Harvard Business Review Leaders Handbook: Make an Impact, Inspire Your Organization, and Get to the Next Level (HBR Handbooks)

The one primer you need to develop your leadership skills.Put aside all the overhyped new frameworks, the listicles, the 10 best things you need to succeed as a leader today. The critical leadership practicesthe ones that will allow a leader to make the biggest impact over timeare well established. Theyre about how you create a vision and inspire others to follow it. How you make difficult strategic choices. How you lead innovation. How you get results. These fundamental skills are even more important today as organizations and teams become increasingly networked, virtual, agile, fastmoving, and socially conscious.In this comprehensive handbook, strategy and change experts Ron Ashkenas and Brook Manville distill proven ideas and frameworks about leadership from Harvard Business Review, interviews with senior executives, and their own experience in the fieldall to help rising leaders stand out and have a big impact.In the HBR Leaders Handbook youll find: Concise explanations of proven leadership frameworks from Harvard Business Review contributors such as Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Porter Indepth case studies of senior leaders such as Jim Wolfensohn at the World Bank, Paula Kerger at PBS, Darren Walker at the Ford Foundation, and Jim Smith at Thomson Reuters Stepbystep guidance to help you understand and start implementing six core leadership practices: building a unifying vision, developing a strategy, getting great people on board, focusing on results, innovating for the future, and leading yourselfHBR Handbooks provide ambitious professionals with the frameworks, advice, and tools they need to excel in their careers. With stepbystep guidance, timehoned best practices, reallife stories, and concise explanations of research published in Harvard Business Review, each comprehensive volume helps you to stand out from the packwhatever your role.