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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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Designing Transformative Experiences: A Book Review by Bob Morris

June 12, 2023

Designing Transformative Experiences: The New View of Leadership Using the ELVIS Methodology Brad McLain Berrett-Koehler Publishers (May 2023) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford In this volume, Brad McLain offers what is…

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How to Be an Inclusive Leader: A book review by Bob Morris

October 9, 2022

How to Be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive, Second Edition (Updated and Expanded) Jennifer Brown Berrett-Koehler Publishers (October 2022) How and why organizations “need all hands on deck to make change…

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Begin Boldly: A book review by Bob Morris

August 5, 2022

Begin Boldly: How Women Can Reimagine Risk, Embrace Uncertainty, and Launch a Brilliant Career Christie Hunter Arscott Berrett-Koehler Publishers (August 2022) “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” Oscar Wilde Christie Hunter Arscott is a passionate as well as eloquent advocate…

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Simple Truths of Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

February 22, 2022

Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust Ken Blanchard and Randy Conley Berrett-Koehler Publishers (February 2022) How and why “simple truths” are the secret sauce to achieve superior achievements with a values-driven life…

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The Cactus and the Snowflake at Work: A book review by Bob Morris

November 16, 2021

The Cactus and the Snowflake at Work: How the Logical and Sensitive Can Thrive Side by Side Devora Zack Berrett-Koehler Publishers (November 2021) How to balance contrasting predilections to increase  positive impact To what does the title refer? Devora Zack…

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Radical Product Thinking: A book review by Bob Morris

October 4, 2021

Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter R. Dutt Berrett-Koehler Publishers (September 2021) How to dedvelop the mindset needed to design vision-driven products and services I agree with Radhika Dutt that “product” is a way of thinking, not…

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Equity: A book review by Bob Morris

September 14, 2021

Equity: How to Design Organizations Where Everyone Thrives Minal Bopaiah Berrett-Koehler Publishers (September 2021) How to design an organization for equity in a business world in which inequity continues to thrive In his classic work, Power: Why Some People Have…

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Hyper-Learning: A book review by Bob Morris

September 7, 2020

Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change Edward D. Hess Berrett-Koehler Publishers (September 2020) “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”  George Bernard Shaw J. H. Flavell was probably the first to use the term…

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Ten Years to Midnight: A book review by Bob Morris

August 24, 2020

Ten Years to Midnight: Four Urgent Global Crises and Their Strategic Solutions Blair H. Sheppard with Susannah Anfield, Ceri-Ann Droog, Alexis Jenkins, Thomas Minet, Jeffrey Rothfeder, and Daria Zarubina Berrett-Koehler Publishers (August 2020) What would William Butler Yeats make of…

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