HBR’s 10 Must Reads, 2025: The Definite Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review
Various Contributors in Collaboration with HBR Editors
Harvard Business Review Press (October 2024)

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This is the latest volume in a series introduced in 2015. “HBR 10 Must Read” anthologies are published every autumn. Each consists of ten or eleven articles plus a “bonus” article, all previously published in Harvard Business Review. They have been carefully selected for each volume by HBR editors. If you were to purchase all 11 articles in the 2024 edition as individual reprints, the total cost would be about $100. You can purchase a copy of the paperbound edition from Amazon for only $20.60. That’s not a bargain. That’s a steal…and the material is also easily accessable and portable.

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The “Editors’ Note” provides a brilliant introduction to articles that really are a “must read” for executives who are determined to accelerate their personal growth and professional development. According to the Editors, “Keeping up with the latest research, trends, and influential thinking is time-consuming. If you are able to read only 11 articles, whether all at once on a flight or in stolen moments during your day, which ones will bring you and your organization the most value? Which will surprise and delight you? Which will you talk about with friends and colleagues? Which will spur your thinking to action? We believe the articles in this collection meet those criteria.”

The material in these eleven articles will help you and your associates to achieve specific strategic objectives by explaining HOW TO

o Reskill in the AGE of AI
o Determine how fast the organization should really grow
o Sustain empathy during difficult times
o Motivate and empower the “new-collar” workforce culture
o Eliminate infuriating obstacles throughout your organization
o Determine where DEI should be and what it will accomplish
o Differentiate what rainmakers do (and will not do)
o Understand  the realities — and opportunities — of the new era of organizational policy
o Market sustainable products
o Explain what “stakeholder capitalism” means to every stakeholder
o Use strategic thinking to create the life  everyone wants

The editors have carefully selected a year’s worth of management wisdom all in one place. “We’ve reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up-to-date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. With authors like Ginni Rommety tomRobertbI.Sutton and company examples from Maersk to Nvidia, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations right to your fingertips.”

I commend the authors and their HBR editors on their their brilliant, substantial contributions to thought leadership throughout the global marketplace and highly recommend this material to all C-level executives and those who aspire to become one as well as to those who are now preparing for a business career or have only recently embarked upon one.