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Choose Your Customer: A book review by Bob Morris

June 10, 2021

Choose Your Customer: How to Compete Against the Digital Giants and Thrive Jonathan L.S. Byrnes and John S. Wass McGraw Hill (May 2021) A brilliant explanation how to achieve success amidst a “tsunami” of disruption As I began to read…

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Mastering Comunication at Work: A book review by Bob Morris

April 28, 2021

Mastering Comunication at Work: How to Lead, Manage, and Influence (Second Edition) Ethan F. Becker and Jon Wortman McGraw Hill (2/10/21) How to gain a competitive advantage that very few others have I often read 2-3 books at the same…

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The Lost Art of Connecting: A book review by Bob Morris

April 13, 2021

The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Business Relationships Susan McPherson with Jackie Ashton McGraw-Hill (March 2021) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford Having already read…

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The Live Enterprise: A book review by Bob Morris

January 27, 2021

The Live Enterprise: Creating a Continuously Evolving and Learning Organization Jeff Kavanaugh and Mohammed Rafee Tarafdar McGraw-Hill (January 2021) How resilience and regeneration enable companies to adapt and evolve Note the gerund “creating” in this book’s subtitle. It correctly suggests…

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Stronger Through Adversity: A book review by Bob Morris

January 16, 2021

Stronger Through Adversity: World-Class Leaders Share Pandemic-Tested Lessons on Thriving During the Toughest Challenges Joseph A. Michelli McGraw-Hill (December 2020) “That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.” Friedrich Nietzsch Nietzsche’s observation (made in 1888) is somewhat relevant as…

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Ruthless Consistency: A book review by Bob Morris

September 21, 2020

Ruthless Consistency: How Committed Leaders Execute Strategy, Implement Change, and Build Organizations That Win Michael Canic McGraw-Hill (September 2020) How to avoid “the unintended, unrecognized, and unforgivable consequences of failure” I agree with Michael Canic: “The tragedy of repeated failures…

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Valuable lessons from “titans”: An interview of Scott Davis, Carter Copeland, and Rob Wertheimer

September 7, 2020

Scott Davis serves as Chairman and CEO of Melius Research, where he is also the lead research analyst covering the multi-industry sector. With 25 years of experience in industrials equity research, he has ranked in the top decile of Wall…

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Lessons from the Titans: A book review by Bob Morris

August 10, 2020

Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success Scott Davis, Carter Copeland, and Rob Wertheimer McGraw-Hill (July 2020) “What got you here won’t get you there.”  Marshal…

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Digital Supply Networks: A book review by Bob Morris

August 4, 2020

Digital Supply Networks: Transform Your Supply Chain and Gain Competitive Advantage with Disruptive Technology and Reimagined Processes Amit Sinha, Ednilson Bernardes, Rafael Calderon, and Thorsten Wuest McGraw-Hill (July 2020) “Although many parts, one body.”  Saint Paul in a letter to…

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The Forever Transaction: A book review by Bob Morris

April 9, 2020

The Forever Transaction: How to Build a Subscription Model So Compelling, Your Customers Will Never Want to Leave Robbie Kellman Baxter McGraw Hill (2020) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”…

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