Larry Page

What’s at the heart of Google’s $700 billion empire?

April 26, 2019

In A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence, Kartik Hosdanagar explains how they “are shaping our lives and how we can stay in control” of our relationships with them. He observes, “When you think of the word ‘algorithm,’ you might picture…

Read More

Silicon Valley legend Bill Campbell has died — here is some of his best leadership advice

August 28, 2017

Here is an excerpt from an especially interesting article by Richard Feloni for Business Insider in which he discusses one of the most influential as well as highly respected people in modern technology. Steve Jobs revered him. In fact, Campbell…

Read More

Built for Growth: A book review by Bob Morris

June 10, 2017

Built for Growth: How Builder Personality Shapes Your Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win Chris Kuenne and John Danner Harvard Business Review Press (June 2017) If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go…

Read More

David B. Yoffie: An interview by Bob Morris

October 11, 2015

David B. Yoffie is the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School. A member of the HBS faculty since 1981, he received his Bachelor’s degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis…

Read More

Strategy Rules: A book review by Bob Morris

September 16, 2015

Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins (2015) Valuable lessons to be learned from those who “paved an extraordinary path as the first…

Read More

Work Rules!: A book review by Bob Morris

April 9, 2015

Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead Laszlo Bock Twelve/Hatchette Book Group (2015) How to build a workplace culture within which personal growth and professional development are most likely to thrive I agree…

Read More

BOLD: A book review by Bob Morris

February 7, 2015

BOLD: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler Simon & Schuster (2015) Here are exponential tools and techniques as well as key modes of thinking to solve large-scale (insoluble?) global problems There…

Read More

Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg Explain How Google Works

January 7, 2015

The Computer History Muesum (CHM) sponsors the “Revolutionaries Speaker Series,” videotaped conversations that involve thought leaders such as Paul Allen, Walter Isaacson, Jane McGonical, Elon Musk, Sheryl Sandberg, and Mark Zuckerberg. Google Executive Chairman and ex-CEO Eric Schmidt and former…

Read More

The Google Way of Attacking Problems

December 19, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Greg Satell 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 receive HBR email alerts,…

Read More

How Google Works: A book review by Bob Morris

October 22, 2014

How Google Works Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, with Alan Eagle Grand Central Publishing (2014) How and why Google continues to attract and retain so many “smart creatives” Before Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, with Alan Eagle, explain how Google…

Read More