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Harvard Business Review Leader's Handbook

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Harvard Business Review consistently does a great job of collecting all the leadership insights into one book. True to its title, this is the handbook needed for any leader out there.

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Harvard Business Review has complied an awesome toolkit here on leadership. This handbook can equip the leader with the ability to identify, repair and implement new leadership styles and tools.

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As usual with Harvard BusinesS Review, this book is a top book.
A book with very high added value for managers that I highly recommend.
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Very insightful book with ideas that can be put into practice. Highly recommended for everyone interested in leadership positions.

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Interesting view on the theory of leadership. I believe this book is a very good theoretical basis. Strong content as it is usually provided by Harvard Business Books. Recommend the interviews with senior executives as so much information is being covered through them. Practical business aspects are always good. The frameworks provided are working ones. I have put one in practice already.

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This leadership book is well divided in six main chapter (Building a Unifying Vision, Developing a Strategy, Getting Great People on Board, Focusing on Results, Innovating for the Future, Leading Yourself).
Each chapter contains theory, examples, several in-depth information boxes (e.g. "Exploring make-or-buy and acquisition options" in the "Developing a Strategy" chapter) and "Questions to consider" to recap the content of the related chapter.

I received a copy of the book as Netgalley reviewer.

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Honest and in-depth advice for reaching your full potential. This advice is presented in easy to follow language that can be broken up and applied in pieces at a time.

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A very interesting and useful book about leadership. It's one the best I read and it helps to understand how leadership works and how to improve it.
I would like to stress the usefulness of this book as it gives a framework for understanding the practices every leader should follow.
Highly recommended!
Many thanks to Harvard Business Review and Netgalley for this ARC

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I would say that this is one of the most insightful, most helpful, and most practical leadership books I’ve read in years. Not only that it provides meaningful perspective about leadership, it also illustrates a high level view on how executives particularly CEOs can lead their respective organizations.

The book revolves around 6 leadership practices that leaders from all levels should pay attention to: building a unifying vision, developing a strategy, getting great people on board, focusing on results, innovating for the future, and leading oneself. This is really a helpful framework even for me who is aiming to lead an organization someday. It will help me to guide myself as to what practices should I need to improve. It will also serve as a constant reminder of what is important in terms of leading an organization.

I’ve read several leadership books; many of them focusing on how to lead with charisma, some of them on how to communicate vision, while others on how to inspire others. This book does all of those and more. Because of this book I now understand that leaders should also look at the innovation within. This is one of key drivers of competitive edge in different markets nowadays.

More importantly, not all leadership books will discuss on how leaders can take care of themselves. Many books will help you on how to serve others but this book balance the scale by putting emphasis on leaders giving back to themselves.

Truly wonderful and fascinating read, this book is recommended to those who are leading organizations on every level.

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