Marshall Goldsmith

How Work Works: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 19, 2023

How Work Works: The Subtle Science of Getting Ahead Without Losing Yourself Michelle P. King Harper Business/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishing (October 2023) “What got you here won’t get you there.”  Marshall Goldsmith I agree with Goldsmith. In fact, I…

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Revolutionizing Business Operations: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 3, 2023

Revolutionizing Business Operations: How to Build Dynamic Perocesses for Enduring Competitive Advantage Tony Saldanha and Filippo Passerini Berrett-Koehler Publishers (September 2023) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison] According to Tony Saldanha and Filippo Passerini, ‘There are clear patterns to…

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Madison Avenue Makeover: A Book Review by Bob Morris

July 13, 2023

Madison Avenue Makeover: The Transformation of HUGE and Redefinition of the Ad Agency Business Michael Farmer LID Publishing (July 2023) “If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.” David Ogilvy The title of one of Marshall Goldsmith’s most recent books suggests…

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Reinvent: A book review by Bob Morris

July 9, 2023

Reinvent: Navigating Business Transformation in a Hyperdigital Era   Faisal Hoque Fast Company Press (July 2023) “What got you here won’t get you there.”  Marshall Goldsmith I agree with Marshall Goldsmith. In fact, I take his insight a step further: What…

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The Culture Climb: A book review by Bob Morris

June 22, 2023

The Culture Climb: How to Build a Work Culture That Maximizes Your Impact Jaime Taets with Chelsey Paulson Fast Company Press (June 2023) “Where everyone knows your name…” and cares   It is no coincidence that companies annually ranked the most…

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Allen Adamson on “Seeing the How”: An interview by Bob Morris

June 11, 2023

Allen P. Adamson is a noted expert in all disciplines of branding. He has worked with a broad spectrum of consumer and B2B businesses in industries from packaged goods to hospitality, technology to healthcare. His previous books, including BrandSimple and, more recently, Shift…

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The Future Normal: A book Review by Bob Morris

March 17, 2023

The Future Normal: How We Will Live, Work and Thrive in the Next Decade Ronit Bhargava and Henry Coutinho-Mason Ideapress Publishing (March 2023) “What got you here won’t get you there.” Marshall Goldsmith I agree with Marshall Goldsmith. In fact,…

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John Mattone on “The Ultimate Dimension” of Course Correction

August 16, 2022

The supertankers that transport oil must travel almost 40 miles to reverse direction. The same is true of the newest aircraft carriers I thought of the relevance of that fact to the challenges that leaders of a Fortune 50 company face…

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A New Way to Think: A book review by Bob Morris

May 9, 2022

A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness Roger L. Martin Harvard Business Review Press (May 2022) “If you’ve always done it that way, you’re probably wrong.” Charles Kettering More recently, Marshall Goldsmith asserted that “what got…

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The Neutrality Trap: A book review by Bob Morris

March 5, 2022

The Neutrality Trap: Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change Bernard Mayer and Jacqueline N. Font-Guzmán Wiley (January 2022) “What got you here won’t get you there.”  Marshall Goldsmith My own opinion is that what got you here won’t even allow…

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