Good-to-Great

Kristi Hedges: An Interview by Bob Morris

June 25, 2023

Kristi Hedges is a leadership coach, speaker and author. In her 20-year career working with leaders to help them communicate more effectively she’s encountered every personality type imaginable, yet remains more than a little passionate that anyone can learn presence. Her…

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Flywheels: A book review by Bob Morris

November 18, 2021

Flywheels: How Cities Are Creating Their Own Futures Tom Alberg Columbia Business School Publishing (November 2021) How to build flywheels that promote economic development and solve urban social problems in all cities Jim Collins introduced his concept of “The Flywheel…

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The Flywheel Effect

November 4, 2021

Jim Collins introduced his concept of “The Flywheel Effect” in his book Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t (2001). No matter how dramatic the end result, good-to-great transformations never happen in one fell swoop. In…

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Useful Delusions: A book review by Bob Morris

July 15, 2021

Useful Delusions: The Power & Paradox of the Self-Deceiving Brain Shankar Vedantam & Bill Mesler W.W. Norton & Company (March 2021) When context determines appropriateness As I began to read the first three chapters of this book, I was again…

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Humility Is the New Smart: A book review by Bob Morris

March 16, 2017

Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age Edward D. Hess and Katherine Ludwig Barrett-Koehler Publishers (January 2017) “NewSmart”: Excellence at the very highest levels of cognition and initiative What will be the percentage of…

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Life’s Work: An Interview with Kevin Spacey

March 16, 2016

Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of Kevin Spacey by Alison Beard 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…

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Move Your Bus: A book review by Bob Morris

March 7, 2016

Move Your Bus: An Extraordinary New Approach to Accelerating Success in Work and Life Ron Clark Touchstone/An imprint of Simon & Schuster (2015) How to accelerate “the relentless pursuit of excellence” and do so with people power Ron Clark’s use…

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The Wisdom of Peter Drucker from A to Z

November 13, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article by Leigh Buchanan for Inc. magazine in which she examines Drucker’s contributions, from A to Z. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * *…

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The Re-Education of Jim Collins

September 29, 2015

The author or co-author of Good to Great, Built to Last, How the Mighty Fall, and Great by Choice went to West Point to teach leadership. Instead, he was the one who got schooled. Here is a brief excerpt from…

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A Culture of Purpose: A book review by Bob Morris

May 9, 2014

A Culture of Purpose: How to Choose the Right People and Make the Right People Choose You Christoph Lueneburger Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2014) A brilliant analysis of perhaps the single most important dimension of organizational alignment Accord to Jim Collins…

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