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Team Genius: A Book Review by Bob Morris

February 2, 2024

Team Genius: The New Science of High-Performing Organizations Rich Karlgaard and Michael Malone HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins (2015) Not all teams can accomplish something great but they can be great One of Rich Karlgaard and Michael Malone’s key insights is…

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Deliberate Calm: A book review by Bob Morris

December 3, 2022

Deliberate Calm: How to Learn and Lead in a Volatile World Jacqueline Brassey, Aaron De Smet, and Michael Kruyt HarperBusiness (November 2022) How to juggle grenades, while walking through a minefield at midnight, during an electrical storm According to Jacqueline…

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Building Your Company’s Vision

June 1, 2022

Here is an excerpt from another classic article written by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras 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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What Jim Collins learned from Peter Drucker

May 3, 2022

Jim Collins provided the Foreword to the 50th anniversary edition of Peter Drucker’s classic, The Effective Executive, a book first published in 1967. Consider this passage: “Here are ten lessons I learned from Peter Drucker and this book, and that…

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Ask Your Developer: A book review by Bob Morris

January 22, 2021

Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century Jeff Lawson HarperBusiness (January 2021) How and why software development has become a natural law of successful business In this book, Jeff Lawson…

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Inclusify: A book review by Bob Morris

August 27, 2020

Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams Stefanie K. Johnson HarperBusiness (June 2020) Why the efforts of many (most? leaders fail despite good intentions Stefanie K. Johnson conducted wide and deep research that she correlated with…

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What You Do Is Who You Are: A book review by Bob Morris

November 11, 2019

What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture Ben Horowitz HarperBusiness (October 2019) “Culture is to a company as nutrition and training are to an aspiring professional athlete.” I agree with Ben Horowitz’s observation. Also,…

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“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein

August 19, 2019

In Smartcuts, Shane Snow explains thde breakghrough power of lateral thinking: how and why it usually (not always) answers questions and solves problems faster and better than can any other thought process. The concept of thinking outside of a box…

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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work: A book review by Bob Morris

July 5, 2019

It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson HarperBusiness (October 2018) How smarter choices can avoid or eliminate chaos in the workplace This is Jason Fried and David Heinemeier’s fourth collaboration on a book…

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Reboot: A book review by Bob Morris

July 2, 2019

Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up Jerry Colonna HarperBusiness (June 2019) If you don’t care abut knowing who you really are, why should anyone else? In his classic work, Denial of Death, Ernest Becker acknowledges that everyone dies…

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