Month: April 2013

Dennis Perkins: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

April 23, 2013

Dennis Perkins is Chief Executive Officer of The Syncretics Group, a consulting firm devoted to effective leadership in demanding environments—especially those characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity, and rapid change. Perkins has worked for over twenty-five years as an advisor to senior…

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The Five Stages of Disruption Denial

April 22, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Grant McCracken for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR…

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Business Brilliant: A book review by Bob Morris

April 22, 2013

Business Brilliant: Surprising Lessons from the Greatest Self-Made Business Icons Lewis Schiff HarperBusiness (2013) Seven counterintuitive principles that can help you to achieve great success, however you define it According to Lewis Schiff, this book tells “the story of how…

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How to Create an Innovation Ecosystem

April 22, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Art Markman for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR…

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/15/13)

April 21, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization Dan Pontefract The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American…

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George Hu (Salesforce) in “The Corner Office”

April 21, 2013

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of George Hu, chief operating officer…

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Flat Army: A book review by Bob Morris

April 20, 2013

Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization Dan Pontefract Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) How to strengthen engagement, empowerment, and execution, then leverage them for a decisive competitive advantage In recent years, we have observed a tsunami of books, articles,…

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How to Find Your Own “Element”

April 20, 2013

Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica collaborated on The Element (2009) and do so again when explaining, in Finding Your Element (May 21, 2013) how to discover one’s talents and passions and, thereby, transform one’s life. Although Aronica no doubt made…

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Givers take all: The hidden dimension of corporate culture

April 19, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Adam Grant for The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. In it, Grant explains how and why, by encouraging employees to both seek and provide help, rewarding givers, and…

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The Idea Factory: A book review by Bob Morris

April 19, 2013

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation Jon Gertner Penguin Books (2012) How and why Bell Labs was once the most innovative scientific (and perhaps most commercial) organization in the world As I began to…

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