Peter Thiel

Grow: A book review by Bob Morris

June 21, 2023

Grow: Take Your Business from Chaos to Calm Michael J. McFall An Inc. Original (June 2023) How well leaders grow their people will determine how well they will grow their company Why did Michael McFall write this book? It is…

Read More

The New Science of Radical Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

April 15, 2018

The New Science of Radical Innovation: The Six Competencies Leaders Need to Win in a Complex World Sunnie Giles Benbella Books (April 2018) Why and how self-organizing agency can create and sustain a decisive competitive advantage I wholly agree with…

Read More

Amy WIlkinson on “fundamental approaches to the act of creation”

June 21, 2016

The term “code” with regard to individuals is comparable with the term “secret sauce” with regard to organizations. Just as there are defining characteristics of great organizations, there are defining characteristics of exceptionally creative people. However different they may be…

Read More

The Creator’s Code: A book review by Bob Morris

June 14, 2016

The Creator’s Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs Amy Wilkinson Simon & Schuster (2015) Here are timeless and timely insights that illuminate “fundamental approaches to the act of creation” The term “code” with regard to individuals is comparable…

Read More

Zero to One: A book review by Bob Morris

June 2, 2015

Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future Peter Thiel Crown Business (2014) How and why, “Only by seeing our world anew…can we both re-create it and preserve it for the future.” In the first…

Read More

Philosopher kings: Why and how business leaders would benefit from studying great writers

October 10, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an article from The Economist in which the benefits of inward-bound learning are examined. For more than 20 years, I have been retained by corporate clients to conduct what I characterize as “brown bag…

Read More

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

September 25, 2014

The Innovator’s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How to use the right tools to test, validate, and commercialize new ideas According to Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer,…

Read More

Peter Thiel on the Power of Counterintuitive Thinking

September 12, 2014

Briefly, intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without inference or the use of reason. The word intuition comes from Latin verb intueri which is usually translated as to look inside or to contemplate. Intuition is thus often conceived as…

Read More