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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002). By Stephen R.

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Kodak and the Brutal Difficulty of Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Early in the 2000s it made a bold bet: buying photo sharing site Ofoto in May 2001. As the decade wore on and its core business continued to deteriorate, Kodak brought in a new leadership team, downsized its core operations, and began placing bets on even more radical ideas , such as a line of printers with low-cost ink.

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The Market Wants Apple to Unveil a Time Machine

Harvard Business Review

What the naysayers are overlooking or ignoring is that one could have made a list for Steve Jobs that would look remarkably similar: Missed earnings: Apple posted a $247 million quarterly loss ( in 2001 , four years after Jobs took over — and the stock went UP in after-hours trading). Bad quality control: MobileMe, antenna-gate.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business Review

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. For my money, “What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions” (2001), which Garvin wrote with Michael Roberto, is the best piece on organizational decision making in HBR’s archive.