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The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth
Fred Reichheld
Harvard Business School Press, 2006
GREAT!!!
This is a great book. I have referenced this book in meetings to my team at work, and it has proven to be very useful. I highly recommend this book to anyone with leadership aspirations.
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Innovator's Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work (Harvard Business School Press) (Harvard ...
Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson, ...
Harvard Business School Press, 2008
accessible and practical
As a small business owner I was not sure this book would be relevant for the clientele I serve. I couldn't be more wrong! The book is written in an accessible and easy to understand way, and the strategies are easy to employ. The Innovator's Guide is a book I keep on ...
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Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff
Harvard Business School Press, 2008
This book rocks and is a must-read
Have you seen Jurassic Park? If so, you might remember Dr. Malcolm's (Jeff Goldblum) diatribe about the dangers of doing something just because you can:
"I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to ...
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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 ...
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Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life
Stewart D. Friedman
Harvard Business School Press, 2008
This book could change your outlook on life
Stew's 'Total leadership' has had an incredible on my life. About a year ago, I sat for the first time and tried to figure out what I wanted in all aspects of my life. The journey has been eye-opening and very satisfying.
I now often go back to my writings and ...
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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.
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Leading Change
John P. Kotter
Harvard Business School Press, 1996
A MUST HAVE for your leadership library
Very well written book and easy to read and follow. Since change is a modern requirement for any business, it simply makes sense to focus in on what it takes to provide the necessary leadership to do so.
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Execution Premium
Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton
Harvard Business School Press, 2008
Great book
This is a wonderful book for Strategic Management. It draws an excellent road map for starting with strategy development through strategy execution and performance management. The stages the book goes through are as follows:
1. Developing the strategy
2. Planning ...
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Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne
Harvard Business School Press, 2005
Strategy will always include opportunity and risk
Strategy:
1. In blue oceans, competition is irrelevant because the rules of the game are waiting to be set. Companies need to go beyond competing. To seize new profit and growth opportunities, they also need to create blue oceans.
2. Put the clock forward 20 to ...
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Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, ...
Harvard Business School Press, 2004
Primal Leadership
This is a very intersting book. I am new to leadership and just starting to go through book and I find it with many fascinating ideas.
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The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor
Harvard Business School Press, 2003
the real thing
As CEO of LMS Technical for 28 years, my use of books to help me plan, sustain and improve my business has been a priority. Introduced to this book by my daughter who is presently a student of Christensen, I was skeptical that a "Harvard" read would be too far off the ...
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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.
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Five Minds for the Future
Howard Gardner
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
outstanding book
This book by Gardner is one of the most important about education and personal development.The concepts are new and well described.A book worth reading and rereading.
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Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading
Martin Linsky, Ronald A. Heifetz
Harvard Business School Press, 2002
Must Read for New Managers
Leadership on the line is a must read for all new managers. The authors clearly and logically review the strategic positions that in which leaders may find themselves and options for moving forward. Maps are provided of various minefields and this book may just save ...
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The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action
Jeffrey Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton
Harvard Business School Press, 2000
Overcoming Inertia - Uniting New Knowledge with Action
Two stellar professors use their experience and research to address the problem of organizational inertia in spite of our wide-spread and prevailing knowledge.
The premise is that a gap exists between our knowledge and the application of that knowledge in ...
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