love it ,recommend

Only a few of the articles were interesting but not "must reads" for a business person. Perhaps the articles were novel at the time they were published. Since then, many of the insightful topics have been expanded into books. A business person would recognize some of the authors like Peter F. Drucker ("The Effective Executive"), Jim Collins ("Good to Great"), and Daniel Goleman ("Emotional Intelligence").

I think this edition is one of the better HBR "10 Must Reads". This volume, on the subject of leadership, I found to be particularly intriguing. All of the articles remain timely, even though some were written long ago. These articles, which range from the difference between management and leadership, to being a truly authentic leader, and many points in between, are very helpful. Leadership is such an amorphous subject, and leadership comes in all different varieties, yet still the researchers

As a person not really interested in business school, I mostly read this to remind myself of how feudalism is alive and accepted in modern life. Believe it or not feudalism has evolved since it became a passe form of popular government, in the form of corporate governments. This book is a terrific introduction to a world that most of us ignore, or complain about in an under-educated way. I think its important to read the same articles that the heads of these institution are reading, in the same

I picked this up from a charity store for 2 quid and thought hopefully, I can brush up on some of the learnings from B-school. It's been a while afterall.I actually forgot how much stating the obvious sometimes these books get. Having said that, there were some interesting parts to the read, especially anecdotes from the lives of some business leaders but one pays for that by wading through much that is tedious and rather repetitive.Maybe another reason, I didn't find much value in it because, I...

I super enjoyed this. Some articles are defo more useful than others but I’m sure that’s down to taste and style. I will say tho how apparent I found that this is written for men. The most pressing advice seems to be the prizing of self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy. Women are conditioned to do these thing constantly in all areas of our lives from the outset. Imagine them being treated as a novelty? The answer to so many of the problems in this is just good old fashioned therapy, something...

Not as great as HBR: Managing Yourself, but it provides a multiple frameworks for thinking about leadership, and discusses qualities of great leaders, inviting the process of self-reflection. Like all the HBR series, it’s useful when you want to reset yourself: to dissect frustrations or stagnation, and identify blind spots to more intentionally “work on yourself.”Key takeaways: self-awareness and self-regulation distinguish great leaders from mediocre ones; the work of a leader is mainly to ali...

There were a couple interesting essays ("Crucibles of Leadership", can't remember the other one I liked) but in general I'm annoyed I had to read it for class.

When the editors of Harvard Business Review open their vault of leadership and management gems, scouring its vast depth for the best and brightest of their treasures, and then line them up for you to glimpse and grasp -- get in line! Whether you look at HBR's 10 Must Reads On Leadership as an essential leadership primer or approach it as a graduate course sandwiched between two covers, this book is outstanding. HBR's 10 Must Reads On Leadership is a gathering of some of the best thought leaders

It was very hard to rate this book. Many of the articles are actually quite insightful, despite my rating, and well worth the read. One could even call some of them "game changing". With regards to others, I just don't think I'm at a place in my career and in my organization where I can appreciate the articles. I skimmed those. Finally, there is an article or two in there, or some articles with a few parts within them, that I vehemently disagree with and can't understand how they made it into a

This compilation makes yourself challenge and question your performance and existance as a leader, in a good way. Much of the treats, competencies, skills, etc described from the various authors do converge at certain points. And while every author claims they did the best research amongst top X CEOs across all continents in the top performing companies, the conclusions vary a lot. Either way, it's a good exercise to read all of this learnings derived from these exhaustive leadership analaysis.T...

Read it, but read it with caution, thoughtfulness, emotionally balanced introspection, and with no expectation of "an answer".The Harvard Business Review deserves its outstanding reputation. With that comes the risk of every word being looked to as gospel (because "it's the HBR"), or read with an overly critical eye and an unconscious need to "find flaw with those pretentious bastards at HBR".However, this collection of articles is well written (as expected), but also well compiled to provide a

Love this book on leadership - it's a collection of articles that are perfect to keep in your flight bag for trips - short essays that give you something to think about and of course, the quintessential Drucker (how can you go wrong?)I really would have given this 5 stars, but the last couple of articles didn't quite hit as close to home for me - even so, I waffled between 4 and 5 stars (would have been an ideal 4.5 star book!). Recommended for anyone looking to up their game in leadership. :)

Unscientific, anecdotal and value-based, this collection of articles gives a good overview of leadership thinking. However, most of the articles follow this dubious method:-look at successful companies or leaders-formulate a leadership model and apply this to the material-create compelling images as an illustration-tell stories that confirm the modelThe mere fact that the collection ends up with very different models of leadership shows that the results are more subjective and random than they p...

I get that the conventions and quality of academic writing vary across disciplines. But the breathless tone of business/management academia gussies up the meager insights of this discipline as significant, penetrating scholarship. It isn't. And this book isn't worth your time.

Last week I finished "HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership" by Harvard Business Review featuring a good collection of leadership articles from renowned business leaders. Here are the articles from the book(1) Daniel Goleman - What Makes a Leader?(2) Peter Drucker - What Makes an Effective Executive?(3) John P. Kottner - What Leaders Really Do(4) Ronald A Heifetx and Donald L. Laurie - The Work of Leadership(5) Robert Goffee and Gareth Jones - Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?(6) Warren G. Bennis and...

An excellent collection of HBR articles by business leaders. Goleman, Daniel - What Makes a Leader?Drucker, Peter - What Makes an Effective Executive?Kottner, John P. - What Leaders Really DoHeifetx, Ronald A/. and Laurie, Donald L. - The Work of LeadershipGoffee, Robert and Jones, Gareth - Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?Bennis, Warren G. and Thomas, Robert J. - Crucibles of LeadershipCollins, Him - Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce ResolveRooke, David, and Torbert, William...

I wanted to like this book, but it left me depressed that the highest regarded popular press writings on leadership are (still) written by white men. What topics and narratives would we be exploring in the realm of leadership if the authorship had more diverse gender and racial representation? When white men make up the vast majority of Fortune 500 CEOs, it starts to feel like the issue of representation in this book's authorship is part of a systemic issue. I hope HBR is taking this into consid...

Great resource for anyone leading a team or company or any aspiring leaders. I particularly enjoyed Jim Collins Level 5 leadership insights. I’ve read his book Good to Great too and this was an excellent summary of it

A worthy read as a compendium of good leadership articles. It provides tips and tricks, general stats and studies about the leadership and is not a guide to build leadership. If there was one concept that I would carry from this book, it would be about authentic leadership. Great leaders can inspire and move someone, but emulating them and their action will not get him/her far. On the contrary, understanding your own trials and tribulation, your life challenges and the journey itself, will help