Mette Norgaard

The Communication Code: A Book Review by Bob Morris

November 12, 2023

The Communication Code: Unlock Every Relationship One Conversation at a Time Jeremie Kubicek and Steve Cockram Wiley (November 2023) Clear two-way communication is essential to healthy relationship According to Jeremie Kubicek and Steve Cockram,  unlocking a relationship “refers to making…

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The Leadership Conversation: A book review by Bob Morris

January 27, 2023

The Leadership Conversation [colon] Make Bold Change [comma] One Conversation at a Time Rose Fass, TotalPublshingAndMedia (November 2022) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Theodore Roosevelt I was again reminded of the…

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Connectable: A book review by Bob Morris

March 6, 2022

Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams from Isolated to All In Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen McGraw Hill (March 2022) The power and impact of thinking in terms of first-person PLURAL pronouns Why did Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van…

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The Power of Moments: A book review by Bob Morris

October 16, 2017

The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact Chip Heath and Dan Heath Simon & Schuster (October 2017) How to mark transitions, commemorate milestones, and fill pits…also, WHY In my opinion, this is the most important of the…

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Golden opportunities in the workplace to nourish relationships

May 25, 2017

In some ways, our relationships with other people resemble plants in that they require ongoing nourishment or they will die from neglect. Doug Conant and Mette Norgaard are the co-authors of TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of…

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Servant Leadership and “TouchPoints”

September 29, 2016

Robert K. Greenleaf (1904-1990) is generally associated with the concept of servant leadership. Here is a brief excerpt from one of his essays, first published in 1970: “The servant-leader is servant first…It begins with the natural feeling that one wants…

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Doug Conant: Why These Are My Favorite Leadership Books

December 11, 2013

Thinking about giving books as holiday gifts? Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Doug Conant for LinkedIn during which he discusses seven of his favorite books about leadership. To read the complete article and check out others,…

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Doug Conant on “What Losing My Job Taught Me About Leading”

April 1, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Douglas R. Conant for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to…

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The Thought Leader Interview: Douglas Conant

September 22, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of Douglas Conant by Art Kleiner, editor-in-chief of strategy+business magazine, published by Booz & Company. Art is also the author of The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate…

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Talk, Inc.: A book review by Bob Morris

June 16, 2012

Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How and why organizational conversation can – and should – be a new source of organizational power The results…

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