Online journals and recommended articles

These areas are featured here:

• Journals
• Databases of journal articles
• Top journals
• Personal selection of articles
• Most popular Harvard Business Review articles
• Most popular recent articles from Harvard Business School Working Knowledge

If you work in the NHS, please contact your local NHS library for help with access to articles, books and evidence to support management decision-making. To find contact details for your local library visit http://www.hlisd.org/.

Journals

The electronic full text journal collections available to NHS staff are accessed through My Journals (via NHS Evidence – Journals and Databases) Health Information Online at http://www.library.nhs.uk or log in via NHS OpenAthens at https://openathens.nice.org.uk/Auth/Login. There are over 1000 e-journals in this collection. You may find that access to some online journals and locally available journal subscriptions is only available through NHS Open Athens.

For a complete list of all of the full-text electronic journals available to NHS staff, go to http://journals.nice.org.uk . You can then browse alphabetically, or search for a particular journal title, or even a specific article.

The Harvard Business Review is the most used title in this collection. At http://journals.nice.org.uk/ either search for this under ‘H’ or type 'Harvard Business Review' in the browse box and you should be able to see everything from the current edition right back to 1922! For Leadership Excellence, search under ‘L’ or type ‘Leadership Excellence’ in the search box.

If your local NHS organisation does not offer support to access to the EBSCO ‘Health Business Elite’ collection of journals via Athens, or if you do not work in the NHS, you may alternatively be able to access this collection through other organisations that have a subscription such as your own employer, your own professional organisation or through a university or college if you are studying or if you have connections with these academic institutions. The best thing to do is to contact the relevant librarian about this.

Top journals

Two leadership and management journals that are particularly recommended and which are available via http://journals.nice.org.uk/ or EBSCO Health Business Elite are:

• The Harvard Business Review

The Harvard Business Review is generally regarded as the world’s leading academic publication on leadership and management issues. It’s a monthly research-based magazine written for business practitioners, and claims a high ranking business readership among academics, executives, and management consultants. It has been the frequent publishing home for scholars and management thinkers. A sample edition of this (July-Aug 2017) is currently at http://serialmagazinepdf.com/2017/06/61486/

• Leadership Excellence

This is described as a magazine of leadership development, managerial effectiveness and organizational productivity. Warren Bennis has said about it: ‘Leadership Excellence is an exceptional way to learn and then apply the best and latest ideas in the field of leadership.’

Here are some samples of previous editions of this which can currently be found on these links:

• June 2012 - http://neilsmithinsights.com/wp-content/uploads/Leadership-Excellence.pdf
• July 2012 - http://www.nist.gov/baldrige/publications/upload/Leadership-Excellence-Harry-Hertz-article-July-2012.pdf
• June 2014 - http://blessingwhite.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/LE_BlessingWhite1.pdf.

Personal selection of articles

Here are a number of recommendations of papers from the Leadership Development Leads and the Leadership Development Team who used to work in the former NHS South Central region and updated with a few recommendations of my own. Many of these are available through EBSCO Health Business Elite, and they are also currently available on the links shown (although these current links could change in the future):

• Are line managers holding back your talent?. Debbie Hance HR Zone at http://www.hrzone.com/talent/retention/are-line-managers-holding-back-your-talent
• The art of giving and receiving advice, David A Garvin and Joshua D Margolis, Harvard Business Review, Vol 93 No 1/2, January/February 2015. pp60-71. (currently on page 12 at https://docs.m0m0g33k.net/Others%20TI/LeadershipAndManagingPeople.pdf )
• Ask Seven Questions – Promote abundance thinking. Dave and Wendy Ulrich. Leadership Excellence, July 2010, p. 3-4 (currently available at http://www.zengerfolkman.com/pdfs/LE-July2010.pdf)
• The authenticity paradox, Herminia Ibarra, Harvard Business Review, Vol 93 No 1-2, January-February 2015. pp52-59 (currently on page 52 at https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-authenticity-paradox )
• Change you or it – the zen of managing yourself. Marshall Goldsmith and Patricia Wheeler. Leadership Excellence, July 2010, p. 8 (currently available at http://www.zengerfolkman.com/pdfs/LE-July2010.pdf)
• Get the boss to buy in, Susan Ashford and James Detert, Harvard Business Review, Vol 93 No 1/2, January/February 2015. pp72-79. (currently on page 25 at https://docs.m0m0g33k.net/Others%20TI/LeadershipAndManagingPeople.pdf )
• How to Bounce Back from Adversity. Joshua D Margolis & Paul Stoltz. Harvard Business Review, January - February 2010 (currently available at https://hbr.org/2010/01/how-to-bounce-back-from-adversity)
• How to Play to your Strengths. Laura Morgan Roberts, Gretchen Spreitzer, Jane Dutton, Robert Quinn, Emily Heaphy and Brianna Barker. Harvard Business Review, January 2005 (currently available at http://www.iwantcoaching.co.za/docs/How%20to%20play%20to%20your%20strengths.pdf)
• How smart, connected products are transforming competition, Michael E Porter and currently at https://www.ptc.com/en/industry-insights/harvard-business-review )
• The Innovator’s DNA. Jeffrey H. Dyer, Hal B. Gregersen, and Clayton M. Harvard Business Review Dec 2009. Pg 61-67 (currently available at https://hbr.org/2009/12/the-innovators-dna)
• Leadership and the quality of care. J Firth-Cozens and D Mowbray. Quality in Health Care 2001;10;ii3-ii7 (currently available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1765760/pdf/v010p00ii3.pdf
• Leadership in a (permanent) crisis. R Heifezt, A Grashow, M Linsky Harvard Business Review. July-Aug 2009 (currently available at http://cpor.org/otc/Heifetz(2009)LeadershipInPermanentCrisis.pdf)
• Leadership insights - they shape a leader’s impact. Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood. Leadership Excellence, December 2009, p. 5 (currently available at http://freemindconsulting.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/leadership-insights/)
• Managing Polarities: An Interview with Barry Johnson, Ph.D, Rick Maurer: Gestalt Review, 6(3):209–219, 2002 (currently available at http://www.gisc.org/gestaltreview/documents/ManagingPolarities-AnInterviewwithBarryJohnsonPh.D.pdf)
• Managing your boss. John J Gabarro and John P.Kotter. Harvard Business Review. Jan 2005, p92-99 (currently available at https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.artcurators.org/resource/resmgr/ccl_2012/managing_your_boss.pdf)
• Managing yourself. Stop holding yourself back. A Morriss, RJ Ely, FX Frei. Harvard Business Review. Jan – Feb 2011 pg 160-163 (currently available at https://www.sgim.org/File%20Library/SGIM/Resource%20Library/Leadership%20Forum/A_Jun2012-02.pdf)
• A Model for Enhancing Individual and Organisational Learning of ‘Emotional Intelligence’: The Drama and Winner’s Triangles. Robin C. Burgess: Social Work Education, Vol. 24, No. 1, February 2005, pp. 97–112 (currently available at http://www.widgetlibrary.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/media/WidgetFiles/1011649/DramaTriangleArticleE-PrintFeb05Burgess_99-114.pdf)
• Perseverance. Margaret Wheatley. Leadership Excellence, July 2010, p. 11 - (currently available at http://www.zengerfolkman.com/pdfs/LE-July2010.pdf )
• Seven transformations of leadership. Rooke, D. and Torbert, W. (2005) Harvard Business Review, April, pp. 66 – 76 at https://hbr.org/2005/04/seven-transformations-of-leadership
• What to ask the person in the mirror. Robert S Kaplan, Harvard Business Review, January 2007 at https://hbr.org/2007/01/what-to-ask-the-person-in-the-mirror
• What resilience means and why it matters. Andrea Ovens, January 2015 at https://hbr.org/2015/01/what-resilience-means-and-why-it-matters
• Why strategy execution unravels - and what to do about it, Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes and Charles Sull, Harvard Business Review, Vol 93 No 3, March 2015. pp58-66 at https://hbr.org/2015/03/why-strategy-execution-unravelsand-what-to-do-about-it
• Wicked Problems and Clumsy Solutions: the Role of Leadership. Keith Grint (currently available at http://leadershipforchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Keith-Grint-Wicked-Problems-handout.pdf ).

Most popular Harvard Business Review articles

These articles have been selected by the Harvard Business Review as being amongst the most popular articles in recent times.

All of these HBR articles are available via http://journals.nice.org.uk/ (search under Harvard Business Review) or EBSCO Health Business Elite, or your employer of professional organisation may be able to offer free access to the HBR. You may also be able to read each article by copying and pasting the exact title and authors into a search engine such as Google.

• What Leaders Really Do (HBR Classic) by John P. Kotter
• Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail (HBR Classic) by John P. Kotter
• What Makes a Leader? (HBR Classic) by Daniel Goleman
• Leadership That Gets Results by Daniel Goleman
• Level 5 Leadership - The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve (HBR Classic) by Jim Collins - slideshow at http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/unssc/unpan021788.pdf
• Discovering Your Authentic Leadership by William W. George, Peter Sims, Andrew N. McLean, David Mayer, and Diana Mayer
• What Is Strategy? by Michael E. Porter
• Can You Say What Your Strategy Is? by David J. Collis and Michael G. Rukstad.

These articles have been selected by the Harvard Business Review as being amongst the most popular must-read articles on managing yourself.

• Managing Oneself (HBR Classic) by Peter F. Drucker
• Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey? by William Oncken Jr., Donald L. Wass, and Stephen R. Covey
• Moments of Greatness: Entering the Fundamental State of Leadership by Robert E. Quinn. For a slide show on this, see http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/unssc/unpan021504.pdf
• What to Ask the Person in the Mirror by Robert S. Kaplan
• Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time by Tony Schwartz and Catherine McCarthy https://hbr.org/2007/10/manage-your-energy-not-your-time and there’s a summary at http://coache.fi/manage-your-energy-not-your-time/.

Most popular recent articles from Harvard Business School Working Knowledge

The Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge website has huge number of excellent articles and working papers, and these are all free to access. The most popular articles and working papers for each year can also be accessed through this website - http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ .

• The most popular articles and working papers in 2013 are at http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7390.html
• The most popular articles and working papers in 2014 are at http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7687.html
• The most popular articles and working papers in 2015 are at https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/the-most-popular-stories-and-research-papers-of-2015
• The most popular articles and working papers in 2016 are at https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/the-10-most-popular-stories-of-2016
• The most popular articles and working papers in 2017 are at https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/the-10-most-popular-stories-and-5-research-papers-of-2017

The links in this section have been tested and should still work, but this is a fast-changing world. If you find that any of the links do not work, or if you discover any new ones, or have any suggestions for additional resources, please email john.hunt@gmx.co.uk