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Articles from Harvard Business School Press
The Discipline of Building Character
Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr.
What is the difference between an ethical decision and what author, Harvard Business School Professor, Joseph Badaracco, Jr. calls a defining moment...
Cracking the Code of Change
Michael Beer; Nitrin Nohria
Today’s fast-paced economy demands that business change or die. But few companies manage corporate transformations as well as they would like. The brutal...
Building Your Company’s Vision
James C. Collins; Jerry Porras
Companies that enjoy enduring success have a core purpose and core values that remain fixed while their strategies and practices endlessly adapt to a changing...
What Makes a Leader?
Daniel Goleman
In this landmark article, Daniel Goleman, the premier expert in the emotional intelligence movement, author of Emotional Intelligence (Bantam 1995) and...
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
John P. Kotter
In the past decade, the author has watched more than 100 companies try to remake themselves into better competitors, their efforts have gone under many...
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Recommended Books
Play To Win: Choosing Growth Over Fear in Work and Life
Larry Wilson and Hersch Wilson
Meaning — The Secret of Being Alive
Cliff Havener
The Road Less Travelled
Scott Peck
The Heart Aroused: Poetry and Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
David Whyte
Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes
William Bridges
Leading with Soul
Terrence Deal
Working with Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman
Built to Last
James Collins and Jerry Porras
Driving Fear Out of the Workplace: How to Overcome the Invisible Barriers to Quality, Productivity and Innovation
Kathleen Ryan and Daniel Oestreich
Competing for the Future
Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad
The Wisdom of Teams
Jon Katzenbach and Doug Smith
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell
Communicating Change: How to Win Employee Support for New Business Directions
Sandar Larkin (contributor) and T.J. Larkin
Play To Win: Choosing Growth Over Fear in Work and Life
By Larry Wilson and Hersch Wilson
Play To Win is for people who are grappling with the tough questions and decisions that give shape and meaning to our lives. What are my work and life about? Why am I really here? What difference will I make? What will I leave behind? In opening the door to the answers to these questions and dozens more, Larry and Hersch Wilson help you learn how to quit old, unproductive thought and behavior patterns and discover what you really want and how to get it. For an excerpt, go here.
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Meaning — The Secret of Being Alive
By Cliff Havener
By looking at our “human condition” in the context of General Systems, author Cliff Havener reveals how an “integrative” view of life and work enables people and societies to function more naturally and productively. To check out reader reviews or download the first three chapters, go here.
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The Road Less Travelled
By Scott Peck
Confronting and solving problems is a painful process, which most of us attempt to avoid. And the very avoidance results in greater pain and an inability to grow both mentally and spiritually. In this book, Peck suggests ways in which confronting and resolving our problems — and suffering through the changes — can enable us to reach a higher level of self-understanding.
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The Heart Aroused: Poetry and Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America
By David Whyte
What would our days be like if we came out of hiding and brought our fears, loves, and dreams directly into the workplace? Whyte shows that the best way to respond to the current call for creativity in organizational life is to overcome our habitual fear and reticence and bring our full, passionate, creative human souls, with all their urgencies and unnamed longings, right inside the office with us. Whyte uses poetry to bring to life the experience of change itself.
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Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes
By William Bridges
For something that we have been experiencing all our lives, most of us handle change very badly. Transitions helps both in identifying and in coping with such critical changes in our lives. It takes us step by step through the transition process, offering skills, suggestions, and advice for negotiating each of the three perilous passages associated with change.
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Leading with Soul
By Terrence Deal
This contemporary parable chronicles the journey of a dispirited leader in search of something more satisfying than the bottom line. The authors draw upon spiritual traditions, poetry, philosophy, teachings on leadership and organizations, and their own extensive consulting experience to offer inspiration for today’s embattled leaders.
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Working with Emotional Intelligence
By Daniel Goleman
In this work, Goleman reveals the skills that distinguish the top performers in every field. From entry-level jobs to top executive positions, the single most important factor is not IQ, advanced degrees or technical expertise. It is emotional intelligence. Goleman demonstrates that the competencies of emotional intelligence are at a premium in today’s job market.
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Built to Last
By James Collins and Jerry Porras
Built to Last identifies 18 “visionary” companies and sets out to determine what’s special about them. To get on the list, a company had to be world famous, have a stellar brand image, and be at least 50 years old. Whatever the key to the success of these companies, the key to the success of this book is that the authors don’t waste time comparing them to business failures. Instead, they use a control group of “successful-but-second-rank” companies to highlight what’s special about their 18 “visionary” picks.
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Driving Fear Out of the Workplace: How to Overcome The Invisible Barriers to Quality, Productivity and Innovation
By Kathleen Ryan and Daniel Oestreich
When people know in their bones that they are free to tell the truth about workplace problems or come forward with risky ideas for improvement without repercussions, quality and productivity can flourish. And yet, fear and mistrust are epidemic in our organizations. This hopeful, practical book offers workable strategies that show how managers can drive out fears — such as the fears of losing credibility, being ostracized, or being fired — that keep people from speaking up with their ideas and concerns.
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Competing for the Future
By Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad
Hamel and Prahalad offer a blueprint for what your company must be doing today if it is to occupy the competitive highground of tomorrow. By showing that the key to future industry leadership is to develop an independent point of view about tomorrow’s opportunities and build capabilities that exploit them, Hamel and Prahalad reveal an entirely new definition of what it means to be strategic — and successful.
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The Wisdom of Teams
By Jon Katzenbach and Doug Smith
Teams are the key to improving performance in all kinds of organizations. Yet today’s business leaders consistently overlook opportunities to exploit their potential, confusing teams with teamwork, empowerment, or participative management. Katzenbach and Smith differentiate various levels of team performance, show where and how teams work best, and give practical advice on how to enhance team effectiveness.
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The Tyranny of the Bottom Line: Why Corporations Make Good People Do Bad Things
By Ralph Estes
In a thought provoking proposal which maintains that corporations be held responsible to their customers, employees and society as well as to their financial investors, Estes lays out a plan to reform the corporate system which could result in a saving to society of up to $2.5 trillion.
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell
New this year, this much talked about book takes the mystery out of how sometimes things just seem to magically change — overnight. What’s really happening when ideas, fads, words, fashions, and cultural shifts (like changes in crime patterns) seem to suddenly happen out of nowhere? A fascinating, well-researched work with theoretical and practical connections for people interested in reaching cultural “tipping points” in organizations.
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Communicating Change: How to Win Employee Support for New Business Directions
Sandar Larkin (contributor) and T.J. Larkin
Common wisdom says employees need “messages” in the form of posters, videos and pamphlets. Not so. What they really need is face-to-face facts from their direct supervisors. In this ground-breaking book on communication that works, Larkin and Larkin expose the mythology and provide practical advice and examples on how to really communicate.
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