The paths that leaders walk significantly influence their success, offering differential opportunities and challenges. While conventional wisdom suggests that leadership styles and approaches may be equally effective across all situations, more recent research demonstrates the importance of employing strategies more specifically aligned with the context.This book offers critical insights and strategies, currently missing from the repertoire of leaders and their supporters, for mana...

From two leaders in executive education at Harvard Business School, here are the mental habits and proven strategies you need to achieve outstanding results in any negotiation.Whether you’ve “seen it all” or are just starting out, Negotiation Genius will dramatically improve your negotiating skills and confidence. Drawing on decades of behavioral research plus the experience of thousands of business clients, the authors take the mystery out of preparing for and exe...

More than 250,000 public sector managers in the United States take on new positions each year and many more aspire to leadership. Each will confront special challenges-from higher public profiles to a greater number of stakeholders to volatile political environments-that will make their transitions even more challenging than in the business world.Now Michael Watkins, author of the bestselling book The First 90 Days, applies his proven leadership transition framework to the...

If you need the best practices and ideas for launching new ventures-but don’t have time to find them-this book is for you. Here are nine inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place.This collection of HBR articles will help you: Zero in on your most promising prospects Set a clear direction for your start-up Test and revise your assumptions along the way Tackle risks that could sabotage your efforts Carve out opportunities in emerging...

You've read the classic on win-win negotiating, Getting to Yes but so have they, the folks you are now negotiating with. How can you get a leg up and win?"Win-win" negotiation is an appealing idea on an intellectual level: Find the best way to convince the other side to accept a mutually beneficial outcome, and then everyone gets their fair share. The reality, though, is that people want more than their fair share; they want to win. Tell your boss...

The challenges facing managers who lead government and non-profit organizations are truly significant as they try to achieve results in the context of jagged, complex, and difficult environments. Richard Paton's thirty years of management experience in senior positions in the federal government of Canada and as head of a business association for seventeen years have been poured into this book, developed over a period of twenty-five years of teaching a Masters in Public Policy and Administr...

Resolve any HR issue in a snap!Solving office problems before they escalate marks the difference between success and failure for any HR professional. The HR Toolkit provides what you need to resolve every imaginable challenge—saving your company time and money.With a handy indexed listing of the most common workplace conflicts and solutions, The HR Toolkit offers simple, actionable techniques you can start using right away. In no time, you...

Essential reading selected from the pages of Harvard Business ReviewYou want the most important ideas on management all in one place. Now you can have them—in a set of HBR's 10 Must Reads, available as a 14-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 s...

“The second edition of the Handbook of Strategic Public Relations and Integrated Marketing Communications is very impressive in its coverage of trends, tools, industries, and challenges. Every marketer needs to have a copy.”—Philip Kotler, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, author of Marketing 3.0M”The massively updated Handbook of Strategic Public Relations and Integrated Marketing Communications is the go to s...

Praise for Building Better Boards "Building Better Boards bridges the gap between talk and action. A must-read for board members, CEOs, governance experts - really for anyone who cares about the future of the corporation." Anne M. Mulcahy, chairman and CEO, Xerox Corporation "Building Better Boards covers all the key issues facing boards in the post-Sarbanes-Oxley era. It provides practical advice based on the authors' wide-ranging experience with major companies that have built successful...

A no-nonsense guide to closing the deal-that makes sense to everyone.Jim Hennig's winning negotiating philosophy is based on finding and meeting the real needs of the other party through the use of questions, effective listening, honesty, integrity, sincere caring, and building partnerships. His approach is predicated on the idea that when people like you, they want to work with you, are likely to concede more often, become more sensitive to your needs, and are mor...

What will higher education look like in 20 years? Will a bachelors degree still be viableor even valuable? How will we assess learning? Will it be competency based? Determined by the sum experience of individual achievement? Or measured by student peers? How will learning be delivered? In the classroom? Over the internet? Or through mobile devices untethered by time and place? And by whom? By professors dedicated to their disciplines, by volunteers driven by a passion to share, or by new k...