Harvard Business Review. The Essentials

HBR’s 10 Must Reads. First part. — Boston: HBR, 2011. — 151 p. (HBR’s)This six-title collection includes only the most critical articles from the world’s top management experts, curated from Harvard Business Review’s rich archives. We’ve done the work of selecting them so you won’t have to. From leadership and strategy to managing yourself and others, HBR’s Must Reads offer foundational articles on essential business topics to help you maximize your organization’s performance and your own.
This book brings together the best thinking from management’s most influential experts. Arm yourself with the insights of Michael Porter on competitive advantage, John Kotter on leading change, Daniel Goleman on emotional intelligence, Peter Drucker on managing your career, Clayton Christensen on disruptive innovation, Tom Davenport on analytics, Robert Kaplan and David Norton on measuring strategy with the balanced scorecard, Rosabeth Moss Kanter on innovation, Ted Levitt on marketing, and C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel on core competence. Once you’ve read these definitive articles, you can delve into each core topic the series explores: managing yourself, managing people, leadership, strategy, and change management.Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change by Clayton M. Christensen and Michael Overdorf
Competing on Analytics by Thomas H. Davenport
Managing Oneself by Peter F. Drucker
What Makes a Leader? by Daniel Goleman
Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
Innovation: The Classic Traps by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail by John P. Kotter
Marketing Myopia by Theodore Levitt
What Is Strategy? by Michael E. Porter
The Core Competence of the Corporation by C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel