HBR's 10 Must Reads 2015: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review (with bonus McKinsey Award Winning article "The Focused Leader")

Harvard Business Review · Daniel Goleman · W. Chan Kim · Renée Mauborgne · Clayton M. Christensen

Nov 2022 · Gildan Media · Narrated by Susan Larkin and Daniel Thomas May

About this audiobook

A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place. We've combed through ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to help you get up to speed fast on the freshest, most relevant thinking driving business today. With authors from Clayton Christensen to Roger Martin and company examples from Netflix to Unilever, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations to your fingertips. This book will inspire you to: lead by focusing your attention on the right things; import new management practices into your organization the right way-whether they come from other companies or across the globe; better manage your organization's-and your leaders'-time; rethink vital functions such as HR and marketing; move from a yearly planning cycle to building a winning strategy; and make long-term organizational decisions with an eye to national and global economic trends.

About the author

Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, books, and digital content, Harvard Business Review provides professionals with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.

Daniel Goleman is codirector of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at Rutgers University; coauthor of Primal Leadership; and author of The Brain and Emotional Intelligence, Leadership, and A Force for Good.

W. Chan Kim is the Boston Consulting Group Bruce D. Henderson Chair Professor of Strategy and International Management at INSEAD business school and codirector of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute. Kim is coauthor, with Renee Mauborgne, of the bestselling books Blue Ocean Strategy and Blue Ocean Shift.

Renee Mauborgne is the INSEAD Distinguished Fellow and a professor of strategy at INSEAD, one of the world's top business schools. She is also codirector of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute. She cofounded the Blue Ocean Global Network with W. Chan Kim.

Clayton M. Christensen was the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He authored eight critically acclaimed books, including the bestsellers How Will You Measure Your Life? and The Innovator's Dilemma. He cofounded Innosight, Rose Park Advisors, and the Clayton Christensen Institute.

Daniel Thomas May is an experienced actor and audiobook narrator. His "energetic," "confident," "deft," and "commanding" narration makes him particularly adept at portraying adventurers of all sorts, whether in fantasy, sci-fi, horror, romance, or nonfiction dramatizations.