The best business and management guides from Harvard Business Review

A colleague and an entrepreneur recently asked for advice regarding handbooks and guides on management to assign to their staff on a retreat. Our suggestions are below — the Leader’s Handbook is coming out later in the year. The top 6 book recommendations from HBR are;

1. The Harvard Business Review Manager’s Handbook: The 17 Skills Leaders Need to Stand Out

2. The Harvard Business Review Entrepreneur’s Handbook: Everything You Need to Launch and Grow Your New Business

3. HBR Guide to Data Analytics Basics for Managers

4. Good Charts: The HBR Guide to Making Smarter, More Persuasive Data Visualizations

5. HBR’S 10 Must Reads: The Essentials

6. HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business

“One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.”