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Chip Bell: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

August 6, 2015

The author of nineteen books, Chip’s newest book (with Marshall Goldsmith) is Managers As Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning. He is also the author of Wired and Dangerous (with John Patterson) and Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service (with Ron…

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Joseph McCormack, author of BRIEF: An Interview by Bob Morris

July 3, 2014

Joe McCormack is on a mission to help organizations master the art of the short story. In an age of shrinking attention spans, non-stop interruptions, and a flood of information, the messages business leaders send out are getting lost in…

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“Can you perform under pressure?”

May 22, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Kate Kane for Fast Company magazine. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. *     *     * Question: What do the navy Seals, the…

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True Alignment: A book review by Bob Morris

December 12, 2013

True Alignment: Linking Company Culture with Customer Needs for Extraordinary Results Edgar Papke AMACOM (2013) How to achieve and then sustain alignment of customer needs with an organization’s leadership, culture, and brand intention If it were possible to retain Albert…

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 10/21/13)

October 27, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Conf!dence: Overcoming Low Self-Esteem, Insecurity, and Self-Doubt Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic The Office Politics Handbook: Winning the Game of Power and Politics at…

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The Innovation Expedition: A book review by Bob Morris

October 14, 2013

The Innovation Expedition: A Visual Toolkit to Start Innovation Gijs van Wulfen provides BIS Publishers (2013) Just about everything you need to know about how to establish and then sustain an innovation culture By the time I began to read…

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Martin Lindstrom on sensory branding

January 4, 2013

In Brand Sense: Sensory Secrets Behind the Stuff We Buy, Martin Lindstrom notes that “the effects of sensory branding are astounding. Yes, it’s possible to create a truly spectacular commercial or an advertising jingle you can’t get out of your…

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The Trust Edge: A book review by Bob Morris

October 25, 2012

The Trust Edge: How Top Leaders Gain Faster Results, Deeper Relationships, and a Stronger Bottom Line David Horsager Free Press (2012) “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Presumably all C-level…

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Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time: A book review by Bob Morris

April 27, 2012

Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time Daniel Gross John Wiley & Sons (1997) Note: This was among the first books I reviewed for Amazon (in 2000) and I recently re-read it while doing some research on several of the…

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The Silver Lining: A book review by Bob Morris

August 17, 2011

The Silver Lining: An Innovation Playbook for Uncertain Times Scott D. Anthony Harvard Business Press (2009) According to Scott Anthony, the “Great Disruption” refers to the current time when tumultuous change is “ripping through markets at unprecedented pace. Competitive advantage…

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