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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2023
The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review
Series: HBR's 10 Must Reads
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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 Francesca Gino to Adam Grant and company examples from Pfizer to Microsoft, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations right to your fingertips.
This book will inspire you to:
- Adopt the best practices for creating a truly flexible workplace
- Refocus your strategy to prioritise the few initiatives with the greatest potential impact
- Navigate the challenges of role transitions—and learn how those in changing roles can get up to speed faster
- Implement diversity training that will help employees overcome bias and commit to improvement
- Overcome roadblocks during the innovation process so rapid experimentation will pay off
- Lead with a commitment to sustainability
This collection of articles includes The Future of Flexibility at Work, by Ellen Ernst Kossek, Patricia Gettings, and Kaumudi Misra; Eliminate Strategic Overload, by Felix Oberholzer-Gee; Drive Innovation with Better Decision-Making, by Linda A. Hill, Emily Tedards, and Taran Swan; Unconscious Bias Training that Works, by Francesca Gino and Katherine Coffman; Why You Aren't Getting More from Your Marketing AI, by Eva Ascarza, Michael Ross, and Bruce G.S. Hardie; Net Promoter 3.0, by Fred Reichheld, Darci Darnell, and Maureen Burns; How Chinese Retailers are Reinventing the Customer Journey, by Mark J. Greeven, Katherine Xin, and George S. Yip; The Circular Business Model, by Atalay Atasu, Celine Dumas, and Luk N. Van Wassenhove; How to Succeed Quickly in a New Role, by Rob Cross, Greg Pryor, and David Sylvester; Accounting for Climate Change, by Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna; and Persuading the Unpersuadable, by Adam Grant.
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ISBN: 9781647824556
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 18 October 2022
Country: United States
Imprint: Harvard Business Review Press
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 139.0mm
Height: 209.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 208
Collections
Adam M. Grant
Business & Entrepreneurship
Business Leadership & Management
Business Strategy & Negotiation
Career Development
Company Culture & Human Resources
Francesca Gino
Fred Reichheld
Harvard Business Review
Linda A. Hill
Mindset & Self Help
Non-Fiction
Self-Help & Personal Development
Series: HBR's 10 Must Reads
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