Change is the one constant in business, and we must adapt or face obsolescence. Yet certain challenges never go away. That's what makes this book "must read." These are the 10 seminal articles by management's most influential experts, on topics of perennial concern to ambitious managers and leaders hungry for inspiration--and ready to run with big ideas to accelerate their own and their companies' success.

Table of Contents :

1. Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change
Clayton M. Christensen and Michael Overdof
23. Competing on Analytics
Thomas H. Davenport
43. Managing Oneself
Peter F. Drucker
63. What Makes a Leader
Daniel Goleman
85. Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work
Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
113.Innovation : The Classic Traps
Rosebeth Moss Kanter
137.Leading Change : Why Transformation Efforts Fail
John P. Kotter
153.Marketing Myopia
Theodore Levitt
181.What is Strategy
Michael E. Porter
219.The Core Competence of the Corporation
C.K Prahalad and Gary Hamel