Is your company spending too much time on strategy development―with too little to show for it?
If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles (featuring “What Is Strategy?” by Michael E. Porter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution.
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy will inspire you to:
<ul>
<li>Distinguish your company from rivals</li>
<li>Clarify what your company will and won't do</li>
<li>Craft a vision for an uncertain future</li>
<li>Create blue oceans of uncontested market space</li>
<li>Use the Balanced Scorecard to measure your strategy</li>
<li>Capture your strategy in a memorable phrase</li>
<li>Make priorities explicit</li>
<li>Allocate resources early</li>
<li>Clarify decision rights for faster decision making</li>
</ul>
This collection of best-selling articles includes: featured article "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter, "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy," "Building Your Company's Vision," "Reinventing Your Business Model," "Blue Ocean Strategy," "The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution," "Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System," "Transforming Corner-Office Strategy into Frontline Action," "Turning Great Strategy into Great Performance," and "Who Has the D? How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance."

HBR's 10 Must Reads On Strategy

Business & Money

Review, Harvard Business

Porter, Michael E.

Mauborgne, Renée A.

KIM, W.CHAN

Management & Leadership

Harvard Business Review Press

Most company's change initiatives fail. Yours don't have to.
If you read nothing else on change management, read these 10 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:
<ul>
<li>Lead change through eight critical stages</li>
<li>Establish a sense of urgency</li>
<li>Overcome addiction to the status quo</li>
<li>Mobilize commitment</li>
<li>Silence naysayers</li>
<li>Minimize the pain of change</li>
<li>Concentrate resources</li>
<li>Motivate change when business is good</li>
</ul>
This collection of best-selling articles includes: featured article "Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail" by John P. Kotter, "Change Through Persuasion," "Leading Change When Business Is Good: An Interview with Samuel J. Palmisano," "Radical Change, the Quiet Way," "Tipping Point Leadership," "A Survival Guide for Leaders," "The Real Reason People Won't Change," "Cracking the Code of Change," "The Hard Side of Change Management," and "Why Change Programs Don't Produce Change."

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management (including featured article "Leading Change," by John P. Kotter)

Kotter, John P.

Managing people is fraught with challenges―even if you're a seasoned manager. Here's how to handle them.
If you read nothing else on managing people, read these 10 articles (featuring “Leadership That Gets Results,” by Daniel Goleman). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your employees' performance.
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People will inspire you to:
<ul>
<li>Tailor your management styles to fit your people</li>
<li>Motivate with more responsibility, not more money</li>
<li>Support first-time managers</li>
<li>Build trust by soliciting input</li>
<li>Teach smart people how to learn from failure</li>
<li>Build high-performing teams</li>
<li>Manage your boss</li>
</ul>
This collection of best-selling articles includes: featured article "Leadership That Gets Results" by Daniel Goleman, "One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees?" "The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome," "Saving Your Rookie Managers from Themselves," "What Great Managers Do," "Fair Process: Managing in the Knowledge Economy," "Teaching Smart People How to Learn," "How (Un)ethical Are You?" "The Discipline of Teams," and "Managing Your Boss."

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People (with featured article "Leadership That Gets Results," by Daniel Goleman)

Katzenbach, Jon R.

GOLEMAN, DANIEL

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HBR's 10 Must Reads 2015: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review (with bonus McKinsey Award Winning article "The Focused Leader") (HBR's 10 Must Reads)

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:
<ul>
<li>Lead by focusing your attention on the right things</li>
<li>Import new management practices into your organization the right way―whether they come from other companies or across the globe</li>
<li>Better manage your organization’s―and your leaders’―time</li>
<li>Rethink vital functions such as HR and marketing</li>
<li>Move from a yearly planning cycle to building a winning strategy</li>
<li>Make long-term organizational decisions with an eye to national and global economic trends</li>
</ul>
This collection of best-selling articles includes:
<li>“Beware the Next Big Thing,” by Julian Birkinshaw</li>
<li>”The Capitalist’s Dilemma,” by Clayton M. Christensen and Derek Van Bever</li>
<li>“The Focused Leader,” by Daniel Goleman</li>
<li>“The Big Lie of Strategic Planning,” by Roger L. Martin</li>
<li>“Contextual Intelligence,” by Tarun Khanna</li>
<li>“How Netflix Reinvented HR,” by Patty McCord</li>
<li>“Blue Ocean Leadership,” by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne</li>
<li>“The Ultimate Marketing Machine,” by Marc de Swaan Arons, Frank van den Driest, and Keith Weed</li>
<li>“Your Scarcest Resource,” by Michael Mankins, Chris Brahm, and Gregory Caimi</li>
<li>“How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management,” by David A. Garvin</li>
<li>“21st-Century Talent Spotting,” by Claudio Fernández-Aráoz</li>

Christensen, Clayton M.

The key concepts every manager and aspiring leader must knowfrom strategy and disruptive innovation to financial intelligence and change managementfrom bestselling Harvard Business Review authors. Build your professional library, and advance your career with these five timeless, ground-breaking business classics. Includes Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition; The Innovator’s Dilemma; Leading Change; Playing to Win; and Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition.

Harvard Business Review Leadership & Strategy Boxed Set (5 Books)

Blue Ocean Leadership (Harvard Business Review Classics)

Ten years ago, world-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne broke ground by introducing "blue ocean strategy," a new model for discovering uncontested markets that are ripe for growth. In this bound version of their bestselling Harvard Business Review classic article, they apply their concepts and tools to what is perhaps the greatest challenge of leadership: closing the gulf between the potential and the realized talent and energy of employees. Research indicates that this gulf is vast: According to Gallup, 70% of workers are disengaged from their jobs. If companies could find a way to convert them into engaged employees, the results could be transformative. The trouble is, managers lack a clear understanding of what changes they could make to bring out the best in everyone. In this article, Kim and Mauborgne offer a solution to that problem: a systematic approach to uncovering, at each level of the organization, which leadership acts and activities will inspire employees to give their all, and a process for getting managers throughout the company to start doing them. Blue ocean leadership works because the managers' "customers"--that is, the people managers oversee and report to--are involved in identifying what's effective and what isn't. Moreover, the approach doesn't require leaders to alter who they are, just to undertake a different set of tasks. And that kind of change is much easier to implement and track than changes to values and mind-sets.
The Harvard Business Review Classics series offers you the opportunity to make seminal Harvard Business Review articles a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world--and will have a direct impact on you today and for years to come.

As established markets become less profitable, companies increasingly need to find ways to create and capture new markets. Despite much investment and commitment, most firms struggle to do this. What, exactly, is getting in their way? World-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, the authors of the best-selling book Blue Ocean Strategy have spent over a decade exploring that question. They have seen that the trouble lies in managers' mental models--ingrained assumptions and theories about the way the world works. Though these models may work perfectly well in mature markets, they undermine executives' attempts to discover uncontested new spaces with ample potential (blue oceans) and keep companies firmly anchored in existing spaces where competition is bloody (red oceans). In this bound version of their bestselling Harvard Business Review classic article, they describe how to break free of these red ocean traps. To do that, managers need to: (1) Focus on attracting new customers, not pleasing current customers; (2) Worry less about segmentation and more about what different segments have in common; (3) Understand that market creation is not synonymous with either technological innovation or creative destruction; and (3) Stop focusing on premium versus low-cost strategies.
The Harvard Business Review Classics series offers you the opportunity to make seminal Harvard Business Review articles a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world--and will have a direct impact on you today and for years to come.

Red Ocean Traps (Harvard Business Review Classics)

The W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne Blue Ocean Strategy Reader: The iconic articles by bestselling authors W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne

The best of W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne’s articles on blue ocean strategy, all in one place.
The seminal book Blue Ocean Strategy has sold over 4 million copies globally and is in print in 46 languages. But much of W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne’s work on creating new market spaces was originally published in the pages of Harvard Business Review. This book brings the best of those articles together all in one place. 
Piece by piece, these articles explain the process of creating “blue oceans”––uncontested market spaces, untainted by competition. Kim and Mauborgne introduce tools for exploring and exploiting these markets, such as the Value Curve, the Strategy Canvas, the Price Corridor of the Mass, and the Business Model Guide―tools that have come to make up the blue ocean strategy framework. This collection also features the authors’ latest Harvard Business Review article, “Red Ocean Traps.”
Whether or not you’re familiar with blue ocean strategy, this book will give you a new perspective on this important framework―and help you implement it in your organization.
This volume includes the articles “Value Innovation: The Strategic Logic of High Growth,” “Fair Process: Managing in the Knowledge Economy,” “Creating New Maket Space,” “Knowing a Winning Business Idea When You See One,” “Charting Your Company’s Future,” “Tipping Point Leadership,” “Blue Ocean Strategy,” “How Strategy Shapes Structure,” “Blue Ocean Leadership,” and “Red Ocean Traps: The Mental Models That Undermine Market-Creating Strategies.”

The global phenomenon that has sold over 4 million copies, is published in a record-breaking 46 languages and is a bestseller across five continents―now updated and expanded with new content
In this perennial bestseller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success. Recognized as one of the most iconic and impactful strategy books ever written, Blue Ocean Strategy, now updated with fresh content from the authors, argues that cutthroat competition results in nothing but a bloody red ocean of rivals fighting over a shrinking profit pool. Based on a study of 150 strategic moves (spanning more than 100 years across 30 industries), the authors argue that lasting success comes not from battling competitors but from creating “blue oceans”―untapped new market spaces ripe for growth.
Blue Ocean Strategy presents a systematic approach to making the competition irrelevant and outlines principles and tools any organization can use to create and capture their own blue oceans. This expanded edition includes:
<ul>
<li>A new preface by the authors: Help! My Ocean Is Turning Red</li>
<li>Updates on all cases and examples in the book, bringing their stories up to the present time</li>
<li>Two new chapters and an expanded third one ― Alignment, Renewal, and Red Ocean Traps ― that address the most pressing questions readers have asked over the past 10 years</li>
</ul>
A landmark work that upends traditional thinking about strategy, this bestselling book charts a bold new path to winning the future. Consider this your guide to creating uncontested market space―and making the competition irrelevant.
To learn more about the power of blue ocean strategy, visit blueoceanstrategy.com. There you’ll find all the resources you need―from ideas in practice and cases from government and private industry, to teaching materials, mobile apps, real-time updates, and tips and tools to help you make your blue ocean journey a success.

Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy (including featured article "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter)

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