Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
The manager's job: folklore and fact / Henry Mintzberg -- What leaders really do / John P. Kotter -- Managers and leaders: are they different? / Abraham Zaleznik -- The discipline of building character / Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr. -- The ways chief executive officers lead / Charles M. Farkas and Suzy Wetlaufer -- The human side of management / Thomas Teal -- The work of leadership / Ronald A. Heifetz and Donald L. Laurie -- Whatever happened to the take-charge manager? / Nitin Nohria and James D. Berkley.