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The Discipline of Teams by Jon R. Katzenbach; Douglas K. Smith
Category: Business | Series: Harvard Business Review Classics Ser.
In The Discipline of Teams, Jon Katzenbach and Douglas Smith explore the often counter-intuitive features that make up high-performing teams--such as selecting team members for skill, not compatibility--and explain how managers can set specific goals to foster team development. The result is improved pr ...Show more
The Theory of the Business by Peter F Drucker
Category: Business | Series: Harvard Business Review Classics
Peter F. Drucker argues that what underlies the current malaise of so many large and successful organizations worldwide is that their theory of the business no longer works. The story is a familiar one: a company that was a superstar only yesterday finds itself stagnating and frustrated, in trouble and, ...Show more
Turning Goals into Results: The Power of Catalytic Mechanisms by Jim Collins
Category: Business | Series: Harvard Business Review Classics
Most executives have a big, hairy, audacious goal. They write vision statements, formalize procedures, and develop complicated incentive programs--all in pursuit of that goal. In other words, with the best of intentions, they install layers of stultifying bureaucracy. But it doesn't have to be that way. ...Show more
What Makes a Leader? (Harvard Business Review Classics) by Prof Daniel Goleman, PH D (Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations)
Category: Business | Series: Harvard Business Review Classics
When asked to define the ideal leader, many would emphasize traits such as intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision--the qualities traditionally associated with leadership. Often left off the list are softer, more personal qualities--but they are also essential. Although a certain degree of an ...Show more
What Makes an Effective Executive (Harvard Business Review Classics) by Peter Drucker
Category: Business | Series: Harvard Business Review Classics: Ser.
In his sixty-five-year consulting career, Peter F. Drucker, widely regarded as the father of modern management, identified eight practices that can make any executive effective. Leadership is not about charisma or extroversion. It's about these practices: Effective executives ask, "What needs to be done ...Show more