Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

The Innovator’s Mindset: A book review by Bob Morris

March 23, 2016

The Innovator’s Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity George Couros Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc. (2015) “We don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.” Sir Kenneth…

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What is the key to success? Grit.

April 6, 2015

In her late 20s, Angela Lee Duckworth left a demanding job as a management consultant at McKinsey to teach math in public schools in San Francisco, Philadelphia and New York. After five years of teaching seventh graders, she went back…

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How Companies Can Profit from a “Growth Mindset”

February 7, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Harvard Business Review Staff for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR…

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Isaiah Berlin on “The Hedgehog and the Fox”

August 16, 2014

In The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History, Isaiah Berlin observes: “There is a line among the fragments of the Greek poet Archilochus which says: ‘The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one…

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Mindset: A book review by Bob Morrtis

October 7, 2012

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success Carol S. Dweck Ballantine Books (2008) How to achieve sustainable growth of intellectual capabilities with the right mindset   I read this book when it was first published (2006) and recently re-read it before reading Daniel Siegel’s Mindsight: The…

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Be Bulletproof: A book review by Bob Morris

October 6, 2012

Be Bulletproof: How to achieve success in tough times at work James Brooke and Simon Brooke Vermillion (2012) How to “create your own Mongol silk shirt or develop your own bulletproof vest” The title of my review refers to James…

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Willful Blindness: A book review by Bob Morris

December 10, 2011

Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril Margaret Heffernan Walker Books (2011) How and why all of us should develop  “fierce determination to see” whatever we need to understand Margaret Heffernan’s background in business is wide as…

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Do You Have a Growth Mindset?

February 16, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Hagel III and John Seely Brown for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription…

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