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You Can’t Market Manure at Lunchtime: A Book Review by Bob Morris

April 15, 2024

You Can’t Market Manure at Lunchtime: And Other Lessons from the Food Industry for Creating a More Sustainable Company Maisie Ganzler Harvard Business Review Press (April 2024) How to use sustainabiliy as a business driver and a market differentiator According…

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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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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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On the Origin of the Species: A book review by Bob Morris

September 13, 2021

On the Origin of Species: A Science Classic Charles Darwin with an Introduction by John van Wyhe; Edited by Tom Butler-Bowdon Capstone, A Wiley Brand (February 2020) Why The Origin of Species remains perhaps the most influential science book ever…

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Whenever you feel really stupid….

August 1, 2021

We all have highs and lows, good times and bad, joys and sorrows…. If and whenever you feel really stupid, check out these folks by clicking here. In response to criticism of “dumb jocks,” Joe Theisman angrily replied, “We can’t…

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“Organisms need to turn obstacles into fuel just as fire does.” Marcus Aurelius

May 15, 2021

Long ago, in Origin of the Species (1859),  Charles Darwin suggests “it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able…

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Richer, Wiser, Happier: A book review by Bob Morris

May 3, 2021

Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World’s Greatest Investors Win in Markets and in Life William Green Scribner (April 2021) How to find “countless ways to optimize the odds of success” As William Green explains, he wrote this book in order…

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Hire Purpose: A book review by Bob Morris

November 17, 2020

Hire Purpose: How Smart Companies Can Close the Skills Gap Deanna Mulligan with Greg Shaw Columbia Business School Press (October 2020) “The illiterate of the 21st century will be those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” I was again reminded…

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2030: A book review by Bob Morris

September 8, 2020

2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything Mauro F. Guillén St. Martin’s Press (August 2020) “The future is not what it used to be.” Laura Riding and Robert Graves Here is the context for…

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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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