What You're Really Meant to Do - Robert Steven Kaplan - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

How do you create your own definition of success—and reach your unique potential? Building a fulfilling life and career can be a daunting challenge. It takes courage and hard work. Too often, we charge down a path leading to “success” as defined by those around us—and ultimately, are left feeling dissatisfied. Each of us is unique and brings distinctive skills and qualities to any situation. So why is it that most of us fail to spend sufficient time learning to understand ourselves and creating our own definition of success? The truth is, it can seem so natural and so much easier to just do what everyone else is doing—for now—leaving it for later to develop our best selves and figure out our own unique path. Is there a road map that will enable you to defy conventional wisdom, resist peer pressure, and carve out a path that fits your unique skills and passions? Robert Steven Kaplan, leadership expert and author of the highly successful book What to Ask the Person in the Mirror , regularly advises executives and students on how to tackle these questions. In this indispensable new book, Kaplan shares a specific and actionable approach to defining your own success and reaching your potential. Drawing on his years of experience, Kaplan proposes an integrated plan for identifying and achieving your goals. He outlines specific steps and exercises to help you understand yourself more deeply, take control of your career, and build your capabilities in a way that fits your passions and aspirations. Are you doing what you’re really meant to do? If you’re ready to face this question, this book can help you change your life.

Nine Things Successful People Do Differently - Heidi Grant Halvorson - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? - Tomas Chamorro Premuzic - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

Look around your office. Turn on the TV. Incompetent leadership is everywhere, and there''s no denying that most of these leaders are men. In this timely and provocative book, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic asks two powerful questions: Why is it so easy for incompetent men to become leaders? And why is it so hard for competent people--especially competent women--to advance? Marshaling decades of rigorous research, Chamorro-Premuzic points out that although men make up a majority of leaders, they underperform when compared with female leaders. In fact, most organizations equate leadership potential with a handful of destructive personality traits, like overconfidence and narcissism. In other words, these traits may help someone get selected for a leadership role, but they backfire once the person has the job. When competent women--and men who don''t fit the stereotype--are unfairly overlooked, we all suffer the consequences. The result is a deeply flawed system that rewards arrogance rather than humility, and loudness rather than wisdom. There is a better way. With clarity and verve, Chamorro-Premuzic shows us what it really takes to lead and how new systems and processes can help us put the right people in charge.

Do You Want to Keep Your Customers Forever? - Joseph B. Pine - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

This classic article shows how to make mass customization and efficient and personal marketing work by putting the producer and consumer in a "learning relationship." Over time, this ongoing relationship allows your company to meet a customer''s changing needs over time. Furthermore, as your company develops learning relationships with its customers, it should be able to retain their business virtually forever.

The Knowing-Doing Gap - Robert I. Sutton - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

Why are there so many gaps between what firms know they should do and what they actually do? Why do so many companies fail to implement the experience and insight they''ve worked so hard to acquire? The Knowing-Doing Gap is the first book to confront the challenge of turning knowledge about how to improve performance into actions that produce measurable results. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton, well-known authors and teachers, identify the causes of the knowing-doing gap and explain how to close it. The message is clear--firms that turn knowledge into action avoid the "smart talk trap." Executives must use plans, analysis, meetings, and presentations to inspire deeds, not as substitutes for action. Companies that act on their knowledge also eliminate fear, abolish destructive internal competition, measure what matters, and promote leaders who understand the work people do in their firms. The authors use examples from dozens of firms that show how some overcome the knowing-doing gap, why others try but fail, and how still others avoid the gap in the first place. The Knowing-Doing Gap is sure to resonate with executives everywhere who struggle daily to make their firms both know and do what they know. It is a refreshingly candid, useful, and realistic guide for improving performance in today''s business.

Through the Labyrinth - Linda L. Carli - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

Despite real progress, women remain rare enough in elite positions of power that their presence still evokes a sense of wonder. In Through the Labyrinth , Alice Eagly and Linda Carli examine why women''s paths to power remain difficult to traverse. First, Eagly and Carli prove that the glass ceiling is no longer a useful metaphor and offer seven reasons why. They propose the labyrinth as a better image and explain how to navigate through it. This important and practical book addresses such critical questions as: How far have women actually come as leaders? Do stereotypes and prejudices still limit women''s opportunities? Do people resist women''s leadership more than men''s? And, do organisations create obstacles to women who would be leaders?This book''s rich analysis is founded on scientific research from psychology, economics, sociology, political science, and management. The authors ground their conclusions in that research and invoke a wealth of engaging anecdotes and personal accounts to illustrate the practical principles that emerge. With excellent leadership in short supply, no group, organisation, or nation can afford to restrict women''s access to leadership roles. This book evaluates whether such restrictions are present and, when they are, what we can do to eliminate them.

HBR Guide to Getting the Right Work Done (HBR Guide Series) - Harvard Business Review - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

IS YOUR WORKLOAD SLOWING YOU—AND YOUR CAREER—DOWN? Your inbox is overflowing. You’re paralyzed because you have too much to do but don’t know where to start. Your to-do list never seems to get any shorter. You leave work exhausted but have little to show for it. It’s time to learn how to get the right work done. In the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Work Done , you’ll discover how to focus your time and energy where they will yield the greatest reward. Not only will you end each day knowing you made progress—your improved productivity will also set you apart from the pack. Whether you’re a new professional or an experienced one, this guide will help you: - Prioritize and stay focused - Work less but accomplish more - Stop bad habits and develop good ones - Break overwhelming projects into manageable pieces - Conquer e-mail overload - Write to-do lists that really work

Time Smart - Ashley Whillans - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

There''s an 80 percent chance you''re poor. Time poor, that is. Four out of five adults report feeling that they have too much to do and not enough time to do it. These time-poor people experience less joy each day. They laugh less. They are less healthy, less productive, and more likely to divorce. In one study, time stress produced a stronger negative effect on happiness than unemployment. How can we escape the time traps that make us feel this way and keep us from living our best lives? Time Smart is your playbook for taking back the time you lose to mindless tasks and unfulfilling chores. Author and Harvard Business School professor Ashley Whillans will give you proven strategies for improving your "time affluence." The techniques Whillans provides will free up seconds, minutes, and hours that, over the long term, become weeks and months that you can reinvest in positive, healthy activities. Time Smart doesn''t stop at telling you what to do. It also shows you how to do it, helping you achieve the mindset shift that will make these activities part of your everyday regimen through assessments, checklists, and activities you can use right away. The strategies Whillans presents will help you make the shift to time-smart living and, in the process, build a happier, more fulfilling life.

Smart Growth - Whitney Johnson - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

A Wall Street Journal bestseller Named one of 10 Best New Management Books for 2022 by Thinkers50 Creating a culture of learning and growth. Growth is the goal. Helping people develop their potential—enabling them to articulate and become the self they want to be, are capable of being, and that best serves them and others in the short and long term—is what we as individuals and leaders strive toward. But how do we grow? It turns out it happens in a predictable way, which means we can understand where we are in our growth and chart a way forward. In this compact, complete guide, Whitney Johnson dives more deeply than ever into the S Curve of Learning so that you can envision how growth happens and direct yourself and others in your organization to create a culture that fosters it. The growth and learning journey comes in three phases: the Launch Point, the Sweet Spot, and Mastery. Compelling examples of successful people will show you when and why growth is slow, how to keep going, what to do when growth and learning are almost too fast to keep up with, and how to leap from one growth journey to another. As individuals grow, so do organizations and societies. Growth is learning put into action—action that betters the world as we better ourselves and our small niches, both personal and professional, within it. Growth occurs when learning is internalized—when we try something new and invest the effort to move it from being something we do to something we are .

HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across (HBR Guide Series) - Harvard Business Review - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

ARE YOUR WORKING RELATIONSHIPS WORKING AGAINST YOU? To achieve your goals and get ahead, you need to rally people behind you and your ideas. But how do you do that when you lack formal authority? Or when you have a boss who gets in your way? Or when you’re juggling others’ needs at the expense of your own? By managing up, down, and across the organization. Your success depends on it, whether you’re a young professional or an experienced leader. The HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across will help you: - - Advance your agenda—and your career—with smarter networking - - Build relationships that bring targets and deadlines within reach - - Persuade decision makers to champion your initiatives - - Collaborate more effectively with colleagues - - Deal with new, challenging, or incompetent bosses - - Navigate office politics

The Unspoken Rules - Gorick Ng - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

Named one of 10 Best New Management Books for 2022 by Thinkers50 A Wall Street Journal Bestseller "...this guide provides readers with much more than just early careers advice; it can help everyone from interns to CEOs." — a Financial Times top title You''ve landed a job. Now what? No one tells you how to navigate your first day in a new role. No one tells you how to take ownership, manage expectations, or handle workplace politics. No one tells you how to get promoted. The answers to these professional unknowns lie in the unspoken rules —the certain ways of doing things that managers expect but don''t explain and that top performers do but don''t realize. The problem is, these rules aren''t taught in school. Instead, they get passed down over dinner or from mentor to mentee, making for an unlevel playing field, with the insiders getting ahead and the outsiders stumbling along through trial and error. Until now. In this practical guide, Gorick Ng, a first-generation college student and Harvard career adviser, demystifies the unspoken rules of work. Ng distills the wisdom he has gathered from over five hundred interviews with professionals across industries and job types about the biggest mistakes people make at work. Loaded with frameworks, checklists, and talking points, the book provides concrete strategies you can apply immediately to your own situation and will help you navigate inevitable questions, such as: - How do I manage my time in the face of conflicting priorities? - How do I build relationships when I’m working remotely? - How do I ask for help without looking incompetent or lazy? The Unspoken Rules is the only book you need to perform your best, stand out from your peers, and set yourself up for a fulfilling career.

Love + Work - Marcus Buckingham - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

A Wall Street Journal bestseller World-renowned researcher and New York Times bestselling author Marcus Buckingham helps us discover where we''re at our best—both at work and in life. You''ve long been told to "Do what you love." Sounds simple, but the real challenge is how to do this in a world not set up to help you. Most of us actually don''t know the real truth of what we love—what engages us and makes us thrive—and our workplaces, jobs, schools, even our parents, are focused instead on making us conform. Sadly, no person or system is dedicated to discovering the crucial intersection between what you love to do and how you contribute it to others. In this eye-opening, uplifting book, Buckingham shows you how to break free from this conformity—how to decode your own loves, turn them into their most powerful expression, and do the same for those you lead and those you love. How can you use love to reveal your unique gifts? How can you pinpoint what makes you stand out from anyone else? How can you choose roles in which you''ll excel? Love and Work unlocks answers to these questions and others, so you can: - Choose the right role on the team. - Describe yourself compellingly in job interviews. - Mold your existing role so that it calls upon the very best of you. - Position yourself as a leader in such a way that your followers quickly come to trust in you. - Make lasting change for your team, your company, your family, or your students. Love, the most powerful of human emotions, the source of all creativity, collaboration, insight, and excellence, has been systematically drained from our lives—our work, teams, and classrooms. It''s time we brought love back in. Love and Work shows you how.

Dealing with Difficult People (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) - Holly Weeks - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

Learn how to deal with difficult colleagues and clients. At the heart of dealing with difficult people is handling their--and your own--emotions. How do you stay calm in a tough conversation? How do you stay unruffled in the face of passive-aggressive comments? And how do you know if you''re difficult to work with? This book explains the research behind our emotional response to awful colleagues and shows how to build the empathy and resilience to make those relationships more productive. Books in this series are based on the work of experts including: - - Daniel Goleman - - Tony Schwartz - - Nick Morgan - - Daniel Gilbert This collection of articles includes "To Resolve a Conflict, First Decide: Is It Hot or Cold?" by Mark Gerzon; "Taking the Stress Out of Stressful Conversations," by Holly Weeks; "The Secret to Dealing with Difficult People: It''s About You," by Tony Schwartz; "How to Deal with a Mean Colleague," by Amy Gallo; "How To Deal with a Passive-Aggressive Colleague," by Amy Gallo; "How to Work with Someone Who''s Always Stressed Out," by Rebecca Knight; "How to Manage Someone Who Thinks Everything Is Urgent," by Liz Kislik; and "Do You Hate Your Boss?" by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries. HOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review . Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

Dealing with Difficult People (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) - Harvard Business Review - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

Learn how to deal with difficult colleagues and clients. At the heart of dealing with difficult people is handling their--and your own--emotions. How do you stay calm in a tough conversation? How do you stay unruffled in the face of passive-aggressive comments? And how do you know if you''re difficult to work with? This book explains the research behind our emotional response to awful colleagues and shows how to build the empathy and resilience to make those relationships more productive. Books in this series are based on the work of experts including: - - Daniel Goleman - - Tony Schwartz - - Nick Morgan - - Daniel Gilbert This collection of articles includes "To Resolve a Conflict, First Decide: Is It Hot or Cold?" by Mark Gerzon; "Taking the Stress Out of Stressful Conversations," by Holly Weeks; "The Secret to Dealing with Difficult People: It''s About You," by Tony Schwartz; "How to Deal with a Mean Colleague," by Amy Gallo; "How To Deal with a Passive-Aggressive Colleague," by Amy Gallo; "How to Work with Someone Who''s Always Stressed Out," by Rebecca Knight; "How to Manage Someone Who Thinks Everything Is Urgent," by Liz Kislik; and "Do You Hate Your Boss?" by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries. HOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review . Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

Ethical Machines - Reid Blackman - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

What will you do when your AI misbehaves? The promise of artificial intelligence is automated decision-making at scale, but that means AI also automates risk at scale. Are you prepared for that risk? Already, many companies have suffered real damage when their algorithms led to discriminatory, privacy-invading, and even deadly outcomes. Self-driving cars have hit pedestrians; HR algorithms have precluded women from job searches; mortgage systems have denied loans to qualified minorities. And often the companies who deployed the AI couldn''t explain why the black box made the decision it did. In this environment, AI ethics isn''t merely an academic curiosity, it''s a business necessity. In Ethical Machines , Reid Blackman gives you all you need to understand AI ethics as a risk management challenge. He''ll help you build, procure, and deploy AI in a way that''s not only ethical but also safe in terms of your organization''s reputation, regulatory compliance, and legal standing—and do it at scale. And don''t worry—the book''s purpose is to get work done, not to ponder deep and existential questions about ethics and technology. Blackman''s clear and accessible writing helps make a complex and often misunderstood concept like ethics easy to grasp. Most importantly, Blackman makes ethics actionable by tackling the big three ethical risks with AI—bias, explainability, and privacy—and tells you what to do (and what not to do) to mitigate them. With practical approaches to everything from writing a strong statement of AI ethics principles to creating teams that effectively evaluate ethical risks, Ethical Machines is the one guide you need to ensure your AI advances your company''s objectives instead of undermining them.

Totally Alive - Duncan Wardley - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

An extraordinary guide for using the secrets of motivation to help everyone in your organization love what they do. In his groundbreaking book Alive at Work , psychologist Dan Cable offered leaders a fascinating peek into the neuroscience of motivation and offered them the tools to help employees love what they do. Now, with Totally Alive , Wardley and his coauthor, Dan Cable, kick it up a notch: How do you scale happiness, enthusiasm, and engagement across a team, a department, and an entire organization? This capability is increasingly important as companies look to grow, respond to crises, and transform their businesses. To rise to these challenges, employees need to be agile, caring, and purpose-driven. Using cutting-edge research in neuroscience and psychology, Wardley and Cable offer a three-part framework for building teams of agile, adaptable, curious, and highly motivated people. This includes: - - Reset: - Reduce the threat response by creating a safe environment for employees - - Ignite: - Create events or experiences that create flashes of insight and motivation - - Fuel: - Sustain people''s motivation through repeatable actions, which will eventually result in new habits Packed with fascinating research, on-the-ground stories, and new scientific findings&#8212along with tools, assessments, and exercises&#8212 Totally Alive is the guide you need to build an exceptional organization, full of people who are motivated to perform at their very best.

Writing, Presenting, and Communicating with Confidence - Amy Gallo - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

Communication is key. Effective communication is essential to standing out at work and excelling in your career. But when it comes to making a convincing point in a meeting, crafting the perfect email, or nailing a presentation, there''s a lot to navigate. What kind of language do you use with a varied audience? Which channel is best for which message? How much do body language and Zoom backgrounds matter? And what should you not say? Writing, Presenting, and Communicating with Confidence is filled with practical advice from HBR experts that can help you answer questions such as: - How can I prepare for the most difficult conversations? - What can I do to improve my writing? - What strategies can I use to overcome my anxiety about public speaking? - How can I boost my presence and influence through persuasive communication? Writing, speaking, and communicating with confidence can be intimidating. This book gives you the tools to stand out and deliver your message more successfully. Rise faster with quick reads, real-life stories, and expert advice. The HBR Work Smart Series features the topics that matter to you most in your early career, including being yourself at work, collaborating with (sometimes difficult) colleagues and bosses, managing your mental health, and weighing major job decisions. Each title includes chapter recaps and links to video, audio, and more. The HBR Work Smart Series books are your practical guides to stepping into your professional life and moving forward with confidence.

Writing, Presenting, and Communicating with Confidence - Harvard Business Review - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

Communication is key. Effective communication is essential to standing out at work and excelling in your career. But when it comes to making a convincing point in a meeting, crafting the perfect email, or nailing a presentation, there''s a lot to navigate. What kind of language do you use with a varied audience? Which channel is best for which message? How much do body language and Zoom backgrounds matter? And what should you not say? Writing, Presenting, and Communicating with Confidence is filled with practical advice from HBR experts that can help you answer questions such as: - How can I prepare for the most difficult conversations? - What can I do to improve my writing? - What strategies can I use to overcome my anxiety about public speaking? - How can I boost my presence and influence through persuasive communication? Writing, speaking, and communicating with confidence can be intimidating. This book gives you the tools to stand out and deliver your message more successfully. Rise faster with quick reads, real-life stories, and expert advice. The HBR Work Smart Series features the topics that matter to you most in your early career, including being yourself at work, collaborating with (sometimes difficult) colleagues and bosses, managing your mental health, and weighing major job decisions. Each title includes chapter recaps and links to video, audio, and more. The HBR Work Smart Series books are your practical guides to stepping into your professional life and moving forward with confidence.

Grit (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) - Misty Copeland - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

In the face of hardship, you need perseverance and determination. You need grit. But how do you build it? This book explores how you can persist in difficult situations. You''ll learn how to convince yourself to do hard things, find support in trying circumstances, and know when you''re pushing yourself too hard. This volume includes the work of: - Angela Duckworth - Misty Copeland - Shannon Huffman Polson - Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review . Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

Grit (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) - Harvard Business Review - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

In the face of hardship, you need perseverance and determination. You need grit. But how do you build it? This book explores how you can persist in difficult situations. You''ll learn how to convince yourself to do hard things, find support in trying circumstances, and know when you''re pushing yourself too hard. This volume includes the work of: - Angela Duckworth - Misty Copeland - Shannon Huffman Polson - Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review . Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically (HBR Guide Series) - Harvard Business Review - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

Bring strategy into your daily work. It''s your responsibility as a manager to ensure that your work--and the work of your team--aligns with the overarching objectives of your organization. But when you''re faced with competing projects and limited time, it''s difficult to keep strategy front of mind. How do you keep your eye on the long term amid a sea of short-term demands? The HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically provides practical advice and tips to help you see the big-picture perspective in every aspect of your daily work, from making decisions to setting team priorities to attacking your own to-do list. You''ll learn how to: - - Understand your organization''s strategy - - Align your team around key objectives - - Focus on the priorities that matter most - - Spot trends in your company and in your industry - - Consider future outcomes when making decisions - - Manage trade-offs - - Embrace a leadership mindset

Boundaries, Priorities, and Finding Work-Life Balance - Alyssa F. Westring - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

Say no to a culture of constant work. We often equate our productivity with the number of hours we spend working. But do we really need to work endlessly, through weekends and during vacations, to be seen as stars? To find a healthy balance between our personal and professional lives, we need to make space for ourselves, define what we value most, and set goals that take those values into account. Boundaries, Priorities, and Finding Work-Life Balance is filled with practical advice from HBR experts who can help you answer questions like: - How do I set clear boundaries around my work life and my personal life? - How can I pursue my passions while making time for my job? - What are the signs of burnout and how do I conserve my energy? - What steps can I take to protect my mental health at work? You''ll spend a significant part of your life working. This book will help you define what you need to feel balanced and fulfilled, on or off the clock. Rise faster with quick reads, real-life stories, and expert advice . The HBR Work Smart Series features the topics that matter to you most in your early career, including being yourself at work, collaborating with (sometimes difficult) colleagues and bosses, managing your mental health, and weighing major job decisions. Each title includes chapter recaps and links to video, audio, and more. The HBR Work Smart Series books are your practical guides to stepping into your professional life and moving forward with confidence.

Creating Great Choices - Jennifer Riel - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

"The rarest of business books that teaches decision makers how to think, not what to think." - Malcolm Gladwell When it comes to our hardest choices, it can seem as though making trade-offs is inevitable. But what about those crucial times when accepting the obvious trade-off just isn''t good enough? What do we do when the choices in front of us don''t get us what we need? Rather than choosing the least worst option, Creating Great Choices offers a model that guides you towards a new and superior answer... integrative thinking . First introduced by world-renowned strategic thinker Roger Martin in The Opposable Mind , integrative thinking is an approach to problem solving that uses opposing ideas as the basis for innovation. Now, in Creating Great Choices , Martin and his longtime thinking partner Jennifer Riel vividly illustrate how integrative thinking works, and how to do it. The book includes fresh stories of successful integrative thinkers that will demystify the process of creative problem solving, as well as practical tools and exercises to help readers engage with the ideas. And it lays out the authors'' four-step methodology for creating great choices, which can be applied in virtually any context. The result is a replicable, thoughtful approach to finding a "third and better way" to make important choices in the face of unacceptable trade‐offs. Insightful and instructive, Creating Great Choices blends storytelling, theory, and hands-on advice to help any leader or manager facing a tough choice.

All the Right Moves - Constantinos Markides - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

Constantinos Markides contends that the essence of business strategy is to allow a company to create and exploit a unique strategic position in its industry. To do so, the company must make clear and explicit choices based on the answers to three difficult questions: Who should I target as customers? What products or services should I offer them? How should I do this in an efficient way? Any company engaged in strategy making must raise these questions, identify possible answers, and then choose what to do and what not to do. The objective should be to come up with ideas that differentiate the firm from its competitors - and thus stake out a unique strategic position. In "All the Right Moves", a highly practical handbook on the fundamentals of strategy, Markides helps managers zero in on the critical choices that lie at the heart of all innovative strategies. More important, Markides argues that even the best of strategies have a limited life. It is not enough to develop a unique strategic position or to improve the existing one. Companies must continually create and colonize new strategic positions, a difficult if not impossible task for many established firms. Markides explains how to overcome the obstacles to innovation so that even well-established companies can innovate by breaking the rules of the game. "All the Right Moves" reveals how creative thinking leads to strategic innovation - the ''breakthroughs'' that separate winning strategists from also-rans. Markides approaches strategic thinking as a creative process in which examining an issue from a variety of angles often proves more productive than merely gathering data, and experimenting with new ideas can be more effective than conducting much scientific analysis. He poses key questions for readers to ask as he guides them through a step-by-step framework for developing their strategic thinking skills. In a refreshingly clear and practical approach, "All the Right Moves" offers concrete advice for thinking through the tough choices that all business strategists must face. It distills the important elements of strategy into an easy-to-follow system for crafting today''s -and tomorrow''s- breakthrough business strategies.

HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose - John Coleman - Bog - Harvard Business Review Press - Plusbog.dk

Stop searching for purpose. Build it. We''re living through a crisis of purpose. Surveys indicate that people are feeling less connected to the meaning of their work, asking, "How do I find my purpose?" That''s the wrong question. You don''t find your purpose—you build it. The HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose debunks three common myths about purpose: that purpose is found, that you have only one, and that it stays the same over time. Packed with stories, tips, and activities, this book teaches you how to cultivate more meaning in your life and work and endow everything you do with purpose. You''ll learn how to: - Find the reason behind your work - Identify what makes you feel happy and fulfilled - Use job crafting to transform your role - Build positive, fulfilling relationships - Connect your work to service Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.