The Best of the November Issue

 

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October 13, 2016 The Best of November 2016 Feature The Best-Performing CEOs in the World by Harvard Business Review Staff See who made this year’s ranking of the top 100. Idea Watch Corporate VCs Are Moving the Goalposts by Michael Rolfes and Alex “Sandy” Pentland Conceived as strategic investors, many are focusing on financial returns. Are they forgetting their purpose? Feature Right Tech, Wrong Time by Ron Adner and Rahul Kapoor Why it’s so hard to predict the timing of technological change — and how to do it better. Feature The Problem with Legacy Ecosystems by Maxwell Wessel, Aaron Levie, and Robert Siegel Why so many strong companies fail to keep pace with digital-native challengers. Feature Getting Reorgs Right by Stephen Heidari-Robinson and Suzanne Heywood Don’t wing it. Use this five-step process instead. Feature Let’s Not Kill Performance Evaluations Yet by Lori Goler, Janelle Gale, and Adam Grant Why Facebook is sticking with traditional reviews. Feature Beating Burnout by Monique Valcour How to tell if you have it and what to do about it.

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FEATURED PRODUCT The Analytical Marketer: How to Transform Your Marketing Organization HBR Press Book Analytics are driving big changes, not only in what marketing departments do but in how they are organized, staffed, led, and run. “The Analytical Marketer,” written by Adele Sweetwood, the head of global marketing for SAS, provides critical insight into the changing marketing organization and the tools for reinventing it. Challenged and inspired by their company’s own products, the SAS marketing team was forced to rethink itself in order to take advantage of the new capabilities that those tools offer. With additional examples from other leading companies, this book is a practical guide to creating a new marketing culture that thrives on and adds value through data and analytics. Buy It Now

FEATURED PRODUCT Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work HBR Press Book Every manager makes tough calls. And the hardest decisions are the "gray areas"—situations where you and your team have worked hard to find an answer and you still don't know what to do. Gray areas test your skills as a manager, your judgment, and even your humanity. How do you get these decisions right? Picking up where conventional tools of analysis leave off, this book provides powerful and practical tools for judgment in the form of five revealing questions. You can use the five-question framework on your own or with others on your team to help you cut through complexities, understand critical trade-offs, and develop workable solutions for even the grayest issues. Buy It Now

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