Publisher Description
A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place.
We've combed through ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to help you get up to speed fast on the freshest, most relevant thinking driving business today. With authors from Clayton Christensen to Roger Martin and company examples from Netflix to Unilever, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations to your fingertips.
This book will inspire you to: lead by focusing your attention on the right things; import new management practices into your organization the right way—whether they come from other companies or across the globe; better manage your organization's—and your leaders'—time; rethink vital functions such as HR and marketing; move from a yearly planning cycle to building a winning strategy; and make long-term organizational decisions with an eye to national and global economic trends.
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About the Authors
W. Chan Kim is codirector of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute. He was a professor at the University of Michigan and has served as a board member for a number of corporations in the US, Asia, and Europe. Kim has coauthored numerous articles that have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review. His articles on strategy and multinational management have appeared in a variety of academic journals, and his book, Blue Ocean Strategy, is an international bestseller. Kim has received a number of awards and accolades, and has been recognized as one of the world’s most influential authors in the field of global strategy.
Clayton M. Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the architect of and the world’s foremost authority on disruptive innovation.
Daniel Goleman, a former science journalist for the New York Times, is the author of thirteen books and lectures frequently to professional groups and business audiences and on college campuses. He cofounded the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning at the Yale University Child Studies Center, now at the University of Illinois, at Chicago.
W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne are professors of strategy at INSEAD, the world’s second largest business school, and co-directors of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute in Fontainebleau, France. They advise, consult, and speak to governments and companies worldwide and have published a number of articles in Harvard Business Review.
Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, eleven internationally licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.
About the Narrators
Daniel Thomas May is a native of Atlanta. For 15 years May focused his work on stage, both in Atlanta and across the country, but in the past 2 years May has turned his talent to the screen, with roles on the Walking Dead, The Vampire Diaries, Drop Dead Diva, and a number of commercials and independent film projects.
Kevin Stillwell is an actor, voice talent, and Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. His film and television credits include Looper and Drop Dead Diva.