Leigh Thompson

Stop Spending, Start Managing: A book review by Bob Morris

September 7, 2016

Stop Spending, Start Managing: Strategies to Transform Wasteful Habits Hardcover Tanya Menon and Leigh Thompson Harvard Business Review Press (August 2016) To paraphrase Aristotle, “We are what we repeatedly do. Frugality, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Tanya…

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Don’t Get Fooled by a First Impression When Hiring

April 12, 2016

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Disastrous hires can happen when managers are fooled by first…

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 3/11/13)

March 17, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Can’t Buy Me Like: How Authentic Customer Connections Drive Superior Results Bob Garfield and Doug Levy The Future Arrived Yesterday: The…

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Leigh Thompson: An interview by Bob Morris

March 13, 2013

Leigh Thompson is the J. Jay Gerber Professor of Dispute Resolution & Organizations in the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She directs the highly successful Kellogg executive course, Leading High Impact Teams, and the Kellogg Team and Group…

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Creative Conspiracy: A book review by Bob Morris

February 10, 2013

Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration Leigh Thompson Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How and why focused, individual work can achieve innovation breakthroughs when combined with structured team interaction However different they may be in many respects, all…

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