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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness

Come back from every setback a stronger and better leader

We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you build your emotional strength and resilience—and to achieve high performance.

This book will inspire you to: thrive on pressure like an Olympic athlete; manage and overcome negative emotions by acknowledging them; plan short-term goals to achieve long-term aspirations; surround yourself with the people who will push you the hardest; use challenges to become a better leader; use creativity to move past trauma; and understand the tools your mind uses to recover from setbacks.



  1. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Career Resilience

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  2. HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers

    Harvard Harvard Business Review, Linda A. Hill, Herminia Ibarra, Robert B. Cialdini, Daniel Goleman

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  3. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Sales

    Harvard Harvard Business Review, Philip Kotler, Andris Zoltners, Manish Goyal, James C. Anderson

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  4. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself, Updated and Expanded (featuring "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton M. Christensen)

    Harvard Harvard Business Review, Peter F. Drucker, Amy Gallo, Amy Jen Sue, Clayton M. Christensen

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  5. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence, Updated and Expanded (featuring "What Makes a Leader" by Daniel Goleman)

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  6. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness, Updated and Expanded (featuring "How to Stop Worrying About What Other People Think of You" by Michael Gervais)

    Harvard Harvard Business Review, Michael Gervais, Angela L. Duckworth, Martin E. P. Seligman, Herminia Ibarra

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  7. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Lessons from Sports : (featuring interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Andre Agassi)

    Harvard Harvard Business Review, Alex Ferguson, Bill Parcells, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Joe Girardi

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  8. Psychological Safety

    Harvard Harvard Business Review, Amy C. Edmondson, Daisy Auger-Domínguez, Erica Keswin, Ron Carucci

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  9. Having Difficult Conversations

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  10. Managing Overthinking

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  11. Reskilling and Upskilling : The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

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  12. Positivity and Growth

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  1. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Projects and Initiatives

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  2. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strengthening Your Soft Skills

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  3. HBR's 10 Must Reads 2017 : The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review

    Harvard Harvard Business Review, Clayton M. Christensen, Adam Grant, Vijay Govindarajan, Thomas H Davenport

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  4. HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers

    Harvard Harvard Business Review, Linda A. Hill, Herminia Ibarra, Robert B. Cialdini, Daniel Goleman

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  5. HBR's 10 Must Reads for Business Students

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  6. HBR's 10 Must Reads on AI (with bonus article "How to Win with Machine Learning" by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb)

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  7. HBR's 10 Must Reads 2024: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review (with bonus article "Democratizing Transformation" by Marco Iansiti and Satya Nadella)

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  8. HBR's 10 Must Reads for Mid-Level Managers

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  9. HBR's 10 Must Reads for Executive Teams

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  10. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Trust (with bonus article "Begin with Trust" by Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss)

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  11. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Performance Management

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  12. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Across Cultures

    Harvard Harvard Business Review, Jeanne Brett, Yves L. Doz, Erin Meyer, Hal Gregersen

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