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This issue includes four complete articles, all on the theme of this month's issue: leadership. In "Becoming the Boss", Linda Hill offers some tips from common mistakes first time managers make. In "Firing Back", Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Andrew Ward talk to leaders about their career disasters and how they bounced back.

A look at the tenets of disruption theory, its usefulness and limitations, and its evolution over the past 20 years, by the leading experts on the subject.

Businesses hoping to survive over the long term will have to remake themselves into better competitors at least once along the way. These efforts have gone under many banners: total quality management, reengineering, rightsizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnarounds, to name a few. In almost every case, the goal has been to cope with a new, more challenging market by changing the way business is conducted. In this article, John Kotter outlines the eight largest errors that can doom these efforts.

"The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson; "Saving the Planet: A Tale of Two Strategies" by Roger Martin and Alison Kemper; and "Retail Doesn’t Cross Borders" by Marcel Corstjens and Rajiv Lal.

Despite massive investments of management time and money, innovation remains a frustrating pursuit in many companies. Innovation initiatives frequently fail, and successful innovators have a hard time sustaining their performance - as Polaroid, Nokia, Sun Microsystems, Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard, and countless others have found.

The vast majority of companies are more exposed to cyber-attacks than they have to be. To close the gaps in their security, CEOs can take a cue from the U.S. military.

How companies can benefit from "inconspicuous consumption".

The CEO and president of IDEO writes that when designers are involved from the very beginning of the innovation process, startling new ideas can result - as a U.S. health care provider, a Japanese bicycle components manufacturer, and a system of Indian eye hospitals learned.

The views and insights of Harvard Business School are among the most sought after by the world's top business leaders. With this Audible audio exclusive, you can have Harvard Business Review read to you each month, placing the latest business trends and managerial wisdom within earshot!

At Deloitte we’re redesigning our performance management system. This may not surprise you. Like many other companies, we realize that our current process for evaluating the work of our people - and then training them, promoting them, and paying them accordingly - is increasingly out of step with our objectives.

"New Thinking for a New Financial Order" by Diana Farrell; "How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity" by Ed Catmull; "Seven Ways to Fail Big" by Paul B. Carroll and Chunka Mui; "Don't Try This Offshore" by Stephen Brown; "Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership" by Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis; and "Where Oil-Rich Nations Are Placing Their Bets" by Rawi Abdelal, Ayesha Khan, and Tarun Khanna

"Back to the City" by Ania Wieckowski; "When You've Got to Cut Costs – Now" by Kevin P. Coyne, Shawn T. Coyne, and Edward J. Coyne Sr.; and "How to Stop Customers from Fixating on Price" by Marco Bertini and Luc Wathieu.

Slowly but steadily, it’s dawning on Western multinationals that it may be a good idea to design products and services in developing economies and, after adding some global tweaks, export them to developed countries.

The biggest problem with health care isn’t with insurance or politics – it’s that we’re measuring the wrong things the wrong way.

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9-11 Commission, was created by congressional legislation and the signature of President George W. Bush in late 2002. This independent, bipartisan commission had the task of producing a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the attack, including preparedness and immediate response, and providing recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.

First, V. Kumar, J. Andrew Petersen, and Robert Leone explain how to identify the customers who bring in the most referrals and then capitalize on that knowledge. Next, Alvin Roth discusses a new branch of economics that allows businesses to create markets where there were none or fix them when they go wrong. Also, Tony Schwartz on the science of stamina that enables individuals, teams, and whole organizations to significantly increase their capacity to get things done. Finally, you'll hear executive summaries of the remaining articles.

Increasing your energy capacity is the best way to get more work done faster and better. From the October 2007 issue of Harvard Business Review.

Virtually all leaders believe that to stay competitive, their enterprises must learn and improve every day. But even companies revered for their dedication to continuous learning find it difficult to always practice what they preach.

Why smart companies are matching their risk management to the nature of the threats they face.

Anita Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Sir Alex Ferguson, recently retired manager of the British football club Manchester United, write about leadership lessons from one of the greatest coaches in sports.