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The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling: A book review by Bob Morris

June 20, 2023

The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative, Revised and Updated Steven Denning Jossey-Bass (2011) How and Why Storytelling Skills Give So Many Leaders a Decisive Competitive Advantage Those who have read Denning’s The Springboard and/or…

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A Covey of Quotations

July 2, 2021

Here are seven quotations, a few of which you may not have seen before. 1. “In order to have a conversation with someone, you have to reveal yourself.” James Baldwin 2. “Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can…

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Create a Growth Culture, Not a Performance-Obsessed One

March 24, 2018

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tony Schwartz 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 email alerts, please here.…

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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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Brian J. Robertson on Holacracy: An interview by Bob Morris

September 11, 2015

Brian Robertson is an experienced entrepreneur, CEO, and organizational pioneer. Forbes and Fast Company credit him for developing Holacracy, a comprehensive management system for governing and running organizations that are fast, agile, and that succeed by pursuing their purpose, free…

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The Importance of Making Brilliant Mistakes

August 26, 2015

In Paul Schoemaker’s latest book, Brilliant Mistakes , he observes: “The key question companies need to address is not ‘Should we make mistakes?’ but rather ‘Which mistakes should we make in order to test our deeply held assumptions?’” I cite…

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HBR Guide to Coaching Employees: A book review by Bob Morris

June 3, 2015

HBR Guide to Coaching Employees Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2014) “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams This is one of the volumes…

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If Only We Knew What We Know: A book review by Bob Morris

February 12, 2015

If Only We Knew What We Know: The Transfer of Internal Knowledge and Best Practice Carla O’Dell and C. Jackson Grayson Free Press (2012, Paperbound Edition) The Invisibility of the Obvious Note: I posted the review that follows 14 years…

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Design to Grow: A book review by Bob Morris

February 11, 2015

Design to Grow: How Coca-Cola Learned to Combine Scale and Agility (and How You Can Too) David Butler and Linda Tischler Simon & Schuster (2015) How the design by purpose process can create value while driving both scale and agility…

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Using Experience to Develop Leadership Talent: A book review by Bob Morris

August 19, 2014

Using Experience to Develop Leadership Talent: How Organizations Leverage On-the-Job Development Cynthia McCauley and Morgan McCall, Co-Editors Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2014) How and why knowledge shared with others can have almost incalculable value to everyone involved This is a substantial…

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