James O’Toole

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Building a Great Culture

May 31, 2022

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Building a Great Culture Various Contributors in Collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (November 2019) Begin at the end: First determine WHAT and WHY, then WHO and HOW. After centuries of war between…

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A New Way to Think: A book review by Bob Morris

May 9, 2022

A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness Roger L. Martin Harvard Business Review Press (May 2022) “If you’ve always done it that way, you’re probably wrong.” Charles Kettering More recently, Marshall Goldsmith asserted that “what got…

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The AI Marketing Canvas: A book review by Bob Modrris

August 30, 2021

The AI Marketing Canvas: A Five-Stage Road Map to Implementing Artificial Intelligence in Marketing Raj Venkatesan and Jim Lecinski Stanford Business Books (May 2021) How to “supercharge your brand’s consumer journey” with high-impact personalization that consumers now expect In The…

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What are the defining characteristics of an agile organization?

June 16, 2021

Many years ago, Jack Welch was asked why he highly admired small organizations. GE’s then chairman and CEO offered this response: “There are several reasons. For one, they communicate better. Without the din and prattle of bureaucracy, people listen as…

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Leading in the Digital World: A book review by Bob Morris

August 25, 2020

Leading in the Digital World: How to Foster Creativity, Collaboration, and Inclusivity Amit S. Mukherjee The MIT Press (March 2020) How to become a leader in a workplace culture driven by digital technologies For centuries, human beings have tended to…

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How Innovation Works: A book review by Bob Morris

May 31, 2020

How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom Matt Ridley Harper (May 2020) “Innovation offers the carrot of spectacular reward or the stick of destitution.”  Joseph Schumpeter In the Introduction to his brilliant book, Matt Ridley cites a concept…

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The four most common forms of really dumb thinking

March 18, 2020

Opinions vary about which forms of really dumb thinking are the most common and many of those opinions offer excellent examples of dumb thinking. The opinions I now share are those of several thinkers whom I personally admire. They include…

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Keith Sawyer: An interview by Bob Morris

December 6, 2019

Keith Sawyer is one of the world’s leading scientific experts on creativity and innovation. In his first job after graduating from MIT, he designed videogames for Atari. He then worked for six years as a management consultant in Boston and…

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Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

December 3, 2019

Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David Robertson Harvard Business Review Press (2006) Still the definitive source for cutting-edge thinking about the design of organizational excellence Here is another business…

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Pamela Newkirk on the Diversity Imperative: An interview by Bob Morris

November 17, 2019

Pamela Newkirk is a journalist, professor, and multidisciplinary scholar whose work traverses history and journalism. Her book, Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business, was published by Bold Type Books (October 2019). In it, she examines why, after five decades…

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