Dean R. Spitzer

The Executive Checklist: A book review by Bob Morris

January 7, 2023

The Executive Checklist: A Guide for Setting Direction and Managing Change James M. Kerr Pagrave/Macmillan (2014) How to replace vague ideas about your career with strategies that will help you achieve your objectives at work and everywhere else Up front,…

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What does a healthy company look like?

August 30, 2014

Based on everything I have experienced, observed, and learned over the years, here’s what I think a healthy company looks like: o First-Person Plural Pronouns: Everyone thinks in terms of “serving our customers,” “what we can accomplish working together, ”…

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The Executive Checklist: A book review by Bob Morris

July 23, 2014

The Executive Checklist: A Guide for Setting Direction and Managing Change James M. Kerr Pagrave/Macmillan (2014) How to replace vague ideas about your career with strategies that will help you achieve your objectives at work and everywhere else Up front,…

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“Which business books should every executive keep near at hand?”

December 9, 2012

Soon most of us will be exchanging holiday gifts and perhaps you’ll be asked what you would like to have. Why not suggest some business books? In my opinion, whether as a gift from someone else or one you give…

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Competing in a Flat World: A book review by Bob Morris

October 22, 2011

Competing in a Flat World: Building Enterprises for a Borderless World Victor K. Fung, William K. Fung, and Jerry (Yoram) Wind Pearson/Prentice Hall (2007) This book offers still another example of a book that attracted little attention when published but…

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Design-Driven Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

July 30, 2011

Design-Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean Roberto Verganti Harvard Business Press (2009) Does design drive innovation or does innovation drive design? The answer is “Yes.” The success of each approach depends almost entirely…

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Transforming Performance Measurement: A book review by Bob Morris

July 1, 2011

Transforming Performance Measurement: Rethinking the Way We Measure and Drive Organizational Success Dean R. Spitzer AMACOM (2007) How to measure only what really what matters…and do it right In this remarkable volume, Dean Spitzer urges his reader to re-think how…

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Dean R. Spitzer: Interview #2 by Bob Morris

June 11, 2011

Spitzer is president of Dean R. Spitzer & Associates and widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading authorities on performance measurement and management. His latest book, Transforming Performance Measurement: Rethinking the Way We Measure and Drive Organizational Success, has…

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Dean R. Spitzer: Interview #1 by Bob Morris

March 9, 2011

Dean R. Spitzer is a leading consultant and researcher in the field of business and performance measurement associated with IBM’s Almaden Services Research group. He has over 30 years of experience in helping individuals and organizations achieve superior performance by…

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