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Be the Unicorn: A Book Review by Bob Morris

November 21, 2023

Be the Unicorn: 12 Data-Driven Habits That Separate the Best Leaders from the Rest William Vanderbloemen HarperCollins Leadership/An Imprint of HarperCollins (November 2023) How determined are you tgo to work hard AND smart? Otherwise…. What are the defining characteristics of…

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Leadership Is Overrated: A Book Review by Bob Morris

November 3, 2023

Leadership Is Overrated: How the Navy SEALs (and Successful Businesses) Create Self-Leading Teams That Win Kyle Buckett and Chris Mefford HarperOne/An Imprint of HarperCollins (August 2023) Leadership really does matter. “It’s just that it’s highly overrated.” To what does the…

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The Crisis Turnaround: A Book Review by Bob Morris

September 27, 2023

The Crisis Turnaround: Lead Through Crisis and Position Your Company for Strength Jeff Hilimire Ripples of Hope Publishing (2020) The Chinese character for “crisis’ has two meanings: “peril” and “opportunity.” This is the second of four volumes in the Turnaround…

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The Empathy Advantage: A book review by Bob Morris

March 10, 2023

  The Empathy Advantage: Leading the Empowered Workforce Heather E. McGowan and Chris Shipley Wiley (March 2023) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”  Theodore Roosevelt Empathy is the ability to recognize, understand,…

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Rising Together: A book review by Bob Morris

March 5, 2023

Rising Together: How We Can Bridge Divides and Create a More Inclusive Workplace Sally Helgesen Hatchette Books (February 2023) How to build cultures of belonging in which personal growth and professional development thrive Many of the “silos” that undermine communication,…

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Real-Time Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

February 28, 2023

Real-Time Leadership: Find Your Winning Moves When the Stakes Are High David Noble and Carol Kauffman Harvard Business Review Press (February 2023) The power of three-dimensional leadership for all seasons Companies annually ranked among those most highly admired and best…

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The Tao of Alibaba: A book review by Bob Morris

January 3, 2023

The Tao of Alibaba: Inside the Chinese DIgital Giant That Is Changing the World Brian A. Wong Public Affairs (November 2022) Where and how to achieve and then sustain great success in “The New Digital Frontier” As you may already…

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Why It Matters: A book review by Bob Morris

November 3, 2022

Why It Matters: Reflections on Practical Leadership John A. White Greenleaf Book Group Press (October 2022) How and why great leaders achieve “admirable results, with exemplary character” Christopher Lofgren cites Ahmed Yehia’s comment on great leadership in the Foreword to…

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Mark Goulston: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

September 28, 2022

In his career as an organizational consultant, relationship counselor, and hostage-negotiation trainer, Mark Goulston has found what works, consistently, to reach all kinds of people in any type of situation. In his book Real Influence: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain…

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Sunnie Giles on Radical Innovation: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

August 18, 2022

Sunnie Giles is a new generation expert on radical innovation who takes the mystery out of what radical innovation is and how to consistently produce it. By combining her unique expertise in advanced neuroscience, complex systems approach, quantum mechanics and…

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