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.

In their bestselling work The Extraordinary
Leader, performance thought leaders John
Zenger and Joseph Folkman revealed the 16
key competencies that separate the top 10
percent of leaders from the rest. Since that
book’s publication, they and coauthor Scott
Edinger discovered, through an extensive
study conducted over four years, that leaders
who possessed the ability to inspire and motivate
outperformed all others.

The authors found that the impact of inspiring
and motivating others is consistent across
different kinds of organizations and within
different cultures. The Inspiring Leader reveals
the authors’ newest proprietary research on
how top leaders inspire teams to greatness.
It discusses the behaviors exhibited by the
most successful leaders and includes advice
on how to implement them. Drawing from
statistically significant data and objective empirical
evidence, the book shows how to:

• Establish a clear vision and direction
• Use the power of emotions
• Create stretch goals for your team
• Foster innovation and risk taking
• Encourage teamwork and collaboration
• Champion change, and much more

Zenger, Folkman, and Edinger lay out the
strategies and concepts used by the world’s
greatest leaders to motivate their teams. With The Inspiring Leader as your guide, you will
learn how to put those strategies to work in
your own business.

These quick reads, based on McGraw-Hill bestsellers, are designed to meet the needs of busy people. Titles in the series focus on each book's main themes and action ideas, reduced to a manageable page count for on-the-go readers.

A workplace-tested prescription for encouraging the behaviors and key drivers of effective leadership, from one of today's top training teams.