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You want the most important ideas for executives all in one place.

Now you can have them—in a set of HBR's 10 Must Reads, available as an 8-volume paperback boxed set or as an ebook set. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on topics such as emotional intelligence, communication, change, leadership, strategy, managing people, and managing yourself and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your own and your organization's performance. The HBR's 10 Must Reads for Executives Boxed Set includes 8 bestselling collections:

  • HBR's 10 Must Reads for CEOs
  • HBR's 10 Must Reads on Boards
  • HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership
  • HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy Vol. 1
  • HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy Vol. 2
  • HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management
  • HBR's 10 Must Reads on Risk
  • HBR's 10 Must Reads on Organizational Resilience

The HBR's 10 Must Reads for Executives Boxed Set makes a smart gift for your team, colleagues, clients, or yourself. The ebook set is available in PDF, ePub, and Mobi formats.

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.

Table of Contents

  1. Contents
  2. HBR’s 10 Must Reads for CEOs
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. BONUS ARTICLE: Your Strategy Needs a Strategy
    5. Managing Your Innovation Portfolio
    6. Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
    7. Reinventing Your Business Model
    8. Leadership Is a Conversation
    9. Strategic Intent
    10. When Growth Stalls
    11. The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution
    12. The Focused Leader
    13. Managing Risks: A New Framework
    14. 21st-Century Talent Spotting
    15. BONUS ARTICLE FROM HBR.ORG: How CEOs Can Work with an Active Board
    16. About the Contributors
    17. Index
  3. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Boards
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. BONUS ARTICLE: What Makes Great Boards Great
    5. Building Better Boards
    6. The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership
    7. The New Work of the Nonprofit Board
    8. Dysfunction in the Boardroom
    9. The Board’s New Innovation Imperative
    10. Managing Risks: A New Framework
    11. Ending the CEO Succession Crisis
    12. After the Handshake
    13. Comp Targets That Work
    14. Sustainability in the Boardroom
    15. About the Contributors
    16. Index
  4. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Leadership
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. What Makes a Leader?
    5. What Makes an Effective Executive
    6. What Leaders Really Do
    7. The Work of Leadership
    8. Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?
    9. Crucibles of Leadership
    10. Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve
    11. Seven Transformations of Leadership
    12. Discovering Your Authentic Leadership
    13. In Praise of the Incomplete Leader
    14. About the Contributors
    15. Index
    16. Back Cover
  5. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. What Is Strategy?
    5. The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy
    6. Building Your Company’s Vision
    7. Reinventing Your Business Model
    8. Blue Ocean Strategy
    9. The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution
    10. Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System
    11. Transforming Corner-Office Strategy into Frontline Action
    12. Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance
    13. Who Has the D? How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance
    14. About the Contributors
    15. Index
    16. Back Cover
  6. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy, Vol. 2
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. Your Strategy Needs a Strategy
    5. Transient Advantage
    6. Bringing Science to the Art of Strategy
    7. Managing Risks: A New Framework
    8. Surviving Disruption
    9. The Great Repeatable Business Model
    10. Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy
    11. Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything
    12. Strategy Needs Creativity
    13. Put Purpose at the Core of Your Strategy
    14. BONUS ARTICLE: Creating Shared Value
    15. About the Contributors
    16. Index
  7. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Change Management
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
    5. Change Through Persuasion
    6. Leading Change When Business Is Good: An Interview with Samuel J. Palmisano
    7. Radical Change, the Quiet Way
    8. Tipping Point Leadership
    9. A Survival Guide for Leaders
    10. The Real Reason People Won’t Change
    11. Cracking the Code of Change
    12. The Hard Side of Change Management
    13. Why Change Programs Don’t Produce Change
    14. About the Contributors
    15. Index
    16. Back Cover
  8. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Risk
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. Managing Risks: A New Framework
    5. How to Build Risk into Your Business Model
    6. The Six Mistakes Executives Make in Risk Management
    7. From Superstorms to Factory Fires: Managing Unpredictable Supply-Chain Disruptions
    8. Is It Real? Can We Win? Is It Worth Doing? Managing Risk and Reward in an Innovation Portfolio
    9. Superforecasting: How to Upgrade Your Company’s Judgment
    10. Managing 21st-Century Political Risk
    11. How to Scandal-Proof Your Company
    12. Beating the Odds When You Launch a New Venture
    13. The Danger from Within
    14. Future-Proof Your Climate Strategy
    15. About the Contributors
    16. Index
  9. HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Organizational Resilience
    1. Title Page
    2. Copyright
    3. Contents
    4. How Resilience Works
    5. The Quest for Resilience
    6. Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave
    7. Organizational Grit
    8. Leading in Times of Trauma
    9. Learning from the Future
    10. Leading a New Era of Climate Action
    11. The High Price of Efficiency
    12. Reigniting Growth
    13. Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World
    14. Roaring Out of Recession
    15. About the Contributors
    16. Index
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