Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition) by Ed Catmull (co-founder of Pixar), is an exciting update to his 2014 New York Times bestseller on creative leadership. Catmull reflects on the management principles that built Pixar’s singularly successful culture. Catmull teaches in the new course Embracing the Unexpected: Creative Transformation Amid Rapid Change.
Data Is Everybody's Business by Barbara H. Wixom, Cynthia M. Beath, and Leslie Owens identifies three viable ways to convert data into money—improving work with data, wrapping products with data, and selling information offerings—and explain when to pursue each and how to succeed. Wixom teaches in Data Monetization Strategy and the new course Leading the AI-Driven Organization.
(Available for Pre-order) Disciplined Entrepreneurship Startup Tactics: 15 Tactics to Turn Your Business Plan into a Business by Paul Cheek delivers an actionable field guide to transforming your one great idea into a functional, funded, and staffed startup. Cheek teaches in Disciplined Entrepreneurship and the Entrepreneurship Development Program.
From Intention to Impact: A Practical Guide to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion by Malia C. Lazu shows what organizations, leaders, and people at all levels must do to create more inclusive environments that honor and value diversity. Lazu teaches in the new course Businesses for Inclusive Local Thriving (BILT) Lab.
Future Ready: The Four Pathways to Capturing Digital Value by Stephanie Woerner and Peter Weill is your playbook for becoming a top performer in the digital economy. Learn more in Digital Strategies for Transforming Your Business and Becoming a More Digitally Savvy Board Member.
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity, by Simon Johnson and Daron Acemoglu, is a bold reinterpretation of economics and history that will fundamentally change how you see the world. Johnson teaches in the Global CEO Program as well as the self-paced online courses Economics for Business and Making AI Work.
The Case for Good Jobs: How Great Companies Bring Dignity, Pay, and Meaning to Everyone's Work by Zeynep Ton proves why implementing a good jobs system makes companies more competitive, more resilient, and more likely to attract and retain loyal customers and dedicated employees. Learn more in this recently recorded book talk with Ton and in the online course Business Sustainability Strategy.
The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset that Drives Extraordinary Results by Andrew McAfee shows how the geeks have created a new culture based around four norms: science, ownership, speed, and openness. McAfee teaches in Digital Business Strategy.
Wiring the Winning Organization: Liberating Our Collective Greatness through Slowification, Simplification, and Amplification by Steven Spear reveals the hidden circuitry that drives organizational excellence. Spear teaches in Creating High Velocity Organizations.
More great reads from our faculty:
- Step Up, Step Back: How to Really Deliver Strategic Change in Your Organization by Elsbeth Johnson challenges some of our most fundamental beliefs about how to lead change—and what “leadership” even means. Johnson teaches in Leading Strategic Change and the Women's Leadership Program.
- Remote, Inc.: How to Thrive at Work . . . Wherever You Are by Bob Pozen and Alexandra Samuel provides the strategies and tools to help us make thoughtful choices about combining remote and office work. Pozen teaches the popular course Maximizing Your Personal Productivity.
- The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health—and How We Must Adapt by Sinan Aral show us how social media affects our decision-making and shapes our world in ways both useful and dangerous. Aral teaches in the self-paced online courses Digital Marketing Analytics and Social Media Strategy.
- Overload: How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do about It by Erin Kelly and Phyllis Moen shares how unhealthy and unsustainable work situations can be changed. Kelly teaches in Leading a Diverse Workforce.
- Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life by Hal Gregersen shares how you can achieve breakthrough insights by changing the question. Gregersen teaches in Questions Are the Answer and the new course Embracing the Unexpected: Creative Transformation Amid Rapid Change.
We hope to see you in a course soon!