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Decision Sprint: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 30, 2025

Decision Sprint: The New Way to Innovate into the Unknown and Move from Strategy to Action Atif Rafiq McGraw Hill (April 2023) “If you have always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.” Charles Kettering To what does the title of…

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Three Nonnegotiable Leadership Skills for 2025

January 29, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Melissa Swift for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others,  sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit:  Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT…

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Building a Data-Driven Culture: Four Key Elements

January 28, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ganes Kesari for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others,  sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Carolyn…

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What Is Agentic AI, and How Will It Change Work?

January 27, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Mark Purdy for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit:  Jonathan Kitchen/Getty Images  …

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Essential: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 26, 2025

Essential: How Distributed Teams, Generative AI, and Global Shifts Are Creating a New Human-Powered Leadership Christie Smith and Kelly Monahan Wiley (January 2025) Providing high-impact leadership in a world that is increasingly tense, uncertain, and polarized Long ago in Future…

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25 Great Writers and Thinkers Weigh In on Books That Matter

January 25, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an especially important article written by Tina Jordan, Noor Qasim, and John Williams that appeared in The New York Times (January 28, 2021). To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain information about deep-discount subscriptions, please click here. *…

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Five Hybrid Work Trends to Watch in 2025

January 24, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brian Elliott  for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others,  sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit:  Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT…

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Leaders Shouldn’t Try to Do It All

January 23, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Owen…

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How your company’s strategy can beat the odds by embracing uncertainty

January 22, 2025

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by  Chris Bradley, Martin Hirt, and Sven Smit for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company (March 23, 2018). To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm,…

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Think Faster, Talk Smarter: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 21, 2025

Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You Are Put on the Spot Matt Abrahams Simon Element/An Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. (September 2023) How to have high-impact in both formal presentations and informal conversations Most people…

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