Michael Porter: “the essence of strategy is choosing what not to do”

Elevate: A book review by Bob Morris

April 12, 2014

Elevate: The Three Disciplines of Advanced Strategic Thinking Rich Horwath Wiley (2014) How and why to elevate your business thinking to gain more and better perspectives…and help others to do so In a previously published book, Deep Dive: The Proven…

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Charles S. Jacobs: A second interview by Bob Morris

February 8, 2012

Charles S. Jacobs is founder and managing partner of 180 Partners, and the author of Management Rewired: Why Feedback Doesn’t Work and Other Surprising Lessons from the Latest Brain Science. For over two decades, he has helped the leadership of corporations around the world improve the performance of…

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Innovation to the Core: A book review by Bob Morris

July 3, 2011

Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates Peter Skarzynski and Rowan Gibson Harvard Business School Press (2008) I read this book when it was first published more than three years ago and recently re-read…

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Intending to be innovative? Be sure you ask the right questions first before seeking answers

June 28, 2011

Those familiar with my book reviews, interviews, and commentaries already know that I have several favorite quotations that I use whenever appropruate. Here are two. In 1963, Peter Drucker observed that “there is surely nothing quite so useless as doing…

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