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Loonshots: A book review by Bob Morris

April 19, 2022

Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries Safi Bahcall St. Martin’s Press (March 2019) If an idea doesn’t sound loony, it probably needs much more development…and protection. In this compellingly entertaining as…

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Change by Design: A book review by Bob Morris

June 17, 2020

Change by Design, Revised and Updated: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation Tim Brown Harvard Business Review Press (2019) Even the best books about change also need to be revised and updated, and by design In A Fiery…

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The “Bush-Vail Rules” of breakthrough innovation

April 16, 2019

In Loonshots , Safi Bahcall examines dozens of “widely dismissed ideas whose champions are often written off as crazy.” For example, Pixar’s Ed Catmull refers to early stage ideas for films — loonshots — as “Ugly Babies.” He stresses the…

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Loonshots: A book review by Bob Morris

March 31, 2019

Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries Safi Bahcall St. Martin’s Press (March 2019) If an idea doesn’t sound loony, it probably needs much more development…and protection. In this compellingly entertaining as…

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The Science of Inside Out

July 9, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Dacher Keltner and Paul Ekman for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Photo Credit: GĂ©rard DuBois * *…

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The Open Organization: A book review by Bob Morris

May 20, 2015

The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance Jim Whitehurst Harvard Business Review Press (2015) How and why to focus everyone’s attention on what is most important, doing so with passion to achieve breakthrough results Almost everything I know about the…

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Greg McKeown on “The Pursuit of Less”

April 27, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an interview of Greg McKeown by Frank Kalman for written Talent Management magazine. To read the interview, check out all the resources, and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and/or Chief Learning…

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Becoming Steve Jobs: A book review by Bob Morris

April 12, 2015

Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli Crown Business (2015) The Steve Jobs most people did not know…until now In Becoming Steve Jobs, Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli attempt…

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Greg McKeown: An interview by Bob Morris

March 6, 2015

Greg McKeown is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. His writing has appeared or been covered by Fast Company, Fortune, HuffPost, Politico,Inc. Magazine and Harvard Business Review. He has also been interviewed…

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Kill the Company: A book review by Bob Morris

November 21, 2014

Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution Lisa Bodell Bibliomotion (2012) How to envision the future you want to create, make the necessary connections, and meanwhile engage in assumption reversal Obviously, it would be idiotic to…

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