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Digitally transform your organization, one manageable step at a time In The Digital Leader: Finding a Faster, More Profitable Path to Exceptional Growth, a team of visionary entrepreneurs delivers an authoritative and engaging roadmap demonstrating how to digitalize your business by taking small, achievable steps that yield measurable, near-term results. In this handbook of concrete strategies and methods, the authors show you how to pinpoint and implement bite-sized projects that sync up with your business priorities. You'll learn how to find and choose between the digital enablement options available to you while discovering the tools you need to explain their value to stakeholders and get much-needed buy-in from executives, managers, and employees. You'll also: Learn about the value of experimentation, continuous innovation, and how to generate dramatic transformation by using incremental changes to your advantage Find out how to digitalize one piece of your business at a time, instead of taking on a gargantuan transformation all at once that is destined for failure Discover how to straddle the technology and business worlds and help define each of them to the otherA can't-miss resource for executives, managers, and other business leaders, The Digital Leader also belongs in the bookshelves of IT and data professionals seeking to maximize their impact on the businesses around them.

Invest in your most valuable resource: your people.Top talent is hard to come by. And seeing your stars walk out the door is painful—and expensive. You need to take steps to ensure that you attract, develop, and retain your best people.If you read nothing else on managing talent in your organization, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you boost the engagement, skills, and commitment of your highest performers.This book will inspire you to:Build a winning talent strategyRecruit and hire the best candidatesIdentify and develop high-potential employeesFoster a just and inclusive workplaceOvercome the challenges of hybrid workPrepare your workforce for the futureThis collection of articles includes'Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy,'by Douglas A. Ready, Linda A. Hill, and Robert J. Thomas;'Your Approach to Hiring Is All Wrong,'by Peter Cappelli;''A Players'or'A Positions'?: The Strategic Logic of Workforce Management,” by Mark A. Huselid, Richard W. Beatty, and Brian E. Becker;'Turning Potential into Success: The Missing Link in Leadership Development,'by Claudio Fernandez-Araoz, Andrew Roscoe, and Kentaro Aramaki;'Making Business Personal,'by Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey, Andy Fleming, and Matthew Miller;'The Power of Hidden Teams,'by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall;'The Performance Management Revolution,'by Peter Cappelli and Anna Tavis;'People Before Strategy: A New Role for the CHRO,'by Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey;'Toward a Racially Just Workplace,'by Lauren Morgan Roberts and Anthony J. Mayo;'How to Do Hybrid Right,'by Lynda Gratton; and'Your Workforce Is More Adaptable Than You Think,'by Joseph Fuller, Judith K. Wallenstein, Manjari Raman, and Alice de Chalendar.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.

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 engagementUse agile processes to transform how you hire, develop, and manage peopleEstablish diversity programs that increase innovation and competitiveness as well as inclusionUse people analytics to bring unprecedented insight to hiring and talent managementPrepare your company for the double waves of artificial intelligence and an older workforceClose the gap between HR and strategyThis 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.

•A Wall Street Journal bestseller• The forces driving today's world of structural change create sharp bends in the road that can lead to major explosions in your existing market space. But exponential change also offers exponential opportunities. How do you leverage change to go on the offense? The Attacker's Advantage is the game plan for winning in an era of ambiguity, volatility, and complexity, when every leader and every business is being challenged in new and unexpected ways. Ram Charan, harnessing an unequalled depth and breadth of experience working with leaders and companies around the globe, provides tested, practical tools to help you: Build the perceptual acuity to see around corners and detect, ahead of others, those forces -- especially people, who are the catalysts of change -- that could radically reshape a company or industry Have the mindset to see opportunity in uncertainty Commit to a new path forward despite the unknowns, positioning your business to make the next move ahead of competitors Break the blockages that can hold your company back Know when to accelerate and when to shift the short-term and long-term balance Make your organization agile and steerable by aligning people, priorities, decision-making power, budgeting and capital allocation, and key performance indicators to the new realities of the marketplaceThe Attacker's Advantage provides a stark and simple challenge: stay in a legacy world of incremental gains or defensiveness, or be an attacker by creating a new world, scaling it up quickly, ahead of the traditional players.

An updated and revised version of the bestselling The Leadership Pipeline – the critical resource for how companies can grow leaders from the inside. In business, leadership at every level is a requisite for company survival. Yet the leadership pipeline –the internal strategy to grow leaders – in many companies is dry or nonexistent. Drawing on their experiences at many Fortune 500 companies, the authors show how organizations can develop leadership at every level by identifying future leaders, assessing their corporate confidence, planning their development, and measuring their results. New to this edition is 65 pages of new material to update the model, share new stories and add new advice based on the ten more years of experience. The authors have also added a'Frequently Asked Questions'section to the end of each chapter.

If talent is the leading indicator of whether a business is up or down, a success or a failure (and it is)... do you know how to accurately judge raw human talent? Understand a person's unique combination of traits? Develop that talent? Convert what supposedly are'soft'subjective judgments about people into objective criteria that are as specific, verifiable, and concrete as the contents of a financial statement? The talent masters do. They put people before numbers for the simple reason that it is talent that delivers the numbers. Success comes from those who are able to extract meaning from events and the forces affecting a business, and are able to look at the world and assess the risks to take and the risks to avoid. The Talent Masters itself stems from a unique combination of talent: During a forty-year career at General Electric, Bill Conaty worked closely with CEOs Jack Welch and Jeff Immelt to build that company's worldrenowned talent machine. Ram Charan is the legendary advisor to companies around the world. Together they use their unparalleled experience and insight to write the definitive book on talent—a breakthrough in how to take a business to the next level:• Secrets of the masters. The specifics on how companies regarded as world-class—GE, P&G, Hindustan Unilever (and others)—base their stellar performance decade after decade on their systems for finding and nurturing leadership talent.• Intimate and systemic. Why deep knowledge and intimacy with your talent and a systemic rhythm of reviews are the foundation for creating a steady, selfrenewing stream of leaders for all levels of an organization—from first-line supervisors to the CEO.• The competency that lasts. Financial results, market share, brand, and legacy products all have a half-life that seems to grow shorter by the year. Talent is the only competency that endures.• What to do Monday morning. The Talent Masters tool kit provides the specific guidelines for assessing and improving your company's talent mastery capabilities.