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Reskilling is the new imperative in the war for talent.
As the pace of technological change accelerates, the demand for new skills is increasing. And as technologies like AI take on new tasks and jobs, smart organizations aren't waiting for their new workforces to appear. They are investing in reskilling the workers. They're adopting a skills-based approach to hiring and developing talent. And they're leveraging digital learning tech to upskill their employees dynamically and efficiently. What new approaches should your organization be taking to build the workforce you need—now and tomorrow?
Reskilling and Upskilling: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review brings you today's most essential thinking on rebuilding and retraining your workforce. It explains how to launch the right skilling initiatives, how to measure their impact, and how to prepare your company to compete in the new skills economy.
How to use gen AI to save time, innovate faster, and lead effectively.
You're probably aware that generative AI can output quality text in any style and create stunning images in seconds. But smart managers are using gen AI for much more—business case development, data analysis, strategic exploration, and dozens of other applications. Soon, managers who develop their generative AI capabilities will be leaping ahead of managers who don't. Fortunately, you can start now and see results fast.
The HBR Guide to Generative AI for Managers is packed with practical tips, prompts, case studies, and ideas to apply gen AI to dozens of managerial tasks right away and achieve incredible results. It's time for you to develop your gen AI–enabled mindset. This book will show you how.
You'll learn how to understand key terms and concepts; identify the risks and rewards of generative AI; enhance your productivity; employ gen AI as both a copilot and a co-thinker; use the generative AI platform that best suits your needs; and leverage gen AI for business decisions and leading change.
Attract, identify, and hire the right people.
When there's an opening on your team, filling it is never a quick or easy process. You're down a person, and yet the work doesn't stop. Managers have varying levels of company support for the recruiting and hiring process. There can be tons of bureaucracy and red tape—or minimal guidance, documentation, and support. How can you make the time to identify and address gaps in the skills and capabilities on your team and do all of the work it takes to ensure a fair and effective process is followed for finding the best person for the job . . . while continuing to meet the regular day-to-day demands of your job?
The HBR Guide to Better Recruiting and Hiring provides the practical tips, research, stories, and advice you need to successfully attract, identify, and hire people whose values, competency, and potential align with your team and your organization. You'll learn how to assess your team's current strengths and weaknesses; identify the attributes and qualifications you need; craft a compelling and accurate job description; increase the size and quality of the candidate pool; conduct productive and informative interviews; assess cultural fit—and future performance; mitigate bias in hiring practices; make a fair and competitive offer; and negotiate with confidence.
Harness the power of a growth mindset.
Cultivating a positive outlook can help you and your team embrace strengths, see opportunities instead of problems, and even feel more engaged in routine tasks.
This book provides insights on how to create an environment where everyone can flourish and grow. You'll learn about the effects of emotional contagion; how gratitude, feedback, and perspective matter; and how to establish an optimistic and innovative team culture.
This volume includes the work of Carol Dweck, Emma Seppälä, Shawn Achor, and Kim Scott.
How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.
Learn, grow, and be inspired—every day.
HBR Daily Leader provides 365 days' worth of insights and inspiration, an easy and enjoyable way to make your professional development a regular habit. Throughout the book, you'll find insights to spark your thinking, quotes to inspire you, and questions to reflect on. And each day presents you with an opportunity to take on topics such as communicating effectively, managing your time, expanding your influence, and cultivating new skills.
Elevate your leadership practice and presence with wisdom drawn from the best of Harvard Business Review.
Be the boss people want to work for.
Being a manager is no easy task. You must set and meet team goals that match business objectives while also ensuring growth and development opportunities for your people. You have to be the voice of authority and a key decision-maker while simultaneously giving your employees autonomy and flexibility. How do you navigate these tensions?
People, Performance, and Succeeding as a Manager is filled with practical advice from HBR experts that can help you answer that and other questions, such as: Is being a manager right for me? What qualities should a boss have? How do I build trust with my team? What is the best way to deliver constructive feedback? How do I motivate my employees? Are there common mistakes I should be avoiding?
This book will help you figure out what kind of manager you want to be so that you can feel comfortable in your role, encourage the success of your people, and grow in your own career.
Communication is key.
Effective communication is essential to standing out at work and excelling in your career. But when it comes to making a convincing point in a meeting, crafting the perfect email, or nailing a presentation, there's a lot to navigate. What kind of language do you use with a varied audience? Which channel is best for which message? How much do body language and Zoom backgrounds matter? And what should you not say?
Writing, Presenting, and Communicating with Confidence is filled with practical advice from HBR experts that can help you answer questions such as: How can I prepare for the most difficult conversations? What can I do to improve my writing? What strategies can I use to overcome my anxiety about public speaking? How can I boost my presence and influence through persuasive communication?
Writing, speaking, and communicating with confidence can be intimidating. This book gives you the tools to stand out and deliver your message more successfully.
Negotiation—whether brokering a deal, mediating a dispute, or writing up a contract—is both a necessary and challenging aspect of business life. This guide helps managers to sharpen their skills and become more effective deal makers in any situation.
Is your healthcare organization spending too much time on strategy—with too little to show for it?
If you read (or listen to) nothing else on strategy, listen to these ten articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones for healthcare professionals to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution.
This collection of articles includes 'What Is Strategy?' by Michael E. Porter; 'The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy,' by Michael E. Porter; 'Health Care Needs Real Competition,' by Leemore S. Dafny and Thomas H. Lee; 'Building Your Company's Vision,' by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras; 'Reinventing Your Business Model,' by Mark W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen, and Henning Kagermann; 'Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care?' by Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Bohmer, and John Kenagy; 'Blue Ocean Strategy,' by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne; 'Rediscovering Market Segmentation,' by Daniel Yankelovich and David Meer; 'The Office of Strategy Management,' by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton; and 'The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care,' by Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee.
A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech—all in one place.
Generative AI, biometrics, spatial computing, electric vehicles—new technologies like these are reshaping organizations at the hybrid office, on factory floors, and in the C-suite. What should you and your company be doing now to take advantage of the new opportunities these technologies are creating—and avoid falling victim to disruption?
The Year in Tech 2025: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand what the latest and most important tech innovations mean for your organization and how you can use them to compete and win in today's turbulent business environment.
Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?
Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues—blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more—each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow.
Drive transformation.
Change is now constant. As a leader, you must serve as interpreter, project manager, cheerleader, and conduit. Plans evolve. Contexts shift. Progress happens in fits and starts. Through it all, you must push your team forward even when you encounter pushback. How can you ensure that your team has the information, the mindset, and the resources they need to be successful?
The HBR Guide to Leading Through Change provides the practical tips, research, stories, and advice you need to understand, communicate, and implement change effectively, no matter the size or scale of the challenge you're facing. You'll learn how to improve your odds of success; communicate a shared vision; keep going, even amid lags and setbacks; deal with naysayers and roadblocks; build trust and resilience on your team; and make a lasting impact.
Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.
