Author Description

<p><b>As CEO, you set the vision, the strategy, and the tone of your organization.</b></p> <p>You establish priorities, anticipate and address challenges, champion and lead change efforts, set people up for success, and manage risk. Though you may have a great senior executive team and a top-flight board, the success of your organization depends on your leadership.</p> <p>If you read nothing else on being an effective chief executive, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of <b>Harvard Business Review</b> articles and selected the best ones to help you toggle between long- and short-term views, manage risk and innovation, and cultivate productive relationships with your staff and your board. This book will inspire you to:</p> <ul> <li>Navigate the changing global business environment</li> <li>Customize your company's strategy to the environment you're working in</li> <li>Attract, engage, and retain the best talent</li> <li>Anticipate and address legislative and regulatory issues</li> <li>Sharpen your awareness of the tactical and soft skills you need to lead</li> <li>Adopt a founder's mindset and build new offerings, move into new markets, and create next-generation solutions</li> <li>Manage and build relationships with your board--and your shareholders</li> </ul> <p>This collection of articles includes "Your Strategy Needs a Strategy," by Martin Reeves, Claire Love, and Philipp Tillmanns; "Managing Your Innovation Portfolio," by Bansi Nagji and Geo Tu; "Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail," by John P. Kotter; "Reinventing Your Business Model," by Mark W. Johnson, Clayton M. Christensen, and Henning Kagermann; "Leadership Is a Conversation," by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind; "Strategic Intent," by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad; "When Growth Stalls," by Matthew S. Olson, Derek van Bever, and Seth Verry; "The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution," by Gary L. Neilson, Karla L. Martin, and Elizabeth Powers; "The