HBR's 10 Must read - HBR's 10 Must reads 2010 - 2019

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself - 2010

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself will inspire you to:
Stay engaged throughout your 50+-year work life
Tap into your deepest values
Solicit candid feedback
Replenish physical and mental energy
Balance work, home, community, and self
Spread positive energy throughout your organization
Rebound from tough times
Decrease distractibility and frenzy
Delegate and develop employees' initiative

HBR's 10 Must reads, The essentials - 2011

Michael Porter on creating competitive advantage and distinguishing your company from rivals ; John Kotter on leading change through eight critical stages ; Daniel Goleman on using emotional intelligence to maximize performance ; Peter Drucker on managing your career by evaluating your own strengths and weaknesses ; Clay Christensen on orchestrating innovation within established organizations ; Tom Davenport on using analytics to determine how to keep your customers loyal ; Robert Kaplan and David Norton on measuring your company's strategy with the Balanced Scorecard  ; Rosabeth Moss Kanter on avoiding common mistakes when pushing innovation forward ; Ted Levitt on understanding who your customers are and what they really want ; C. K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel on identifying the unique, integrated systems that support your strategy

HBR's 10 Must reads on Leadership - 2011

Go from being a good manager to an extraordinary leader.
Motivate others to excelBuild your team's self-confidence in othersProvoke positive changeSet directionEncourage smart risk-takingManage with tough empathyCredit others for your successIncrease self-awarenessDraw strength from adversity.

HBR's 10 Must reads on Managing people - 2011

Managing people is fraught with challenges—even if you're a seasoned manager. Here's how to handle them.
featuring “Leadership That Gets Results,” by Daniel Goleman). 
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People will inspire you to
Tailor your management styles to fit your peopleMotivate with more responsibility, not more money
Support first-time managersBuild trust by soliciting input
Teach smart people how to learn from failure
Build high-performing teams
Manage your boss

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy - 2011

Is your company spending too much time on strategy development—with too little to show for it? If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles (featuring “What Is Strategy?” by Michael E. Porter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy will inspire you to: • Distinguish your company from rivals • Clarify what your company will and won't do • Craft a vision for an uncertain future • Create blue oceans of uncontested market space • Use the Balanced Scorecard to measure your strategy • Capture your strategy in a memorable phrase • Make priorities explicit • Allocate resources early • Clarify decision rights for faster decision making"

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Innovation - 2013

To innovate profitably, you need more than just creativity. Do you have what it takes? If you read nothing else on inspiring and executing innovation, 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 innovate effectively. Leading experts such as Clayton Christensen, Peter Drucker, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter provide the insights and advice you need

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Making smart decisions - 2013

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. 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 dataEvaluate 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.

HBR's 10 Must reads on strategic marketing - 2013

Stop pushing products--and start cultivating relationships with the right customers.
Leading experts such as Ted Levitt and Clayton Christensen provide the insights and advice you need to:
Figure out what business you’re really in
Create products that perform the jobs people need to get done
Get a bird’s-eye view of your brand’s strengths and weaknesses
Tap a market that’s larger than China and India combined
Deliver superior value to your B2B customers
End the war between sales and marketing

HBR's 10 Must reads on Trust - 2013

this book will help you assemble and steer teams that get results.
Leading experts such as Jon Katzenbach, Teresa Amabile, and Tamara Erickson provide the insights and advice you need to:
Boost team performance through mutual accountability
Motivate large, diverse groups to tackle complex projects
Increase your teams' emotional intelligence
Prevent decision deadlock
Extract results from a bunch of touchy superstars
Fight constructively with top-management colleagues

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence - 2015

This book will inspire you monitor and channel your moods and emotions; make smart, empathetic people decisions; manage conflict and regulate emotions within your team; react to tough situations with resilience; better understand your strengths, weaknesses, needs, values, and goals; and develop emotional agility.

HBR's 10 Must reads 2016

This book will inspire you tap into the new technologies that are changing the way businesses compete; fuel performance by redesigning your organization's practices around feedback; learn techniques to move beyond intuition for better decision making; understand; why your strategy execution isn't working—and how to fix it; lead with authenticity by moving beyond your comfort zone; and transform your physical office space to promote creativity and productivity.

HBR's 10 Must reads 2017

Collaborative Overload - by Rob Cross, Reb Rebele, and Adam Grant
Algorithms Need Managers, Too - by Michael Luca, Jon Kleinberg, and Sendhil Mullainathan
Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy - by Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Geoffrey G. Parker, and Sangeet Paul Choudary
What Is Disruptive Innovation? - by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald
How Indra Nooyi Turned Design Thinking into Strategy - An interview with Indra Nooyi by Adi Ignatius
Engineering Reverse Innovations - by Amos Winter and Vijay Govindarajan
The Employer-Led Health Care Revolution - by Patricia A. McDonald, Robert S. Mecklenburg, MD, and Lindsay A. Martin
Getting to Sí, Ja, Oui, Hai, and Da - by Erin Meyer
The Limits of Empathy
by Adam Waytz
People Before Strategy: A New Role for the CHRO - by Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey
Beyond Automation - by Thomas H. Davenport and Julia Kirby

HBR's 10 Must reads on Sales - 2017

Sales isn’t about pushing products or being efficient; it’s about building the right systems to manage and empower your salespeople.
If you read nothing else on sales, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of *Harvard Business Review* articles and selected the most important ones to help you understand how to create the conditions for sales success.
This book will inspire you to:
* Understand your customer’s buying center
* Integrate your sales and marketing operations
* Assess your business cycle and its impact on your sales force
* Transition away from solution sales
* Leverage the power of micromarkets
* Introduce tiebreaker selling and consensus selling
* Motivate your sales force properly

HBR's 10 Must read 2018

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
Includes "Customer Loyalty Is Overrated," by A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin; "Noise: How to Overcome the High, Hidden Cost of Inconsistent Decision Making," by Daniel Kahneman, Andrew M. Rosenfield, Linnea Gandhi, and Tom Blaser; "Visualizations That Really Work," by Scott Berinato; "Right Tech, Wrong Time," by Ron Adner and Rahul Kapoor; "How to Pay for Health Care," by Michael E. Porter and Robert S. Kaplan; "The Performance Management Revolution," by Peter Cappelli and Anna Tavis; "Let Your Workers Rebel," by Francesca Gino; "Why Diversity Programs Fail," by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev; "What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class," by Joan C. Williams; "The Truth About Blockchain," by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani; and "The Edison of Medicine," by Steven Prokesch.

HBR's 10 Must Reads on AI, Analytics, and the New Machine Age - 2018

Machine learning and data analytics are powering a wave of groundbreaking technologies. Is your company ready?
This collection of articles includes "Artificial Intelligence for the Real World," by Thomas H. Davenport and Rajeev Ronanki; "Stitch Fix's CEO on Selling Personal Style to the Mass Market," by Katrina Lake; "Algorithms Need Managers, Too," by Michael Luca, Jon Kleinberg, and Sendhil Mullainathan; "Marketing in the Age of Alexa," by Niraj Dawar; "Why Every Organization Needs an Augmented Reality Strategy," by Michael E. Porter and James E. Heppelmann; "Drones Go to Work," by Chris Anderson; "The Truth About Blockchain," by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani; "The 3-D Printing Playbook," by Richard A. D’Aveni; "Collaborative Intelligence: Humans and AI Are Joining Forces," by H. James Wilson and Paul R. Daugherty; "When Your Boss Wears Metal Pants," by Walter Frick; and "Managing Our Hub Economy," by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani.

HBR's 10 Must reads on Entrepreneurship and startups - 2018

The best entrepreneurs balance brilliant business ideas with a rigorous commitment to serving their customers' needs..
Leading experts and practitioners such as Clayton Christensen, Marc Andreessen, and Reid Hoffman provide the insights and advice that will inspire you to:
Understand what makes entrepreneurial leaders tick - Know what matters in a great business plan - Adopt lean startup practices such as business model experimentation - Be prepared for the race for scale in Silicon Valley - Better understand the world of venture capital--and know what you'll get along with VC funding - Take an alternative approach to entrepreneurship: buy an existing business and run it as CEO.

HBR's 10 Must reads on Leadership lessons from sports - 2018

The world's elite athletes and coaches achieve high performance through inspiring leadership, mental toughness, and direction-setting strategic choices. Harvard Business Review has talked to many of these high performers throughout the years to learn how their success translates to the world of business.
This book will inspire you to:
Improve on your weaknesses, not just your strengths - Take care of your body for sustained mental performance - Increase your confidence and manage your energy before an important event - Turn a struggling team around  - Understand the limits of performance metrics - Focus on long-term goals to overcome setbacks - Understand where the analogy of sports and business doesn't work.

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Leadership for Healthcare - 2018

Help your team excel. Go from being a good practitioner to being an extraordinary leader of healthcare professionals. If you read nothing else on leadership, read these articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones for healthcare leaders to help you and your team excel, maximize performance, and live into your mission. Leading experts, such as Thomas H. Lee, Daniel Goleman, Peter F. Drucker, John P. Kotter, and Amy C. Edmondson, provide the insights and advice you need 

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy for Healthcare - 2018

Is your healthcare organization spending too much time on strategy--with too little to show for it? 
. Leading strategy experts, such as Michael E. Porter, Jim Collins, W. Chan Kim, and Renee Mauborgne, provide the insights and advice you need Understand how the rules of corporate competition translate to the healthcare sector
Craft a vision for an uncertain future
Segment your market to better serve diverse patient populations
Achieve the best health outcomes--at the lowest cost
Learn what disruptive innovation means for healthcare
Use the Balanced Scorecard to measure your progress

HBR's 10 Must reads on mental toughness - 2018

Thrive on pressure like an Olympic athleteManage and overcome negative emotions by acknowledging themPlan short-term goals to achieve long-term aspirationsSurround yourself with the people who will push you the hardestUse challenges to become a better leaderUse creativity to move past traumaUnderstand the tools your mind uses to recover from setbacks

HBR's 10 Must reads 2019

The Overcommitted Organization - by Mark Mortensen and Heidi K. Gardner
Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management? - by Raffaella Sadun, Nicholas Bloom, and John Van Reenen
“Numbers Take Us Only So Far” - by Maxine Williams
The New CEO Activists - by Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
Artificial Intelligence for the Real World - by Thomas H. Davenport and Rajeev Ronanki
Why Every Organization Needs an Augmented Reality Strategy- by Michael E. Porter and James E. Heppelmann
Thriving in the Gig Economy - by Gianpiero Petriglieri, Susan Ashford, and Amy Wrzesniewski
Managing Our Hub Economy - by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani
The Leader’s Guide to Corporate Culture - by Boris Groysberg, Jeremiah Lee, Jesse Price, and J. Yo-Jud Cheng
The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership - by Joseph L. Bower and Lynn S. Paine
Now What? - by Joan C. Williams and Suzanne Lebsock

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing across cultures - 2019

Learn to lead others, while managing yourself.
his unique compilation offers insights from world-class experts on the topics most important to your success as a new manager, including assessing your team and enhancing its performance; developing your emotional intelligence and persuasion skills; navigating relationships with your employees, bosses, and peers; dealing with conflict; giving effective feedback; managing diverse teams; and fortifying your own physical and mental energy.

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Negotiation - 2019

f you read nothing else on how to negotiate successfully, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you avoid common mistakes, find hidden opportunities, and win the best deals possible. This book will inspire you Control the negotiation before you enter the roomPersuade others to do what you want--for their own reasonsManage emotions on both sides of the tableUnderstand the rules of negotiating across culturesSet the stage for a healthy relationship long after the ink has driedIdentify what you can live with and when to walk away.

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Women and leadership - 2019

What will it take to create a more gender-balanced workplace? If you read nothing else on leadership and gender at work, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. 
The most important articles to help you understand where gender equality is today--and how far we still have to go. This book will inspire you .