Michael J. Prietula

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on High Performance: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 25, 2023

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on High Performance Various Contributors and HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (May 2022) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle’s insight refers to organizations as well…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads On High Performance: A book review by Bob Morris

June 7, 2022

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on High Performance Various Contributors and HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (May 2022) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle’s insight refers to organizations as well…

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The Making of an Expert

May 10, 2022

Here is an excerpt from a “classic” article written by the late K. Anders Ericsson, Michael J. Prietula, and Edward T. Cokely for Harvard Business Review (July–August 2007) and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out…

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How to Become an Expert at (Almost) Anything

March 22, 2022

Here is an excerpt from a “classic” article co-authored by K. Anders Ericsson, Michael J. Prietula, and Edward T. Cokely, “The Making of an Expert,” that appeared in the Harvard Business Review (July/August 2007). You can purchase a copy of the complete nine-page article and/or subscribe…

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Anders Ericsson on Deliberate Practice

September 5, 2016

Thanks to research conducted by Anders Ericsson and his associates at Florida State University, we now know that achieving peak performance depends on a combination of factors: o Luck o Natural Ability o Temperament o Commitment o Expert Supervision and…

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Peak: A book review by Bob Morris

April 25, 2016

Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise K. Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool An Eamon Dolan Book/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 12016) Why some people are amazingly good at what they do…and why so many others aren’t In “The Making…

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The Genius of K. Anders Ericsson

April 18, 2016

I have just read and will soon review a new book, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, co-authored by K. Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt April 2016). It will be one of the most…

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“The Making of an Expert”: An HBR Classic

March 26, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article that appeared in the Harvard Business Review (July/August 2007). It was co-authored by K. Anders Ericsson, Michael J. Prietula, and Edward T. Cokely You can purchase a copy of the complete nine-page article…

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Practice Perfect: A book review by Bob Morris

September 27, 2012

Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better Doug Lemov, Erica Woolway, and Katie Yezzi Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) How and why “practice doesn’t make perfect, practice makes permanent” For several decades, Anders Ericsson and his associates at Florida…

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