There are many books with an entrepreneurial bent available, most of which are aimed at folks considering starting a business. This is a solid compilation of HBR white papers on various aspects of entrepreneurship. Although the information is useful to those exploring the possibility of starting their own venture, it is more useful to those who have taken the plunge and are immersed in the day to day challenges of building and sustaining a new business venture.

Amar Bhide ("New Business Ventures and the Entrepreneur") is one of the primary contributors, with analyses of entrepreneurial strategy and financing.

This book is useful for those starting, seeking financing, or growing a new venture (I define new as

This book encapsulates the responsibilites of a leader and the diffirenciation between a leader and a manager. A leader is always in front... never in second place. Thats where managers are... because they are not as good, as the book states. Every manager should strive to be a leader.

The wide variety of articles on leadership covers well items from the basic topics such as the difference between managers and leaders to how someone can be both (and the tensions that can cause!). Two of the best articles were on how leaders really spend their time during the day and how leaders foster an environment in which other people can also be identified and brought forward as leaders.

I would've rated this five stars, but there are a couple of articles (on 'defining moments' and CEOs) that weren't a complete waste of time but seemed too far divorced from the typical leader within a company that I was surprised the HBR didn't find something more likely to be widely applicable to fill the space.