HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever-changing business environment.
1. Managing Oneself Peter F. Drucker 2. Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey? William Oncken, Jr., and Donald L. Wass (Commentary by Stephen R. Covey) 3. How Resilience Works Coutu, Diane L. 4. Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time Tony Schwartz and Catherine McCarthy 5. Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People Underperform Edward M. Hallowell 6. Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life Stewart D. Friedman 7. Reclaim Your Job Ghoshal, Sumantra and Bruch, Heike 8. Moments of Greatness: Entering the Fundamental State of Leadership Quinn, Robert E. 9. What to Ask the Person in the Mirror Robert S. Kaplan 10. Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance Goleman, Daniel; Boyatzis, Richard; and McKee, Annie
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Reviews for HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (with bonus article ""How Will You Measure Your Life?"" by Clayton M. Christensen)
All in all, this is an excellent collection of insights by business people and writers on business subjects, particularly on management. Get it and benefit from it. -- Biz India The organization of the boxes is superb and very helpful to the reader... relevant to overworked and overstressed employees seeking ways to take charge of themselves to perform better and develop a work-life balance. - Portland Book Review