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Jeff Bezos’s Peculiar Management Tool for Self-Discipline at Amazon Meetings

January 6, 2023

Here is an article originally published by the I Done This Blog in 2017. Two years later, fresh advice for managers was added. * * * The modern workplace’s vogue is informal information exchange. We sit in open floor plan offices so that…

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How to use metrics to quantify performance

July 8, 2021

In Decoding Greatness, Ron Friedman explains how the best in the world reverse engineer their success. He extends the concept of reverse engineering into a wide range of applications that include but are not limited to investing. Carl Gustav Jacobi,…

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Steve Brown on six high-impact technologies: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

March 8, 2020

As the former Futurist and Chief Evangelist at Intel Corporation, Steve Brown has more than 30 years of experience in high tech, half of that time spent in strategic planning roles where he imagined and built plans for a world…

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Transforming Nokia: A book review by Bob Morris

November 2, 2018

Transforming Nokia: The Power of Paranoid Optimism to Lead Through Colossal Change Risto Siilasmaa with Catherine Fredman McGraw-Hill Education (October 2018) “Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.” Andy Grove In this book, written with Catherine Fredman, Risto…

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Inflection Point: A book review by Bob Morris

November 14, 2015

Inflection Point: How the Convergence of Cloud, Mobility, Apps, and Data Will Shape the Future of Business Scott Stawski Pearson (2015) Strategic inflection point: “When a company’s fundamentals are about to change significantly, for better or worse.” Andy Grove It…

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All Hands On Deck: A book review by Bob Morris

June 17, 2015

All Hands On Deck: Navigating Your Team Through Crises, Getting Your Organization Unstuck, and Emerging Victorious Peter J. Boni Career Press (2w015() How and why disruption can create ten times (10X) the nature and extent of opportunity to advance and…

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Scott Anthony on “Eight Essential Questions for Every Corporate Innovator”

February 7, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Scott Anthony 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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Richard S. Tedlow: An interview by Bob Morris

February 5, 2014

Richard Tedlow is the Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he is a specialist in the history of business. He received his BA from Yale and his MA and PhD in history from…

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Nicole Lipkin: An interview by Bob Morris

October 8, 2013

Nicole Lipkin is the CEO of Equilibria Leadership Consulting, an international leadership consulting company based in the US. She coaches and consults with leaders and their organizations to improve management and leadership skills, strengthen the leadership pipeline and develop sustainable…

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Getting Innovation Right: A book review by Bob Morris

March 25, 2013

Getting Innovation Right: How Leaders Leverage Inflection Points to Drive Success Seth Kahan Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker Those who…

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