Harvard Business Review on Leadership

by John P. Kotter

The Harvard Business Review paperback series is designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. Here are the landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required reading for ambitious businesspeople in organizations around the globe. Harvard Business Review on Leadership gathers together eight of the Harvard Business Review's most influential articles on leadership, challenging many long-held assumptions about the true sources of power and authority.

Genres: Leadership, Business, Management, Nonfiction, Business Leadership

238 pages, Paperback

First published August 7, 1998

About the author

John P. Kotter, world-renowned expert on leadership, is the author of many books, including Leading Change, Our Iceberg is Melting, The Heart of Change, and his latest book, That's Not How We Do It Here!. He is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School, and a graduate of MIT and Harvard. He is co-founder of Kotter International, a change management and strategy execution firm that helps organizations engage employees in a movement to drive change and reach sustainable results. He and his wife Nancy live in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Reviews

[Lientur Alkaman Kurüfilu]

Un vistazo a la mente de los directivos de alto rendimiento

[Gabi Muñoz]

Awesome synthesis.
Real case stories on each chapter were great.

[Chris Gottlieb]

EIGHT ORIGINAL, SIGHTFUL PERSPECTIVES ON LEADERSHIP: Looking for some informative, original and clear thinking about leadership? This book is a great choice! The eight articles in this work cover: the role of leadership, differences between managing and leading, and ways chief executives lead. Each article begins with an executive summary which, for the fast-forward crowd, is a big plus.

So many books are merely ONE GOOD ARTICLE embedded in a thicket of verbiage. Chopping away through such a jungle of verbosity for the gist-of-it-all often proves tedious and disappointing. (Blessed are the laconic!) This book, on the other hand, just serves up a bunch of 'gists' -the pure meat and potatoes of ideas. Happily, the HBSP has published several other collections of this sort on such topics as knowledge management, change, and strategies for growth. Each of these is collection of first-rate 'gists'. Reviewed by Gerry Stern, founder, Stern & Associates, author of Stern's Sourcefinder The Master Directory to HR and Business Management Information & Resources, Stern's CyberSpace SourceFinder, and the Compensation and Benefits SourceFinder.

[Diego Cortes]

Read this book to get a better understanding about leadership and what Harvard had to say about it. I'd recommend it to anyone really. Leadership is one of those things that is not taught in school but learned during ones life.

[Lindsy]

Classic HBR writing on leadership. Though the articles are all written before 1998 or so, much of the material is timeless. A great reminder of some of the things to keep in mind.

[Moe]

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