HBR's 10 Must Reads 2016 MP3 CD – Unabridged, August 9, 2016

Content is good but the medium - audio - just fails to keep my attention. Have to listen to everything 4 times whilst driving. Book would have been far better choice. Was hoping tonabsorb it whilst driving, but not possible

A good collection of HBR articles.

A very help book for the class I'm teaching

All Good!

First time getting one of these collections. Very useful, to stimulate thought. Would recommend. Next level: how to combine physical layout of a facility to the internet of things?

This is a good book to read while traveling on business. I enjoy the articles.

This is the second volume in what I hope will become an annual series of anthologies of the best articles that appeared in Harvard Business Review during the previous calendar year. Frankly, I am pleased and relieved that I was not among those who were charged with making the selections, each of which is eminently worthy. I commend the Editors on the excellent Introduction. It brilliantly sets the "table" for the intellectual "feast" that follows.The articles average about 15 pages in length. (Keep in mind that Amazon's "Look inside" option creates immediate access to the table of contents in all of the anthologies: HBR 10 Must Reads, HBR Guides to, HBR on, etc.) Executives with little (if any) time for reading business books and journals will welcome the material in HBR's 10 Must Reads 2016: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review. They will receive a briefing on cutting edge thinking about timely topics such as these:o Why and how performance management needs to be reinventedo The transparency trap and how to avoid ito What strategy unravels...and what to do about thato The authenticity paradoxo The discipline of business experimentationo What do when senior managers won't cooperateo How to establish workplaces that move peopleo Ho0w connections, sensors, and data are revolutionizing businessHere in Dallas near the downtown area, we have a Farmer's Market at which several merchants offer slices of fresh-cut fruit as samples of their wares. In that spirit, I now present three excerpts that are presentative of the high quality of all eleven selections."[Employee] ratings are a distillation of the truth -- and up until now, one might argue, a necessary one. Yet we want our organizations to know us, and we want to know ourselves at work, and that can't be compressed into a single number. We now have the technology to go from a small data version of our people to a big data version of them." Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall"The corporate resource allocation process is America's source of economic security or insecurity,as the case may be. If Americans want an economy in which corporate profits result in shared prosperity, the buyback and executive compensation binges will have to end. As with any addiction, there will be withdrawal pains. But the best executives may actually get satisfaction out of being paid a reasonable salary for allocating resources in ways that sustain the enterprise, provide higher standards of living to the workers who make it succeed, and generate tax revenues for the governments that provide it with critical inputs." William Lazonick"When their companies fail to translate strategy into results, many executives point to a weak performance culture as the root cause. The data tells a different story. It is true that in most companies, the official culture -- the core values posted on the companv website, say -- does not support execution. However, a company's true values reveal themselves when managers make hard choices -- and here we have found that a focus on performance does shape behavior on a day-to-day basis." Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes, and Charles SullGiven the quality of the articles in this anthology, its price (if purchased from Amazon US, $17.24) is not a bargain, it's a steal.

great

Very informative n recommended

Excellent compilation!! Comes handy in most of the business trips..

Articles from the year 2014. Should have been there in the 2015 edition. Disappointed.