Harperbusiness imprint: 149 books
The Simplicity Cycle
A Field Guide to Making Things Better Without Making Them Worse
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
The award-winning engineer, Air Force lieutenant colonel, and author of F.I.R.E offers a road map for designing winning new products, services, and business models, and shows how to avoid complexity-related pitfalls in the process. With a foreword by design guru Don Norman.
Humans make things...
Questions Are the Answer
A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
What if you could unlock a better answer to your most vexing problem—in your workplace, community, or home life—just by changing the question?
Talk to creative problem-solvers and they will often tell you, the key to their success is asking a different question.
Take Debbie Sterling,...
What You Do Is Who You Are
How to Create Your Business Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestselling author, combines lessons both from history and from modern organizational practice with practical and often surprising advice to help executives build cultures that can weather both good and bad times.
Ben...
The Peter Principle
Why Things Always Go Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The classic #1 New York Times bestseller that answers the age-old question
Why is incompetence so maddeningly rampant and so vexingly triumphant?
The Peter Principle, the eponymous law Dr. Laurence J. Peter coined, explains that everyone in a hierarchy—from the office intern to the CEO, from...
Beyond the Grave, Revised and Updated Edition
The Right Way and the Wrong Way of Leaving Money to Your Children (and Others)
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
This expert, one-of-a-kind handbook shows you how to
ensure that your inheritance instructions will be carried out the way you want them to be;
protect your children's inheritance from creditors, ex-spouses, addictions, tax troubles, mismanagement, squandering, and other risks of loss;
prevent...
Thoughts of Chairman Buffett
Thirty Years of Unconventional Wisdon from the Sage of Omaha
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
"There's something about smart people explaining ideas to an orangutan that makes their decision making better."—Warren Buffett
He's an American icon, the world's most famous and most successful investor every financial move is widely reported and copied, his every utterance scanned...
Minority Rules
Turn Your Ethnicity Into a Competitive Edge
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In a perfect corporate world, intellect, hard work, and professionalism would be recognized and rewarded regardless of the color of your skin. Kenneth Arroyo Roldan is here to tell you that nobody works in a perfect corporate world. Stellar performance alone will not determine corporate advancement—minorities...
The Enlightened Capitalists
Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who Tried to Do Well by Doing Good
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
An expert on ethical leadership analyzes the complicated history of business people who tried to marry the pursuit of profits with virtuous organizational practices—from British industrialist Robert Owen to American retailer John Cash Penney and jeans maker Levi Strauss to such modern-day entrepreneurs...
Radical Collaboration
Five Essential Skills to Overcome Defensiveness and Build Successful Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2019
The second edition of the essential guide, updated with new research and observations to help twenty-first century organizations create models for effective collaboration.
Collaborative skills have never been more important to a company’s success and these skills are essential for every worker...
Unstoppable Teams
The Four Essential Actions of High-Performance Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Three-time Navy SEAL platoon commander and founder of Perfect Fitness reveals how to put together teams that can accomplish any objective—by leveraging an unexpected set of values and priorities.
SEALs and civilians operate in extremely different environments, but what makes both kinds of...
The Ten-Day MBA 4th Ed.
A Step-By-Step Guide To Mastering The Skills Taught In America's Top Business Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Revised and updated to answer the challenges of a rapidly changing business world, the 4th edition of The Ten-Day MBA includes the latest topics taught at America's top business schools, from corporate ethics and compliance to financial planning and real estate to leadership and negotiation. With...
Ultralearning
Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019
Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller.
Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive...
by Y.V. Reddy
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
A journalist once asked Y.V. Reddy, 'Governor, how independent is the RBI?' 'I am very independent,' Reddy replied. 'The RBI has full autonomy. I have the permission of my finance minister to tell you that.' Reddy may have put it lightly but it is a theme he deals with at length in Advice and Dissent....
by Minhaz Merchant
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This is the story of an extraordinary business leader, Anil Naik, and the company, Larsen & Toubro (L&T), he has served for 53 years and led for the last 18. Long coveted by the Ambanis and Birlas, L&T has an annual turnover of Rs 1,20,000 crore and a market capitalisation of more than Rs 1,60,000...