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Harvard Business Review on Leadership (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)
by Henry Mintzberg, John P. Kotter, Abraham Zaleznik, Joseph Badaracco, Charles Farkas, Ronald Heifetz, Donald Laurie
from Harvard Business School Press

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Enduring insights from multiple perspectives
  
  Much of the contextual material in this volume is out-of-date, given the fact that the eight articles originally appeared in the Harvard Business Review years ago (1975-1998). However, I think the core concepts remain sound and provide a valuable frame-of-reference for understanding the advances in effective decision making that have occurred during the last five years. For example, if anything, Henry Mintzberg's article ("The Manager's Job") is even more relevant today than it was when it first... more info

• Essential Resource for Executives
  Another fantastic resource from HBR.
  The article titled, "The Manager's Job: Folklore and Fact", by Henry Mintzberg, has been requested for reprint more than 22,000 times in the past two years. Mintzberg did a fascinating study of how managers worked to analyze behavior.
  "What Leaders Really Do", by John Kotter, provides a wealth of helpful information. Among the passages I've underlined:
  "Leadership complements management; it doesn't replace it..."
  "Planning is a management process,... more info

• Worthwhile read for entrepreneurs
  There are many books with an entrepreneurial bent available, most of which are aimed at folks considering starting a business. This is a solid compilation of HBR white papers on various aspects of entrepreneurship. Although the information is useful to those exploring the possibility of starting their own venture, it is more useful to those who have taken the plunge and are immersed in the day to day challenges of building and sustaining a new business venture.
  Amar Bhide ("New Business Ventures and... more info

• Is leadership managment?
  This book encapsulates the responsibilites of a leader and the diffirenciation between a leader and a manager. A leader is always in front... never in second place. Thats where managers are... because they are not as good, as the book states. Every manager should strive to be a leader.

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