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Possible : A Book Review by Bob Morris

February 15, 2024

Possible: How to Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict William Ury HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (February 2024) How and why “the path to possible is how we survive — and thrive — in this age of conflict”…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking: A Book Review by Bob Morris

February 12, 2024

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2020) “Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.”  Tim Brown This book is one of the more recent volumes in…

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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 Performance Management: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 24, 2023

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Performance Management Various Contributors in Collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2023) “Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.” Warren Bennis As you no doubt know already,…

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Marketing Built by Love: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 15, 2023

Marketing Built by Love: A Human-Centered Foundation to Delight Your Customers, Increase Your Revenue, and Grow Your Business Daniel Bussius Greenleaf Book Group Press (2023) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Theodore…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Trust: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 9, 2023

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Trust Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2023) “Trust is the glue of life, of all our relationships with others.”  Stephen Covey As you no doubt know already, Harvard Business Review Press publishes several series…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Performance Management: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 6, 2023

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Performance Management Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2023) “Vision without execution is hallucination.”  Thomas Edison As you no doubt know already, Harvard Business Review Press publishes several series of anthologies of articles previous published…

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

October 1, 2023

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Talent Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2022) “Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If its an original, you will have to ram it down their throats.” Howard Aiken As you no doubt know…

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Michael Lenox on Mastering Digital Transformation: An Interview by Bob Morris

June 19, 2023

Michael Lenox‘s latest book is Strategy in the Digital World, published by Stanford Business Books. He is also the co-author of The Decarbonization Imperative and Can Business Save the Earth?. He is the Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business Administration and…

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Seeing the How: A book review by Bob Morris

May 3, 2023

Seeing the How: Transforming What People Do, Not Buy, to Gain Market Advantage Allen P. Adamson Matt Holt/An Imprint of Ben Bella Books (May 2023) “People don’t want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter-inch holes.” Theodore Levitt Why did Allen Adamson write…

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