Joseph Schumpeter

How Innovation Works: A review by Bob Morris

May 23, 2023

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 The material in some books is even more relevant — and more…

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The Future Normal: A book Review by Bob Morris

March 17, 2023

The Future Normal: How We Will Live, Work and Thrive in the Next Decade Ronit Bhargava and Henry Coutinho-Mason Ideapress Publishing (March 2023) “What got you here won’t get you there.” Marshall Goldsmith I agree with Marshall Goldsmith. In fact,…

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Creative Conflict: A book review by Bob Morris

May 17, 2022

Creative Conflict: A Practical Guide for Business Negotiators Bill Sanders and Frank Mobus Harvard Business Review Press (June 2021) A brilliant explanation of “how negotiating is driven by both competition and cooperation, often at the same time.” A few books…

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The Neutrality Trap: A book review by Bob Morris

March 5, 2022

The Neutrality Trap: Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change Bernard Mayer and Jacqueline N. Font-Guzmán Wiley (January 2022) “What got you here won’t get you there.”  Marshall Goldsmith My own opinion is that what got you here won’t even allow…

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50 Business Classics: A book review by Bob Morris

November 2, 2021

50 Business Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on innovation, management and strategy Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey (April 2018) “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”  Ann Landers (Eppie Lederer) [Note: I recently re-read this book again…

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Creative Conflict: A book review by Bob Morris

July 7, 2021

Creative Conflict: A Practical Guide for Business Negotiators Bill Sanders and Frank Mobus Harvard Business Review Press (June 2021) A brilliant explanation of “how negotiating is driven by both competition and cooperation, often at the same time.” Years ago in…

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Recommendation Engines: A book review by Bob Morris

December 12, 2020

Recommendation Engines (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Michael Schrage The MIT Press (September 2020) How and why recommendation engines can help to create more valuable people I have not read in recent years a more entertaining or a more…

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Mauro Guillén on Creative Destruction

September 2, 2020

In his new book, 2030, Mauro Guilllén explains how today’s biggest trends will collide and reshape the future of everything. These are his thoughts about one of the most influential thought leaders: “The Austrian economist and political scientist Joseph Schumpeter…

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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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Leap: A book review by Bob Morris

September 12, 2018

Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied Howard Yu Publich Affairs/Hachette Book Group (June 2018) How to “move across knowledge disciplines to leverage or create new knowledge in how a product is made or service…

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