Toxic Management Lessons from "Succession" (and What to Do Instead)

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New this month     "You Can't Make a Tomelette without Breaking Some Greggs": Toxic Management Lessons from "Succession" (and What to Do Instead) For four unforgettable seasons, Succession riveted viewers inside and outside the business world. Too absurd to be true, too real to truly be fiction, corporate patriarch Logan Roy, his feuding children, and the executives of Waystar Royco have kept us rapt. But does the series offer any insights of real-world value to leaders or organizations? This new ebook pairs advice from HBR with some of the most unforgettable, hilarious, and cringey moments from the show.     BUY NOW       Order for your team and save

The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems—and What to Do about It A hidden epidemic of small moments of stress—microstress—has insidiously infiltrated both our work and our personal lives with invisible but devastating effects. The source is seldom a classic antagonist, such as a demanding client or a jerk boss. Instead, it comes from the people with whom we are closest. In The Microstress Effect, Rob Cross and Karen Dillon explain the science behind the phenomenon and show how to break free from this quietly invasive force.     BUY NOW

Beyond Disruption: Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs With three decades of research, the #1 global bestselling authors of Blue Ocean Strategy, W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, reveal another way to innovate and grow. Just as Blue Ocean Strategy redefined the essence of strategy as creating not competing, Beyond Disruption redefines and expands the existing view of innovation by introducing a new approach, nondisruptive creation, that is free from the destructive displacement that happens when innovators set out to disrupt.     BUY NOW

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