Oscar Wilde

All Pride, No Ego: A Book Review by Bob Morris

August 16, 2023

All Pride, No Ego: A Queer Executive’s Journey to Living and Leading Authentically Jim Fielding Wiley (2023) “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” Oscar Wilde The last time I checked, Amazon offers more than 60,000 volumes in which their authors…

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Breaking Through : A book review by Bob Morris

April 6, 2023

Breaking Through: Communicating to Open Minds, Move Hearts, and Change the World Sally Susman Harvard Business Review Press (March 2023) “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.”  Oscar Wilde As I began to read this book, I was reminded of another,…

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Mark Goulston: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

September 28, 2022

In his career as an organizational consultant, relationship counselor, and hostage-negotiation trainer, Mark Goulston has found what works, consistently, to reach all kinds of people in any type of situation. In his book Real Influence: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain…

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Begin Boldly: A book review by Bob Morris

August 5, 2022

Begin Boldly: How Women Can Reimagine Risk, Embrace Uncertainty, and Launch a Brilliant Career Christie Hunter Arscott Berrett-Koehler Publishers (August 2022) “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” Oscar Wilde Christie Hunter Arscott is a passionate as well as eloquent advocate…

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Viva la Repartee: A book review by Bob Morris

April 9, 2022

Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from History’s Great Wits and Wordsmiths Mardy Grothe Collins/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (2005) Viva Grothe! Those who have already read Grothe’s Oxymoronica will thoroughly enjoy this volume in which he shifts…

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Managing Your Career: A book review by Bob Morris

January 13, 2021

Managing Your Career: The HBR Working Parents Series Daisy Dowling, Series Editor Harvard Business School Press (December 2020) “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.”  Oscar Wilde This is one of the volumes in a new series that consists of articles…

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Viva la Repartee: A book review by Bob Morris

August 28, 2020

Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from History’s Great Wits and Wordsmiths Mardy Grothe Collins/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (2005) Viva Grothe! Those who have already read Grothe’s Oxymoronica will thoroughly enjoy this volume in which he shifts…

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Keith Sawyer: An interview by Bob Morris

December 6, 2019

Keith Sawyer is one of the world’s leading scientific experts on creativity and innovation. In his first job after graduating from MIT, he designed videogames for Atari. He then worked for six years as a management consultant in Boston and…

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The Introvert’s Complete Career Guide: A book review by Bob Morris

February 18, 2019

The Introvert’s Complete Career Guide: From Landing a Job, to Surviving, Thriving, and Moving on Up Jane Finkle Career Press (February 2019) People never underestimate you without your permission. In Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t…

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Viva la Repartee: A book review by Bob Morris

March 29, 2018

Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from History’s Great Wits and Wordsmiths Mardy Grothe Collins/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (2005) Viva Grothe! Those who have already read Grothe’s Oxymoronica will thoroughly enjoy this volume in which he shifts…

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