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Manager's Toolkit: The 13 Skills Managers Need to Succeed (The Harvard Business Essentials) 6 reviews
Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
Very good guide to basic management
If you are a new manager fresh from being an individual contributor, this is the book for you. It takes you through the key skills you will need to become an effective manager and how to move up the ranks. No, it is not a Machiavellian approach to leadership, it is a practical guide for the real world.
The chapters teach you about setting goals for your team with their input. The idea is ...
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Coaching and Mentoring: How to Develop Top Talent and Achieve Stronger Performance (Harvard Business ...2 reviews
Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2004
Coach your employees to success
Everyone would agree that organizations are only as good as their employees. Still, many companies have not established a formal coaching and mentoring system to develop their most promising talent. Moreover, these companies do not capitalize on the vast knowledge and experience that veteran employees can pass down. Like the other useful books in the Harvard Business Essentials series, this ...
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The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail158 reviews
Harvard Business School Press
McGraw-Hill, 1997
Disrupt your competitors, not your customers!
With the Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen delivers a very powerful analysis of the role of innovation in gaining market leadership. The question raised is whether market leadership can be sustained through innovation alone. Indeed, the core of the Innovator's Dilemma illustrates how successful companies with established solutions, marquee customers and a valued brand keep being ...
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Harvard Business Review on Becoming a High-Performance Manager 2 reviews
Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2002
Not a recipe, but a collection of ideas
This review is supposed to tell the potential reader what to expect from this book, based on the confession that I highly recommend reading this book.
This book is NOT A RECIPE. If you look for a "recipe" as to how to become a high performance manager, I would recommend Stephen Covey's classic on the 7 habits of highly effective people.
This book IS a perfect checklist to compare your ...
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Harvard Business Review on Leading Through Change (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)2 reviews
Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2006
Highly Recommended for Executives Leading Organizations Through Change
I picked this book up at an airport to have something to read on my flight, and I was not disappointed in the least. It provides excellent information and insight on leading organizations during times of change.
In Kotter's essay, "Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail", he analyzes common errors of leading through change, and converts them into 8 steps for transforming an ...
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Power, Influence, and Persuasion: Sell Your Ideas and Make Things Happen (Harvard Business Essentials)3 reviews
Harvard Business School Press, 2005
Insightful, Eloquent, Practical,...and Convincing
This is one of the volumes in the new Harvard Business Essentials Series. Each offers authoritative answers to the most important questions concerning its specific subject. The material in this book is drawn from a variety of sources which include the Harvard Business School Press and the Harvard Business Review as well as Harvard ManageMentor®, an online service. I strongly recommend the ...
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Finance for Managers (Harvard Business Essentials) 8 reviews
Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2002
Book Review
This book is well written, and clearly explains the financial concepts in a manner that makes it easy for the layman to understand. I highly recommend this book for all non-financial types, who want to better understand the world of fiancial statemetns and data.
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Harvard Business Review on Corporate Responsibility (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) 4 reviews
Harvard Business School Press, C. K. Prahalad, ...
Harvard Business School Press, 2003
8essays that see corporate responsibility as an opportunity
Traditional corporate executives may shudder when they hear the term "corporate responsibility". In their view, the corporation's responsibility is to maximize shareholder value within the bounds of the law. That's a tall order as it is, so resistance to the thought of additional sources of responsibility and additional relevant "stakeholders" isn't surprising. The writers gathered in this ...
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Managing Change and Transition3 reviews
Richard Luecke
Harvard Business School Press, 2003
Invaluable "Essentials"
This is one of several paperbacks in the "Essentials" series, each of which offers "cutting edge" thinking on a major business subject. Mike Beer served as the adviser to Richard Luecke while he wrote this volume. Brief information about both is provided. There are seven chapters following an Introduction in which Luecke observes that "Accepting the necessity and inevitability of change enables ...
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Time Management: Increase Your Personal Productivity And Effectiveness (Harvard Business Essentials)1 review
Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2005
A sensible guide on how to use your time
For poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, time was, "a maniac, scattering dust." Satirist Jonathan Swift described it as, "all-devouring, all-destroying." William Shakespeare called it, "the wreckful siege of battering days." English dramatist Robert Greene may have captured time's essence most aptly in this simple elegy: "Time is...time was...time is past." Throughout history and up to the present moment ...
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Creating Teams with an Edge (Harvard Business Essentials)4 reviews
Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2004
A solid and concise text and effective teams
This is a very solid guide from the folks at Harvard Business School Press that provides the basics of how to create, use, and manage teams. It opens with a discussion of what a team is and is not (workgroups are not teams, for example) and the kind of work that teams are best suited for. The book also lays out the essentials for creating a team and what kinds of things the company must provide ...
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Harvard Business Review on Marketing2 reviews
Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2002
A Collection of the best articles from the HBR magazine.
There are now over 20 books in this Harvard Business Review series. All the books are compilations of the best articles from the Harvard Business Review magazine. This book is one of the best books in the series for the quality, relevance, and usefulness of the articles selected for inclusion. The eight articles selected for this book are 'The Brand Report Card', 'Bringing a Dying Brand Back to ...
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Harvard Business Review on Corporate Ethics (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)
Harvard Business School Press, Joseph L. Badaracco
Harvard Business School Press, 2003
Harvard Business Review on Corporate Ethics Resolving today's most pressing questions about business behavior has become a priority in today's corporate environment. In deciding how to act, managers reveal their inner values, test their commitment to those values, and ultimately shape their characters. Readers of this collection of articles will learn to identify the theoretical and practical issues of recognizing and responding to ethical ...
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Strategy: Create and Implement the Best Strategy for Your Business2 reviews
Harvard Business School Press, 2005
Essential guide to implementing business strategy
Too many businesses fail to make the connection between strategy and implementation. Having great ideas is terrific, but they won't do you much good if you can't execute them. Years ago, Sam Walton may have suspected that high volume and low prices would lead to extraordinary retail success, but he understood that he would need a dependable system to deliver the goods. This practical manual ...
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Managing Projects Large and Small: The Fundamental Skills to Deliver on budget and on Time2 reviews
Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2003
Essential to any executive's "tool box"
This is one of the volumes in the Harvard Business Essentials Series. Each offers authoritative answers to the most important questions concerning its specific subject. The material in this book is drawn from a variety of sources which include the Harvard Business School Press and the Harvard Business Review as well as Harvard ManageMentor_, an online service. I strongly recommend the official ...
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Harvard Business Review on Supply Chain Management (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)4 reviews
Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2006
Harvard Business Review on Supply Chain Management
I thought the book presented several interesting examples through eight papers covering various supply chain topics. Several of the papers have appendices with very useful information. This is a good book to take on a plane and read on one or two flights. But, subsequent research would be required to obtain the details necessary to actually implement the concepts.
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Running Meetings: Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges (Pocket Mentor)1 review
Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2006
Great resource for anyone looking to run more efficient and effective meetings
As an instructor and facilitator who runs workshops on numerous business topics, including "Running Effective Meetings," I have found most all the HBR Pocket Mentor books a great addition to our content. The Running Meetings book is especially good as it provides great case studies, examples, content, tips, and tools. We often use the "What Would You Do?" format used in the book in our ...
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Harvard Business Review on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (A Harvard Business Review Paperback)2 reviews
Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2000
A must!
The Harvard Business Review has done it again. A very useful tool for negotiation.
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Harvard Business Review on Managing Yourself (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) 2 reviews
Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2005
Section on ADT is worth the price
This was my first time reading the Harvard Business Review books. The book is made up of 8 topics by different authors. I'm not used to this format so the topics felt short and leaving me wanting more.
The topic on "Overloaded Circuits" is fantastic. Dr. Hallowell describes ADT or Attention Deficit Trait. Similar to ADD but entirely created from the environment, ADT is a new condition ...
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Harvard Business Review on Making Smarter Decisions (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)1 review
Harvard Business School Press
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
You want better results? Make smarter decisions.
This is one in a series of several dozen volumes that comprise the Harvard Business Review Paperback Series. Each offers direct, convenient, and inexpensive access to the best thinking ("ideas with impact") about the given subject in articles originally published by the Harvard Business School Review. I strongly recommend all of the volumes in the series. The individual titles are listed at this ...
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