HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Managing in a Downturn

If you listen and/or read to nothing else on preparing for a tough economy and coming back stronger, you need look no further than these 10 articles written by the top experts in the field. We’ve combined hundreds of ‘Harvard Business Review’ articles and selected the most important ones to help your company persevere through economic challenges and continue to grow even as your competitor’s stumble.

This book will inspire you to get your company ready before a downturn strikes, learn the right lessons from previous recessions, minimize pain while cutting costs and managing risk, foster a healthy organizational culture during anxious times, and seize the opportunity to innovate and reinvent your business.

This collection includes “Seize Advantage in a Downturn” by David Rhodes and Daniel Stelter; “How to Survive a Recession and Thrive Afterward: A Research Roundup” by Walter Frick; “How to Bounce Back from Adversity” by Joshua D. Margolis and Paul G. Stoltz; “Rohm and Haas’s Former CEO on Pulling Off a Sweet Deal in a Down Market” by Raj Gupta; “Leadership in a (Permanent) Crisis” by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky; “How to Be a Good Boss in a Bad Economy” by Robert I. Sutton; “Layoffs That Break Your Company” by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta; and “Getting Reorgs Right” by Stephen Heidari-Robinson and Suzanne Heywood.