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by: Henry Mintzberg, John P. Kotter, Abraham Zaleznik, Joseph Badaracco, Charles Farkas, Ronald Heifetz, Donald Laurie  List Price: $22.00 Amazon.com's Price: $14.96 You Save: $7.04 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 658.4092 EAN: 9780875848839 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0875848834 Label: Harvard Business School Press Manufacturer: Harvard Business School Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 238 Publication Date: 1998-09 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Studio: Harvard Business School Press Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Enduring insights from multiple perspectives Much of the contextual material in this volume is out-of-date, given the fact that the eight articles originally appeared in the Harvard Business Review years ago (1975-1998).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 ... Read More Rating: - Essential Resource for ExecutivesAnother 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..." ... Read More Rating: - Worthwhile read for entrepreneursThere 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 ... Read More Rating: - 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. Rating:  - Great articles on defining and teaching about leadershipThe wide variety of articles on leadership covers well items from the basic topics such as the difference between managers and leaders to how someone can be both (and the tensions that can cause!). Two of the best articles were on how leaders really spend their time during the day and how leaders foster an environment in which other people can also be identified and brought forward as leaders. I would've rated this five stars, but there are a couple of articles (on 'defining moments' and CEOs) ... Read More 
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