Month: August 2013

Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 8/19/13)

August 25, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Business of Belief: How the World’s Best Marketers, Designers, Salespeople, Coaches, Fundraisers, Educators, Entrepreneurs and Other Leaders Get Us to…

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The Business of Belief: A book review by Bob Morris

August 24, 2013

The Business of Belief: How the World’s Best Marketers, Designers, Salespeople, Coaches, Fundraisers, Educators, Entrepreneurs and Other Leaders Get Us to Believe Tom Asaker CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2013) “The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because…

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How Do You Create Innovation in Your Business? Kill the Company

August 24, 2013

Here is a brief portion of an interview of Lisa Bodell by Raul Candeloro in an article written by Glenn Burr for the Inc. Small Giants Community (ISGC). To read the complete article, check out other resources, and learn more…

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Nicole Lipkin on “Five Steps for Active Listening”

August 23, 2013

In What Keeps Leaders Up at Night: Recognizing and Resolving Your Most Troubling Management Issues, published by AMACOM, Nicole Lipkin offers a wealth of information, insights, and counsel on how to accelerate personal growth and personal development. I am especially…

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Leadership Transformed: A book review by Bob Morris

August 23, 2013

Leadership Transformed: How Ordinary Managers Become Extraordinary Leaders Peter Fuda New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2013) How and why leadership transformation can only be understood by thinking holistically. There are at least two ways to view the title of this book…

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Sophia McDougall on “Why I hate Strong Female Characters”

August 23, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Sophia McDougall for NewStatesman in which objects to the fact that “Sherlock Holmes gets to be brilliant, solitary, abrasive, Bohemian, whimsical, brave, sad, manipulative, neurotic, vain, untidy, fastidious, artistic, courteous, rude,…

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Patrick Lencioni on “Leadership and The New Pope”

August 22, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Patrick Lencioni for his “Pat’s POV” series featured at his website. To read the complete article, check out all the other resources, and sign up for email alerts, please click here.…

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Jeff Weiner on “The Highest ROI Management Tool in Business”

August 22, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn. To read the complete article, please click here. * * * This image was recently emailed to one of the senior-most technology executives at LinkedIn. In…

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Clara Lippert Glenn (C.E.O. of the Oxford Princeton Program) in “The Corner Office”

August 22, 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 Clara Lippert Glenn, C.E.O. of…

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Marty Neumeier on “The Aha Moment”

August 21, 2013

It is generally known that Archimedes of Syracuse (287–212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Among…

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