HBR's 10 Must Reads 2021: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review

by Harvard Business Review, Marcus Buckingham, Amy C. Edmondson

This book will inspire you to: This collection of articles includes “The Feedback Fallacy,” by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall; “Cross-Silo Leadership,” by Tiziana Casciaro, Amy C. Edmondson, and Sujin Jang; “Toward a Racially Just Workplace,” by Laura Morgan Roberts and Anthony J. Mayo; “The Age of Continuous Connection,” by Nicolaj Siggelkow and Christian Terwiesch; “The Hard Truth about Innovative Cultures,” by Gary P. Pisano; “Creating a Trans-Inclusive Workplace,” by Christian N. Thoroughgood, Katina B. Sawyer, and Jennica R. Webster; “When Data Creates Competitive Advantage,” by Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright; “Your Approach to Hiring Is All Wrong,” by Peter Cappelli; “How Dual-Career Couples Make It Work,” by Jennifer Petriglieri; “Building the AI-Powered Organization,” by Tim Fountaine, Brian McCarthy, and Tamim Saleh; “Leading a New Era of Climate Action,” by Andrew Winston; and “That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief,” by Scott Berinato.

Genres: Business, Leadership, Nonfiction, Management

256 pages, Paperback

First published October 6, 2020

Reviews

[Riku Sayuj · Rating 4 out of 5]

Always a good series to keep track of. Some gems 👇

1/ The Feedback Fallacy
The best way to give feedback isn't telling someone what you think of their work every quarter.
It's real-time!
You need to help your team members see what’s working, stopping them with a “Yes! That!” and tell what they did well.



2/ Cross-Silo Leadership
Without a doubt the vast majority of innovation and business-development opportunities lie in the interfaces between functions. But it's hard. That's it really. The solutions are a bit meh.


3/ The Age of Continuous Connection
Offers four modes to facilitate continuous connection with customers:
1. Respond to desire
2. Curated offering
3. Coach behavior
4. Automatic execution


4/ The Hard Truth about Innovative Cultures
Innovative cultures are inherently contradictory. Creating a culture that simultaneously values learning through failure and outstanding performance is difficult.


5/ How Dual-Career Couples Make It Work
Couples who communicate at each transition about values, boundaries, and fears have a good chance of being fulfilled both in their relationships and in their careers.


6/ That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief
Powerful viral article. Anticipatory grief was the most powerful anxiety driver of 2020. Perhaps still is.

[Harley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’ve just finished HBRs 2021 Must Reads and there was an article titled ‘That discomfort you’re feeling is Grief’ by Scott Berinato.

I think it’s timely, and it was definitely timely in 2021. Scott argues that to give the ‘feeling a name (Grief) is the start to addressing it.

One of the fundamental types of grief that is harrowing today is Anticipatory Grief; imaginative thoughts linked to visualised Death. It affects the strongest of those we know.

Reflecting on COVID-19 case numbers and now war, the thought of spiking anticipatory grief in colleagues makes me wonder where the balance between appropriate work topics and advocation for causes close to us stands.

Overall, an interesting book, I found AI integration topics interesting.

[Oswaldo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting insights about “providing feedback “

[Greg · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book definitely contains the best articles published by Harvard Business Review in preparation for 2021. The year 2020 is arguably a different year for all of of humanity.

The lessons in these articles will help us to think things through and give our best in the following year.