Summer Reading
Recommended Titles
From unlocking leadership potential to managing risk to driving innovation and growth — here is a short list of recent books by Wharton Executive Education faculty members that can recharge your knowledge and revitalize your impact at work.
Leadership
- The Go Point: When It's Time to Decide—Knowing What to Do and When to Do It by Michael Useem (Crown Business/Random House)
- High Altitude Leadership: What the World's Most Forbidding Peaks Teach Us About Success by Chris Warner and Don Schmincke (Jossey-Bass)
- Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: The New Rules for Getting the Right Things Done in Difficult Times by Ram Charan (McGraw-Hill)
- Leaders as Teachers: Unlock the Teaching Potential of Your Company's Best and Brightest by Ed Betof (ASTD Press and Berrett-Koehler)
Managing Risk
- Discovery Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity by Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan (Harvard Business Press)
- Unlocking Opportunities for Growth: How to Profit from Uncertainty While Limiting Your Risk by Ian C. MacMillan and Alexander B. Van Putten (Wharton School Publishing)
- The Network Challenge: Strategy, Profit, and Risk in an Interlinked World by Yoram (Jerry) Wind and Paul R. Kleindorfer (Wharton School Publishing)
Finance
- The Game Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation by A.G. Lafley and Ram Charan (Crown Business/Random House)
- Stocks for the Long Run, 4th Edition, by Jeremy Siegel (McGraw-Hill)
Business and Innovation Strategy
- From Products to Services: Insights and Experience from Companies Which Have Embraced the Service Economy by Laurie Young (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.)
- Innovation Tournaments: Creating and Selecting Exceptional Opportunities by Christian Terwiesch and Karl Ulrich (Harvard Business Press)
Talent and Career Management
- Talent on Demand: Managing Talent in An Age of Uncertainty by Peter Cappelli (Harvard Business Press)
- Your Job Survival Guide: A Manual for Thriving in Change by Gregory Shea and Robert Gunther (FT Press)
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