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Trillion Dollar Coach: A book review by Bob Morris

April 21, 2019

Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle HarperBusiness/An imprint of HarperCollins (April 2019) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”  Theodore Roosevelt…

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Mentors & Coaches

January 14, 2019

In his Foreword to Trillion Dollar Coach, Adam Grant notes some significant differences between business mentors and business coaches: “Whereas mentors dole out words of wisdom, coaches roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty. They don’t just believe…

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Perspectives on disruptive creativity

November 23, 2018

In Originals, Adam Grant explains how non-conformists move the world. When they are actively engaged in change initiatives, the strongest resistance encountered will probably be cultural in nature, the result of what James O’Toole so aptly characterizes as “the ideology…

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Joel S. Marcus (chief executive of Alexandria Real Estate Equities) in “The Corner Office”

August 12, 2015

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Joel S. Marcus chief executive…

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Work Rules!: A book review by Bob Morris

April 9, 2015

Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead Laszlo Bock Twelve/Hatchette Book Group (2015) How to build a workplace culture within which personal growth and professional development are most likely to thrive I agree…

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Google’s 10 golden rules for personal growth and professional development

March 5, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article by Eric Schmidt and Hal Varian for Newsweek magazine. What’s interesting is that the rules are all about people: doing what they can to remove anything in the way of letting people shine.…

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Google’s Eight Innovation Principles

January 22, 2015

In an article for thinkwithGoogle, “The Eight Pillars of Innovation,” (July 2011), Susan Wojciki examines the principles that guide and inform Google’s innovation initiatives. They also suggest affirmations of specific values, strategies, and tactics that can be of substantial assistance…

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The Google Way of Attacking Problems

December 19, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Greg Satell 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 receive HBR email alerts,…

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Future Shlock: Meet the two-world hypothesis and its havoc

December 9, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Evgeny Morozov for The New Republic. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * The sewing machine was the smartphone of…

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How Google Works: A book review by Bob Morris

October 22, 2014

How Google Works Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, with Alan Eagle Grand Central Publishing (2014) How and why Google continues to attract and retain so many “smart creatives” Before Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, with Alan Eagle, explain how Google…

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