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

Agentic AI, smart health care, advanced sensors, bioengineering—new technologies like these are reshaping organizations at the hybrid office, on factory floors, 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, 2026: 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 clear-eyed guide to the metaverse and how this powerful technology—along with advances in spatial computing, VR, and AR—will impact our economy, our lives, and our world.

The metaverse. That term elicits a wide range of ideas and opinions. For many, it represents the next evolutionary phase of the internet—a fully immersive, digital universe where people can interact, work, and play in virtual environments. For others, it's yet another overhyped technology. So what is it, exactly? And what will its impact be?

While speculation and predictions about the metaverse are varied, one thing is clear: it is impacting the world of business as well as people's lives, and it will continue to do so in the future. The global metaverse market is predicted to be worth about $1 trillion by 2030, with over two billion users participating in some form of immersive experience.

There's a reason why companies are investing heavily in spatial computing and why platforms like Roblox are thriving. The metaverse, along with the technologies that underpin it, is still evolving, but it will eventually offer more ways for people to experience the world and each other.

In Welcome to the Metaverse, David Shrier, a world-leading futurist and the author of Welcome to AI, offers an entertaining look at the potential uses and impacts of this virtual space on business and life.

The most essential articles and ideas from the pages of Harvard Business Review—boldly updated, expanded, and redesigned.

With over 5 million copies sold and translated into dozens of languages, HBR's 10 Must Reads are the definitive collections of the most important ideas on management and leadership. Now updated, expanded, and redesigned, you can have the best of the series all in one place. In each book we've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles on topics such as emotional intelligence, disruptive innovation, communication, change, leadership, strategy, managing people, managing yourself, and new technology in our ever-evolving world to empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others.

The HBR's 10 Must Reads Boxed Set includes 6 bestselling collections:

1. HBR's 10 Must-Reads on Change Management, Updated and Expanded
2. HBR's 10 Must-Reads on Emotional Intelligence, Updated and Expanded
3. HBR's 10 Must-Reads on High Performance, Updated and Expanded
4. HBR's 10 Must-Reads on Leadership, Updated and Expanded
5. HBR's 10 Must-Reads on Managing People, Updated and Expanded
6. HBR's 10 Must-Reads on Strategy, Updated and Expanded

These Updated and Expanded editions feature new breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and detailed discussion guides to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

The HBR's 10 Must Reads Boxed Set makes a smart gift for your team, colleagues, clients—or yourself.

Too many digital transformations fail to deliver. Don't let yours be one of them.

If you read nothing else on leading digital transformation, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you set ambitious milestones for your transformation, anticipate and avoid common mistakes, and reach your goals faster and more predictably.

This book will inspire you to:

• Rethink strategy in the age of AI
• Help your team become more data savvy
• Create an achievable road map for digital initiatives
• Understand the tech skills senior leaders need
• Reskill employees to support your transformation efforts
• Create new processes that speed execution

This collection of articles includes "Discovery-Driven Digital Transformation," by Rita McGrath and Ryan McManus; "Is Your Company Squandering Digital Opportunities?" by Mohan Subramaniam; "Democratizing Transformation," by Marco Iansiti and Satya Nadella; "Strategy in an Era of Abundant Expertise," by Bobby Yerramilli-Rao, John Corwin, Yang Li, and Karim R. Lakhani; "How to Speed Up Your Digital Transformation," by Benjamin Mueller and Jens Lauterbach; "Digital Doesn't Have to Be Disruptive," by Nathan Furr and Andrew Shipilov; "The Secret to Successful AI-Driven Process Redesign," by H. James Wilson and Paul R. Daugherty; "Developing a Digital Mindset," by Tsedal Neeley and Paul Leonardi; "Is Your C-Suite Equipped to Lead a Digital Transformation?" by J. Yo-Jud Cheng, Cassandra Frangos, and Boris Groysberg; "A Better Way to Put Your Data to Work," by Veeral Desai, Tim Fountaine, and Kayvaun Rowshankish; "Five Pillars for Democratizing Data," by Hippolyte Lefebvre, Christine Legner, and Elizabeth A. Teracino; "The Age of Continuous Connection," by Nicolaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch; "Want Your Company to Get Better at Experimentation?" by Iavor Bojinov, David Holtz, Ramesh Johari, Sven Schmit, and Martin Tingley; and "Reskilling in the Age of AI," by Jorge Tamayo, Leila Doumi, Sagar Goel, Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic, and Raffaella Sadun.

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.

This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

Develop the mindset and presence to successfully manage others for the first time.

If you read nothing else for new managers, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you get up to speed quickly, assess your team’s strengths and weaknesses, and lead them to a higher level of performance.

This book will inspire you to:

• Develop your emotional intelligence
• Give feedback that leads to positive results
• Navigate relationships with your direct reports, bosses, and peers
• Build soft skills such as communication and persuasion
• Handle difficult conversations and tense situations
• Cultivate a robust network inside and outside your organization

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.

This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

How to stay ahead in a world transformed by AI.

If you read nothing else on AI, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you make sense of the shifting landscape, anticipate opportunities and threats, and develop a strategy that keeps pace with AI.

This book will inspire you to:

• Capture the potential of gen AI and agentic AI
• Help people and machines work together better
• Manage regulation and risk
• Understand the real value of your organization's data
• Prepare for skills, jobs, and industries to be transformed
• Embed AI at the core of your business

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.

This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

A stirring account on how to gain—and own—your power.

From growing up in 1980s Harlem to working at entertainment giants such as BET, MTV, Nickelodeon, and ABC, Khadijah Sharif-Drinkard has spent her life redefining what real power looks like.

In Power Reimagined, she dismantles the myths we've been taught about power. Through raw, behind-the-scenes stories from her childhood and trailblazing career, she reveals that real power isn't handed to you—it's forged through strategy, courage, and an unshakable belief in your own worth.

She takes readers inside high-stakes situations where she refused to settle for less and pivotal moments where audacity became her greatest asset. From her earliest dreams of success to the executive offices where she made those dreams real, Sharif-Drinkard reveals the moments that shaped her and the strategies that helped her lead with impact and integrity.

Part fearless memoir, part inspirational guide, Power Reimagined is for anyone who's ever been overlooked, undervalued, or told they didn't belong. This book will inspire you to own your power and use it without apology.

Continuous change calls for continuous innovation.

If you read nothing else on innovation, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you invest in your best innovation bets, learn from setbacks, and bring bold new offerings to market.

This book will inspire you to:

• Know your customers' "jobs to be done"
• Harness the benefits of design thinking
• Bring AI into the innovation process
• Keep bureaucracy and structure from stifling creativity
• Build a culture of experimentation
• Become the disrupter in your industry

This collection of articles includes "What Is Disruptive Innovation?" by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, and Rory McDonald; "Innovation Doesn't Have to Be Disruptive," by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne; "Great Innovators Create the Future, Manage the Present, and Selectively Forget the Past," by Vijay Govindarajan; "A New Approach to Strategic Innovation," by Haijian Si, Christoph Loch, and Stelios Kavadias; "A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning," by Amy Gallo; "Know Your Customers' "Jobs to Be Done"," by Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan; "Breaking Down the Barriers to Innovation," by Scott D. Anthony, Paul Cobban, Rahul Nair, and Natalie Painchaud; "The Inescapable Paradox of Managing Creativity," by Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent Lineback; "Find Innovation Where You Least Expect It," by Tony McCaffrey and Jim Pearson; "Engineering Reverse Innovations," by Amos Winter and Vijay Govindarajan; "Can AI Help Your Company Innovate? It Depends," by Lynn Wu and Sam Ransbotham; "Why Design Thinking Works," by Jeanne M. Liedtka; "If Your Innovation Effort Isn't Working, Look at Who's on the Team," by Nathan Furr, Kyle Nel, and Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy; "What's Your Best Innovation Bet?" by Melissa A. Schilling; and "Strategies for Learning from Failure," by Amy C. Edmondson.

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.

This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

Do more with your money. Use it to flourish.

Traditional personal finance books mostly accept the same goals for all people: make as much money as possible, fund a college education for your kids, save for retirement. These books mechanistically advise readers to budget, take out a mortgage, open savings vehicles, and so on—without much thought as to who we are as individuals.

But is that all? Will that formula make people happy?

To achieve a more meaningful life, one must address the role that money plays in it. In this book, investor, author, and speaker John Coleman offers a new mindset around personal finance, one that puts purpose at its core. It provides a six-part framework for using money properly to lead a financial life of flourishing:

• Change how you think about money.
• Choose a job that earns with purpose.
• Spend and consume wisely.
• Use your means to help others.
• Invest for maximum impact.
• Save for freedom, not retirement.

Using firsthand interviews and examples, Good Money walks through each of these steps, providing helpful—and sometimes counterintuitive—advice on how to use your wealth to flourish and find greater meaning, now and long into the future.

Put customers at the core of your business.

If you read nothing else on marketing, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you connect better with your established customers, develop offerings that attract new ones, and unlock opportunities for growth.

This book will inspire you to:

• Align your sales and marketing teams for maximum impact
• Measure the real-world value of customer loyalty
• Blend human and machine intelligence to manage your brand
• Reap the benefits of psychological targeting, ethically
• Develop influencer campaigns that generate real returns
• Build a customer strategy around personalization

This collection of articles includes "Marketing Myopia," by Theodore Levitt; "Net Promoter 3.0," by Fred Reichheld, Darci Darnell, and Maureen Burns; "Analytics for Marketers," by Fabrizio Fantini and Das Narayandas; "Personalization Done Right," by Mark Abraham and David C. Edelman; "What Psychological Targeting Can Do," by Sandra Matz; "Why CMOs Never Last," by Kimberly A. Whitler and Neil A. Morgan; "Are Your Marketing and Sales Teams on the Same Page?," by Kelsey Raymond; "How AI Can Power Brand Management," by Julian De Freitas and Elie Ofek; "Attract New Customers Without Alienating Your Old Ones," by Ryan Hamilton and Annie Wilson; "Does Influencer Marketing Really Pay Off?," by Fine F. Leung, Jonathan Z. Zhang, Flora F. Gu, Yiwei Li, and Robert W. Palmatier; "The Right Way to Build Your Brand," by Roger L. Martin, Jann Schwarz, and Mimi Turner; "Is Your Marketing Organization Ready for What's Next?," by Omar Rodríguez-Vilá, Sundar Bharadwaj, Neil A. Morgan, and Shubu Mitra.

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.

This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

Make better decisions, faster.

If you read nothing else on decision-making, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you understand all of your options, ask the right questions, and make bold choices that drive real change.

This book will inspire you to:

• Exercise sound judgment in complex situations
• Conquer a culture of indecision
• Know when to gather more data and when to trust your gut
• Root out bias in your assumptions
• Improve the decision-making ability of your teams
• Stop deliberating and move forward

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.

This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

Overcome the unique challenges that women face at work.

If you read nothing else on women and leadership, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you understand the barriers holding women back, ensure their voices are heard, and create a path forward for aspiring female leaders.

This book will inspire you to:

• Challenge stereotypes about women's leadership and vision
• Root out bias in organizational processes, from hiring to promotion
• Practice inclusive leadership, especially in male-dominated industries
• Embed sponsorship into leadership development
• Invest in on-the-job learning opportunities
• Work collaboratively to drive change

This collection of articles includes "How to Close the Gender Gap," by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg; "Make Yourself Heard," an interview with Deborah Tannen by Amy Bernstein, Sarah Green Carmichael, and Nicole Torres; "Women and the Vision Thing," by Herminia Ibarra and Otilia Obodaru; "Stop Telling Women They Have Impostor Syndrome," by Ruchika T. Malhotra and Jodi-Ann Burey; "Dig, Bridge, Collectively Act," by Tina Opie and Beth A. Livingston; "The Memo Every Woman Keeps in Her Desk," by Kathleen Reardon; "How Women Can Get Comfortable Playing Politics at Work," by Lisa Zigarmi, Julie Diamond, and Lesli Mones; "What's Really Holding Women Back?," by Robin J. Ely and Irene Padavic; "The Secrets of Successful Female Networkers," by Harvard Business Review; "How to Do Sponsorship Right," by Herminia Ibarra; "Achieve DEI Goals Without DEI Programs," by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev; "Does the Tech Industry Need a Reboot?," an interview with Telle Whitney by Alison Beard; "Are You Taking on Too Many Non-Promotable Tasks?," by Linda Babcock, Brenda Peyser, Lise Vesterlund, and Laurie Weingart; and "How Women Can Win in the Workplace," by Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, and María del Mar Martínez.

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.

This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

A dynamic company culture starts with leadership.

If you read nothing else on building a great culture, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you understand how to create a foundation of psychological safety, connect your people to your organization's purpose, and change your culture for the better.

This book will inspire you to:

• Help all employees feel welcomed and valued
• Cultivate a mindset of continuous learning
• Turn hybrid work challenges into successes
• Use analytics to better understand your culture
• Keep toxic behaviors from undermining your workplace
• Balance discipline and structure with creativity and innovation

This collection of articles includes "The Leader's Guide to Corporate Culture," by Boris Groysberg, Jeremiah Lee, Jesse Price, and J. Yo-Jud Cheng; "What People Get Wrong About Psychological Safety," by Amy C. Edmondson and Michaela J. Kerrissey; "The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures," by Gary P. Pisano; "Four Phrases That Encourage Curiosity on Your Team," by Scott Shigeoka; "The New Analytics of Culture," by Matthew Corritore, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivastava; "Don't Let Cynicism Undermine Your Workplace," by Jamil Zaki; "Creating a Purpose-Driven Organization," by Robert E. Quinn and Anjan V. Thakor; "Four Ways to Create a Learning Culture on Your Team," by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Josh Bersin; "The Price of Incivility," by Christine Porath and Christine Pearson; "Why Hybrid Work Can Become Toxic," by Mark Mortensen; "How to Design an Ethical Organization," by Nicholas Epley and Amit Kumar; "The Power of Small Acts of Inclusion," by Gregg Muragishi, Lauren Aguilar, Priyanka Carr, and Greg Walton; "Beware a Culture of Busyness," by Adam Waytz; and "When Culture Doesn't Translate," by Erin Meyer.

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.

This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

A year's worth of quick, practical management advice from Harvard Business Review—all in one place.

How to exude gravitas. Present with style. Talk to your team about AI. Overcome overthinking. Give difficult feedback. To succeed at work, you need accessible and actionable—and succinct—ideas to help you solve your most common challenges.

Drawing from Management Tip of the Day, HBR's most popular newsletter, these concise, handy annual collections are packed with easy-to-read tips on a broad range of topics. Each book puts the best management practices and insights, from top thinkers in the field, right at your fingertips. Pick one up any time you have a few minutes to spare, and you'll have a fresh, powerful idea you can immediately put into action.

Change now, faster, smarter. The imperative to transform your business only gets more urgent. BCG leaders provide a science-based playbook for beating the odds and doing it right.

AI. Market volatility. Regulation and policy uncertainty. Supply chain disruption. The business landscape requires change more than ever before—and global companies are continually announcing change programs. Most fail, wasting employees' time and energy, shareholders' capital, and consumers' patience. What's more, the high failure rate has stayed constant for decades, with mind-boggling costs to businesses and the economy.

But some companies succeed. In How Change Really Works, Boston Consulting Group experts Julia Dhar, Kristy Ellmer, and Philip Jameson show that these successes are not random—they are connected by a common set of principles and practices. Interweaving illuminating examples, decades of behavioral science research, and new interviews with executives and employees, as well as the authors' own experiences leading change with BCG, they offer seven principles that constitute the core of a truly human-centered approach to successful organizational change. These range from "Get true agreement, not false alignment" to "Give people agency, not just involvement" to "Expect take-up to be earned, not automatic."

The second part of the book shifts into execution mode, providing a five-phase practical manual for putting the principles to work that is filled with tips, checklists, advice, and smart hacks for helping your transformation beat the odds, succeed, and stick.

Change doesn't fail because people resist—it fails because leaders misunderstand how people really change. Whether you're launching a new initiative, stuck in a stalled transformation, or trying to rescue a failing one, How Change Really Works is your essential leader's guide.

Your success hinges on your ability to communicate clearly and compellingly.

If you read nothing else on communication, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you speak more authentically, express your ideas with clarity and impact, and win over your audience.

This book will inspire you to:

• Ask better questions to get more out of every discussion
• Listen for emotions and cues, not just facts
• Use visuals persuasively and effectively
• Sharpen your business writing to ensure your message sticks
• Manage negative emotions during stressful conversations
• Encourage constructive debate by cultivating psychological safety

This collection of articles includes "The Necessary Art of Persuasion," by Jay A. Conger; "The Surprising Power of Questions," by Alison Wood Brooks and Leslie K. John; "Taking the Stress Out of Stressful Conversations," by Holly Weeks; "How Supportive Leaders Approach Emotional Conversations," by Sarah Noll Wilson; "The Science of Strong Business Writing," by Bill Birchard; "Did You Get My Slack/Email/Text?," by Erica Dhawan; "Visualizations That Really Work," by Scott Berinato; "How to Become an Authentic Speaker," by Nick Morgan; "What People Get Wrong About Psychological Safety," by Amy C. Edmondson and Michaela J. Kerrissey; "What's the Best Way to Communicate on a Global Team?," by Dan Bullock and Raúl Sánchez; "Are You Really a Good Listener?," by Jeffrey Yip and Colin M. Fisher; "What People Still Get Wrong About Negotiations," by Max H. Bazerman; and "Cultivating Everyday Courage," by James R. Detert.

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.

This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

To unlock top leadership opportunities, you need to learn to be as good at your job search as you are at your job.

In today's dynamic and fast-paced corporate world, executive careers are more fluid than ever, and so is the executive job market. As an ambitious leader, you have no problem closing a deal or hitting your numbers, but you may find the next step harder to crack. To land the position you want, you need to be clear about your unique value proposition for that specific role. Yet the higher you rise, the harder it becomes to get honest opinions on your strengths and weaknesses.

In Show Up to Win, Kelly Kay and Jeff Sanders, partners at executive search and consulting firm Heidrick & Struggles, lay out a road map to help you win that top-level role and move into it effectively. Backed with a wealth of insights from real-life case studies and interviews, this straight-talking book shows what the job search looks like for senior candidates today, what companies are looking for from you, and how you can identify and best position yourself for the role they really want.

Drawing on more than three decades of experience and 200 conversations per week with Fortune 1000 companies about executive roles, the authors highlight unexpected perspectives and counterintuitive advice on what makes the real difference between the candidates who land the best jobs and those who remain overlooked.

The result is a deeply practical and timeless exploration of how you should think about and navigate a high-stakes executive job search.

Innovation doesn't just happen. You need to lead it. Discover the three critical roles leaders must play in driving—and scaling—innovation.

Constant tech disruption. Unrelenting economic volatility. Radically shifting demographics and work norms. More than ever, we need to innovate amid these daunting global challenges. But do we have the leaders—and the leadership—it takes to make this innovation happen successfully?

Yes, we do. As preeminent leadership scholar Linda Hill, Harvard researcher Emily Tedards, and former Microsoft innovation executive Jason Wild show in this powerful book, there are indeed exemplary leaders to learn from—and in Genius at Scale, the authors present stories of such leaders in fascinating detail, not only igniting your imagination but providing inspiring and instructive models to follow. Hill's award-winning last book, Collective Genius, began the crucial task of showing how successful innovation doesn't just happen—it needs to be led. Now, Genius at Scale breaks new ground, highlighting that moving from generating new ideas to actually scaling them involves co-creation—collaborating, experimenting, and learning with others both inside and beyond the boundaries of the organization. This requires three distinct types of leadership mindset and behaviors:

• Leader as Architect: shaping culture and capabilities for co-creation
• Leader as Bridger: building partnerships across groups and organizations
• Leader as Catalyst: cultivating and activating movements across ecosystems

The authors vividly profile these three types of leaders with individuals from all kinds of companies, across private and public sectors—from high tech to hospitals to consumer products—who illustrate the mindset and skills needed for leading in a world more uncertain and challenging than ever before.

Genius at Scale provides an essential guide for any current or aspiring leader in mastering the art and practice of innovation.

A practical, research-based guide for maximizing the most overlooked driver of lasting success and fulfillment: our values.

What if one simple shift could make you feel as satisfied as getting an $84,000 raise?

Research shows that understanding your core values—and living by them—can deliver just that.

This is the power of values.

In What Do You Really Stand For? Columbia Business School professor Paul Ingram reveals how clarifying your values can transform your choices, relationships, and leadership. With engaging stories, practical tools, and over two decades of research, Ingram shows that values aren't just a moral compass—they're an advantage that can boost our performance and well-being.

Whether you're navigating a career decision or navigating conflicts, heading a team or heading an organization, or simply trying to live and lead with greater purpose, What Do You Really Stand For? offers a powerful framework to take more-intentional control—and lead ourselves and others with more clarity, confidence, and purpose.

The most essential articles and ideas from the pages of Harvard Business Review—boldly updated, expanded, and redesigned.

With over 5 million copies sold and translated into dozens of languages, HBR's 10 Must Reads are the definitive collections of the most important ideas on management and leadership. Now updated, expanded, and redesigned, you can have the best of the series all in one place. In each book we've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles on topics such as emotional intelligence, disruptive innovation, communication, change, leadership, strategy, managing people, managing yourself, and new technology in our ever-evolving world to empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others.

The HBR's 10 Must Reads Boxed Set includes 6 bestselling collections:

1. HBR's 10 Must-Reads on Change Management, Updated and Expanded
2. HBR's 10 Must-Reads on Emotional Intelligence, Updated and Expanded
3. HBR's 10 Must-Reads on High Performance, Updated and Expanded
4. HBR's 10 Must-Reads on Leadership, Updated and Expanded
5. HBR's 10 Must-Reads on Managing People, Updated and Expanded
6. HBR's 10 Must-Reads on Strategy, Updated and Expanded

These Updated and Expanded editions feature new breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and detailed discussion guides to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

The HBR's 10 Must Reads Boxed Set makes a smart gift for your team, colleagues, clients—or yourself.

Unable to contain himself, Rick pitched Art: move back to Wausau and start a business selling shoes. Art said, "What are you, an idiot? Selling shoes? How is this even worth trying?"

This is the story of Eastbay, a startup tale unlike most you've read. First it was $5,000 worth of track sneakers sold out of the back of an AMC Gremlin. Then it was a quiet storefront behind the main street in Wausau, Wisconsin. Then it became a catalog, a bible to GenX kids growing up in the 1980s and '90s, a powerful tastemaker so authentic that pro athletes swore by it. Sneakerhead culture started here.

This is the story of Eastbay, a company ahead of its time that mastered mail-order selling before Amazon existed. That understood the emerging cultural power of sneakers before anyone else saw it. That grew so fast and was so successful in the first athletic mail-order wholesale shoe business that Nike pulled its AIR products from the catalog. After five years, Nike decided to allow AIR products back into the Eastbay catalog and ultimately Eastbay partnered with Nike to produce several Nike catalogs.

This is the story of Eastbay, founded by Art and Rick, born days apart and placed in bassinets next to each other—as different as two lifelong friends can be, but bonded by a friendship that's lasted through the wild, tumultuous, heady, difficult, exhilarating, frustrating, and ultimately massively rewarding lifetime of building a business that mattered with as talented and devoted a team as any two founders could hope for.

Sneakers are a $100 billion business and a global obsession, and it all started in the pages of Eastbay, where kids were encouraged to dream big, and dream often, which is just what the founders were doing all along. This is their story. This is The Book of Eastbay.

The most powerful force in business is not what you think it is—and it's right in front of you as a leader, waiting to be unleashed.

Think about the last time you said, "I love that." Maybe it was about a product that exceeded expectations, a service experience that built instant loyalty, or a moment when your work brought out the best in you. That reaction isn't just emotional—it's electric. In the workplace, it fuels engagement, strengthens performance, and drives lasting success. Yet most leaders don't acknowledge it, let alone try to measure or make use of it.

In Design Love In, leading researcher on human performance and bestselling author Marcus Buckingham reveals how love—the deep connection that makes people feel seen, valued, and inspired—isn't a soft feeling but a practical, measurable force. He shows how leaders, as experience makers, can intentionally "design love in" to everything we do: our interactions with team members, our company policies and practices, the products and services and experiences we create for those we lead and serve. When we do this, it not only generates positive feeling toward us and our products, it energizes our teams and organizations, strengthens the connections between us as humans, and creates a better world.

Featuring vivid stories of global brands, current research, and personal experiences, Buckingham illustrates that tapping this force is not simply about being more "warm and fuzzy"—it's a concrete matter of utilizing loving experiences to drive behaviors to drive outcomes, and the book provides step-by-step advice on how to "design love in" to all your actions as a leader.

Love—it's the most powerful force in business. This book shows how you as a leader can unleash it.

Despite massive investments, sustainable business still isn’t very profitable for most companies. Here's a fresh approach to aligning sustainability with customer satisfaction—and profitability.

Store aisles packed with products labeled "environmentally friendly." Businesses scrambling to make their operations sustainable and socially conscious. Ads touting green credentials for all kinds of enterprises. For a long time now, this has been the market landscape we live in, with companies such as Unilever leading the way and creating pressure for others to follow suit.

But the uncomfortable truth is that after years of investment in sustainable goods and services, most companies still aren't seeing the payoff—not financially, not in value for customers, not in real social and environmental good. Why not?

As IMD professors Goutam Challagalla and Frédéric Dalsace show in this eye-opening and practical book, it's due to a basic strategic misalignment and a misunderstanding of what actually drives customers' purchase decisions. The authors flip conventional strategy on its head: companies, instead of asking, "How can we make our offerings more sustainable?" should be asking, "How can we use sustainability to improve the performance of our products, make them more affordable, or both?" In this view, sustainability is an intrinsic, value-generating element of an offering rather than a costly add-on.

The authors call companies that understand this insight—such as John Deere, Nespresso, Michelin, Schneider Electric, and others—clean winners, or "resonators." With vivid and instructive stories, they show how resonators use sustainability to create new customer value and robust profits.

Offering practical frameworks, tools, and tactics, Clean Winners is your essential guide to reimagining your sustainability strategy.

Lead teams that make a greater impact.

Creating more value for your organization means building and leading teams in ways that maximize the skills, perspectives, and talents of individuals. But achieving exceptional results consistently involves more than making good hires and investing in the best tools. You must establish a solid and shared understanding of your team's goals—and purpose. You must communicate frequently and effectively, proactively addressing issues before misunderstandings can spiral into destructive conflict. You must create an environment where trust and genuine relationships and creativity can flourish. Cultivating an environment where everyone's contributions are seen and valued will enable your people to more nimbly adapt to changes and challenges to help your business succeed.

The HBR Guide to High-Performing Teams provides the practical tips, research, stories, and advice you need to make the most of diverse perspectives and skills, anticipate and adapt obstacles, and translate strategy into actionable goals.

You'll learn how to:

• Establish clear goals and roles
• Balance skills and personalities
• Anticipate roadblocks and opportunities
• Communicate openly and effectively
• Make meeting time productive—and efficient
• Build trust and psychological safety
• Surface and address issues
• Achieve more—together

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.

Overcome the unique challenges that women face at work.

If you read nothing else on women and leadership, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you understand the barriers holding women back, ensure their voices are heard, and create a path forward for aspiring female leaders.

This book will inspire you to:

• Challenge stereotypes about women's leadership and vision
• Root out bias in organizational processes, from hiring to promotion
• Practice inclusive leadership, especially in male-dominated industries
• Embed sponsorship into leadership development
• Invest in on-the-job learning opportunities
• Work collaboratively to drive change

This collection of articles includes "How to Close the Gender Gap," by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg; "Make Yourself Heard," an interview with Deborah Tannen by Amy Bernstein, Sarah Green Carmichael, and Nicole Torres; "Women and the Vision Thing," by Herminia Ibarra and Otilia Obodaru; "Stop Telling Women They Have Impostor Syndrome," by Ruchika T. Malhotra and Jodi-Ann Burey; "Dig, Bridge, Collectively Act," by Tina Opie and Beth A. Livingston; "The Memo Every Woman Keeps in Her Desk," by Kathleen Reardon; "How Women Can Get Comfortable Playing Politics at Work," by Lisa Zigarmi, Julie Diamond, and Lesli Mones; "What's Really Holding Women Back?," by Robin J. Ely and Irene Padavic; "The Secrets of Successful Female Networkers," by Harvard Business Review; "How to Do Sponsorship Right," by Herminia Ibarra; "Achieve DEI Goals Without DEI Programs," by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev; "Does the Tech Industry Need a Reboot?," an interview with Telle Whitney by Alison Beard; "Are You Taking on Too Many Non-Promotable Tasks?," by Linda Babcock, Brenda Peyser, Lise Vesterlund, and Laurie Weingart; and "How Women Can Win in the Workplace," by Kweilin Ellingrud, Lareina Yee, and María del Mar Martínez.

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.

This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

Develop the mindset and presence to successfully manage others for the first time.

If you read nothing else for new managers, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you get up to speed quickly, assess your team’s strengths and weaknesses, and lead them to a higher level of performance.

This book will inspire you to:

• Develop your emotional intelligence
• Give feedback that leads to positive results
• Navigate relationships with your direct reports, bosses, and peers
• Build soft skills such as communication and persuasion
• Handle difficult conversations and tense situations
• Cultivate a robust network inside and outside your organization

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.

This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

Put customers at the core of your business.

If you read nothing else on marketing, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you connect better with your established customers, develop offerings that attract new ones, and unlock opportunities for growth.

This book will inspire you to:

• Align your sales and marketing teams for maximum impact
• Measure the real-world value of customer loyalty
• Blend human and machine intelligence to manage your brand
• Reap the benefits of psychological targeting, ethically
• Develop influencer campaigns that generate real returns
• Build a customer strategy around personalization

This collection of articles includes "Marketing Myopia," by Theodore Levitt; "Net Promoter 3.0," by Fred Reichheld, Darci Darnell, and Maureen Burns; "Analytics for Marketers," by Fabrizio Fantini and Das Narayandas; "Personalization Done Right," by Mark Abraham and David C. Edelman; "What Psychological Targeting Can Do," by Sandra Matz; "Why CMOs Never Last," by Kimberly A. Whitler and Neil A. Morgan; "Are Your Marketing and Sales Teams on the Same Page?," by Kelsey Raymond; "How AI Can Power Brand Management," by Julian De Freitas and Elie Ofek; "Attract New Customers Without Alienating Your Old Ones," by Ryan Hamilton and Annie Wilson; "Does Influencer Marketing Really Pay Off?," by Fine F. Leung, Jonathan Z. Zhang, Flora F. Gu, Yiwei Li, and Robert W. Palmatier; "The Right Way to Build Your Brand," by Roger L. Martin, Jann Schwarz, and Mimi Turner; "Is Your Marketing Organization Ready for What's Next?," by Omar Rodríguez-Vilá, Sundar Bharadwaj, Neil A. Morgan, and Shubu Mitra.

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.

This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

Continuous change calls for continuous innovation.

If you read nothing else on innovation, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you invest in your best innovation bets, learn from setbacks, and bring bold new offerings to market.

This book will inspire you to:

• Know your customers' "jobs to be done"
• Harness the benefits of design thinking
• Bring AI into the innovation process
• Keep bureaucracy and structure from stifling creativity
• Build a culture of experimentation
• Become the disrupter in your industry

This collection of articles includes "What Is Disruptive Innovation?" by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor, and Rory McDonald; "Innovation Doesn't Have to Be Disruptive," by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne; "Great Innovators Create the Future, Manage the Present, and Selectively Forget the Past," by Vijay Govindarajan; "A New Approach to Strategic Innovation," by Haijian Si, Christoph Loch, and Stelios Kavadias; "A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning," by Amy Gallo; "Know Your Customers' "Jobs to Be Done"," by Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan; "Breaking Down the Barriers to Innovation," by Scott D. Anthony, Paul Cobban, Rahul Nair, and Natalie Painchaud; "The Inescapable Paradox of Managing Creativity," by Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent Lineback; "Find Innovation Where You Least Expect It," by Tony McCaffrey and Jim Pearson; "Engineering Reverse Innovations," by Amos Winter and Vijay Govindarajan; "Can AI Help Your Company Innovate? It Depends," by Lynn Wu and Sam Ransbotham; "Why Design Thinking Works," by Jeanne M. Liedtka; "If Your Innovation Effort Isn't Working, Look at Who's on the Team," by Nathan Furr, Kyle Nel, and Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy; "What's Your Best Innovation Bet?" by Melissa A. Schilling; and "Strategies for Learning from Failure," by Amy C. Edmondson.

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.

This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

Too many digital transformations fail to deliver. Don't let yours be one of them.

If you read nothing else on leading digital transformation, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you set ambitious milestones for your transformation, anticipate and avoid common mistakes, and reach your goals faster and more predictably.

This book will inspire you to:

• Rethink strategy in the age of AI
• Help your team become more data savvy
• Create an achievable road map for digital initiatives
• Understand the tech skills senior leaders need
• Reskill employees to support your transformation efforts
• Create new processes that speed execution

This collection of articles includes "Discovery-Driven Digital Transformation," by Rita McGrath and Ryan McManus; "Is Your Company Squandering Digital Opportunities?" by Mohan Subramaniam; "Democratizing Transformation," by Marco Iansiti and Satya Nadella; "Strategy in an Era of Abundant Expertise," by Bobby Yerramilli-Rao, John Corwin, Yang Li, and Karim R. Lakhani; "How to Speed Up Your Digital Transformation," by Benjamin Mueller and Jens Lauterbach; "Digital Doesn't Have to Be Disruptive," by Nathan Furr and Andrew Shipilov; "The Secret to Successful AI-Driven Process Redesign," by H. James Wilson and Paul R. Daugherty; "Developing a Digital Mindset," by Tsedal Neeley and Paul Leonardi; "Is Your C-Suite Equipped to Lead a Digital Transformation?" by J. Yo-Jud Cheng, Cassandra Frangos, and Boris Groysberg; "A Better Way to Put Your Data to Work," by Veeral Desai, Tim Fountaine, and Kayvaun Rowshankish; "Five Pillars for Democratizing Data," by Hippolyte Lefebvre, Christine Legner, and Elizabeth A. Teracino; "The Age of Continuous Connection," by Nicolaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch; "Want Your Company to Get Better at Experimentation?" by Iavor Bojinov, David Holtz, Ramesh Johari, Sven Schmit, and Martin Tingley; and "Reskilling in the Age of AI," by Jorge Tamayo, Leila Doumi, Sagar Goel, Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic, and Raffaella Sadun.

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.

This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

Make better decisions, faster.

If you read nothing else on decision-making, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you understand all of your options, ask the right questions, and make bold choices that drive real change.

This book will inspire you to:

• Exercise sound judgment in complex situations
• Conquer a culture of indecision
• Know when to gather more data and when to trust your gut
• Root out bias in your assumptions
• Improve the decision-making ability of your teams
• Stop deliberating and move forward

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.

This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

A dynamic company culture starts with leadership.

If you read nothing else on building a great culture, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you understand how to create a foundation of psychological safety, connect your people to your organization's purpose, and change your culture for the better.

This book will inspire you to:

• Help all employees feel welcomed and valued
• Cultivate a mindset of continuous learning
• Turn hybrid work challenges into successes
• Use analytics to better understand your culture
• Keep toxic behaviors from undermining your workplace
• Balance discipline and structure with creativity and innovation

This collection of articles includes "The Leader's Guide to Corporate Culture," by Boris Groysberg, Jeremiah Lee, Jesse Price, and J. Yo-Jud Cheng; "What People Get Wrong About Psychological Safety," by Amy C. Edmondson and Michaela J. Kerrissey; "The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures," by Gary P. Pisano; "Four Phrases That Encourage Curiosity on Your Team," by Scott Shigeoka; "The New Analytics of Culture," by Matthew Corritore, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivastava; "Don't Let Cynicism Undermine Your Workplace," by Jamil Zaki; "Creating a Purpose-Driven Organization," by Robert E. Quinn and Anjan V. Thakor; "Four Ways to Create a Learning Culture on Your Team," by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Josh Bersin; "The Price of Incivility," by Christine Porath and Christine Pearson; "Why Hybrid Work Can Become Toxic," by Mark Mortensen; "How to Design an Ethical Organization," by Nicholas Epley and Amit Kumar; "The Power of Small Acts of Inclusion," by Gregg Muragishi, Lauren Aguilar, Priyanka Carr, and Greg Walton; "Beware a Culture of Busyness," by Adam Waytz; and "When Culture Doesn't Translate," by Erin Meyer.

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.

This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

Your success hinges on your ability to communicate clearly and compellingly.

If you read nothing else on communication, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you speak more authentically, express your ideas with clarity and impact, and win over your audience.

This book will inspire you to:

• Ask better questions to get more out of every discussion
• Listen for emotions and cues, not just facts
• Use visuals persuasively and effectively
• Sharpen your business writing to ensure your message sticks
• Manage negative emotions during stressful conversations
• Encourage constructive debate by cultivating psychological safety

This collection of articles includes "The Necessary Art of Persuasion," by Jay A. Conger; "The Surprising Power of Questions," by Alison Wood Brooks and Leslie K. John; "Taking the Stress Out of Stressful Conversations," by Holly Weeks; "How Supportive Leaders Approach Emotional Conversations," by Sarah Noll Wilson; "The Science of Strong Business Writing," by Bill Birchard; "Did You Get My Slack/Email/Text?," by Erica Dhawan; "Visualizations That Really Work," by Scott Berinato; "How to Become an Authentic Speaker," by Nick Morgan; "What People Get Wrong About Psychological Safety," by Amy C. Edmondson and Michaela J. Kerrissey; "What's the Best Way to Communicate on a Global Team?," by Dan Bullock and Raúl Sánchez; "Are You Really a Good Listener?," by Jeffrey Yip and Colin M. Fisher; "What People Still Get Wrong About Negotiations," by Max H. Bazerman; and "Cultivating Everyday Courage," by James R. Detert.

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.

This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

How to stay ahead in a world transformed by AI.

If you read nothing else on AI, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you make sense of the shifting landscape, anticipate opportunities and threats, and develop a strategy that keeps pace with AI.

This book will inspire you to:

• Capture the potential of gen AI and agentic AI
• Help people and machines work together better
• Manage regulation and risk
• Understand the real value of your organization's data
• Prepare for skills, jobs, and industries to be transformed
• Embed AI at the core of your business

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.

This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

To unlock top leadership opportunities, you need to learn to be as good at your job search as you are at your job.

In today's dynamic and fast-paced corporate world, executive careers are more fluid than ever, and so is the executive job market. As an ambitious leader, you have no problem closing a deal or hitting your numbers, but you may find the next step harder to crack. To land the position you want, you need to be clear about your unique value proposition for that specific role. Yet the higher you rise, the harder it becomes to get honest opinions on your strengths and weaknesses.

In Show Up to Win, Kelly Kay and Jeff Sanders, partners at executive search and consulting firm Heidrick & Struggles, lay out a road map to help you win that top-level role and move into it effectively. Backed with a wealth of insights from real-life case studies and interviews, this straight-talking book shows what the job search looks like for senior candidates today, what companies are looking for from you, and how you can identify and best position yourself for the role they really want.

Drawing on more than three decades of experience and 200 conversations per week with Fortune 1000 companies about executive roles, the authors highlight unexpected perspectives and counterintuitive advice on what makes the real difference between the candidates who land the best jobs and those who remain overlooked.

The result is a deeply practical and timeless exploration of how you should think about and navigate a high-stakes executive job search.

A practical, research-based guide for maximizing the most overlooked driver of lasting success and fulfillment: our values.

What if one simple shift could make you feel as satisfied as getting an $84,000 raise?

Research shows that understanding your core values—and living by them—can deliver just that.

This is the power of values.

In What Do You Really Stand For? Columbia Business School professor Paul Ingram reveals how clarifying your values can transform your choices, relationships, and leadership. With engaging stories, practical tools, and over two decades of research, Ingram shows that values aren't just a moral compass—they're an advantage that can boost our performance and well-being.

Whether you're navigating a career decision or navigating conflicts, heading a team or heading an organization, or simply trying to live and lead with greater purpose, What Do You Really Stand For? offers a powerful framework to take more-intentional control—and lead ourselves and others with more clarity, confidence, and purpose.

A stirring account on how to gain—and own—your power.

From growing up in 1980s Harlem to working at entertainment giants such as BET, MTV, Nickelodeon, and ABC, Khadijah Sharif-Drinkard has spent her life redefining what real power looks like.

In Power Reimagined, she dismantles the myths we've been taught about power. Through raw, behind-the-scenes stories from her childhood and trailblazing career, she reveals that real power isn't handed to you—it's forged through strategy, courage, and an unshakable belief in your own worth.

She takes readers inside high-stakes situations where she refused to settle for less and pivotal moments where audacity became her greatest asset. From her earliest dreams of success to the executive offices where she made those dreams real, Sharif-Drinkard reveals the moments that shaped her and the strategies that helped her lead with impact and integrity.

Part fearless memoir, part inspirational guide, Power Reimagined is for anyone who's ever been overlooked, undervalued, or told they didn't belong. This book will inspire you to own your power and use it without apology.

Do more with your money. Use it to flourish.

Traditional personal finance books mostly accept the same goals for all people: make as much money as possible, fund a college education for your kids, save for retirement. These books mechanistically advise readers to budget, take out a mortgage, open savings vehicles, and so on—without much thought as to who we are as individuals.

But is that all? Will that formula make people happy?

To achieve a more meaningful life, one must address the role that money plays in it. In this book, investor, author, and speaker John Coleman offers a new mindset around personal finance, one that puts purpose at its core. It provides a six-part framework for using money properly to lead a financial life of flourishing:

• Change how you think about money.
• Choose a job that earns with purpose.
• Spend and consume wisely.
• Use your means to help others.
• Invest for maximum impact.
• Save for freedom, not retirement.

Using firsthand interviews and examples, Good Money walks through each of these steps, providing helpful—and sometimes counterintuitive—advice on how to use your wealth to flourish and find greater meaning, now and long into the future.

The most powerful force in business is not what you think it is—and it's right in front of you as a leader, waiting to be unleashed.

Think about the last time you said, "I love that." Maybe it was about a product that exceeded expectations, a service experience that built instant loyalty, or a moment when your work brought out the best in you. That reaction isn't just emotional—it's electric. In the workplace, it fuels engagement, strengthens performance, and drives lasting success. Yet most leaders don't acknowledge it, let alone try to measure or make use of it.

In Design Love In, leading researcher on human performance and bestselling author Marcus Buckingham reveals how love—the deep connection that makes people feel seen, valued, and inspired—isn't a soft feeling but a practical, measurable force. He shows how leaders, as experience makers, can intentionally "design love in" to everything we do: our interactions with team members, our company policies and practices, the products and services and experiences we create for those we lead and serve. When we do this, it not only generates positive feeling toward us and our products, it energizes our teams and organizations, strengthens the connections between us as humans, and creates a better world.

Featuring vivid stories of global brands, current research, and personal experiences, Buckingham illustrates that tapping this force is not simply about being more "warm and fuzzy"—it's a concrete matter of utilizing loving experiences to drive behaviors to drive outcomes, and the book provides step-by-step advice on how to "design love in" to all your actions as a leader.

Love—it's the most powerful force in business. This book shows how you as a leader can unleash it.

Change now, faster, smarter. The imperative to transform your business only gets more urgent. BCG leaders provide a science-based playbook for beating the odds and doing it right.

AI. Market volatility. Regulation and policy uncertainty. Supply chain disruption. The business landscape requires change more than ever before—and global companies are continually announcing change programs. Most fail, wasting employees' time and energy, shareholders' capital, and consumers' patience. What's more, the high failure rate has stayed constant for decades, with mind-boggling costs to businesses and the economy.

But some companies succeed. In How Change Really Works, Boston Consulting Group experts Julia Dhar, Kristy Ellmer, and Philip Jameson show that these successes are not random—they are connected by a common set of principles and practices. Interweaving illuminating examples, decades of behavioral science research, and new interviews with executives and employees, as well as the authors' own experiences leading change with BCG, they offer seven principles that constitute the core of a truly human-centered approach to successful organizational change. These range from "Get true agreement, not false alignment" to "Give people agency, not just involvement" to "Expect take-up to be earned, not automatic."

The second part of the book shifts into execution mode, providing a five-phase practical manual for putting the principles to work that is filled with tips, checklists, advice, and smart hacks for helping your transformation beat the odds, succeed, and stick.

Change doesn't fail because people resist—it fails because leaders misunderstand how people really change. Whether you're launching a new initiative, stuck in a stalled transformation, or trying to rescue a failing one, How Change Really Works is your essential leader's guide.

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.

Talk. Sketch. Prototype. Repeat.

You know right away when you see an effective chart or graphic. It hits you with an immediate sense of its meaning and impact. But what actually makes it clearer, sharper, and more effective? If you're ready to create your own "good charts"--data visualizations that powerfully communicate your ideas and research and that advance your career—the Good Charts Workbook is the hands-on guide you've been looking for.

The original Good Charts changed the landscape by helping readers understand how to think visually and by laying out a process for creating powerful data visualizations. Now, the Good Charts Workbook provides tools, exercises, and practical insights to help people in all kinds of enterprises gain the skills they need to get started.

Harvard Business Review Senior Editor and dataviz expert Scott Berinato leads you, step-by-step, through the key challenges in creating good charts—controlling color, crafting for clarity, choosing chart types, practicing persuasion, capturing concepts—with warm-up exercises and mini-challenges for each. The Workbook includes helpful prompts and reminders throughout, as well as white space for users to practice the Good Charts talk-sketch-prototype process.

Good Charts Workbook is the must-have manual for better understanding the dataviz around you and for creating better charts to make your case more effectively.

You're only one person—but you're not alone.

As a single parent, you know your life is different from the other working parents around you. With the pressure to perform well at work and no partner to assist with tasks at home (let alone major crises), you likely find yourself pulled in all directions, with many responsibilities and little support.

Doing It All as a Solo Parent offers you the help you need to lighten the load. Drawing on the wisdom of experts and parents alike, it provides practical tips and advice tailored to your unique challenges as a solo parent. Whether you're single, widowed, or have a partner who is unable to help, you'll discover how to do it all—with less stress.

You'll learn to:

• Create a support system of family and friends
• Make time spent with your children more meaningful
• Shape a long-term career despite short-term demands
• Build a childcare backup bench
• Carve out time for yourself

The HBR Working Parents Series provides support 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.

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.

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.

Everyone leads projects. Learn how to manage them more effectively.

If you read nothing else on leading projects large and small, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you manage initiatives that will inspire your people, tackle your biggest challenges using agile, and prepare yourself and your organization for a world driven by projects.

This book will inspire you to:

• Reap benefits from your initiatives more quickly
• Become a better project sponsor
• Kill initiatives that aren't performing
• Navigate the politics of innovation projects
• Keep AI and digital transformation on track
• Prepare for the next generation of project management tools

This collection of articles includes "The Project Economy Has Arrived," by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez; "Too Many Projects," by Rose Hollister and Michael D. Watkins; "Increase Your Return on Failure," by Julian Birkinshaw and Martine Haas; "How to Navigate the Politics of an Innovation Project," by Brian Uzzi; "Cultural Change That Sticks," by Jon R. Katzenbach, Ilona Steffen, and Caroline Kronley; "Agile at Scale," by Darrell K. Rigby, Jeff Sutherland, and Andy Noble; "For an Agile Transformation, Choose the Right People," by Rob Cross, Heidi K. Gardner, and Alia Crocker; "Discovery-Driven Digital Transformation," by Rita McGrath and Ryan McManus; "Keep Your AI Projects on Track," by Iavor Bojinov; "A New Approach for Strategic Innovation," by Haijian Si, Christoph Loch, and Stelios Kavadias; "The Rise of the Chief Project Officer," by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez; "Make Megaprojects More Modular," by Bent Flyvbjerg; and "What the Next Generation of Project Management Will Look Like," by Rachel Longhurst and Woojin Choi.

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.

Build the career you want—on your terms.

"Where do you see yourself in five years?" This question can make even the most ambitious of us feel a little nauseous. Starting out in the working world is hard enough, but thinking long-term about our careers—and whether we even want a capital-C "Career"—can be daunting. Luckily, there are steps we can take to build careers that fit our individual interests, needs, and skills.

Experience, Opportunity, and Developing Your Career is filled with practical advice from HBR experts who can help you answer questions like:

• Should I choose to follow my passion, my purpose, or my values?
• How will I know if a job is really right for me?
• What's the best way to use my network?
• How can I make big decisions about my career?

This book will help you define the career that fits you, so you can align your passions and values with your daily work.

Rise faster with quick reads, real-life stories, and expert advice. The HBR Work Smart Series features the topics that matter to you most in your early career, including being yourself at work, collaborating with (sometimes difficult) colleagues and bosses, managing your mental health, and weighing major job decisions. Each title includes chapter recaps and links to video, audio, and more. The HBR Work Smart Series books are your practical guides to stepping into your professional life and moving forward with confidence.

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.

Leading productive teams requires laying the groundwork for success and following through effectively. This guide offers immediately actionable advice on how to choose the right team members; clarify goals, rules, and responsibilities; foster trust, creativity, and risk taking; and resolve conflicts and maximize productivity.

The Pocket Mentor Series offers immediate solutions to common challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real life examples to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with greater speed, savvy, and effectiveness.

Seize the benefits of the five-generation workforce.

Generational distrust and ageism are seeping into organizations worldwide. Differences over communication style, technology preferences, identity, and politics are fueling harmful stereotypes and hurting team performance. It doesn't need to be this way. Smart leaders are harnessing age diversity and encouraging mutual learning, cross-generational collaboration, and a culture that embraces both similarities and differences across age groups. Multigenerational Workplace: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you bridge divides, reduce prejudice, and unlock the benefits of age-diverse teams.

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.

The business world seems to have given up on loyalty: many major corporations now lose--and have to replace--half their customers in five years, half their employees in four, and half their investors in less than one. Fred Reichheld's national bestseller The Loyalty Effect shows why companies that ignore these skyrocketing defections face a dismal future of low growth, weak profits, and shortened life expectancy. Reichheld demonstrates the power of loyalty-based management as a highly profitable alternative to the economics of perpetual churn. He makes a powerful economic case for loyalty-and takes you through the numbers to prove it. His startling conclusion: Even a small improvement in customer retention can double profits in your company. The Loyalty Effect will change the way you think about loyalty, profits, and the nature of business.

Navigate the complex decisions and critical relationships necessary to create and sustain a healthy family business—and business family.

Though "family business" may sound like it refers only to mom-and-pop shops, businesses owned by families are among the most significant and numerous in the world. But surprisingly few resources exist to help navigate the unique challenges you face when you share the executive suite, financial statements, and holidays. How do you make the right decisions, critical to the long-term survival of any business, with the added challenge of having to do so within the context of a family?

The HBR Family Business Handbook brings you sophisticated guidance and practical advice from family business experts Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer. Drawing on their decades-long experience working closely with a wide range of family businesses of all sizes around the world, the authors present proven methods and approaches for communicating effectively, managing conflict, building the right governance structures, and more.

In the HBR Family Business Handbook you'll find:

• A new perspective on what makes family businesses succeed and fail
• A framework to help you make good decisions together
• Step-by-step guidance on managing change within your business family
• Key questions about wealth, unique to family businesses, that you can't afford to ignore
• Assessments to help you determine where you are—and where you want to go
• Stories of real companies, from Marchesi Antinori to Radio Flyer
• Chapter summaries you can use to reinforce what you've learned

Keep this comprehensive guide with you to help you build, grow, and position your family business to thrive across generations.

HBR Handbooks provide ambitious professionals with the frameworks, advice, and tools they need to excel in their careers. With step-by-step guidance, time-honed best practices, and real-life stories, each comprehensive volume helps you to stand out from the pack—whatever your role.

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.

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

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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.

If you read nothing else on managing yourself, read these definitive articles from Harvard Business Review.

You have the power to position yourself for success, cut your own career path, develop your skills, and shape the life you'll live. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself 2-Volume Collection provides enduring ideas and practical advice to help you stay engaged, be productive, and continue to grow throughout your working life. Bringing together HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself and HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself, Vol. 2, this collection includes twenty articles selected by HBR's editors and features the indispensable article "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton M. Christensen.

From timeless classics to the latest game-changing ideas from thought leaders Peter F. Drucker, Daisy Dowling, Daniel Goleman, and Jennifer Petriglieri, and more, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself 2-Volume Collection will inspire you to:

• Identify areas for personal growth
• Consider your strengths, work preferences, values, and contributions
• Build your skills and stay relevant
• Develop learning agility
• Balance work, home, community, and self
• Replenish your physical and mental energy
• Rebound from tough times
• Prepare for your next opportunity
• Stay engaged throughout your 50+-year work life

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.

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 year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place.

We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up to date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. With authors from Satya Nadella to Lynda Gratton and company examples from Nestlé to TikTok, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations right to your fingertips.

This book will inspire you to:

• Radically redefine the role of managers in your organization
• Integrate your ESG goals into your company's core business model
• Separate the hype from the reality of Web3 and identify opportunities for your business
• Navigate conflict and embrace mutual learning across generational differences
• Identify the soft skills needed in the C-suite—and build them
• Encourage all employees to develop the capabilities around digital transformation

This collection of articles includes "Managers Can't Do It All," by Diane Gherson and Lynda Gratton; "What Is Web3?," by Thomas Stackpole; "Selling on TikTok and Taobao," by Thomas S. Robertson; "Managing in the Age of Outrage," by Karthik Ramanna; "The Five Stages of DEI Maturity," by Ella F. Washington; "The Essential Link Between ESG Targets and Financial Performance," by Mark R. Kramer and Marc W. Pfitzer; "Make the Most of Your One-on-One Meetings," by Steven G. Rogelberg; "Harnessing the Power of Age Diversity," by Megan W. Gerhardt, Josephine Nachemson-Ekwall, and Brandon Fogel; "The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most," by Raffaella Sadun, Joseph Fuller, Stephen Hansen, and PJ Neal; "Your Company Needs a Space Strategy. Now.," by Matthew Weinzierl, Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Tarun Khanna, Alan MacCormack, and Brendan Rosseau; and "Democratizing Transformation," by Marco Iansiti and Satya Nadella.

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.

As CEO, you set the vision, the strategy, and the tone of your organization.

You establish priorities, anticipate and address challenges, champion and lead change efforts, set people up for success, and manage risk. Though you may have a great senior executive team and a top-flight board, the success of your organization depends on your leadership.

If you read nothing else on being an effective chief executive, 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 toggle between long- and short-term views, manage risk and innovation, and cultivate productive relationships with your staff and your board. This book will inspire you to:

• Navigate the changing global business environment
• Customize your company's strategy to the environment you're working in
• Attract, engage, and retain the best talent
• Anticipate and address legislative and regulatory issues
• Sharpen your awareness of the tactical and soft skills you need to lead
• Adopt a founder's mindset and build new offerings, move into new markets, and create next-generation solutions
• Manage and build relationships with your board--and your shareholders

This collection of articles includes "Your Strategy Needs a Strategy," by Martin Reeves, Claire Love, and Philipp Tillmanns; "Managing Your Innovation Portfolio," by Bansi Nagji and Geoff Tuff; "Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail," by John P. Kotter; "Reinventing Your Business Model," by Mark W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen, and Henning Kagermann; "Leadership Is a Conversation," by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind; "Strategic Intent," by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad; "When Growth Stalls," by Matthew S. Olson, Derek van Bever, and Seth Verry; "The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution," by Gary L. Neilson, Karla L. Martin, and Elizabeth Powers; "The Focused Leader," by Daniel Goleman; "Managing Risks: A New Framework," by Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes; "21st-Century Talent Spotting," by Claudio Fernandez-Araoz; and "How CEOs Can Work with an Active Board," by Ken Banta and Stephen D. Garrow.

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

Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers—and how to make better ones.

If you read nothing else on decision making, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you and your organization make better choices and avoid common traps.

Leading experts such as Ram Charan, Michael Mankins, and Thomas Davenport provide the insights and advice you need to:

• Make bold decisions that challenge the status quo
• Support your decisions with diverse data
• Evaluate risks and benefits with equal rigor
• Check for faulty cause-and-effect reasoning
• Test your decisions with experiments
• Foster and address constructive criticism
• Defeat indecisiveness with clear accountability

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.

Master the art of effective delegation.

You know you need to delegate some of your work so that you have time to focus on the things that require your expertise. But it's not easy to do. Delegating Work quickly walks you through the fundamentals of:

• Establishing a productive environment
• Assigning the right work to the right people
• Conducting an effective hand-off meeting
• Monitoring without micromanaging

Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills with HBR's 20-Minute Manager series. Whether you need a crash course or a brief refresher, each book in the series is a concise, practical primer that will help you brush up on a key management topic. Advice you can quickly read and apply, for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives—from the most trusted source in business. Also available as an ebook.

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.

Roar Out of the Covid-19 Recession

You've weathered the shock, the lockdowns, and the slow crawl back. But with a new normal come new risks—and new opportunities. What must you and your business do now to come out of the downturn stronger and better positioned for the future?

Global Recession: Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you find possibilities amid the upheaval and reshape your business to seize advantage in the upswing.

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.

Business success begins with trust.

Trust is the basis for all that we do as leaders and as organizations. Employees who trust their employers are more productive and creative. Businesses that earn their customers' trust maintain better relationships and reap better results. Meanwhile, breaches of trust between companies and the public are becoming more frequent—and more costly.

If you read nothing else on trust, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you build, maintain, and repair trust, both as a leader and as a company.

This book will inspire you to:

• Develop trust through competence, legitimacy, and impact
• Understand the neuroscience of trust
• Follow through on your commitments to stakeholders
• Negotiate better with an untrustworthy counterpart
• See your company through the eyes of your customers
• Rebuild relationships after a breakdown of trust

This collection of articles includes "Begin with Trust," by Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss; "The Neuroscience of Trust," by Paul J. Zak; "Dig, Bridge, Collectively Act," by Tina Opie and Beth A. Livingston; "Rethinking Trust," by Roderick M. Kramer; "How to Negotiate with a Liar," by Leslie K. John; "The Enemies of Trust," by Robert M. Galford and Anne Seibold Drapeau; "Don't Let Cynicism Undermine Your Workplace," by Jamil Zaki; "The Trust Crisis," by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta; "Customer Data: Designing for Transparency and Trust," by Timothy Morey, Theodore "Theo" Forbath, and Allison Schoop; "Operational Transparency," by Ryan W. Buell; and "The Organizational Apology," by Maurice E. Schweitzer, Alison Wood Brooks, and Adam D. Galinsky.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

AI—including generative AI—is radically transforming business. Are you ready? Accenture technology leaders Paul Daugherty and Jim Wilson provide crucial insights and advice to help you meet the challenge.

Look around you. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a futuristic notion. It's here right now—in software that senses what we need, supply chains that "think" in real time, and now generative AI that is radically reshaping work and productivity. Twenty-first-century pioneer companies are already using AI to innovate and grow fast. The bottom line is this: Businesses that understand how to harness AI can surge ahead. Those that neglect it will fall behind. Which side are you on?

In this updated and expanded edition of Human + Machine—including a new chapter on gen AI—Accenture technology leaders Paul Daugherty and Jim Wilson show that the essence of the AI paradigm shift is the transformation of all business processes within an organization, whether related to breakthrough innovation, everyday customer service, or personal productivity habits. As humans and smart machines collaborate ever more closely, work processes become more fluid and adaptive, enabling companies to change them on the fly—or completely reimagine them.

Based on the authors' experience and research with fifteen hundred organizations, the book reveals how companies are using the new rules of AI to leap ahead on innovation and profitability and what you can do to achieve similar results. It describes six entirely new types of hybrid human + machine roles that every company must develop, and it includes a "leader's guide" with the five crucial principles required to become an AI-fueled business.

Human + Machine provides the missing and much-needed management playbook for success in the new age of AI.

Why are your smartest and most successful employees often the worst learners? Likely, they haven't had the opportunities for introspection that failure affords. So when they do fail, instead of critically examining their own behavior, they cast blame outward—on anyone or anything they can. In Teaching Smart People How to Learn, Chris Argyris sheds light on the forces that prevent highly skilled employees for learning from mistakes and offers suggestions for helping talented employees develop more productive responses. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice-many of which still speak to and influence us today. The HBR Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each volume contains a groundbreaking idea that has shaped best practices and inspired countless managers around the world-and will change how you think about the business world today.