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Ideaflow: A book review by Bob Morris

April 5, 2023

Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn Portfolio/Penguin ( “If you’ve always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.”  Charles Kettering There are several metrics that matter but the one to which this book’s subtitle…

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Converted: A book review by Bob Morris

March 2, 2022

Converted: The Data-Driven Way to Win Customers’ Hearts Neil Hoyne Portfolio/Penguin (2022) How and why strategic interactions with customers can build and strengthen relationships with them Jackie Huba and Ben McConnell wrote a book in which they explain how to…

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The Innovation Stack: A book review by Bob Morris

March 29, 2020

The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time Jim McKelvey Portfolio/Penguin (March 2020) This methodology produced the greatest breakthroughs throughout history…and will continue to do so The term “stack” may seem irrelevant in the context…

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The Infinite Game: A book review by Bob Morris

October 30, 2019

The Infinite Game Simon Sinek Portfolio/Penguin (October 2019) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”  African proverb I have read all of Simon Sinek’s previous books and reviewed most of them.…

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Digital Minimalism: A book review by Bob Morris

February 20, 2019

  Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Mostly Noisy World Cal Newport Portfolio/Penguin (February 2019) How to thrive “in our current moment of technological overload” I agree with Cal Newport that the impact of technological tools on most…

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The 12 greatest entrepreneurs of our time

April 9, 2012

Here is an excerpt from John A. Byrne’s cover article by FORTUNE magazine. Great ideas are hard to come by. Putting them to work is even harder. Byrne invites you to meet the founders who turned concepts into companies and changed the face of business.…

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