Microsoft has sponsored several classic Harvard Business Review articles for free download, including three of my favorites:
“What Makes a Leader by Daniel Goleman
“Level 5 Leadership” by Jim Collins
“What Great Leaders Do” by Marcus Buckingham.
This is very cool. HBR normally charges $6.50 for each of these articles. Please do not post, copy or distribute these articles. You can download the articles for yourself, but if you wish to share them with others you should just send the link. Enjoy!
Great stuff. Will definitely check them out.
Great. Thanks, Don. I wonder why these three? Are there more? Is there a plan to do this regularly? One of my favorite HBR articles is by Barbara Kellerman, “What Every Leader Needs to Know about Followers.” (Dec. 2007)
Abigail – I believe there are a total of 5 free HBR articles currently available at that link. I’m not sure what motivated Microsoft to select these five, but I think they are great picks. I’m pretty sure they are among the most popular HBR articles of the last several years.
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Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting
Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences
An Exploration of the Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s
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Dangers of uncontested decision making
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Don,
Thank you for sharing. I used to subscribe to HBR. These articles make me wonder why I don’t cut out a few snacks and subscribe again.
Thank you. These are terrific articles and I’m happy to share the link.
Joan
Thanks for these articles.
I recently subscribed to HRB and am so glad I did. Getting the publication delivered regularly is a real incentive to reading it instead of just picking up the occasional article that gets referred my way.
Another great periodical on leadership that I just discovered is “Leader to Leader” published quarterly by the Institute of the same name.
Don, great resource. Thanks for sharing.
This was great. I’ve read many of them, but I love the summaries and discovered some new things.