For decades business leaders have been painfully aware of the huge chasm between their aspiration for a nimble, flexible enterprise and the reality of silos, sluggishness, and frustrated innovation. Today, agile is being hailed as the essential bridge across that chasm. Agile, say its enthusiasts, can transform your company, catapulting you to the head of the pack.Not so fast. In this clear-eyed and indispensable book, Sarah Elk and Steve Berez provide a much-needed realit...

How to compete in a world dominated by tech giants.A new breed of monopolies is threatening your business. Tech mega-firms from around the world are encroaching on your industry's space, rewriting the rules, and scooping up talent--and your customers. What should you and your company be doing right now to counter these challenges?Monopolies and Tech Giants: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will provide you with today's most essent...

A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech—all in one place.From 5G networks to biometric marketing and from augmented reality to AI wearables, new technologies are reshaping business on the factory floor and in the C-suite. What should you and your company be doing now to take advantage of the new opportunities these technologies are creating—and avoid falling victim to disruption?The Year in Tech 2021: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Revie...

Lead change amid constant turbulence and disruption.Get more of the ideas you want, from the authors you trust, with HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management (Vol. 2). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you successfully transform your organization.With insights from leading experts including John Kotter, Tim Brown, and Roger Martin, this book will inspire y...

The current downturn may prove more brutal than most previous recessions. It's already hammering companies in markets around the globe. It will test businesses to their fullest-many won't survive.But downturns present strategic opportunities, too. In fact, many more companies achieve dramatic gains during recessions than in normal times.How to ensure your company emerges successful? In Winning in Turbulence, a new volume in the Memo to the CEO series, Bain...

Bain thought leader and HBR author Darrell Rigby and colleagues Sarah Elk and Steve Berez offer a clear-eyed guide to overcoming the challenges, and getting the real benefits, of transforming your company into an agile enterprise, based on Rigby's two popular HBR articles on the topic.Much-needed critical take on the challenges of agile.Dispels myths and misconceptions about agile.Real-company insights on how agile works in different contexts, and how it d...

The definitive leadership and management ideas of the year from Harvard Business Review.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 Amy C. Edmondson to Jamil Zaki and company examples from Microsoft to the NBA, this volume brings the most current and important management conversati...

Most company's change initiatives fail. Yours don't have to.If you read (or listen to) nothing else on change management, listen to these ten articles (featuring "Leading Change," by John P. Kotter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you spearhead change in your organization.HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management will inspire you to: lead change through eight cr...

The 2nd Edition of the widely successful Team Topologies, now updated with new case studies and a new foreword and afterword from the authorsEmpowered teams—augmented by technology—are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and sustainably. But how do you build the best team organization for your specific goals, culture, and needs?Team Topologies offers a practical, adaptive approach for organizational design and team interact...

**#1 New York Times BestsellerLegendary venture capitalist John Doerr reveals how the goal-setting system of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) has helped tech giants from Intel to Google achieve explosive growth—and how it can help any organization thrive.**In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial en...

Managing people is difficult wherever you work. But in the tech industry, where management is also a technical discipline, the learning curve can be brutal—especially when there are few tools, texts, and frameworks to help you. In this practical guide, author Camille Fournier (tech lead turned CTO) takes you through each stage in the journey from engineer to technical manager.From mentoring interns to working with senior staff, you’ll get actionable advice for approaching various o...

* New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller multiple years running* Translated into 20 languages, with more than half a million copies sold worldwide* A Hudson and Indigo Best Book of the Year* Recommended by Shona Brown, Rachel Hollis, Jeff Kinney, Daniel Pink, Sheryl Sandberg, and Gretchen RubinRadical Candor has been embraced around the world by leaders of every stripe a...