: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America

"It is really worth a read. " -- Former Vice President Joe Biden, interviewed on Pod Save America. Now in paperback with a new Foreword by Mark Cuban and a new Preface by the author, White Working Class explains why so much of the elite's analysis of.

Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller In a world of unrelenting change and unprecedented challenges, we need organizations that are resilient and daring. Unfortunately, most organizations, overburdened by bureaucracy, are sluggish and timid. In the age of.

The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy

Our political system in America is broken, right? Wrong. The truth is, the American political system is working exactly how it is designed to work, and it isn't designed or optimized today to work for us--for ordinary citizens. Most people believe that.

Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People)

Named one of "22 new books. that you should consider reading before the year is out" by Fortune "This practical and empathetic guide to taking the high road is worth a look for workers lost in conflict." -- Publisher's Weekly A research-based.

The Workparent Toolkit: Essential Support for Working Parents

You manage, coach, mentor, or are an ally to working parents--or you want to be. And you want to have impact: to truly help these hardworking men and women build their confidence and develop skills to combine career and children authentically and.

Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street

Brian Armstrong stepped onto the stage with quiet confidence. He turned to the audience and shared his idea with the simple slogan: "Coinbase, the easiest way to get started with bitcoin." For a moment late in 2018, one bitcoin, which physically amounts.

Connected Strategy: A Toolkit for Building Continuous Customer Relationships

In Connected Strategy, strategy and operations experts Nicolaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch introduced a framework to help businesses turn occasional, sporadic transactions with customers into long-term, continuous relationships--while.

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Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life

How working parents can lead more purposeful lives, characterized by harmony, connection, and impact. Parents in today's fast-paced, disorienting world can easily lose track of who they are and what really matters most. But it doesn't have to be this way.

Step Back: Bringing the Art of Reflection into Your Busy Life

How to find clarity amid the turbulence of work and life. We all wish we had more time to pause and reflect about small decisions and big goals--and everything in between. But since we live and work in a vortex of tasks, meetings, decisions, and.

Couples That Work: How Dual-Career Couples Can Thrive in Love and Work

Finding fulfillment in both love and work isn't easy--but it's possible. The majority of couples today are dual-career couples. As anyone who's part of such a relationship knows, this presents big challenges: trying to raise kids and achieve career goals.

Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World

Forget what you know about the world of work. You 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.

The Real Business of Blockchain: How Leaders Can Create Value in a New Digital Age

Blockchain is transforming business. What's your strategy? Leaders of forward-thinking organizations are exploring how blockchain can transform the way they create and seek value. Whether it's used to streamline multiparty processes, create and trade new.

Capitalism at Risk, Updated and Expanded: How Business Can Lead

Q. 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.

Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We're Thriving in a New World of Possibility

Artificial intelligence, big data, modern science, and the internet are all revealing a fundamental truth: The world is vastly more complex and unpredictable than we've allowed ourselves to see. Now that technology is enabling us to take advantage of all.

The Leader You Want to Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self--Every Day

You can be the leader you want to be--today and every day. Do you find yourself wishing you had more hours in the day? Do you want to do more, yet feel you just can't add another thing to your plate without being overwhelmed by stress or compromising.

Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos, With an Introduction by Walter Isaacson

In Jeff Bezos's own words, the core principles and philosophy that have guided him in creating, leading, and transforming Amazon and Blue Origin. In this collection of Jeff Bezos's writings--his unique and strikingly original annual shareholder letters.

Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business

Digital transformation is no longer news--it's a necessity. Despite the widespread threat of disruption, many large companies in traditional industries have succeeded at digitizing their businesses in truly transformative ways. The "New York Times,".