Jean-Francois Manzoni

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Performance Management: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 24, 2023

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Performance Management Various Contributors in Collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2023) “Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.” Warren Bennis As you no doubt know already,…

Read More

Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 9/9/13)

September 15, 2013

  I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you:   BOOK REVIEWS Word of Mouse: 101+ Trends in How We Buy, Sell, Live, Learn, Work, and Play Marc Ostrofsky The Necessity…

Read More

The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome: No Harm Intended — A Relationship Spirals from Bad to Worse

September 12, 2013

Here is the executive summary of an article co-authored by Jean-François Manzoni and Jean-Louis Barsoux that was published in Harvard Business Review and later developed into a book. To read the complete article, you must be registered to have free…

Read More

The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome: A book review by Bob Morris

August 18, 2011

The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome: How Good Managers Cause Great People to Fail Jean-Francois Manzoni  and Jean-Louis Barsoux Harvard Business Press (2002) The Negative Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Note: I recently re-read this book while preparing questions for an interview and was amazed, frankly,…

Read More