Morten Hansen

Turning the Flywheel: A review by Bob Morris

March 2, 2019

Turning the Flywheel: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great Jim Collins HarperCollins (2019) How to generate and then sustain momentum of your organization’s flywheel Over the years, I have read and reviewed all of Jim Collins’ books and interviewed…

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Great at Work: A book review by Bob Morris

February 8, 2019

Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More Morten Hansen Simon & Schuster (January 2018) How and why “seven practices upend conventional thinking about how you should work” Note: Every so often, I recycle a…

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How to work smarter, not harder, to get more done

January 25, 2019

Over the years, I have reviewed all of Morten Hansen‘s books and articles. There is no business thinker I admire more. Here is a brief excerpt from one of his most recent blog posts. To read the  complete article, check…

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Purpose Meaning + Passion (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series): A book review by Bob Morris

December 9, 2018

Emotional Intelligence: Purpose Meaning + Passion Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (May 2018) “The way to do is to be.”  Lao Tzu HBR Press has a new series of anthologies (nine volumes thus far) of articles in which contributors…

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Great at Work: A book review by Bob Morris

January 31, 2018

Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More Morten Hansen Simon & Schuster (January 2018) How and why “seven practices upend conventional thinking about how you should work” Note: Every so often, I recycle a…

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Don’t Pay for Your MBA: A book review by Bob Morris

January 29, 2018

Don’t Pay for Your MBA: The Faster, Cheaper, Better Way to Get the Business Education You Need Laurie Packard AMACOM (October 2017) “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who…

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Three Ways to Expand Your Passions and Sense of Purpose

January 26, 2018

In Morten Hansen‘s latest book, Great at Work, he explains “how top performers do less, work better, and achieve more.” He suggests that there are three ways to expand your passions and sense of purpose. The challenge is to get them in…

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Perfection

January 14, 2018

In Morten Hansen‘s latest book, Great at Work, he explains “how top performers do less, work better, and achieve more.” Consider this brief passage in which he discusses perfection: “Occam’s razor at work doesn’t say you should simplify all the way to one.…

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The Power of Collaboration: A book review by Bob Morris

January 3, 2018

The Power of Collaboration: Powerful Insights from Silicon Valley to Successfully Grow Groups, Strengthen Alliances, and Boost Team Potential Thea Singer Spitzer Career Press (December 2017) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far,…

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The major benefits of “smart collaboration”

January 15, 2017

In Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos, Heidi Gardner explains how leaders in almost organization can establish or strengthen a workplace culture within which smart collaboration is most likely to thrive. As she explains,…

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