How Will You Measure Your Life?

HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose

January 22, 2022

HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose John Coleman Harvard Business Review Press (January 2022) How to craft a life and a career guided, informed, and enriched by purpose This one of very few single-author volumes in HBR Guide to…. series,…

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Upstream: A book review by Bob Morris

March 8, 2020

Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen Dan Heath Avid Reader Press/An imprint of Simon & Schuster (March 2020) Never more true than it is today: “A stitch in time….” I have read and reviewed four bestsellers co-authored…

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How Will You Measure Your Life?

January 27, 2020

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Clayton M. Christensen for Harvard Business Review (July–August 2010 Issue) and the HBR Blog Network. Christensen passed away last week of leukemia. All who knew him loved and respected him.…

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The Purpose Effect: A book review by Bob Morris

May 17, 2016

The Purpose Effect: Building Meaning in Yourself, Your Role and Your Organization Dan Pontefract Elevate Publishing (May 2016) Faber est suae quisque fortunae Those who have read Dan Pontefract’s previous book, Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization, already…

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The Clayton M. Christensen Reader: A book review by Bob Morris

March 13, 2016

The Clayton M. Christensen Reader Clayton M. Christensen and Various Co-Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2016) If you think disruption is a problem, try stagnation. The Harvard Business Review Press continues to publish anthologies of HBR articles that Amazon US…

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The Road to Character: A book review by Bob Morris

April 28, 2015

The Road to Character David Brooks Random House (2015) Here is a thoughtful and heartfelt affirmation of a “moral ecology” that can help all of us to cultivate stronger character I have read and then reviewed most of David Brooks’…

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Mindfulness at Work: A book review by Bob Morris

January 23, 2015

Mindfulness at Work: How to Avoid Stress, Achieve More, and Enjoy Life! Stephen McKenzie Career Press (2014) How and why awareness and acceptance are essential to personal growth and professional development What is mindfulness? Opinions vary. Here is one that…

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Philosopher kings: Why and how business leaders would benefit from studying great writers

October 10, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article from The Economist in which the benefits of inward-bound learning are examined. For more than 20 years, I have been retained by corporate clients to conduct what I characterize as “brown bag…

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Body of Work: A book review by Bob Morris

May 15, 2014

Body of Work: Finding the Thread That Ties Your Story Together Pamela Slim Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2013) Why we must strive to “direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our…

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What You’re Really Meant to Do: A book review by Bob Morris

May 24, 2013

What You’re Really Meant to Do: A Roadmap for Reaching Your Unique Potential Robert Steven Kaplan Harvard Business Review Press (2013) To paraphrase Walt Whitman, “We are large, we contain multitudes.” Self-improvement initiatives or, if you prefer, self-fulfillment or self-actualization…

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