Further Reading

Introduction

What is leadership?

Kotter, John P. “What Leaders Really Do,” Harvard Business Review, December 2001.

Zaleznik, Abraham. “Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?” Harvard Business Review, January 2004.

Chapter 1: Building a Unifying Vision

Heifetz, Ronald, and Donald L. Laurie. “The Work of Leadership,” Harvard Business Review, December 2001.

Ibarra, Herminia. “Women and the Vision Thing,” Harvard Business Review, January 2009.

What is a vision?

Collins, Jim, and Jerry I. Porras. “Building Your Company’s Vision,” Harvard Business Review, September–October 1996.

Laws, Kevin. “Successful Startups Don’t Make Money Their Primary Mission,” HBR.org, July 10, 2015.

Crafting your vision

Arussy, Lior. Next Is Now: 5 Steps for Embracing Change—Building a Business That Thrives into the Future. New York: North Star Way Publishing, 2018.

“Creative Job Titles Can Energize Workers,” Harvard Business Review, May 2016.

Kouzes, James M., and Barry Posner. “To Lead, Create a Shared Vision,” Harvard Business Review, January 2009.

Chapter 2: Developing a Strategy

Drucker, Peter F. “The Theory of the Business,” Harvard Business Review, September–October 1994.

Magretta, Joan. “Jim Collins, Meet Michael Porter,” Harvard Business Review, December 15, 2011.

Defining strategy

Blank, Steve. “Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything,” Harvard Business Review, May 2013.

Lafley, A. G., and Roger Martin. Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2013.

Leinwand, Paul, and Cesare Manardi. “The Coherence Premium,” Harvard Business Review, June 2010.

Martin, Roger. “How I Knew AOL Time Warner Was Doomed (No, Really!)” HBR.org, November 2, 2010.

McAfee, Andrew, and Mona Ashiya. “Webvan,” Case 602-037. Boston: Harvard Business School, rev. May 10, 2006.

McGrath, Rita Gunther, and Ian MacMillan. “Discovery-Driven Planning,” Harvard Business Review, July–August 1995.

Ovans, Andrea. “What Is Strategy, Again?” HBR.org, May 15, 2015.

Porter, Michael E. “What Is Strategy?” Harvard Business Review, November–December 1996.

Porter, Michael E. “The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy,” Harvard Business Review, January 2008.

Understand your current situation

Christensen, Clayton M., and Joseph L. Bower. “Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave,” Harvard Business Review, January–February 1995.

Christensen, Clayton M., Michael E. Raynor, and Rory McDonald. “What Is Disruptive Innovation?” Harvard Business Review, December 2015.

Johnson, Mark, Clayton Christensen, and Henning Kagermann. “Reinventing Your Business Model,” Harvard Business Review, December 2008.

Develop options for where and how to compete

Ashkenas, Ron. “Are You Really Ready for an Acquisition?” HBR.org, February 6, 2013.

Capron, Laurence, and Will Mitchell. Build, Borrow, or Buy: Solving the Growth Dilemma. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.

Christensen, Clayton M., et al. “The New M&A Playbook,” Harvard Business Review, March 2011.

Davenport, Thomas, and Brook Manville. “From the Judgment of Leadership to the Leadership of Judgment: The Fallacy of Heroic Decision Making,” Leader to Leader, Fall 2012.

Magretta, Joan. Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2011.

Marks, Mitchell Lee, Philip Mirvis, and Ron Ashkenas. “Surviving M&A,” Harvard Business Review, March 2017.

Test options and engage stakeholders

Ashkenas, Ron, and Logan Chandler. “Four Tips for Better Strategic Planning,” HBR.org, October 1, 2013.

Davenport, Tom. “How to Design Smart Business Experiments,” Harvard Business Review, February 2009.

Allocate resources and manage implementation

Collis, David, and Michael G. Rukstad. “Can You Say What Your Strategy Is?” Harvard Business Review, April 2008.

Favaro, Ken. “Defining Strategy, Implementation, Execution,” HBR.org, March 31, 2015.

Neilson, Gary, Karla Martin, and Elizabeth Powers. “Successful Strategy Execution,” Harvard Business Review, June 2008.

Chapter 3: Getting Great People on Board

Assembling your leadership team

Fernández-Aráoz, Claudio. “21st-Century Talent Spotting,” Harvard Business Review, June 2014.

Goleman, Daniel. “What Makes a Leader?” Harvard Business Review, January 2004.

Goleman, Daniel, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee. “Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance,” Harvard Business Review, December 2001.

Haas, Martine, and Mark Mortensen. “The Secrets of Great Teamwork,” Harvard Business Review, June 2016.

Coordinating an organization of teams

Ashkenas, Ron, Dave Ulrich, Todd Jick, and Steve Kerr. The Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organizational Structure. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002.

Edmondson, Amy C. “Teamwork on the Fly,” Harvard Business Review, April 2012.

Katzenbach, Jon R., and Douglas K. Smith. “The Discipline of Teams,” Harvard Business Review, March–April 1993.

Manville, Brook. “How to Be a Horizontal and Vertical Leader at the Same Time,” Forbes.com, June 28, 2017.

McChrystal, Stanley. Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World. New York: Portfolio, 2015.

Ulrich, Dave, Steve Kerr, and Ron Ashkenas. The GE Work-Out: How to Implement GE’s Revolutionary Method for Busting Bureaucracy and Attacking Organizational Problems—Fast! New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Harnessing performance feedback

Buckingham, Marcus, and Ashley Goodall. “Reinventing Performance Management,” Harvard Business Review, April 2015.

Cappelli, Peter, and Anna Tavis. “The Performance Management Revolution,” Harvard Business Review, October 2016.

Krishnamoorthy, Raghu. “The Secret Ingredient in GE’s Talent-Review System,” HBR.org, April 17, 2014.

Manzoni, Jean-François. “A Better Way to Deliver Bad News,” Harvard Business Review, September 2002.

Valcour, Monique. “How to Give Tough Feedback That Helps People Grow,” HBR.org, August 11, 2015.

Fostering learning and development

Beer, Michael, Magnus Finnström, and Derek Schrader. “Why Leadership Training Fails, and What to Do About It,” Harvard Business Review, October 2016.

Bellmann, Matthias, and Robert H. Schaffer. “Freeing Managers to Innovate,” Harvard Business Review, June 2001.

Incentives

Kerr, Steve. “The Best-Laid Incentive Plans,” Harvard Business Review, January 2003.

Shaping a culture for executing your strategy

Beard, Alison. “CEOs Shouldn’t Try to Embody Their Firms’ Culture,” Harvard Business Review, July–August 2016.

Katzenbach, Jon, et al. “Cultural Change That Sticks,” Harvard Business Review, July–August 2012.

Chapter 4: Focusing on Results

Focusing on results at XL insurance

Sclafane, Susanne. “XL’s Seraina Maag: Building a Culture of Collaboration,” Carrier Management, September 2013.

Setting high performance goals and holding people accountable

Schaffer, Robert H. “Demand Better Results—and Get Them,” Harvard Business Review, March–April 1991.

Reducing organizational complexity

Ashkenas, Ron. “Simplicity-Minded Management,” Harvard Business Review, December 2007.

Building capabilities while growing results

Amabile, Theresa, and Steven J. Kramer. “The Power of Small Wins,” Harvard Business Review, May 2011.

Eisenstat, Russell, Bert Spector, and Michael Beer. “Why Change Programs Don’t Produce Change,” Harvard Business Review, November–December 1990.

Mata, Nadim, and Ron Ashkenas. “Why Good Projects Fail Anyway,” Harvard Business Review, September 2003.

McGinn, Daniel. “What Companies Can Learn from Military Teams,” HBR.org, August 6, 2015.

Schaffer, Robert. “Successful Change Programs Begin with Results,” Harvard Business Review, January 1992.

Maintaining organizational discipline

Charan, Ram. “You Can’t Be a Wimp—Make the Tough Calls,” Harvard Business Review, November 2013.

Davenport, Thomas H., and Brook Manville. Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.

Dewar, Carolyn, and Scott Keller. “Three Steps to a High-Performance Culture,” HBR.org, January 26, 2012.

Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. “The Balanced Scorecard: Measures That Drive Performance,” Harvard Business Review, July–August 2005.

Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. “Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work,” Harvard Business Review, September–October 1993.

Chapter 5: Innovating for the Future

Collins, Jim, and Jerry Porras. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

Govindarajan, Vijay. “The Scary Truth About Corporate Survival,” Harvard Business Review, December 2016.

Hoffman, Bryce G. American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company. New York: Crown Publishing, 2012.

Balancing the present and future

Anthony, Scott, Clark Gilbert, and Mark W. Johnson. Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today’s Business While Creating the Future. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2017.

Christensen, Clayton M. The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1995.

Coley, Steve, “Enduring Ideas: The Three Horizons of Growth,” McKinsey Quarterly, December 2009.

Govindarajan, Vijay. The Three-Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2016.

Govindarajan, Vijay, and Chris Trimble. “The CEO’s Role in Business Model Reinvention,” Harvard Business Review, May 2011.

Schaffer, Robert, and Ron Ashkenas. Rapid Results: How 100-Day Projects Build the Capacity for Large-Scale Change. San Francisco: John Wiley & Sons, 2005.

Shaping the future

Birkinshaw, Julian, and Martine Haas. “Increase Your Return on Failure,” Harvard Business Review, May 2016.

Blank, Steve. “Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything,” Harvard Business Review, May 2013.

Christensen, Clayton, and Michael Overdorf. “Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change,” Harvard Business Review, March–April 2000.

Darling, Marilyn, Charles Parry, and Joseph Moore. “Learning in the Thick of It,” Harvard Business Review, July–August 2005.

Govindarajan, Vijay. “Planned Opportunism,” Harvard Business Review, May 2016.

Johnson, Mark. “Reinventing Your Business Model,” Harvard Business Review, October 2009.

McGrath, Rita, and Ian MacMillan. “Discovery-Driven Planning,” Harvard Business Review, July–August 1995.

Embracing the future

Barton, Dominic, James Manyika, and Sarah Keohane Williamson. “The Data: Where Long-Termism Pays Off,” Harvard Business Review, May–June 2017.

Heifetz, Ron, and Donald L. Laurie. “The Work of Leadership,” Harvard Business Review, December 2001.

Kotter, John. “Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail,” Harvard Business Review, January 2007.

Chapter 6: Leading Yourself

Knowing yourself

Craig, Nick, and Scott Snook. “From Purpose to Impact,” Harvard Business Review, May 2014.

Drucker, Peter F. “Managing Oneself,” Harvard Business Review, March–April 1999.

George, Bill, Peter Sims, Andrew N. McLean, and Diana Mayer. “Discovering Your Authentic Leadership,” Harvard Business Review, February 2007.

Goleman, Daniel. “What Makes a Leader?” Harvard Business Review, November–December 1998.

Ibarra, Herminia. “The Authenticity Paradox,” Harvard Business Review, January–February 2015.

Kaplan, Robert S. “What to Ask the Person in the Mirror,” Harvard Business Review, January 2007.

Growing yourself

Ancona, Deborah, et al. “In Praise of the Incomplete Leader,” Harvard Business Review, February 2007.

Argyris, Chris. “Teaching Smart People How to Learn,” Harvard Business Review, May–June 1991.

Ashkenas, Ron. “If Your Boss Tells You to Get a Coach, Don’t Panic,” Harvard Business Review, February 26, 2015.

Ashkenas, Ron, Suzanne Francis, and Rick Heinick. “The Merger Dividend,” Harvard Business Review, July–August 2011.

Baldoni, John. “Before Working with a Coach, Challenge Your Self-Assumptions,” HBR.org, March 15, 2013.

Benko, Cathy, and Molly Anderson. The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance in the Changing World of Work. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2010.

Bennis, Warren, and Robert J. Thomas. “Crucibles of Leadership,” Harvard Business Review, September 2002.

Edmondson, Amy C. “Strategies for Learning from Failure,” Harvard Business Review, April 2011.

Goldsmith, Marshall, and Gardiner Morse. “Behave Yourself,” Harvard Business Review, October 2002.

Kaplan, Robert E., and Robert B. Kaiser. “Stop Overdoing Your Strengths,” Harvard Business Review, February 2009.

Manville, Brook. “How a Stint in ‘Dead-End HR’ Made Anne Mulcahy a Better CEO,” Forbes.com, April 3, 2016.

Manville, Brook. “Learning in the New Economy,” Leader to Leader 20 (Spring 2001): 36–45.

Marks, Mitchell Lee, Phillip Mirvis, and Ron Ashkenas. “Rebounding from Career Setbacks,” Harvard Business Review, October 2014.

Marks, Mitchell Lee, Philip Mirvis, and Ron Ashkenas. “Surviving M&A,” Harvard Business Review, March–April 2017.

Wenger, Etienne C., and William M. Snyder. “Communities of Practice: The Organizational Frontier,” Harvard Business Review, January–February 2000.

Sharing yourself

Casciaro, Tiziana, Francesca Gino, and Maryam Kouchaki. “Learn to Love Networking,” Harvard Business Review, May 2016.

Cross, Rob, Reb Rebele, and Adam Grant. “Collaborative Overload,” Harvard Business Review, January–February 2016.

Farnell, Richard. “Mentor People Who Aren’t Like You,” Harvard Business Review, April 17, 2017

Finklestein, Sydney. “The Best Leaders Are Great Teachers,” Harvard Business Review, January–February 2018.

Grant, Adam. “In the Company of Givers and Takers,” Harvard Business Review, April 2013.

Silver, Nora, and Paul Jansen. “The Multisector Career Arc: The Importance of Cross-Sector Affiliations,” California Management Review, November 1, 2017.

Taking care of yourself

Ashkenas, Ron. “How Trivial Decisions Will Impact Your Happiness,” HBR.org, December 13, 2010.

Christensen, Clayton M. “How Will You Measure Your Life?” Harvard Business Review, July–August 2010.

Friedman, Stewart D. “Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life,” Harvard Business Review, April 2008.

Pozen, Robert. “Boring Is Productive,” HBR.org, September 19, 2012.

Schwartz, Tony, and Catherine McCarthy. “Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time,” Harvard Business Review, October 2007.

Seppala, Emma. “How Meditation Benefits CEOs,” HBR.org, December 14, 2015.