Eric Ries

Grow: A book review by Bob Morris

June 21, 2023

Grow: Take Your Business from Chaos to Calm Michael J. McFall An Inc. Original (June 2023) How well leaders grow their people will determine how well they will grow their company Why did Michael McFall write this book? It is…

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Exit Path: A book review by Bob Morris

August 15, 2022

Exit Path: Hows to Win the Startup End Game Touraj Parang McGraw Hill (July 2022) How and why good exits happen when companies are bought, not sold. The reasons vary, of course, but most startups fail within five years after…

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Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook: A book review by Bob Morris

January 29, 2021

Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook: How to Build and Sustain a Successful, Enduring Enterprise Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer Harvard Business Review Press (January 2021) “Vision without execution is hallucination.”  Thomas Edison There are 5.5 million family-owned businesses in…

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Lean Impact: A book review by Bob Morris

November 14, 2018

Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good Ann Mei Chang John Wiley & Sons (November 2018) The most effective ways that organizations in the social sector can serve both funders and users I agree with Ann Mei Chang…

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Clockwork: A book review by Bob Morris

September 7, 2018

Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself Mike Michalowicz Portfolio/Penguin (August 2018) Here is a system that can help almost anyone to grow a business that can (almost) run itself Mike Michalowicz (my-KAL-oh-wits) once asked Ryan Lee how he has…

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The Startup Way: A book review by Bob Morris

January 16, 2018

The Startup Way: How Modern Companies Use Entrepreneurial Management to Transform Culture and Drive Long-Term Growth Eric Ries Currency/An imprint of the Crown Publishing Group (October 2017) How managers in a VUCA world become more adaptive, more humane, more rigorous,…

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How to Lead Your Team into the Unknown

December 16, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Nathan Furr and Jeffrey H. Dyer for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and…

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The Most Popular McKinsey Quarterly Articles: Second Quarter (2014)

July 4, 2014

According to mckinsey.com readers, these were the most popular articles during the Second Quarter of 2014. Here’s a direct link to reading any/all of them. 1. Change leader, change thyself: Anyone who pulls the organization in new directions must look…

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Geoffrey A. Moore: “Crossing the Chasm Meets The Lean Start-Up”

February 16, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Geoffrey A. Moore for LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete article, check out dozens of others, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * * To the degree…

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Google Is Winning the Innovation War Against Apple

June 2, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Larry Popelka for Bloomberg Businessweek. To read the complete article and check out other resources, please click here. Photograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images * * * Google (GOOG) appears to…

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