We’ve reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up to date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today. Featuring examples from leaders such as Jensen Huang and Jane Fraser, and companies from Hermes to OpenAI, this volume brings a year's worth of management wisdom right to your fingertips.

Organizations talk about agility but remain trapped in bureaucracy, outdated systems, and rigid, top-down transformations. The Octopus Organization offers a better path: a living, adaptive model inspired by one of nature’s most intelligent creatures. In this book, Phil Le-Brun and Jana Werner—drawing on experience at Amazon, McDonald’s, and hundreds of global companies—reveal 36 “antipatterns” that hold teams back and the practical levers that unlock rapid, continuous improvement. Learn to build an organization that thinks, learns, and evolves—every day.

Even if you’re told you’re the frontrunner for a CEO role, don’t assume the job is yours. CEO selection is rarely objective—it’s emotional, personal, and unpredictable. In CEO Ready, Mark Thompson and Byron Loflin reveal what truly drives these decisions and what candidates must do to improve their odds. Drawing on thousands of coaching and boardroom experiences, they show how to navigate key stakeholders and the hidden dynamics that determine who ultimately gets the top job.

The Leadership Unblocked Toolkit helps leaders identify and overcome the hidden beliefs that quietly undermine performance, damage relationships, and limit results. Instead of focusing outward on employee shortcomings or external obstacles, it encourages leaders to look inward and understand how their own thinking may be contributing to stalled progress.

Through worksheets, reflection prompts, and step-by-step exercises, it walks users through the Blocked to Unblocked Roadmap—revealing seven common blockers and providing practical strategies to reframe thinking and change behavior. With sample roadmaps, a discussion guide, and a companion handbook, the toolkit equips leaders and their teams to replace limiting beliefs with productive habits that drive clearer thinking and stronger outcomes.