“Be yourself. Everyone else is taken”

Managing Your Career: A book review by Bob Morris

January 13, 2021

Managing Your Career: The HBR Working Parents Series Daisy Dowling, Series Editor Harvard Business School Press (December 2020) “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.”  Oscar Wilde This is one of the volumes in a new series that consists of articles…

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#GIRLBOSS: A book review by Bob Morris

June 11, 2014

#GIRLBOSS Sophia Amoruso Portfolio/Penguin Putnam (2014) This is a personal memoir in the picaresque tradition Some readers could be deterred by a writing style that may seem to resemble narcissism on steroids. Other readers who are not put off by…

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Karen Wright: An interview by Bob Morris

April 11, 2013

Karen Wright is an executive coach, author, speaker and consultant.  She has an MBA in Marketing from the Ivey Business School and an undergraduate degree in Economics from Western University.  She graduated from the world’s leading coach training organization, was one of the inaugural students in its affiliated…

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Simon Pont: An interview by Bob Morris

January 29, 2013

Simon Pont is a writer, commentator and brand-builder. Hollywood movie studios, Icelandic investment banks, British chocolate bars and Middle Eastern airlines figure amongst his time on the inside of Adland. He is the author of The Better Mousetrap: Brand Invention…

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Rich Horwath: A second interview by Bob Morris

January 19, 2013

Rich Horwath helps people live strategically — to get more out of their business and more out of their lives. He is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best selling author on strategy. As the CEO of the…

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John A. Daly: An interview by Bob Morris

December 25, 2012

John Daly is the Liddell Professor of Communication and TCB Professor of Management at The University of Texas at Austin. While at the university, he has won every major award given on campus for undergraduate teaching. Daly has been the…

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David Horsager: An interview by Bob Morris

December 21, 2012

Dave Horsager is an author, business strategist, and keynote speaker. Through his book, The Trust Edge: How Top Leaders Gain Faster Results, Deeper Relationships, and a Stronger Bottom Line, and programs he shares the secrets of using trust to impact the…

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Toby Lester: An interview by Bob Morris

December 16, 2012

Toby Lester is a journalist, an editor, and an independent scholar. In addition to writing books, he is a longtime contributor to The Atlantic, for whom he has written extensively, on such topics as the reconstruction of ancient Greek music,…

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Paul Smith: An interview by Bob Morris

December 12, 2012

Paul Smith is a keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and author of Lead with a Story: A Guide to Crafting Business Narratives that Captivate, Convince, and Inspire (AMACOM August, 2012). Whether it’s the CEO’s speech to the board of directors, or…

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William N. Thorndike, Jr.: An interview by Bob Morris

December 3, 2012

William N. Thorndike, Jr. founded Housatonic Partners in Boston in 1994 and has been Managing Director since that time.  Prior to that, he worked with T. Rowe Price Associates where he did investment research in the nascent field of business services and Walker & Company where…

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