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The Microstress Effect: A book review by Bob Morris

April 28, 2023

The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems — and What to Do About It Rob Cross and Karen Dillon Harvard Business Review Press (April 2023) How to create and then sustain a workplace culture of…

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Nudge: A book review by Bob Morris

October 5, 2021

Nudge: The Final Edition Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein Penguin Books (August 2021) “Letting the other chap have it your way.” This is an updated and revised version of a book first published in 2008. The first four…

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The Long Game: A book review by Bob Morris

September 29, 2021

The Long Game: How to be a long-term thinker in a short-term world Dorie Clark Harvard Business Review Press (September 2021) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb I…

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Company of One: A book review by Bob Morris

March 4, 2019

Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business Paul Jarvis Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (January 2019) How and why to “start small, define growth, and keep learning” According to Paul Jarvis, “blind growth is the main…

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The 50s: A book review by Bob Morris

January 12, 2017

The 50s: The Story of a Decade Henry Finder, Editor Random House (2015) “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Charles Dickens For more than 90 years, The New Yorker has earned and deserves its…

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Joseph Badaracco on making smart decisions “in the gray area”: An interview by Bob Morris

October 16, 2016

Joseph L. Badaracco is the John Shad Professor of Business Ethics at Harvard Business School. He has taught courses on business ethics, strategy, and management in the School’s MBA and executive programs. Badaracco is a graduate of St. Louis University,…

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Eyal Winter on “Feeling Smart”: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

March 4, 2016

Eyal Winter is professor of economics and the former director of the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, one of the world’s leading institutions in the academic study of decision making. He served as…

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Eyal Winter on “Feeling Smart”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

February 26, 2016

Eyal Winter is professor of economics and the former director of the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, one of the world’s leading institutions in the academic study of decision making. He served as…

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Joy Ride: A book review by Bob Morris

January 9, 2016

Joy Ride: Show People and Their Shows John Lahr W.W., Norton & Company (2015) For those who love the theater, here is a magic carpet on which to take a joy ride of their own. I have previously read all…

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Leadership BS: A book review by Bob Morris

October 8, 2015

Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time Jeffrey Pfeffer HarperBusiness (September 2015) How to eliminate “too many leadership failures, too many career derailments, and too many toxic workplaces” In Jeffrey Pfeffer’s latest book, he shares his…

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