Business & Economics

Ausgehend von den Input-Output-Tabellen der Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnung entwickelt das Lehrwerk die Input-Output-Analyse konsequent als Ex-ante-Analyse bis hin zur Darstellung der wirtschaftspolitischen Relevanz. Dieses Lehrwerk ist für Volkswirte Pflichtlektüre.

Wer bereits im Internet "surft" oder dies plant, kommt an diesem übersichtlichen, kompetenten und gut verständlichen Nachschlagewerk über die Internet-Begriffswelt bis hin zum Internet-Slang nicht vorbei.

Mathematik-Lehrbuchbestseller. Aus dem Inhalt: Lineare Algebra. Matrizen. Lösungen von linearen Gleichungssystemen. Determinanten. Eigenwertaufgaben. Lineare Programmierung. Analysis: Funktionen. Differentialrechnung. Extremwertaufgaben. Integralrechnung. Folgen und Reihen. Potenz- und Taylor-Reihen.

Mit dem Werk, das sich an interessierte Praktiker, vor allem aber an Studierende der Tourismuswirtschaft wendet, wird ein Überblick über die Fragestellungen gegeben, die sich mit den aktuellen Entwicklungen im internationalen Tourismus verbinden.

Dieses Werk ist zugleich eine Betriebswirtschaftslehre der internationalen Unternehmung. Sämtliche Handlungsbereiche und betriebliche Funktionen werden mit den internationalen Aspekten angereichert. Damit ist es auch ein Handbuch zu Theorie und Praxis der internationalen Unternehmensführung. Mit der vierten Auflage setzt das Werk nachhaltige gültige Maßstäbe für das junge Fach.

Das Statistik-Lehrbuch ist ein Begleiter zu Vorlesungen und Übungen im Grundstudium, eignet sich aber auch als Nachschlagewerk. Vor allem aber der ungewöhnlich umfangreiche Aufgabenteil mit Übungsaufgaben und Musterklausuren macht das Werk zum idealen Hilfsmittel zur Klausurvorbereitung.

Der renommierte Verfasser ist Hochschullehrer und Politiker in einer Person. Geschrieben hat er ein Lehrbuch für Wirtschaftsstudenten, dem die Erfahrung in beiden Berufen zugute gekommen ist. Die "Ökologieorientierte Wirtschaftspolitik" heißt ab heute "Der Jens".

Das Fritz-Hüser-Institut in Dortmund ist Europas einziges Forschungsinstitut mit Bibliothek und Archiv zu Literatur und Kultur der Arbeitswelt. Zum ersten Mal in seiner insgesamt 80-jährigen Geschichte legt es ein umfassendes Inventar aller Bestände von Bibliothek, Handschriften-, Dokumenten-, Grafik-, Medien- und Fotoarchiv vor. Schwerpunkte sind Dichtung und Biografien von Arbeitnehmern und Arbeitslosen von 1800 bis heute, vollständige Archive verschiedener Schriftsteller-Vereinigungen, Autorennachlässe sowie Sammlungen zu Kulturorganisationen. Umfangreiche Namen-, Orts- und Sachregister ermöglichen das schnelle Auffinden sämtlicher Einzelnachweise.

"ECO-Integral" ermöglicht, quasi als "Trojanisches Pferd", die integrierte Informationsverarbeitung aller relevanten Betriebsdaten im Kontext des betrieblichen Umweltschutzes. Unverzichtbar für alle, die im Bereich Informationsmanagement des betrieblichen Umwelschutzes arbeiten.

Normative und pragmatische Aspekte des betrieblichen Umweltschutzes sind verbunden mit Erfahrungen aus der Unternehmenspraxis. Die ökologieorientierten Informations- und Steuerungssysteme sind umfassend dargestellt. Damit ist das Werk für Wissenschaftler, Studenten und Unternehmenspraktiker gleichermaßen bedeutsam.

Dieser Crashkurs hilft den Studierenden vor oder zu Beginn des Studiums, die unentbehrlichen mathematischen Grundkenntnisse aufzufrischen oder nachzulernen. Die einzelnen Abschnitte sind nicht aufeinander aufgebaut, so dass sich der Studierende auf die Gebiete konzentrieren kann, in denen er Schwierigkeiten oder Lücken hat. Am Ende eines jeden Kapitels befinden sich Aufgaben, deren Lösungen sich, zur Kontrolle, im Anhang befinden.

Im Hinblick auf die zunehmende Bedeutung des Umweltschutz-Reporting wendet sich das Lehr- und Handbuch an Führungskräfte in Unternehmen und an Studierende der Betriebswirtschaft mit Schwerpunkten Rechnungswesen, Controlling und Wirtschaftsprüfung.

Einführung in die Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie für mittlere Semester der Mathematik, Physik, des OR und der Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Grundkenntnisse der Differential- und Integralrechnung werden vorausgesetzt.

Das Buch eignet sich als Entscheidungshilfe für Bauherren, wendet sich aber gleichzeitig an Architekten, da diese durch ihre Planungen die baulichen Entscheidungen ihrer Bauherren vorbereiten. In diesem Sinne ist dieses Buch eine Wirtschaftslehre aus der Sicht des Bauherrn und insofern eine Wirtschaftslehre des Architekten, da auch dieser wirtschaftliche und weitere Interessen zu vertreten hat.

Ziel des Lehrbuches ist es, dem Leser einen Überblick über die wichtigsten Verfahren zur Vorbereitung mehrkriteriell abgestützter Entscheidungen zu vermitteln. Auf eine ausführliche Darstellung der AHP-Methode (Analytic Hierarchy Process) wird besonders Gewicht gelegt. Diese von T.L. Saaty (University of Pittsburgh) wesentlich geprägte Methode findet in neuerer Zeit weltweit große Beachtung.

Das Handbuch der Umweltschutzwirtschaft fasst ausgewählte Studien über die Angebotsseite des Umweltschutzmarktes zusammen, die in ihrer Gesamtheit einen Überblick über die Entwicklung dieses Wirtschaftszweiges darstellen. Damit ist eine Bestandsaufnahme verbunden, die künftig als Vergleichsgröße dienen kann.

Das Buch ist als Repetitorium zur Vorbereitung auf Prüfungen im Grundstudium konzipiert. Aus dem umfassenden Fachgebiet der Wirtschaftsinformatik wurden einige grundlegende Themen ausgewählt, die besonders die Schnittstellen zur Betriebswirtschaftslehre verdeutlichen sollen. Klar definierte Lernziele, zahlreiche Abbildungen und Wiederholungsfragen garantieren den raschen Lernfortschritt.

Mit der Floskel, dies sei ein unkonventionelles Lehrbuch der Statistik, ist wenig gesagt: Es ist das erste Lehrbuch überhaupt, dem es gelingt, Statistik lustvoll nahezubringen. Es müsste eigentlich rasch zum Super-Dauer-Bestseller werden.

Das Lehrbuch ist sowohl eine Darstellung der Organisationsformen und der Organisationstechnik als auch eine didaktisch geschickte Aufbereitung der modernen Organisationstheorie: In der zweiten Auflage wurde das Werk um Perspektiven des kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Organisations-Ansatzes erweitert, in der dritten Auflage nochmals durchgesehen.

This book concerns any progressive discipline and human profession looking to transform its practice via the cultivation of thinking professionals, which are preferable to unthinking professionals who may be inattentive, unphilosophical, not inclined or not know how to think deeply and profoundly. Thus, they fail to give due consideration to an issue or the consequences before acting. Thinking professionals have a complete and accurate image (mastery) of their professional identity and reality, and they can reflect on, reason through, and justify any decision to act. They would have thinking acumen (i.e., able to make good judgements and shrewd decisions), which requires a rich repertoire of contemporary perspectives and lenses, ideally with a critical bend (exposing and challenging power).
Both The Thinking Professional and transformative practice are used as hooks and threads through the entire book and as anchors for each chapter. The 17-chapter collection is organized into (a) what thinking professionals could think about in the abstract as well as more concrete ideas including (b) how they could think about or view their practice differently and (c) how they could transform their practice and do things differently. Topics include paradigm shifts, the human condition, transdisciplinarity, the holomovement principle, philosophical well-being, perspective transformation, and transformative social change agency.
Readers will also engage with intellectual curiosity and skeptical thinking, tacit knowledge management, the critical science approach, and critical discourse analysis. Other topics include transformative leadership, postmodernism, after postmodernism, reflective human action leadership, and communities of practice. In some cases, the century-old home economics profession is used as a working case to bring ideas alive. This book showcases The Thinking Professional who has transformative practice as their end goal.

Managing the Smart Revolution in Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality provides a comprehensive exploration of how cutting-edge technologies are reshaping the landscape of the industry.

Going beyond the surface of emerging trends, offering in-depth insights into the integration of smart technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and data analytics, chapters meticulously analyze their impact on operational efficiency, customer engagement, and overall management strategies within the realms of travel, tourism, and hospitality. From optimizing customer experiences to streamlining operational processes, the work serves as a vital guide, ensuring that stakeholders remain at the forefront of innovation, and capitalize on the opportunities presented by the rapidly evolving smart ecosystem in the constantly evolving hospitality sector.

By elucidating the intricacies of this digital transformation, Managing the Smart Revolution in Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality equips industry professionals, academics and undergraduates with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate the complexities of the smart revolution.

The Covid-19 pandemic triggered an unprecedented shift to remote work, made possible by a vast array of technologies. While the frequency of remote work has decreased post-pandemic, many workers and organizations are now embracing remote and hybrid work options. Technologies that proved beneficial during the pandemic continue to be used, and the explosion of AI across industries has left many wondering about the future of work and society.

Meaningful Work in a Post-Covid Age: The Impact of New Technologies presents examples of how technology can enhance efficiency and effectiveness in education, industry, and healthcare when used to support organizational stakeholders. However, it also cautions that we must consider the long-term impact of technology on human well-being. The widespread use of new technologies has resulted in lasting shifts in organizational and worker mindsets about what is considered normal, appropriate, and desirable in how and where work is performed. These changes have also impacted how meaningful work is experienced.

The book addresses the underlying concern about whether the pervasive use of technology will result in net benefits or losses to society. Technology that focuses primarily on efficiency at the expense of relational and creative needs can detract from the meaningfulness of life and work, leading to worker unrest and alienation, and potentially impacting the physical and mental health of the global population.

Meaningful Work in a Post-Covid Age presents models and tools to help leaders, decision-makers, and workers navigate their organizations and careers to find meaningful work amidst the accelerating growth of new technologies.

Global Marketing in Times of Disruption, Volume 22 in the Review of Marketing Research series, delves into the multifaceted disruptions reshaping the domain of international marketing, fuelled by shifts in geopolitical dynamics, technological advancements, and consumer behaviour. A diverse selection of international authors contribute to our understanding of the implications of disruptions for global marketing strategy, based on their impact on firms, markets, consumers, and policy makers. They address the range of disruptions across four categories: anti-globalisation and nationalistic sentiments; trade wars; climate change; and digital platforms and payment technologies.
The convergence of these disruptions has fundamentally altered the dynamics of international marketing, necessitating a paradigm shift in how firms approach global market expansion and consumer engagement. Agility and adaptability emerge as indispensable attributes for marketers seeking to navigate the complexities of the global marketplace. By embracing innovation, sustainability, and a nuanced understanding of local contexts, firms can position themselves to thrive amidst disruption and seize opportunities for growth in an increasingly turbulent global landscape.

The practice of visiting locations connected to death, calamity, and human suffering—known as "dark tourism"—has become a fascinating but contentious area of research. Bringing together top academics and specialists from across the globe, The Emerald Handbook of International Dark Tourism provides a thorough and multidisciplinary investigation of this phenomena.

This handbook offers new perspectives on the changing role of dark tourism in modern society, drawing on contributions from a variety of academic fields, such as sociology, history, tourist studies, heritage, psychology, religious studies and cultural geography. Chapters address issues like black magic, impact of dark tourism on mental health, dark events, ethical dimensions, technology advancements for dark tourism, commodification of tragedy and many more; that is vital tool for academics, decision-makers, and business professionals.

The Emerald Handbook of International Dark Tourism is a vital resource for understanding the shades of how and why people visit places of death, grief, war and disaster and what this reveals about society's relationship with history, memory and ethics by striking a balance between academic rigour and practical relevance.

Digital transformation and AI innovation are revolutionizing the healthcare industry, offering unprecedented opportunities to enhance patient care, streamline processes, and improve outcomes. The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into healthcare systems is a pivotal aspect of this transformation, promising to reshape how healthcare is delivered and experienced. AI technologies have the potential to optimize diagnosis, treatment, and resource allocation, ultimately leading to more efficient and effective healthcare services. However, the introduction of AI in healthcare necessitates a cautious approach, considering factors such as patient perception, ethical implications, and the need for robust evaluation frameworks. This book explores the transformative synergy between digital transformation and AI innovation in the healthcare sector, with a focus on optimizing operational processes and delivering superior patient care and enhancing healthcare business practices. The convergence of digital technologies and AI is revolutionizing healthcare delivery, from streamlining administrative tasks to enabling personalized treatment and diagnosis. This book aims to investigate into key applications, challenges, and future directions of this dynamic synergy, offering practical insights for healthcare professionals, researchers, policymakers, and technology enthusiasts.

The "Advances in Digital Technology and Data-Driven Business Practices" series aims to shed light on the rapid developments, significance, benefits, and practical applications of evolving digital technologies and data-driven decision-making practices in businesses.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing agriculture and environmental sustainability worldwide. As global demand for food and sustainable practices grows, AI is paving the way for smarter farming and more efficient environmental management. Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture and Environmental Sustainability: A Global Perspective delves into how AI is driving these changes, offering critical insights from both theory and practice.

In this edited collection, authors explore the multifaceted impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) across various sectors, with a particular focus on agriculture and environmental sustainability. The work begins by examining the economic implications of AI in agriculture, addressing both the challenges and future directions for farming. It delves into smart crop recommendation systems and the transformative potential of AI on Asia’s food supply. The discussion then broadens to analyze AI’s role in economic growth and financial inclusion in the context of the environment. Authors investigate the relationship between environmental pollution and the integration of AI in sustainable practices. Finally, the work considers the socio-economic and environmental consequences of AI, offering a critical analysis of disruptive digital technologies.

This work is essential reading for academics, policymakers, and industry professionals. It offers critical insights into how AI is revolutionizing agriculture and environmental sustainability, making it a valuable resource for anyone looking to understand and leverage AI’s transformative potential.

Although the Micro/Small and Medium Enterprises (M/SMEs) in India (as also in other countries) make significant contributions to the economy (with about 30% share in GDP, 50% share in exports, and more than 60% share in employment), their developmental needs are addressed primarily through the facilitation of the external environment. In order to take advantage of the external facilitation, M/SMEs have to develop their internal capabilities, which are hardly attended to. Training is widely recognized as a major tool for developing the internal capabilities of M/SMEs. However, there were hardly any studies on the training-related issues of Indian M/SMEs. It is in this context that the present study was undertaken for identifying the perceived training needs and the training-related preferences of M/SMEs. The study covered a wide range of issues related to training in M/SMEs, such as the perceived training needs, the preferred training contents, methods, timings, duration, and training providers, as well as the actual training provided, for various levels (owners/directors, managers, and employees) in the organization. The findings of the study and the recommendations made on their basis will be useful for researchers, trainers/consultants, and practitioners/entrepreneurs, as well as policy-makers.

In the era of a constantly changing tourism and hospitality landscape, Digital Transformation in Tourism and Hospitality: Sustainable Management Strategies for Long-Term Excellence serves as a comprehensive guide on how to lead, innovate, and sustain forward-thinking approaches within the industry. Catering to leaders, entrepreneurs, and academics, it distils ground-breaking ideas about the impact of digital innovations and how sustainability-centric practices are shaping the future of travel. Explore how emerging technologies—such as artificial intelligence, data analytics, and digital marketing—can be leveraged to create seamless, immersive guest experiences while addressing critical environmental and social challenges.

Digital Transformation in Tourism and Hospitality is a roadmap to future-proof leadership, filled with case studies, expert insights, and actionable frameworks. From implementing green technology to optimizing digital operations, each chapter provides a deeper understanding of how to achieve sustainable success in an industry where environmental and social responsibility are essential for differentiation and resilience. Whether you are a tourism professional, business strategist, or academic, this book equips you to drive responsible growth and achieve long-term excellence in a digitally driven world.

In an age defined by volatility, complexity, and constant disruption, organisations face an imperative to adapt—or risk obsolescence. Yet despite the abundance of strategic models and change frameworks, many transformation efforts falter. The reason is not flawed strategy, but a persistent underestimation of the most critical enabler of change: human capital. Leading Strategic Transformation: The H-Factor challenges conventional approaches to change management, placing people—not processes—at the heart of successful transformation. Rooted in insights from strategic management, organisational behaviour, and complexity science, this incisive work introduces a dynamic, systems-based perspective on how organisations can thrive in uncertain, rapidly evolving environments.

Rejecting linear planning and top-down control, the authors advocate for a shift toward complex adaptive systems thinking. Here, leadership is reimagined as the capacity to enable networks, foster agility, and mobilise human talent in service of long-term value creation. Combining theory with actionable insight, the book offers practical frameworks such as the Value Creation Pentad and the MELT model for human capital engagement and is essential reading for scholars and practitioners alike.

Considerations for Culturally Informed Leadership: Moving Toward the Future explores the dynamic process of leadership across diverse cultural landscapes. This book invites readers to embark on a journey of self-discovery and reflection, encouraging them to see themselves as learners, engagers, and connectors in a global context.

Each chapter begins with a framing section to set the stage for learning, followed by stopping points for readers to pause and reflect on their insights. Thought-provoking questions and discussion prompts at the end of each chapter foster meaningful conversations and deeper understanding. Additionally, practical activities are designed to elevate leadership skills, taking learning to the next level.

Whether readers are college or high school students, part of a student organization, or pursuing individual learning, this book offers valuable opportunities to enhance leadership practice in a classroom setting and beyond. It aims to unlock the potential of culturally informed leaders and make a lasting impact in today's interconnected world.

The BOSS for 21st Century Organizations is a must-read for seasoned managers and executives, newly appointed leaders, and anyone contemplating a supervisory role. This comprehensive guide is designed to equip leaders with the tools and insights necessary to excel in their positions and foster a Human Intelligent (HI) Workplace.

Drawing on nearly four decades of experience in leadership development, the author has conducted numerous workshops and provided executive coaching to countless managers and executives. With firsthand experience as a manager, the author has observed effective and ineffective behaviors, offering invaluable insights into what truly works in leadership.

This book features two essential questionnaires that serve as powerful tools for self-assessment and organizational evaluation.

• Human Intelligent (HI) Workplace Questionnaire: Evaluate your workplace from both an individual and 360-degree perspective to understand what it takes to create an environment that thrives on human intelligence
• Leadership Behavior Effectiveness (LBE) Questionnaire: Assess your leadership effectiveness and identify areas for improvement to become a more impactful leader.
  

Whether you are an experienced leader looking to refine your skills, a new manager stepping into a challenging role, or someone considering a supervisory position, The BOSS for 21st Century Organizations offers the guidance and tools you need to succeed. Embrace the journey to becoming a better boss and create a workplace where human intelligence and effective leadership drive success.

Natural-Born Entrepreneurs offers mid-career professionals a refreshing alternative to the traditional startup path. Dr. Lisa Piercey, who successfully transitioned from clinical professional and healthcare executive to business owner, provides a comprehensive guide to acquiring existing small and medium-sized businesses rather than starting from scratch.

Drawing from her experience purchasing three healthcare companies after serving as Tennessee's Commissioner of Health during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lisa demystifies the often intimidating process of business acquisition. She addresses the common frustrations of corporate life that drive many accomplished professionals to seek greater autonomy and financial upside, while offering a pragmatic solution that avoids the high failure rates and years of negative returns typical of startups.

The book walks readers through each stage of the acquisition journey, beginning with how to determine if this path is right for you and what makes a good acquisition target. Lisa details the art of developing a compelling search thesis, finding businesses for sale, and conducting preliminary due diligence to quickly identify promising opportunities. She explains how to analyze financial performance, assess future growth potential, and spot red flags before they become costly mistakes.

Readers will gain invaluable insights into deal structures, valuation methods, and negotiation strategies, followed by practical guidance on securing financing through various sources—from SBA loans to private investors. Lisa shares proven strategies for crafting effective investor presentations and building relationships with potential funding partners.

The final chapters address the closing process and provide a roadmap for the critical first 100 days of ownership, offering strategies for successful integration and building trust with newly acquired teams.

What distinguishes this guide is its focus on the unique perspective of seasoned professionals with industry expertise who are looking to leverage their experience in a more fulfilling and potentially lucrative way. Through clear explanations, real-world examples, and actionable advice, Lisa empowers readers to recognize and embrace their entrepreneurial instincts by acquiring the right business at the right time—proving that you don't have to start a business to be a successful entrepreneur.

In Maid in America, Rosemary Everton shares an extraordinary tale of resilience, determination, and the true meaning of the American Dream. Born into a working-class family on Delaware's Eastern Shore, Rosemary's life took an unexpected turn when she became pregnant at fifteen, married young, and seemed destined for a challenging path. But destiny had other plans.

Against overwhelming odds, Rosemary refused to be defined by her circumstances. While juggling motherhood, night school, and work, she and her husband Mike built a cleaning business from the ground up—transforming a small residential service into a multimillion dollar commercial cleaning enterprise. Her journey is a testament to the power of perseverance, hard work, and unwavering commitment.

The book chronicles not just a business success story, but a deeply personal narrative of overcoming tragedy. From losing children to navigating family challenges, financial struggles, and workplace obstacles, Rosemary demonstrates an incredible capacity for resilience. Her story takes an unexpected turn when President George H.W. Bush publicly celebrates her achievements during a high school graduation speech, bringing her remarkable journey into the national spotlight.

More than a memoir, Maid in America is a masterclass in entrepreneurship. Rosemary shares candid insights into building a successful business, including lessons on patience, consistency, trust, and never burning professional bridges. Her wisdom extends beyond business, offering profound reflections on marriage, family, and maintaining hope through life's most difficult moments.

With raw honesty and inspiring optimism, Rosemary Everton proves that with determination, faith, and hard work, anyone can transform their dreams into reality. Her story is a powerful reminder that the American Dream is alive and accessible to those willing to persevere, adapt, and believe in themselves.

An inspirational, practical, and research-based guide for standing up and speaking out skillfully at work.

Have you ever wanted to disagree with your boss? Speak up about your company's lack of diversity or unequal pay practices? Make a tough decision you knew would be unpopular?

We all have opportunities to be courageous at work. But since courage requires risk—to our reputations, our social standing, and, in some cases, our jobs—we often fail to act, which leaves us feeling powerless and regretful for not doing what we know is right. There's a better way to handle these crucial moments—and Choosing Courage provides the moral imperative and research-based tactics to help you become more competently courageous at work.

Doing for courage what Angela Duckworth has done for grit and Brene Brown for vulnerability, Jim Detert, the world's foremost expert on workplace courage, explains that courage isn't a character trait that only a few possess; it's a virtue developed through practice. And with the right attitude and approach, you can learn to hone it like any other skill and incorporate it into your everyday life.

Full of stories of ordinary people who've acted courageously, Choosing Courage will give you a fresh perspective on the power of voicing your authentic ideas and opinions. Whether you’re looking to make a mark, stay true to your values, act with more integrity, or simply grow as a professional, this is the guide you need to achieve greater impact at work.

Are you the boss you need to be?

You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a web of conflicting expectations from your subordinates, from those above you, and from your peers and customers.

You're not alone. As Harvard Business School's Linda Hill and manager and executive Kent Lineback reveal in Being the Boss, becoming an effective manager is a painful, difficult journey. It requires trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey and instead just learn how to get by. At worst, they become terrible bosses.

This essential book, now with a new preface, explains how to avoid that fate by mastering three imperatives:

• Manage yourself: Learn that management isn't about doing all the work on your own. It's about leading others to accomplish things with you as their guide.
• Manage your network: Understand how power and influence work in your organization, and build a network of mutually beneficial relationships to navigate your company's complex political environment
• Manage your team: Create a high-performing "we" out of all the "I's" who report to you.

Packed with compelling stories and practical advice, Being the Boss is an indispensable guide not only for first-time managers but for all managers seeking to master the most daunting challenges of leadership.

Make the connections that will help you succeed—and advance faster.

Networking doesn't stop once you've landed the job. Building a high-quality, diverse network is key to learning and growth, influencing others, and launching your ideas. But how do you move beyond small talk and cold emails to building a network that is strategic and effective, made up of authentic relationships?

The HBR Guide to Smarter Networking will give you the tools you need to connect confidently, get your initiatives off the ground, and move up in your career.

This guide will help you:

• Make great first impressions
• Connect better at conferences—in-person or virtual
• Reach out to find your next job
• Overcome obstacles to building your network
• Avoid networking burnout
• Keep your network healthy over the long haul

Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.

Engage your employees and transform your organization.

If you read nothing else on employee engagement, read this book. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you make your employees feel valued, motivated, and ready to do great things.

This book will inspire you to:

• Invest in a culture of cohesive teams
• Turn employee feedback into action
• Learn why people quit—and how to retain them
• Curb burnout by designing better jobs
• Make HR a champion of employees
• Create a purpose-driven organization

This collection of articles includes "Creating a Purpose-Driven Organization," by Robert E. Quinn and Anjan V. Thakor; "How Customers Can Rally Your Troops," by Adam Grant, "Why Employees Quit," by Ethan Bernstein, Michael B. Horn, and Bob Moesta; "The Power of Hidden Teams," by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall; "Do You Tell Your Employees You Appreciate Them?" by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman; "The Case for Good Jobs," by Zeynep Ton; "To Curb Burnout, Design Jobs to Better Match Employees' Needs," by Michael P. Leiter and Christina Maslach; "HR's New Role," by Peter Cappelli and Ranya Nehmeh; "Turn Employee Feedback into Action," by Ethan Burris, Benjamin Thomas, Ketaki Sodhi, and Dawn Klinghoffer; "Beware a Culture of Busyness," by Adam Waytz; "Collaborative Overload," by Rob Cross, Reb Rebele, and Adam Grant; "Designing the Hybrid Office," by Anne-Laure Fayard, John Weeks, and Mahwesh Khan; and "Blue Ocean Leadership," by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne.

HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others.

Disruption resulting from the proliferation of AI is coming. The authors of the bestselling Prediction Machines can help you prepare.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has impacted many industries around the world—banking and finance, pharmaceuticals, automotive, medical technology, manufacturing, and retail. But it has only just begun its odyssey toward cheaper, better, and faster predictions that drive strategic business decisions. When prediction is taken to the max, industries transform, and with such transformation comes disruption.

What is at the root of this? In their bestselling first book, Prediction Machines, eminent economists Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb explained the simple yet game-changing economics of AI. Now, in Power and Prediction, they go deeper, examining the most basic unit of analysis: the decision. The authors explain that the two key decision-making ingredients are prediction and judgment, and we perform both together in our minds, often without realizing it. The rise of AI is shifting prediction from humans to machines, relieving people from this cognitive load while increasing the speed and accuracy of decisions.

This sets the stage for a flourishing of new decisions and has profound implications for system-level innovation. Redesigning systems of interdependent decisions takes time—many industries are in the quiet before the storm—but when these new systems emerge, they can be disruptive on a global scale. Decision-making confers power. In industry, power confers profits; in society, power confers control. This process will have winners and losers, and the authors show how businesses can leverage opportunities, as well as protect their positions.

Filled with illuminating insights, rich examples, and practical advice, Power and Prediction is the must-read guide for any business leader or policymaker on how to make the coming AI disruptions work for you rather than against you.

No data is completely safe.

Cyberattacks on companies and individuals are on the rise and growing not only in number but also in ferocity. And while you may think your company has taken all the precautionary steps to prevent an attack, no individual, company, or country is safe. Cybersecurity can no longer be left exclusively to IT specialists. Improving and increasing data security practices and identifying suspicious activity is everyone's responsibility, from the boardroom to the break room.

Cybersecurity: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review brings you today's most essential thinking on cybersecurity, from outlining the challenges to exploring the solutions, and provides you with the critical information you need to prepare your company for the inevitable hack. The lessons in this book will help you get everyone in your organization on the same page when it comes to protecting your most valuable assets.

Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?
Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues--blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more--each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow. You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas--and prepare you and your company for the future.

Most companies today have innovation envy. They yearn to come up with a game—changing innovation like Apple's iPod, or create an entirely new category like Facebook. Many make genuine efforts to be innovative—they spend on R&D, bring in creative designers, hire innovation consultants. But they get disappointing results.

Why? In The Design of Business, Roger Martin offers a compelling and provocative answer: we rely far too exclusively on analytical thinking, which merely refines current knowledge, producing small improvements to the status quo.

To innovate and win, companies need design thinking. This form of thinking is rooted in how knowledge advances from one stage to another—from mystery (something we can't explain) to heuristic (a rule of thumb that guides us toward solution) to algorithm (a predictable formula for producing an answer) to code (when the formula becomes so predictable it can be fully automated). As knowledge advances across the stages, productivity grows and costs drop-creating massive value for companies.

Martin shows how leading companies such as Procter & Gamble, Cirque du Soleil, RIM, and others use design thinking to push knowledge through the stages in ways that produce breakthrough innovations and competitive advantage.

Filled with deep insights and fresh perspectives, The Design of Business reveals the true foundation of successful, profitable innovation.

Bring strategy into your daily work.

It's your responsibility as a manager to ensure that your work--and the work of your team--aligns with the overarching objectives of your organization. But when you're faced with competing projects and limited time, it's difficult to keep strategy front of mind. How do you keep your eye on the long term amid a sea of short-term demands?

The HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically provides practical advice and tips to help you see the big-picture perspective in every aspect of your daily work, from making decisions to setting team priorities to attacking your own to-do list.

You'll learn how to:

• Understand your organization's strategy
• Align your team around key objectives
• Focus on the priorities that matter most
• Spot trends in your company and in your industry
• Consider future outcomes when making decisions
• Manage trade-offs
• Embrace a leadership mindset

Invest in your most valuable resource: your people.

Top talent is hard to come by. And seeing your stars walk out the door is painful—and expensive. You need to take steps to ensure that you attract, develop, and retain your best people.

If you read nothing else on managing talent in your organization, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you boost the engagement, skills, and commitment of your highest performers.

This book will inspire you to:

• Build a winning talent strategy
• Recruit and hire the best candidates
• Identify and develop high-potential employees
• Foster a just and inclusive workplace
• Overcome the challenges of hybrid work
• Prepare your workforce for the future

This collection of articles includes "Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy," by Douglas A. Ready, Linda A. Hill, and Robert J. Thomas; "Your Approach to Hiring Is All Wrong," by Peter Cappelli; "'A Players’ or 'A Positions'?: The Strategic Logic of Workforce Management,” by Mark A. Huselid, Richard W. Beatty, and Brian E. Becker; "Turning Potential into Success: The Missing Link in Leadership Development," by Claudio Fernandez-Araoz, Andrew Roscoe, and Kentaro Aramaki; "Making Business Personal," by Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey, Andy Fleming, and Matthew Miller; "The Power of Hidden Teams," by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall; "The Performance Management Revolution," by Peter Cappelli and Anna Tavis; "People Before Strategy: A New Role for the CHRO," by Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey; "Toward a Racially Just Workplace," by Lauren Morgan Roberts and Anthony J. Mayo; "How to Do Hybrid Right," by Lynda Gratton; and "Your Workforce Is More Adaptable Than You Think," by Joseph Fuller, Judith K. Wallenstein, Manjari Raman, and Alice de Chalendar.

HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever‐changing business environment.

USA TODAY BESTSELLER

Blue Ocean Strategy, the #1 global bestseller, forever changed how the world thinks about strategy. Now W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne offer up a bold, new idea that will transform how we all think about innovation and growth.

Disruption dominates innovation theory and practice. But disruption, for all its power, is destructive—displacing jobs, companies, and even entire industries. Are we missing an alternative approach to innovation and growth?

With three decades of research, the #1 global bestselling authors of Blue Ocean Strategy, W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, reveal another way to innovate and grow. Just as Blue Ocean Strategy redefined the essence of strategy as creating not competing, BEYOND DISRUPTION redefines and expands the existing view of innovation by introducing a new approach, nondisruptive creation, that is free from the destructive displacement that happens when innovators set out to disrupt.

Kim and Mauborgne reveal the distinct advantages of nondisruptive creation to business and society, showing how this new approach to innovation allows companies to grow while also being a force for good. With examples that reach across all sectors of the economy and a practical framework for guiding innovation efforts, this book shows:

• Why nondisruptive creation matters to all of us and why it is likely to become even more important in the future
• How it complements disruption and how you can identify and execute on nondisruptive opportunities
• How companies can more thoughtfully pursue their growth and innovation strategies in a way that better balances business and society

A practical guide for driving innovation and growth, the rich research behind the book, coupled with its frame-breaking message, make it the must-read book for the next generation of innovators.

A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech—all in one place.

From quantum computing and next-generation digital health tools to virtual reality training and the dawn of the commercial space age, new technologies are reshaping business on the factory floor and in the C-suite. What should you and your company be doing now to take advantage of the new opportunities these technologies are creating—and avoid falling victim to disruption?

The Year in Tech 2022: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand what the latest and most important tech innovations mean for your organization and how you can use them to compete and win in today's turbulent business environment.

Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?

Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues—blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more—each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow.

You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas—and prepare you and your company for the future.

A fresh, research-based look at how companies can better compete, on their own terms, with tech giants—from a Harvard Business School professor and a former Bloomberg journalist.

Companies are fighting the wrong battle. The consensus has been to learn the best practices from tech giants and then imitate them. But new paths for growth aren't created by imitation; they're forged by radical differentiation.

In Smart Rivals, Harvard Business School professor Feng Zhu and former Bloomberg journalist Bonnie Yining Cao show business leaders how to create competitive advantages by offering product features and benefits that tech giants and other competitors cannot match in the digital/AI age.

Taking readers on a global journey, Zhu and Cao showcase a variety of companies—including Domino's, Nike, and Sephora—and fascinating case studies, such as Belle, the leading women's footwear retailer in China; EbonyLife, Nigeria's top media conglomerate; and Telepass, Italy's popular electronic toll payment service. Through these diverse examples, they illustrate how companies identify their path for growth in the digital age by leveraging their unique capabilities.

Drawing on original research and insights gleaned from leaders in a wide range of industries, Smart Rivals is a blueprint for uncovering your company's hidden strengths. It will help you spark innovative solutions and capabilities—including new products, services, strategies, and advantages—that mere imitation could never provide.

Create and capture value, no matter what path you've chosen.

A Wall Street Journal bestseller

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 things. But did your organization change enough to stay competitive in the post-pandemic world? Did you fully leverage the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to leap forward and grow stronger? Are you shaping the new environment to your advantage?

If not, it's not too late to learn from the best.

New York Times #1 bestselling author Keith Ferrazzi, along with coauthors Kian Gohar and Noel Weyrich, shows leaders how to shape their organizations and practices to remain competitive in a new, post-pandemic context. Based on an ambitious global research initiative involving thousands of executives, innovators, and changemakers who redefined their strategies, business models, organizational systems, and even their cultures, Competing in the New World of Work:

• Offers a bold new vision for the organization of the future
• Reveals the workplace innovations that emerged during the pandemic
• Defines the new model of leadership—radical adaptability—for sustaining continuous change throughout the coming years of opportunity and transformation

Competing in the New World of Work is both your inspiration and your road map to embracing new realities, motivating talent, and winning bold frontiers.

It's not just who you are—it's what you do.

Learn to assess the situation, manage your emotions, and move on.

While some of us enjoy a lively debate with colleagues and others prefer to suppress our feelings over disagreements, we all struggle with conflict at work. Every day we navigate an office full of competing interests, clashing personalities, limited time and resources, and fragile egos. Sure, we share the same overarching goals as our colleagues, but we don't always agree on how to achieve them. We work differently. We rub each other the wrong way. We jockey for position.

How can you deal with conflict at work in a way that is both professional and productive--where it improves both your work and your relationships? You start by understanding whether you generally seek or avoid conflict, identifying the most frequent reasons for disagreement, and knowing what approaches work for what scenarios. Then, if you decide to address a particular conflict, you use that information to plan and conduct a productive conversation. The HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict will give you the advice you need to:

• Understand the most common sources of conflict
• Explore your options for addressing a disagreement
• Recognize whether you--and your counterpart--typically seek or avoid conflict
• Prepare for and engage in a difficult conversation
• Manage your and your counterpart's emotions
• Develop a resolution together
• Know when to walk away

Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.

Are you a good boss—or a great one?

Good bosses can handle the day-to-day work of running a team. Great bosses go beyond that, finding ways to help employees become better versions of themselves as people and professionals. But as a manager, how do you reach that next level?

The HBR Guide to Being a Great Boss contains practical tips and advice to help you become a more well-rounded leader, one who sparks creativity, engagement, collaboration, and growth in your team. You'll learn how to:

• Magnify your people's strengths
• Create a welcoming, inclusive culture
• Communicate effectively—and regularly—with your team
• Challenge your people to grow beyond their current limits
• Recognize and reward good work
• Establish yourself as a trustworthy leader and colleague

Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.

Land the job of your dreams.

You're ready to take the next step in your career. But securing the right role can take a lot of work—and a lot of time and energy. How do you move forward without getting overwhelmed by the process?

The HBR Guide to Your Job Search is here to help. Whether you’re new to the workforce or have a well-established career, this book contains practical advice for navigating your job hunt.

You'll learn how to:

• Structure your search strategically
• Translate your strengths into a strong personal story
• Activate your network to find opportunities
• Write a résumé that gets callbacks
• Craft answers to common interview questions
• Set yourself up for success in your new role

Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.

"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 grit, courage, and vision, among other things, that can be hard to come by on your toughest days. When leaders and aspiring leaders seek out advice, they're often told to try harder. Dig deeper. Look in the mirror and own your natural-born strengths and fix any real or perceived career-limiting deficiencies.

Frances Frei and Anne Morriss offer a different worldview. They argue that this popular leadership advice glosses over the most important thing you do as a leader: build others up. Leadership isn't about you. It's about how effective you are at empowering other people—and making sure this impact endures even in your absence. As Frei and Morriss show through inspiring stories from ancient Rome to present-day Silicon Valley, the origins of great leadership are found, paradoxically, not in worrying about your own status and advancement, but in the unrelenting focus on other people's potential.

Unleashed provides radical advice for the practice of leadership today. Showing how the boldest, most effective leaders use a special combination of trust, love, and belonging to create an environment in which other people can excel, Frei and Morriss offer practical, battle-tested tools—based on their work with companies such as Uber, Riot Games, WeWork, and others—along with interviews and stories from their own personal experience, to make these ideas come alive. This book is your indispensable guide for unleashing greatness in other people . . . and, ultimately, in yourself.

To learn more, please visit theleadersguide.com.

Digital transformation is not about technology--it's about change.

In the rapidly changing digital economy, you can't succeed by merely tweaking management practices that led to past success. And yet, while many leaders and managers recognize the threat from digital--and the potential opportunity--they lack a common language and compelling framework to help them assess it and guide them in responding. They don't know how to think about their digital business model.

In this concise, practical book, MIT digital research leaders Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner provide a powerful yet straightforward framework that has been field-tested globally with dozens of senior management teams. Based on years of study at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), the authors find that digitization is moving companies' business models on two dimensions: from value chains to digital ecosystems, and from a fuzzy understanding of the needs of end customers to a sharper one. Looking at these dimensions in combination results in four distinct business models, each with different capabilities. The book then sets out six driving questions, in separate chapters, that help managers and executives clarify where they are currently in an increasingly digital business landscape and highlight what's needed to move toward a higher-value digital business model.

Filled with straightforward self-assessments, motivating examples, and sharp financial analyses of where profits are made, this smart book will help you tackle the threats, leverage the opportunities, and create winning digital strategies.

Pivot your organization toward a more scalable and profitable business model.

What does it mean to be yourself at work? As a leader, how do you strike the right balance between vulnerability and authority?

This book explains the role of authenticity in emotionally intelligent leadership. You'll learn how to discover your authentic self, when emotional responses are appropriate, how conforming to specific standards can hurt you, and when you need to feel like a fake.

This volume includes the work of:

• Bill George
• Herminia Ibarra
• Rob Goffee
• Gareth Jones

This collection of articles includes: "Discovering Your Authentic Leadership" by Bill George, Peter Sims, Andrew N. McLean, and Diana Mayer; "The Authenticity Paradox" by Herminia Ibarra; "What Bosses Gain by Being Vulnerable" by Emma Seppala; "Practice Tough Empathy" by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones; "Cracking the Code That Stalls People of Color" by Sylvia Ann Hewitt; "For a Corporate Apology to Work, the CEO Should Look Sad" by Sarah Green Carmichael; and "Are Leaders Getting Too Emotional?" an interview with Gautam Mukunda and Gianpiero Petriglieri by Adi Ignatius and Sarah Green Carmichael.

How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

The logical and enduring way to innovate.

Conventional wisdom today says that to survive, companies must move beyond incremental, sustaining innovation and invest in some form of radical innovation. "Disrupt yourself or be disrupted!" is the relentless message company leaders hear. The Power of Little Ideas argues there's a "third way" that is neither sustaining nor disruptive. This low-risk, high-reward strategy is an approach to innovation that all company leaders should understand so that they recognize it when their competitors practice it, and apply it when it will give them a competitive advantage.

This distinctive approach has three key elements:

• It consists of creating a family of complementary innovations around a product or service, all of which work together to make that product more appealing and competitive.
• The complementary innovations work together as a system to carry out a single strategy or purpose.
• Crucially, unlike disruptive or radical innovation, innovating around a key product does not change the central product in any fundamental way.

In this powerful, practical book, Wharton professor David Robertson illustrates how many well-known companies, including CarMax, GoPro, LEGO, Gatorade, Disney, USAA, Novo Nordisk, and many others, used this approach to stave off competitive threats and achieve great success. He outlines the organizational practices that unintentionally torpedo this approach to innovation in many companies and shows how organizations can overcome those challenges.

Aimed at leaders seeking strategies for sustained innovation, and at the quickly growing numbers of managers involved with creating new products, The Power of Little Ideas provides a logical, organic, and enduring third way to innovate.

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 today? How are racial dynamics in organizations changing? How do we build inclusive organizations?

Inspired by and developed in conjunction with the research and programming for Harvard Business School's commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the HBS African American Student Union, this groundbreaking book shines new light on these and other timely questions and illuminates the present-day dynamics of race in the workplace. Contributions from top scholars, researchers, and practitioners in leadership, organizational behavior, psychology, sociology, and education test the relevance of long-held assumptions and reconsider the research approaches and interventions needed to understand and advance African Americans in work settings and leadership roles.

At a time when--following a peak in 2002--there are fewer African American men and women in corporate leadership roles, Race, Work, and Leadership will stimulate new scholarship and dialogue on the organizational and leadership challenges of African Americans and become the indispensable reference for anyone committed to understanding, studying, and acting on the challenges facing leaders who are building inclusive organizations.

A competitive advantage just isn't enough.

Named one of "10 Management Classics for 2022" by Thinkers50

Named one of the Best Business Books of 2023 by the Financial Times

Thinkers50 2023 Winner: Talent Award

From MIT professor and pre-eminent voice on Good Jobs comes a leadership guide for choosing excellence and providing good jobs that offer a living wage, dignity, and opportunities for growth.

From healthcare facilities to call centers, fulfillment centers to factories, and restaurants to retail stores, companies are struggling to find or keep workers, because the jobs they offer are low-paying, stressful, and provide little chance for growth and success.

Workers want good jobs, and many leaders want to provide them. But they don't think they can offer higher pay and more motivating work without hurting the bottom line. Most business leaders want to win with customers, but their companies are hobbled by a host of service and operational problems largely driven by high employee turnover—turnover that's partly driven by low pay.

It is indeed a vicious cycle, and Zeynep Ton is here to show you the way out: why good jobs combined with strong operations lead to higher productivity and increased competitiveness for the business. And why, more than ever, in a world with tight labor markets, failing to provide good jobs will catch up with you and threaten your business. As the leading scholar on good jobs and president of the Good Jobs Institute, Ton has helped executives at many companies implement a good jobs system. With expertise drawn from spending time on the front lines with workers and their managers, she knows what's keeping most companies mired in mediocrity and how implementing a good jobs system makes them more competitive, more resilient, and more likely to attract and retain loyal customers and dedicated employees.

Practical, prescriptive, and often provocative, The Case for Good Jobs is essential reading for company leaders who want to—who need to—choose excellence.

The most definitive management ideas of the century, all in one place.

Harvard Business Review is the foremost destination for smart management thinking. Now, at its 100th anniversary, this commemorative volume brings together the most influential ideas since its inception.

With an introduction written by editor in chief Adi Ignatius, HBR at 100 features business publishing's most influential voices on innovative topics, including:

• Michael E. Porter on competitive strategy
• Clayton M. Christensen on disruptive innovation
• Tim Brown on design thinking
• Linda A. Hill on being a first-time manager
• Daniel Goleman on emotional intelligence
• Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee on artificial intelligence
• Robert Livingston on racial equity at work
• Amy C. Edmondson and Mark Mortensen on psychological safety
• Robert B. Cialdini on the science of persuasion
• W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne on blue ocean strategy
• Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad on strategic intent
• Peter F. Drucker on managing yourself

Whether you're a longtime reader or you're picking up an HBR volume for the first time, this book offers all you need to understand the most critical ideas in management.

Balance being a leader with being an individual contributor.

Collaborator. Communicator. Creator. Coach. Conduit. The pandemic, and the resultant ever-evolving landscape of hybrid work, highlighted that we're asking more of our mid-level managers than ever. You balance leading your team with maintaining your high-level individual performance. You provide feedback and coaching, support your people through tough times, field requests large and small, and communicate in every direction. Mid-level managers are the key to managing a hybrid workforce, leading innovation, managing talent, and helping your organization—and its people—adapt to our changing world.

If you read nothing else on being an effective mid-level manager, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the best ones to help you manage up and down, interpret and distill important messages, lobby for time and resources for key projects and players, and lead change—all while getting things done.

This book will inspire you to:

• Build teams and develop talent
• Transform your role from intermediary to innovator
• Encourage critical thinking
• Foster a culture of psychological safety
• Lead change by leveraging internal networks
• Understand the cognitive and emotional drain of having both high and low power
• Form partnerships at every level of the organization

HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever‐changing business environment.

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 your health, relationships, and integrity?

No doubt, as a leader, there are some days when you feel the flow. You're able to make a difference and achieve big goals. You feel confident and energized. On days like this, you are your best self--the leader you want to be. But on other days, you go down a different, negative path, with pressures and doubts making you feel like a lesser version of yourself.

How can you be the leader you want to be, every day? The answer is more than a time-management system or a silver-bullet solution for changing your routines. Leadership expert and coach Amy Jen Su's powerful new book helps readers discover that the answer lies within. By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements—Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace—you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your impact, with less stress and more equanimity.

Drawing on rich and instructive stories of clients, leaders, artists, and athletes, as well as on research by experts, the author brings together the best of both Western management thinking and Eastern philosophy to provide a holistic yet hands-on approach.

The Leader You Want to Be is your indispensable guide to tapping into and expanding your leadership capacity so that you can be your best, sustain yourself, and thrive as a leader.

How a million little things are dragging you down, and what to do about it.

There's a force we encounter every day that we aren't aware of—and it threatens to derail otherwise promising careers and lives: microstress.

This hidden epidemic of small moments of stress has insidiously infiltrated both our work and our personal lives with invisible but devastating effects. Microstress doesn't trigger the normal stress response in our brains to help us deal with it. Instead, it embeds itself in our minds and accumulates daily, one microstress on top of the other. The long-term impact can be debilitating. Unregistered microstress weighs us down, damages our physical and emotional health, and contributes to a decline in our well-being. What's more, microstress is baked into our lives. The source is seldom a classic antagonist, such as a demanding client or a jerk boss. Instead, it comes from the people with whom we are closest: our friends, family, and colleagues.

The good news is that once you understand microstress, you can fight back. Drawing on fresh research, Rob Cross and Karen Dillon explain the science behind the phenomenon. They also share the secrets of a small set of people who've endured their share of microstress but have still managed to cultivate relationships that enable them to thrive both at work and in life. Compelling interviews with these high achievers bring to life best practices that show you how to build resilience against microstress and ultimately how to find purpose—purpose that helps you break free from this quietly invasive force that's stealing your life.

Anyone can think more creatively and unlock innovation.

Creativity is the key to innovation, but too many projects and teams are organized in ways that stifle new ideas. You need to ensure that creativity can thrive—and that you are part of the process.

Fortunately, anyone can use method-driven approaches to teach and learn creativity. The HBR Guide to Unlocking Creativity will show you how to reach your creative potential, manage creative collaboration, and achieve groundbreaking results.

This guide will help you:

• Understand the neuroscience of creativity
• Run better brainstorming sessions—in person or virtually
• Use design thinking to generate new solutions
• Model a mindset of curiosity and experimentation
• Balance creativity with productivity
• Bring breakthrough ideas to life

Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.

Learn how to make better; faster decisions.

You make decisions every day--from prioritizing your to-do list to choosing which long-term innovation projects to pursue. But most decisions don't have a clear-cut answer, and assessing the alternatives and the risks involved can be overwhelming.

You need a smarter approach to making the best choice possible. The HBR Guide to Making Better Decisions provides practical tips and advice to help you generate more-creative ideas, evaluate your alternatives fairly, and make the final call with confidence.

You'll learn how to:

• Overcome the cognitive biases that can skew your thinking
• Look at problems in new ways
• Manage the trade-offs between options
• Balance data with your own judgment
• React appropriately when you've made a bad choice
• Communicate your decision--and overcome any resistance

Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, from a source you trust. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.

Stop juggling and start managing everything you need to do at home and at work.

It used to be simple before kids: Say yes to everything, stay late, turn in flawless work, catch up on sleep later. But now you need a different mindset to succeed at work, as a parent, and as a family member.

Getting It All Done can't teach you to be in two places at once, but it provides you with expert advice as you manage the challenges of succeeding at work while making sure your family is housed, fed, healthy, safe, and educated.

You'll learn to:

• Delegate, enlist the help you need, and say no to taking on more
• Put your management skills to work outside the office
• Get more work done with kids at home
• Move on with resilience when you drop the ball
• Navigate the chaos during the busiest times at work and at home

The HBR Working Parents Series with Daisy Dowling, Series Editor, supports readers as you anticipate challenges, learn how to advocate for yourself more effectively, juggle your impossible schedule, and find fulfillment at home and at work. Whether you're up with a newborn or planning the future with your teen, you'll find the practical tips, strategies, and research you need to make working parenthood work for you.