AI is ready for business. Are you ready for AI?

From financial modeling and product design to performance management and hiring decisions, AI and machine learning are becoming everyday tools for managers at businesses of all sizes. But AI systems come with benefits and downsides—and if you can't make sense of them, you're not going to make the right decisions.

Whether you need to get up to speed quickly or need a refresher, or you're working with an AI expert for the first time, the HBR Guide to AI Basics for Managers will give you the information and skills you need to succeed.

You'll learn how to:

• Understand key AI terms and concepts
• Recognize which of your projects would benefit from AI
• Work more effectively with your data team
• Hire the right AI vendors and consultants
• Deal with ethical risks before they arise
• Scale AI across your organization

Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.

Break down the barriers to effective collaboration.

For cross-functional projects to work, you need to bring together diverse ideas and resources from across your organization. But office politics, conflicting objectives, and lack of clear authority can get in the way.

The HBR Guide to Collaborative Teams provides practical tips and advice to help you collaborate more effectively. Whether you're leading your own direct reports or building a talented group from disparate parts of your organization, you'll discover how to align others' goals and skills so you can solve problems as a team and deliver great results.

You'll learn to:

• Develop a shared purpose
• Bust departmental silos
• Lead employees who don't report to you
• Overcome conflict and turf wars
• Prevent collaborative overload and fatigue
• Use the right tools for virtual information sharing

Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.

Stop searching for purpose. Build it.

We're living through a crisis of purpose. Surveys indicate that people are feeling less connected to the meaning of their work, asking, "How do I find my purpose?"

That's the wrong question. You don't find your purpose—you build it. The HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose debunks three common myths about purpose: that purpose is found, that you have only one, and that it stays the same over time. Packed with stories, tips, and activities, this book teaches you how to cultivate more meaning in your life and work and endow everything you do with purpose.

You'll learn how to:

• Find the reason behind your work
• Identify what makes you feel happy and fulfilled
• Use job crafting to transform your role
• Build positive, fulfilling relationships
• Connect your work to service

Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.

Tackle complex situations with critical thinking.

You're facing a problem at work. There are many ways you can approach the situation, but each comes with its own pros and cons. How do you sort through all the information so that you know you're taking the right path?

The answer is in how you think. The HBR Guide to Critical Thinking will help you navigate your most challenging issues, from difficult problems to tough decisions to complex scenarios. By carefully observing the situation, gathering information, inviting other perspectives, and analyzing what's in front of you, you can move forward with confidence while building this crucial leadership skill.

You'll learn how to:

• Question your assumptions
• Keep an open mind to opposing viewpoints
• Sidestep cognitive biases
• Use data—when appropriate
• Grow comfortable with ambiguity
• Find innovative and creative solutions

Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.

Don't let a fear of numbers hold you back.

Today's business environment brings with it an onslaught of data. Now more than ever, managers must know how to tease insight from data--to understand where the numbers come from, make sense of them, and use them to inform tough decisions. How do you get started?

Whether you're working with data experts or running your own tests, you'll find answers in the HBR Guide to Data Analytics Basics for Managers. This book describes three key steps in the data analysis process, so you can get the information you need, study the data, and communicate your findings to others.

You'll learn how to:

• Identify the metrics you need to measure
• Run experiments and A/B tests
• Ask the right questions of your data experts
• Understand statistical terms and concepts
• Create effective charts and visualizations
• Avoid common mistakes

Put your strategy into action.

Even the best competitive strategies mean nothing if they aren't executed well. Yet many organizations struggle when they move from defining a strategy to actually applying it. Somehow, all the careful planning falls apart, initiatives fail, and leaders are left wondering how to pick up the pieces.

The HBR Guide to Executing Your Strategy is here to help. This book offers leaders and managers tips and advice for sharing the strategy with your employees, making the shift toward the right objectives, and seeing your strategy come to fruition.

You'll learn how to:

• Understand the "why" behind your strategy
• Identify the capabilities you have—and the ones you need
• Communicate objectives and priorities effectively to your team
• Prioritize strategic projects and let go of outdated ones
• Encourage cross-silo collaboration toward organizational goals
• Adjust course when necessary

Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.

IS YOUR WORKLOAD SLOWING YOU—AND YOUR CAREER—DOWN?

Your inbox is overflowing. You’re paralyzed because you have too much to do but don’t know where to start. Your to-do list never seems to get any shorter. You leave work exhausted but have little to show for it.

It’s time to learn how to get the right work done.

In the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Work Done, you’ll discover how to focus your time and energy where they will yield the greatest reward. Not only will you end each day knowing you made progress—your improved productivity will also set you apart from the pack.

Whether you’re a new professional or an experienced one, this guide will help you:

• Prioritize and stay focused
• Work less but accomplish more
• Stop bad habits and develop good ones
• Break overwhelming projects into manageable pieces
• Conquer e-mail overload
• Write to-do lists that really work

Drive transformation.

Change is now constant. As a leader, you must serve as interpreter, project manager, cheerleader, and conduit. Plans evolve. Contexts shift. Progress happens in fits and starts. Through it all, you must push your team forward even when you encounter pushback. How can you ensure that your team has the information, the mindset, and the resources they need to be successful?

The HBR Guide to Leading Through Change provides the practical tips, research, stories, and advice you need to understand, communicate, and implement change effectively, no matter the size or scale of the challenge you’re facing. You'll learn to:

• Improve your odds of success
• Communicate a shared vision
• Keep going, even amid lags and setbacks
• Deal with naysayers and roadblocks
• Build trust and resilience on your team
• Make a lasting impact

Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, with the most trusted brand in business. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.

MEET YOUR GOALS—ON TIME AND ON BUDGET.

How do you rein in the scope of your project when you’ve got a group of demanding stakeholders breathing down your neck? And map out a schedule everyone can stick to? And motivate team members who have competing demands on their time and attention?

Whether you’re managing your first project or just tired of improvising, this guide will give you the tools and confidence you need to define smart goals, meet them, and capture lessons learned so future projects go even more smoothly.

The HBR Guide to Project Management will help you:

Don't wait for someone else to manage your career.

The days of HR-sponsored development plans are over. Managing your career--and the skills you need to be successful--is your responsibility. If you're looking to push yourself to the next level, it can be hard to determine where to start.

The HBR Guide to Your Professional Growth will be your coach, transforming your abstract hopes and ideas into a concrete action plan. No matter where you are in your career, this guide will help you:

• Assess your current skills--and acquire new ones
• Elicit feedback you can use
• Set meaningful--and achievable--goals
• Make time for learning
• Play to your strengths
• Identify your next challenge

Arm yourself with the advice you need to succeed on the job, from a source you trust. Packed with how-to essentials from leading experts, the HBR Guides provide smart answers to your most pressing work challenges.

No data is completely safe.

Cyberattacks on companies and individuals are on the rise and growing not only in number but also in ferocity. And while you may think your company has taken all the precautionary steps to prevent an attack, no individual, company, or country is safe. Cybersecurity can no longer be left exclusively to IT specialists. Improving and increasing data security practices and identifying suspicious activity is everyone's responsibility, from the boardroom to the break room.

Cybersecurity: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review brings you today's most essential thinking on cybersecurity, from outlining the challenges to exploring the solutions, and provides you with the critical information you need to prepare your company for the inevitable hack. The lessons in this book will help you get everyone in your organization on the same page when it comes to protecting your most valuable assets.

Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?
Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues--blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more--each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow. You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas--and prepare you and your company for the future.

The definitive leadership and management ideas of the year from Harvard Business Review.

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. Featuring examples from leaders such as Jensen Huang and Jane Fraser, and companies from Hermès to OpenAI, this volume brings a year's worth of management wisdom right to your fingertips.

This book will inspire you to:

• Eliminate dysfunction in your leadership team
• Apply the right kinds of questions to strategic decisions
• Bring everyone on board with your AI efforts
• Design innovative products that grow with your customers
• Better assess what macroeconomic risk means for your business
• Build a corporate culture that truly aligns with your values

This collection of articles includes: "The Art of Asking Smarter Questions," by Arnaud Chevallier, Frédéric Dalsace, and Jean-Louis Barsoux; "The Uniqueness Trap," by Bent Flyvbjerg, Alexander Budzier, M.D. Christodoulou, and M. Zottoli; "Why Multibusiness Strategies Fail and How to Make Them Succeed," by Bharat N. Anand and David J. Collis; "One Company A/B Tested Hybrid Work. Here's What It Found," by Nicholas Bloom, James Liang, and Ruobing Han; "Build a Corporate Culture That Works," by Erin Meyer; "Why Leadership Teams Fail," by Thomas Keil and Marianna Zangrillo; "How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk," by Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz; "Five Ways to Ask Your Boss to Advocate for You," by Melody Wilding; "What Comes After DEI," by Lily Zheng; "For Success with AI, Bring Everyone On Board," by David De Cremer, "Design Products That Won't Become Obsolete," by Vijay Govindarajan, Tojin T. Eapen, and Daniel J. Finkenstadt; and "The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift," by Kevin Evers.

HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others. This edition features a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

The definitive leadership and management ideas of the year from Harvard Business Review.

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 from Amy C. Edmondson to Jamil Zaki and company examples from Microsoft to the NBA, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations right to your fingertips.

This book will inspire you to:

• Break the cycle of endless transformation and change fatigue
• Stop AI-generated workslop from causing frustration and needless rework
• Counter common misconceptions about psychological safety
• Choose the best CEO in the face of uncertainty and volatility
• Turn your data into a strategic asset
• Illustrate your strategy clearly and effectively—in one visualization

This collection of articles includes "The Conflict-Intelligent Leader," by Peter T. Coleman; "The Gen AI Playbook for Organizations," by Bharat N. Anand and Andy Wu; "AI-Generated 'Workslop' Is Destroying Productivity," by Kate Niederhoffer, Gabriella Rosen Kellerman, Angela Lee, Alex Liebscher, Kristina Rapuano, and Jeffrey T. Hancock; "What People Get Wrong About Psychological Safety," by Amy C. Edmondson and Michaela J. Kerrissey; "Every Team Needs a Super-Facilitator," by Jamil Zaki; "Does Your C-Suite Really Operate as a Team?"; "How to Monetize Your Data," by Suraj Srinivasan, Robin Seibert, and Mohammed Aaser; "Choose the Right CEO for Volatile Times," by Claudius A. Hildebrand, Kate Hurley, and Giovanna Galli; "In Uncertain Times, Ask These Questions Before You Make a Decision," by Cheryl Strauss Einhorn; "You Should Be Able to Boil Your Strategy Down to a Single Clear Visualization," by João Cotter Salvado and Freek Vermeulen; "What Every Company Can Learn from Private Equity," by Marla Capozzi, Sacha Ghai, Paul Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan, John Kelleher, and Vladimir Mukharlyamov; "Why Senior Leaders Should Stop Having So Many One-on-Ones," by Ron Carucci; "The Hidden Beliefs That Hold Leaders Back," by Muriel M. Wilkins; and "Get Off the Transformation Treadmill," by Darrell Rigby and Zach First.

HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others. This edition features a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.

Collaborator. Communicator. Connector. Coach.

As a mid-level manager, you're being tasked with more than ever before. You're expected to lead innovation, develop talent, execute on strategy, create an inclusive culture, and help your people adapt to constant change. How can you do it all and be successful?

If you read nothing else on being an effective mid-level manager, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the best ones to help you build buy-in up and down your organization, secure time and resources for key projects, and lead change—all while getting the most important work done.

This book will inspire you to:

• Build winning teams and develop talent
• Transform your role from intermediary to innovator
• Foster a culture of psychological safety
• Balance being a leader with being an individual contributor
• Form partnerships and leverage internal networks
• Lead your organization from the middle

This collection of articles includes "Managers Can't Do It All," by Diane Gherson and Lynda Gratton; "The Real Value of Middle Managers," by Zahira Jaser; "In Praise of Middle Managers," by Quy Nguyen Huy; "Managing Your Boss," by John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter; "Get the Boss to Buy In," by Susan J. Ashford and James Detert; "The Secrets of Great Teamwork," by Martine Haas and Mark Mortensen; "How the Best Bosses Interrupt Bias on Their Teams," by Joan C. Williams and Sky Mihaylo; "Making the Hybrid Workplace Fair," by Mark Mortensen and Martine Haas; "Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It," by Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes, and Charles Sull; "The Leader as Coach," by Herminia Ibarra and Anne Scoular; "Make the Most of Your One-on-One Meetings," by Steven G. Rogelberg; "Learn When to Say No," by Bruce Tulgan; and "Begin with Trust," by Frances Frei and Anne Morriss.

Go from being a good manager to an extraordinary leader.

If you read nothing else on leadership, read these 10 articles (featuring “What Makes an Effective Executive,” by Peter F. Drucker). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on leadership and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your own and your organization's performance.

HBR's 10 Must Reads On Leadership will inspire you to:

• Motivate others to excel
• Build your team's self-confidence in others
• Provoke positive change
• Set direction
• Encourage smart risk-taking
• Manage with tough empathy
• Credit others for your success
• Increase self-awareness
• Draw strength from adversity

This collection of best-selling articles includes: featured article "What Makes an Effective Executive" by Peter F. Drucker, "What Makes a Leader?" "What Leaders Really Do," "The Work of Leadership," "Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?" "Crucibles of Leadership," "Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve," "Seven Transformations of Leadership," "Discovering Your Authentic Leadership," and "In Praise of the Incomplete Leader."

The path to your professional success starts with a critical look in the mirror.

If you read nothing else on managing yourself, read these 10 articles (plus the bonus article “How Will You Measure Your Life?” by Clayton M. Christensen). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles to select the most important ones to help you maximize yourself.

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself will inspire you to:

• Stay engaged throughout your 50+-year work life
• Tap into your deepest values
• Solicit candid feedback
• Replenish physical and mental energy
• Balance work, home, community, and self
• Spread positive energy throughout your organization
• Rebound from tough times
• Decrease distractibility and frenzy
• Delegate and develop employees' initiative

Change is constant—so become great at it.

If you read nothing else on change management, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you lead initiatives effectively, avoid common mistakes, and capture the full value of your change effort.

This book will inspire you to:

• Communicate the benefits of change clearly
• Win support through compelling storytelling
• Gain buy-in from peers and leaders
• Convince decision-makers to take action
• Overcome attempts to undermine transformation
• Build organizational agility and resilience

This collection of articles includes "Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail," by John P. Kotter; "Transformations That Work," by Michael Mankins and Patrick Litre; "Let Go of What Made Your Company Great," by Vijay Govindarajan; "Persuade Your Company to Change Before It's Too Late," by Pontus M. A. Siren, Scott D. Anthony, and Utsav Bhatt; "Getting Reorgs Right," by Stephen Heidari-Robinson and Suzanne Heywood; "Six Steps for Gaining Employee Buy-In," by Andrea Belk Olson; "Storytelling That Drives Bold Change," by Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss; "Organize Your Transformation Around Purpose and Benefits," by Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez; "The Network Secrets of Great Change Agents," by Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro; "What Everyone Gets Wrong About Change Management," by N. Anand and Jean-Louis Barsoux; "A Survival Guide for Leaders," by Ronald Heifetz and Marty Linsky; "The Real Reason People Won’t Change," by Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey; and "Your Workforce Is More Adaptable Than You Think," by Joseph Fuller, Judith K. Wallenstein, Manjari Raman, and Alice de Chalendar.

HBR's 10 Must Reads are definitive collections of classic ideas, practical advice, and essential thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Exploring topics like disruptive innovation, emotional intelligence, and new technology in our ever-evolving world, these books empower any leader to make bold decisions and inspire others.

This Updated and Expanded edition features new, breakthrough articles, additional short-form pieces, and a detailed discussion guide to give you and your team the tools you need for sustained success.