Book cover for HBR's 10 Must Reads on Lifelong Learning (with bonus article "The Right Mindset for Success" with Carol Dweck) by Harvard Business Review, Carol Dweck, Marcus Buckingham, Francesca Gino and John H Zenger

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Lifelong Learning (with bonus article "The Right Mindset for Success" with Carol Dweck)

2021 Released
208 Pages
3-4 Hours
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Harvard Business Review PressISBN 9781647820787

Create and sustain a culture of learning.

If you read nothing else on learning, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you keep your skills fresh and relevant, support continuous improvement on your team, and prepare everyone in the organization to thrive over the long term.

This book will inspire you to:

  • Cultivate relentless curiosity
  • Magnify your strengths and make yourself indispensable
  • Nurture a growth mindset in yourself and others
  • Deliver actionable feedback to help every employee excel
  • Transform today's failure into tomorrow's success
  • Reimagine your employee-development program
  • Build a learning organization

This collection of articles includes "Learning to Learn," by Erika Andersen; "Making Yourself Indispensable," by John H. Zenger, Joseph R. Folkman, and Scott K. Edinger; "Find the Coaching in Criticism," by Sheila Heen and Douglas Stone; "Teaching Smart People How to Learn," by Chris Argyris; "The Feedback Fallacy," by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall; "The Leader as Coach," by Herminia Ibarra and Anne Scoular; "Strategies for Learning from Failure," by Amy C. Edmondson; "Learning in the Thick of It," by Marilyn Darling, Charles Parry, and Joseph Moore; "Is Yours a Learning Organization?" by David A. Garvin, Amy C. Edmondson, and Francesca Gino; "Why Organizations Don't Learn," by Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats; "The Transformer CLO," by Abbie Lundberg and George Westerman; and "The Right Mindset for Success," an interview with Carol Dweck by Sarah Green Carmichael.

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.

Carol Dweck

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Francesca Gino

Francesca Gino is an award-winning researcher and teacher, and a tenured professor at Harvard Business School. Her consulting and speaking clients include Bacardi, Akamai, Disney, Goldman Sachs, Honeywell, Novartis, P&G, and the U.S. Air Force, Army, and Navy. She has been honored as one of the world’s Top 40 Business Professors under 40 and one of the world’s 50 most influential management thinkers. Her work has been featured on CNN and NPR, as well as in the Economist, Financial Times, New York Times, Newsweek, Scientific American, and Psychology Today.

 

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John H Zenger

John H. Zenger, D.B.A., is theCEO of Zenger Folkman, a firmthat brings empirical research, innovativedevelopment methods, and software tools to leadershipdevelopment. He is a member of the HRDHall of Fame and has authored or coauthoredeight books and 50 articles on leadership, productivity, and teams.

Joseph R. Folkman, Ph.D., ispresident of Zenger Folkman. Heis an authoritative voice on thesubject of developing and usingemployee surveys to create organizationalchange and 360-degree feedbackassessment for individual development. Heis a frequent keynote speaker and conferencepresenter on a variety of topics regarding leadership, feedback, and organizational change.

Scott K. Edinger is executivevice president of Zenger Folkman, where he consults with Fortune500 companies to initiate and implementlarge-scale performanceimprovement and leadership initiatives. Heis an expert in helping organizations achievemeasurable business results.

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