The one book every leader needs as they ascend through their organization.

• Covers six essential leadership practices: building a vision, setting a strategy, managing for results, hiring and inspiring the best, driving innovation, and leading yourself.
• Synthesized, contextualized advice directly from Harvard Business Review authors and experts.
• Real case studies and stories from leaders at global companies.
• Self-assessments throughout.

Audience: Anyone who aspires to any kind of organizational leadership, though it is targeted at those director-level and above in for-profit and nonprofit corporations.

Announced first printing: 30,000
Laydown goal: 7,500

Ron Ashkenas, Partner Emeritus of Schaffer Consulting, advises corporate, nonprofit, and startup executives on how to accelerate growth and build leadership. His clients have included the World Bank, GE, Thomson Reuters, and Merck. He is a frequent contributor to HBR and is the author of Simply Effective.

Brook Manville, a former partner at McKinsey & Company and executive vice president of United Way Worldwide, advises leaders on strategy, organizational development, and leadership. He regularly contributes to HBR, Forbes.com, and other business publications. His previous books are A Company of Citizens and Judgment Calls.