HBR’s 10 Must Reads 2018 – Harvard Business Review

We’ve reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up-to-date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. With authors from Michael E. Porter to Daniel Kahneman and company examples from P&G to Adobe, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations to your fingertips.

This book will inspire you to:

• Reconsider what keeps your customers coming back
• Create visualizations that send a clear message
• Assess how quickly disruptive change is coming to your industry
• Boost engagement by giving your employees the freedom to break the rules
• Understand what blockchain is and how it will affect your industry
• Get your product in customers’ hands faster by accelerating your research and development phase

This collection of articles includes:

• “Customer Loyalty Is Overrated,” by A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin;
• “Noise: How to Overcome the High, Hidden Cost of Inconsistent Decision Making,” by Daniel Kahneman, Andrew M. Rosenfield, Linnea Gandhi, and Tom Blaser;
• “Visualizations That Really Work,” by Scott Berinato;
• “Right Tech, Wrong Time,” by Ron Adner and Rahul Kapoor;
• “How to Pay for Health Care,” by Michael E. Porter and Robert S. Kaplan;
• “The Performance Management Revolution,” by Peter Cappelli and Anna Tavis;
• “Let Your Workers Rebel,” by Francesca Gino;
• “Why Diversity Programs Fail,” by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev;
• “What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class,” by Joan C. Williams;
• “The Truth About Blockchain,” by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani;
• “The Edison of Medicine,” by Steven Prokesch.