Nonprofits and the social sectors are taking on an increasing share of the world's most vital work. Make sure your organization is ready for the challenge.

If you read nothing else on nonprofits and the social sectors, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you align your organization's mission and strategy, deliver immediate impact, and create lasting change.

This book will inspire you to:

  • Choose the right problem to solve
  • Understand when the best practices of for-profits don't apply
  • Assemble an engaged and goal-driven board of directors
  • Make the most of for-profit initiatives and corporate partnerships
  • Drive demand, scale up, and be ready to change course
  • Learn from the success stories of the world's most respected nonprofit leaders

This collection of articles includes "Lofty Missions, Down-to-Earth Plans," by V. Kasturi Rangan; "What Business Can Learn from Nonprofits," by Peter F. Drucker; "Life's Work: An Interview with Desmond Tutu"; "Are You Solving the Right Problem?" by Dwayne Spradlin; "Life's Work: An Interview with George Mitchell"; "Enterprising Nonprofits," by J. Gregory Dees; "Life's Work: An Interview with Wynton Marsalis"; "State Street's CEO on Creating Employment for At-Risk Youths," by Joseph Hooley; "Life's Work: An Interview with Salman Khan"; "Do Better at Doing Good," by V. Kasturi Rangan, Sohel Karim, and Sheryl K. Sandberg; "AEI's President on Measuring the Impact of Ideas," by Arthur C. Brooks; "Life's Work: An Interview with Michelle Bachelet"; "The New Work of the Nonprofit Board," by Barbara E. Taylor, Richard P. Chait, and Thomas P. Holland; "Life's Work: An Interview with Bill T. Jones"; "Reaching the World's Poorest Consumers," by Muhammad Yunus, Frederic Dalsace, David Menasce, and Benedicte Faivre-Tavignot; "Life's Work: An Interview with Muhammad Yunus"; and "Audacious Philanthropy: Lessons from 15 World-Changing Initiatives," by Susan Wolf Ditkoff and Abe Grindle.


Sales isn't about pushing products or being efficient; it's about building the right systems to manage and empower your salespeople.

If you read nothing else on sales, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review; articles and selected the most important ones to help you understand how to create the conditions for sales success.

This book will inspire you to:

  • Understand your customer's buying center
  • Integrate your sales and marketing operations
  • Assess your business cycle and its impact on your sales force
  • Transition away from solution sales
  • Leverage the power of micromarkets
  • Introduce tiebreaker selling and consensus selling
  • Motivate your sales force properly

This collection of articles includes: "Major Sales: Who Really Does the Buying," by Thomas V. Bonoma; "Ending the War Between Sales and Marketing," by Philip Kotler, Neil Rackham, and Suj Krishnaswamy; "Match Your Sales Force Structure to Your Business Life Cycle," by Andris A. Zoltners, Prabhakant Sinha, and Sally E. Lorimer; "The End of Solution Sales," by Brent Adamson, Matthew Dixon, and Nicholas Toman; "Selling into Micromarkets," by Manish Goyal, Maryanne Q. Hancock, and Homayoun Hatami; "Dismantling the Sales Machine," by Brent Adamson, Matthew Dixon, and Nicholas Toman; "Tiebreaker Selling," by James C. Anderson, James A. Narus, and Marc Wouters; "Making the Consensus Sale," by Karl Schmidt, Brent Adamson, and Anna Bird; "The Right Way to Use Compensation," by Mark Roberge; "How to Really Motivate Salespeople," by Doug J. Chung; and "Getting Beyond 'Show Me the Money,'" an interview with Andris Zoltners by Daniel McGinn.


What will it take to create a more gender-balanced workplace?

If you read nothing else on leadership and gender at work, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you understand where gender equality is today--and how far we still have to go.

This book will inspire you to:

  • Better understand the path women must take to leadership
  • Learn the root causes of the barriers that exist for women in the workplace
  • Check your own gender biases and distinguish between confidence and competence in your colleagues
  • Manage a more effective gender-diversity program
  • Recognize the issues women face when speaking up about bias or harassment
  • Help women reenter the workforce after taking time off--and create opportunities for them to reach their ambitions.

This collection of articles includes "Women and the Labyrinth of Leadership," by Alice H. Eagly and Linda L. Carli; "Do Women Lack Ambition?" by Anna Fels; "Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers," by Herminia Ibarra, Robin Ely, and Deborah Kolb; "Women and the Vision Thing," by Herminia Ibarra and Otilia Obodaru; "The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why," by Deborah Tannen; "The Memo Every Woman Keeps in Her Desk," by Kathleen Reardon; "Why Diversity Programs Fail," by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev; "Now What?" by Joan C. Williams and Suzanne Lebsock; "The Battle for Female Talent in Emerging Markets," by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid; "Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success," by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce; and "Sheryl Sandberg: The HBR Interview," by Sheryl Sandberg and Adi Ignatius.


An introduction to the most enduring ideas on management from Harvard Business Review

Change is the one constant in business, and we must adapt or face obsolescence. Yet certain challenges never go away. That's what makes this book "must read." These are the 10 seminal articles by management's most influential experts, on topics of perennial concern to ambitious managers and leaders hungry for inspiration--and ready to run with big ideas to accelerate their own and their companies' success.

If you read nothing else - full stop - read:

  • Michael Porter on creating competitive advantage and distinguishing your company from rivals
  • John Kotter on leading change through eight critical stages
  • Daniel Goleman on using emotional intelligence to maximize performance
  • Peter Drucker on managing your career by evaluating your own strengths and weaknesses
  • Clay Christensen on orchestrating innovation within established organizations
  • Tom Davenport on using analytics to determine how to keep your customers loyal
  • Robert Kaplan and David Norton on measuring your company's strategy with the Balanced Scorecard
  • Rosabeth Moss Kanter on avoiding common mistakes when pushing innovation forward
  • Ted Levitt on understanding who your customers are and what they really want
  • C. K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel on identifying the unique, integrated systems that support your strategy


Use design thinking for competitive advantage.

If you read nothing else on design thinking, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you use design thinking to produce breakthrough innovations and transform your organization.

This book will inspire you to:

  • Identify customers' "jobs to be done" and build products people love
  • Fail small, learn quickly, and win big
  • Provide the support design-thinking teams need to flourish
  • Foster a culture of experimentation
  • Sharpen your own skills as a design thinker
  • Counteract the biases that perpetuate the status quo and thwart innovation
  • Adopt best practices from design-driven powerhouses

This collection of articles includes "Design Thinking," by Tim Brown; "Why Design Thinking Works," by Jeanne M. Liedtka; "The Right Way to Lead Design Thinking," by Christian Bason and Robert D. Austin; "Design for Action," by Tim Brown and Roger L. Martin; "The Innovation Catalysts," by Roger L. Martin; “Know Your Customers' 'Jobs to Be Done,'" by Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan; "Engineering Reverse Innovations," by Amos Winter and Vijay Govindarajan; "Strategies for Learning from Failure," by Amy C. Edmondson; "How Indra Nooyi Turned Design Thinking into Strategy," by Indra Nooyi and Adi Ignatius, and "Reclaim Your Creative Confidence," by Tom Kelley and David Kelley.

HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. 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.


Build resilience in your company to weather the greatest crises.

If you read nothing else on organizational resilience, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help your company prepare for and overcome disruption, social upheaval, and disaster.

This book will inspire you to:

  • Reposition your core business while launching a separate, disruptive business
  • Build the ability to continually anticipate and adjust to emerging trends
  • Prepare for the business implications of climate change
  • Learn about the risks of hyperefficient businesses
  • Develop organizational grit
  • Rebound from a recession faster than your competitors
  • Lead your company through any kind of crisis

This collection of articles includes "How Resilience Works" by Diane Coutu; "The Quest for Resilience" by Gary Hamel and Liisa Valikangas; "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" by Joseph L. Bower and Clayton M. Christensen; "Organizational Grit" by Thomas H. Lee and Angela L. Duckworth; "Leading in Times of Trauma" by Jane E. Dutton, Peter J. Frost, Monica C. Worline, Jacoba M. Lilius, and Jason M. Kanov; "Learning from the Future" by J. Peter Scoblic; "Leading a New Era of Climate Action" by Andrew Winston; "The High Price of Efficiency" by Roger L. Martin; "Reigniting Growth" by Chris Zook and James Allen; "Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World" by Willy C. Shih; and "Roaring Out of Recession" by Ranjay Gulati, Nitin Nohria, and Franz Wohlgezogen.

HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. 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.


Revitalize your company and roar out of the recession.

We're facing the second major global downturn in a decade. To survive, companies must balance managing the crisis in the short term with innovation and reinvention to return to growth in a changed world. HBR's 10 Must Reads for the Recession Collection offers the ideas and strategies you need to lead your company on the path to renewal. Included in this set are:

  • HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing in a Downturn (Expanded Edition)
  • HBR's 10 Must Reads on Organizational Resilience
  • HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Risk
  • HBR's 10 Must Reads on Innovation
  • HBR's 10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation
  • HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management

It includes 60 articles selected by HBR's editors from renowned thought leaders such as Clayton Christensen, John Kotter, Rita Gunther McGrath, W. Chan Kim, and Renee Mauborgne, and features the indispensable articles "Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World" by Willy Shih and "Roaring Out of Recession" by Nitin Nohria and Ranjay Gulati. It's time for companies to be bold in the face extraordinary headwinds. HBR's 10 Must Reads for the Recession Collection will help you face them.

HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. 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.



Join forces with others inside and outside your organization to solve your toughest problems.

If you read nothing else on collaborating effectively, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you work more productively with people on your team, in other departments, and in other organizations.

Leading experts such as Daniel Goleman, Herminia Ibarra, and Morten Hansen provide the insights and advice you need to:

Forge strong relationships up, down, and across the organizationBuild a collaborative cultureBust silosHarness informal knowledge sharingPick the right type of collaboration for your businessManage conflict wiselyKnow when not to collaborate

A year’s worth of management wisdom, all in one place.

We’ve examined the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to bring you the latest, most significant thinking driving business today. With authors from Marcus Buckingham to Herminia Ibarra and company examples from Google to Deloitte, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations to your fingertips.

This book will inspire you to:
Tap into the new technologies that are changing the way businesses competeFuel performance by redesigning your organization’s practices around feedbackLearn techniques to move beyond intuition for better decision makingUnderstand why your strategy execution isn’t working—and how to fix itLead with authenticity by moving beyond your comfort zoneTransform your physical office space to promote creativity and productivity


This collection of best-selling articles includes:
“Reinventing Performance Management,” by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall“The Transparency Trap,” by Ethan Bernstein“Profits Without Prosperity,” by William Lazonick“Outsmart Your Own Biases,” by Jack B. Soll, Katherine L. Milkman, and John W. Payne“The 3-D Printing Revolution,” by Richard D’Aveni“Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It,” by Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes, and Charles Sull“The Authenticity Paradox,” by Herminia Ibarra“The Discipline of Business Experimentation,” by Stefan Thomke and Jim Manzi“When Senior Managers Won’t Collaborate,” by Heidi K. Gardner“Workspaces That Move People,” by Ben Waber, Jennifer Magnolfi, and Greg Lindsay“Digital Ubiquity: How Connections, Sensors, and Data Are Revolutionizing Business,” by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani


How do the most resilient companies survive--and even thrive--during a slowdown?

If you read nothing else on preparing for a tough economy and coming back stronger, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help your company persevere through economic challenges and continue to grow even as your competitors stumble.

This book will inspire you to:

  • Get your company ready before a downturn strikes
  • Learn the right lessons from previous recessions
  • Minimize pain while cutting costs and managing risk
  • Foster a healthy organizational culture during anxious times
  • Seize the opportunity to innovate and reinvent your business

This collection of articles includes "Seize Advantage in a Downturn," by David Rhodes and Daniel Stelter; "How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward: A Research Roundup," by Walter Frick; "How to Bounce Back from Adversity," by Joshua D. Margolis and Paul G. Stoltz; "Rohm and Haas's Former CEO on Pulling Off a Sweet Deal in a Down Market," by Raj Gupta; "Leadership in a (Permanent) Crisis," by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander, Grashow, and Marty Linsky; "How to Be a Good Boss in a Bad Economy," by Robert I. Sutton; "Layoffs That Don't Break Your Company," by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta; "Getting Reorgs Right," by Stephen Heidari-Robinson and Suzanne Heywood; "Reigniting Growth," by Chris Zook and James Allen; "Reinvent Your Business Model Before It's Too Late," by Paul Nunes and Tim Breene; and "How to Protect Your Job in a Recession," by Janet Banks and Diane Coutu.


If you are a health care professional and you read nothing else on leadership, read these 10 articles. Leading experts such as Thomas H. Lee, Daniel Goleman, Peter F. Drucker, John P. Kotter, and Warren G. Bennis provide the insights and advice you need to:

  • Motivate others to excel
  • Build your team's self-confidence
  • Provoke positive change
  • Have an impact not only on your organization but on the surrounding system
  • Maintain your identity and values as a clinician as you move into an organizational leadership role
  • Encourage smart risk-taking
  • Work in complex systems where authority is diffuse
  • Manage with tough empathy
  • Draw strength from adversity

Audience: Managers and leaders in the healthcare industry.

Announced first printing: 25,000
Laydown goal: 4,000



How HR can lead.

If you read nothing else on reinventing human resources, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones on how HR leaders can partner with the C-suite, drive change throughout the organization, and develop the workforce of the future.

This book will inspire you to:

  • Overhaul performance management practices to jump-start motivation and engagement
  • Use agile processes to transform how you hire, develop, and manage people
  • Establish diversity programs that increase innovation and competitiveness as well as inclusion
  • Use people analytics to bring unprecedented insight to hiring and talent management
  • Prepare your company for the double waves of artificial intelligence and an older workforce
  • Close the gap between HR and strategy

This collection of articles includes: "People Before Strategy: A New Role for the CHRO," by Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey; "How Netflix Reinvented HR," by Patty McCord; "HR Goes Agile," by Peter Cappelli and Anna Tavis; "Reinventing Performance Management," by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall; "Better People Analytics," by Paul Leonardi and Noshir Contractor; "21st-Century Talent Spotting," by Claudio Fernandez-Araoz; "Tours of Duty: The New Employer-Employee Contract," by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh; "Creating the Best Workplace on Earth," by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones; "Why Diversity Programs Fail," by Frank Dobbins and Alexandra Kalev; "When No One Retires," by Paul Irving; and "Collaborative Intelligence: Humans and AI Are Joining Forces," by H. James Wilson and Paul R. Daugherty.


Building a successful career starts with you.

It's easy to get caught up in the day-to-day demands of your current job and lose sight of the big picture, but with a typical career spanning 50 years or more, you do so at your own peril. It's up to you to chart your own course to professional success.

If you read nothing else on effectively managing your career, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you develop yourself, make the right career moves, navigate inevitable detours and disruptions, and turn your professional dreams into reality.

This book will inspire you to:

  • Identify and leverage your strengths
  • Cultivate the curiosity, skills, and knowledge you need to maintain your professional relevance far into the future
  • Navigate messy job transitions gracefully
  • Build and sustain a network that supports and encourages your growth
  • Restore meaning and passion to your work
  • Bounce back from career setbacks big and small
  • Reinvent yourself, even in tough times

This collection of articles includes "Managing Oneself," by Peter F. Drucker; "How to Play to Your Strengths," by Laura Morgan Roberts, Gretchen Spreitzer, Jane Dutton, Robert Quinn, Emily Heaphy, and Brianna Barker Caza; "How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career," by Herminia Ibarra; "Five Ways to Bungle a Job Change," by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams; "Learning to Learn," by Erika Andersen; "The Strategic Side Gig," by Ken Banta and Orlan Boston; "How Leaders Create and Use Networks," by Herminia Ibarra and Mark Lee Hunter; "How to Bounce Back from Adversity," by Joshua D. Margolis and Paul G. Stoltz; "Rebounding from Career Setbacks," by Mitchell Lee Marks, Philip Mirvis, and Ron Ashkenas; "Reawakening Your Passion for Work," by Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee, and Daniel Goleman; and "Next-Gen Retirement," by Heather C. Vough, Christine D. Bataille, Leisa Sargent, and Mary Dean Lee.

HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. 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.


Create and sustain a culture of learning.

If you read nothing else on learning, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you keep your skills fresh and relevant, support continuous improvement on your team, and prepare everyone in the organization to thrive over the long term.

This book will inspire you to:

  • Cultivate relentless curiosity
  • Magnify your strengths and make yourself indispensable
  • Nurture a growth mindset in yourself and others
  • Deliver actionable feedback to help every employee excel
  • Transform today's failure into tomorrow's success
  • Reimagine your employee-development program
  • Build a learning organization

This collection of articles includes "Learning to Learn," by Erika Andersen; "Making Yourself Indispensable," by John H. Zenger, Joseph R. Folkman, and Scott K. Edinger; "Find the Coaching in Criticism," by Sheila Heen and Douglas Stone; "Teaching Smart People How to Learn," by Chris Argyris; "The Feedback Fallacy," by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall; "The Leader as Coach," by Herminia Ibarra and Anne Scoular; "Strategies for Learning from Failure," by Amy C. Edmondson; "Learning in the Thick of It," by Marilyn Darling, Charles Parry, and Joseph Moore; "Is Yours a Learning Organization?" by David A. Garvin, Amy C. Edmondson, and Francesca Gino; "Why Organizations Don't Learn," by Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats; "The Transformer CLO," by Abbie Lundberg and George Westerman; and "The Right Mindset for Success," an interview with Carol Dweck by Sarah Green Carmichael.

HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. 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.


Five years' worth of management wisdom, all in one place.

Get the latest, most significant thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review in 5 Years of Must Reads: 2020 Edition. Every year, HBR editors examine the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past twelve months to select the definitive articles that have provoked the most conversation, the most inspiration, and the most change. From how you can lead with authenticity by moving past your comfort zone, to engaging customers and employees alike with the help of artificial intelligence, to scaling your agile processes from a handful of teams to hundreds, the articles in this five-book collection will help you manage your daily challenges and meet the changing competitive landscape head-on.

Books in the HBR 10 Must Reads series offer essential reading selected from the pages of Harvard Business Review on topics critical to the success of every manager. Each book is packed with advice and inspiration from leading experts such as Clayton Christensen, Michael Porter, W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne, Herminia Ibarra, Marcus Buckingham, Roger Martin, Adam Grant, Thomas Davenport, and Katrina Lake. Company examples range from P&G, DHL, and Deloitte to Alibaba, Google, and Stitch Fix. 5 Years of Must Reads: 2020 Edition brings the most current and important business conversations to your fingertips.


If you read nothing else on mental toughness, read these definitive articles from Harvard Business Review.

  • Confront and use stress
  • Plan short-term goals to achieve long-term aspirations
  • Learn from survivors of PTSD
  • Use challenges to become a better leader
  • Recover from setbacks

Audience: Leaders and aspiring leaders, particularly those familiar with Harvard Business Review and who want a recap of the year's ideas in management, or those who are new to the magazine and looking for a way to familiarize themselves with its content.

Announced first printing: 25,000
Laydown goal: 7,500


If you read nothing else on strategy, read these definitive articles from Harvard Business Review.

Defining--and executing--the best strategy for your company is fraught with challenge. Do you have the right strategy to lead your company into the future? HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy 2-Volume Collection provides enduring ideas and practical advice on how to accelerate your organization's strategy development and execution. Bringing together HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy, Vol. 1 and HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy, Vol. 2, this collection includes twenty articles selected by HBR's editors and features the indispensable article "What is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter.

From timeless classics to the latest game-changing ideas from thought leaders W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne, Jim Collins, and more, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy 2-Volume Collection will inspire you to:

  • Distinguish your companies from your rivals
  • Reinvent your business model to keep you on the competitive map
  • Craft a vision for an uncertain future
  • Create and capture new markets--and break free from overcrowded ones
  • Clarify decision roles for faster decision making
  • See the growing relevance of data analytics in your organization
  • Transform your products and services into platforms
  • Identify the signals of future disruption and take steps to avoid it

HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. 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.