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With input from over twenty experts combined with useful checklists, sample agendas, and follow-up memos, the HBR Guide to Making Every Meeting Matter will teach you how to set and communicate your meeting's purpose; invite the right people; prepare an achievable agenda; moderate a lively conversation; regain control of a wayward meeting; and ensure follow-through without babysitting or haranguing.

Millions of subject-matter experts, functional leaders, requirements gatherers, and problem solvers have opportunities to influence every day. Instead, too often they merely respond to requests and take orders from their stakeholders. By not exercising their unknown superpower, they miss opportunities to break down silos, improve collaboration, and accelerate the best decisions for the organization. This book is designed to help people discover the most impactful approach to influencing without authority, coercion, manipulation or force.

Create the Future is an exciting guidebook for disruptive thinking, innovation, and change, paired with The Innovation Handbook, an updated version of the award-winning book, Exploiting Chaos. The bestseller is loaded with the same tactics, tools, and frameworks that Gutsche's team uses to accelerate 700 of the world's most powerful brands, billionaires, CEOs, and NASA.

Even the best competitive strategies mean nothing if they can't be executed. Yet many organizations struggle when they move from defining a strategy to implementing it. Somehow, all the careful planning falls to the side, and leaders are left wondering how to pick up the pieces. The HBR Guide to Executing Your Strategy is here to help. This book offers leaders and managers tips and advice for how to take even the most detailed strategy and apply it throughout their organizations.

Strategy is about shaping the future. Thinking strategically is what separates good managers and great leaders. Learn the fundamentals about how to create winning strategy and lead your team to deliver it. From understanding what strategy can do for you, through to creating a strategy and engaging others with strategy, this book offers practical guidance and expert tips.

Janice and Jason Fraser have been using their method for decades to help all kinds of people—including Navy SEALs, startup CEOs, and Fortune 100 executives—make progress in both their professional and personal lives by solving hard problems with grace. The approach is simple but powerful, calling on listeners to: orient honestly, value outcomes, leverage brains, and make durable decisions.

Robert Rubin, former secretary of the Treasury and co-chairman of Goldman Sachs, shares thoughts on decision-making developed over more than six decades in markets, business, government, and politics, and offers readers an astute and original guide for navigating uncertain times In 1958, as a...

If you read (or listen to) nothing else on inspiring and executing innovation, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you innovate effectively.

In a world filled with bad news, renowned author and creativity expert Nir Bashan offers some good news: Each problem we cause ourselves as humans, we can also solve as humans by looking at the world with curiosity. In The Solution Mindset, Bashan provides you with the tools you need to unlock...

What makes high achievers truly different from everyone else? Embrace the single greatest factor in success for you and your team. Bestselling business and leadership author John C. Maxwell will help you deeply understand that the biggest difference lies in how we face adversity. High achievers...

Whether you are a CEO of a multinational corporation or a small startup, you will face situations that require you to make tough decisions, inspire your team, and uphold ethical standards. In Dharma Tales for CEOs, author and corporate coach S. Prakash presents stories that originate from...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the acclaimed author and podcaster of Power Hour comes an actionable guide to making better, more intentional everyday decisions to lead us to the life that we want. It's estimated that the average person now makes around 35,000 decisions each day. We're living in...

The most effective leaders across a wide variety of spectrums have achieved their success by beginning their journey with a question few bother to ask: How do I lead myself? As New York Times bestselling author and leadership expert John C. Maxwell says, “A leader never has to recover from a...

Smart leaders learn from their own mistakes. Smarter leaders learn from other’s mistakes and their successes. Bestselling author and leadership guru Dr. John C. Maxwell wants to help you become the smartest leader you can be by sharing Leadership Gold with you. After more than forty years of...

Becoming a Principle-Driven Leader reveals the timeless ideas and proven strategies that turned Koch Industries into a global powerhouse—offering a practical blueprint for anyone who wants to create lasting value through principled leadership. Ever wonder how Koch became one of the largest...

Master critical thinking and boost your productivity by turning complex, high-stakes choices into confident action. Whether you are commuting to a stressful boardroom pitch or navigating team leadership, this empowering audio experience cuts through the noise of daily uncertainty. Stop letting...

Banish analysis paralysis and conquer workplace overwhelm with a proven productivity framework for confident choices. Whether you are agonizing over a career pivot during your morning commute or losing sleep to late-night overthinking, you need a reliable strategy to find clarity. Transform...

Transform how you navigate uncertainty and make smarter choices with this educational guide to data and decision-making. Perfect for a morning commute or self-improvement routine, this empowering audio experience translates complex statistics into intuitive mental pictures. You will effortlessly...

Outsmart hidden mental blind spots and elevate everyday decision-making with this practical psychology guide. Whether you are navigating tough conversations at work, managing your personal finances, or trying to understand your daily social media scroll, your brain relies on invisible shortcuts...

Master the psychology of day trading and transform chaotic market losses into consistent, disciplined profitability. When fear, greed, and FOMO hijack your live market execution, even the best technical strategies will fail. This focused, empowering guide is engineered for active investors...