books by Harvard Business School Press     books:     Harvard Business S...      The Future of Management Gary Hamel, Bill Breen Harvard Business School Press, 2007 Innovating the Way that we Manage the Corporation Through this book, Gary Hamel goes after all the sacred cows of management: all the bureaucratic practices that have been built up over the past 100 years starting with the "scientific management" theories in the early 20th century. He makes a compelling argument that ...             The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels Michael Watkins Harvard Business School Press, 2003 Good for CEO or first time supervisor Clear and concise action plan. Helps you think before just jumping in and running in circles.             Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne Harvard Business School Press, 2005 Simple but powerful I remember being blown away by the articles in HBR that this book was based on. The strategy canvas is a fantastic tool - very simple, very visual and very powerful, so too is their "eliminate-reduce-raise-create" grid. The book doesn't add much of substance to the ...             Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris Harvard Business School Press, 2007 The Future of Business As data becomes more available across the enterprise, the challenge becomes how to leverage data for a competitive advantage. This well-written book defines the benchmarks from which organizations should measure their ability to use data to establish a competitive ...             Five Minds for the Future Howard Gardner Harvard Business School Press, 2007 Five Minds for the Technology Professional Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is a psychologist and author known for his theory of multiple intelligences. Application of his theory, especially for education, has been controversial. But I ...             The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking Roger L. Martin Harvard Business School Press, 2007 The Beginning Of Wisdom... Some core points the author makes: 1. Much of the inner structure of the superior business mind is implicit, tacit, and mostly functions non-verbally on the unconscious level. 2. It is exceedingly hard to decompile and read the "machine language" of the superior ...             Leading Change John P. Kotter Harvard Business School Press, 1996 Excellent This book is phenominal! An excellent guide for the leader experiencing change. If I had no other resource, this book would be enough for survival in the business world of change. Definitely worth the investment.             Executing Your Strategy: How to Break It Down and Get It Done Mark Morgan, Raymond Elliot Levitt, ... Harvard Business School Press, 2008 Key Learning of This Book: Connecting Executives to Projects in the SEF Model With all of the titles focused on better strategy execution, it's easy to wonder if there is anything new left to be written that is worthy of close study. In this case, I found it to contain some true insights in its focus and message. The first contribution of the ...             Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, ... Harvard Business School Press, 2004 This book taught me to develop my own leadership... I just had my first personnel when I read this book. With only twenty-some years and no leadership under the belt I had to manage my company. You might think that's easy, but believe me... it isn't. Having the knowledge how to lead certainly helps though. Actually, ...             Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff Harvard Business School Press, 2008 Best business book ever read. Really. You can find more about the actual contents and valuable details about this book in other reviews, what I would like to to add is : - This book is a great example of writing a business book by telling a story. It's flow is fantastic, I finished it in 3 days when my ...             Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, ... Harvard Business School Press, 2006 Well deserved 5 stars The book is really great and deserves 5 stars. I am an Application Architect working for one of the biggest financial companies in the world and we are using this book as a starting point for improving our Enterprise Architecture. I whish this book was thicker ...             The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth Fred Reichheld Harvard Business School Press, 2006 Best way to measure customer satisfaction levels! This is the best book I have ever seen in terms of providing the simplest way to measure the satisfaction level of a customer. Not only does the ultimate question provide that, it also is quick/easy for clients to complete. That is also important. There is lots of ...             The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World John Elkington, Pamela Hartigan Harvard Business School Press, 2008 Remarkable, Inspiring, Instructive, a Total "Wow" I became very enthusiastic about the term "social entrepreneurship" when I made the transition from reading about collective intelligence and citizen wisdom councils and wealth of networks, to understanding that there was a form of energy I first encountered in How to ...             Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want James H. Gilmore, B. Joseph, II Pine Harvard Business School Press, 2007 Maddock Douglas endorses "Authenticity" as a masterpiece I've been pimping this AWESOME book to many of my big brand clients - it is a powerful reinforcement of the idea that strategic clarity = authenticity. Iconic, American brands that are committed to "living what they believe," embrace this "Authenticity" ideology - the ...             The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations John P. Kotter, Dan S. Cohen Harvard Business School Press, 2002 Fantastic A very well written book on how to lead change in your organization (or family) taking into account how others will react.          products you might be interested in search for books architecture, authenticity, entrepreneurs, intelligence, organizations, technologies randomly chosen DVD: Guided Reading [DVD]: Essential Elements, The Skillful Teacher