Harperbusiness: 138 books
Need, Speed, and Greed
How the New Rules of Innovation Can Transform Businesses, Propel Nations to Greatness, and Tame the World's Most Wicked Problems
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
World-renowned economist Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran provides a deeply insightful, brilliantly informed guide to the innovation revolution now transforming the world. With echoes of Clayton Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma, Tim Brown’s Change by Design, and Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and...
The Entrepreneurial Imperative
How America's Economic Miracle Will Reshape the World (and Change Your Life)
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
In 2004, Carl Schramm, president of the Kauffman Foundation, the world's leading foundation for entrepreneurship, published a groundbreaking essay with a radical premise: that Americans literally have no conception of the secret that truly underlies our economic success, and that for the United States...
The Power of Fifty Bits
The New Science of Turning Good Intentions into Positive Results
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Going beyond the bestsellers Predictably Irrational and Thinking, Fast and Slow, the first “how to” guide that shows you how to help customers, employees, coworkers, and clients make better choices to get what they truly want.
Of the ten million bits of information our brains process each...
Boundaries for Leaders
Results, Relationships, and Being Ridiculously in Charge
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
In Boundaries for Leaders, clinical psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Henry Cloud leverages his expertise of human behavior, neuroscience, and business leadership to explain how the best leaders set boundaries within their organizations--with their teams and with themselves--to improve performance...
Persuadable
How Great Leaders Change Their Minds to Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
As a leader, changing your mind has always been perceived as a weakness. Not anymore. In a world that’s changing faster than ever, successful leaders realize that a genuine willingness to change their own minds is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Drawing on evidence from social science,...
by Barbara Kellerman
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
From one of the pioneers in the field of leadership studies comes a provocative reassessment of how people lead in the digital age: in The End of Leadership, Barbara Kellerman reveals a new way of thinking about leadership—and followership—in the twenty-first century. Building off of the strengths...
The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition
A Declaration of Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The world has changed in the seventeen years since the controversial initial publication of Paul Hawken's Ecology of Commerce, a stirring treatise about the perceived antagonism between ecology and business. Yet Hawken's impassioned argument—that business both causes the most egregious abuses of...
Turning the Flywheel
A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
A companion guidebook to the number-one bestselling Good to Great, focused on implementation of the flywheel concept, one of Jim Collins’ most memorable ideas that has been used across industries and the social sectors, and with startups.
The key to business success is not a single innovation...
Leadership BS
Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Finalist for the 2015 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year
Best business book of the week from Inc.com
The author of Power, Stanford business school professor, and a leading management thinker offers a hard-hitting dissection of the leadership industry and ways to...
Escape Velocity
Free Your Company's Future from the Pull of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
“Readthis book to learn how to create a company as powerful as Apple.”—Guy Kawasaki,former chief evangelist of Apple
InEscape Velocity Geoffrey A. Moore, author of the marketing masterwork Crossingthe Chasm, teaches twenty-first century enterprises how to overcome thepull of the past...
The Aspirational Investor
Taming the Markets to Achieve Your Life’s Goals
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
The Chief Investment Officer of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management explains why goals, not markets, should be the primary focus of your investment strategy—and offers a practical, innovative framework for making smarter choices about aligning your goals to your investment strategy.
Today all...
Leaders
The Strategies for Taking Charge
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In this illuminating study of corporate America's most critical issue—leadership—world-renowned leadership guru Warren Bennis and his co-author Burt Nanus reveal the four key principles every manager should know: Attention Through Vision, Meaning Through Communication, Trust Through Positioning,...
Extreme Productivity
Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
“Required reading for professionals—and aspiring professionals—of all levels.”
—Shirley Ann Jackson, President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Former Chairman of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
“Read this book if you want to learn how to run efficient and effective meetings—or...
Writing Without Bullshit
Boost Your Career by Saying What You Mean
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Joining the ranks of classics like The Elements of Style and On Writing Well, Writing Without Bullshit helps professionals get to the point to get ahead.
It’s time for Writing Without Bullshit.
Writing Without Bullshit is the first comprehensive guide to writing for today’s world:...