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Tap Dancing to Work: A book review by Bob Morris

February 4, 2022

Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012: A Fortune Magazine Book Carol J. Loomis Portfolio/Penguin Group (2012) “When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.” Warren Buffett Note: I…

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Tap Dancing to Work: A book review by Bob Morris

August 20, 2021

Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012: A Fortune Magazine Book Carol J. Loomis Portfolio/Penguin Group (2012) “When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.” Warren Buffett Note: I…

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Ten Steps Ahead: A book review by Bob Morris

July 31, 2021

Ten Steps Ahead: What Separates Successful Business Visionaries from the Rest of Us Erik Calonius Portfolio/Penguin Group (2011) Dreamers think about it…visionaries see it and then make it happen, at whatever cost Note: I recently re-read this book and think…

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The Motivation Myth: A book review by Bob Morris

March 2, 2018

The Motivation Myth : How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win Jeff Haden Portfolio/Penguin Group (2018) How and why “motivation is a result,” not a spark Long ago, I concluded that I could not motivate another person but…

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David Zweig on “Celebrating the Unsung Heroes of the Workforce”

October 31, 2016

In Invisibles (Portfolio/Penguin Group 2015), David Zweig develops in much greater depth several insights introduced earlier in an article that appeared in The Atlantic (March 12, 2012), “What Do Fact-Checkers and Anesthesiologists Have in Common?.” He explains why some people…

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Together is Better: A book review by Bob Morris

September 22, 2016

Together is Better: A Little Book of Inspiration Simon Sinek Portfolio/Penguin Group (September 2016) How those who live their lives by accident – if and when it happens – can be fulfilled by a life of serving a worthy purpose…

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Sydney Finkelstein on why smart executives fail: An interview by Bob Morris

February 16, 2016

Sydney Finkelstein earned a Bcomm degree from Concordia University, an Msc. degree from the London School of Economics, and a PhD. from Columbia University. He is Steven Ross Professor of Management at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. His published works…

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The High-Speed Company: A book review by Bob Morris

March 26, 2015

The High-Speed Company: Creating Urgency and Growth in a Nanosecond Culture Jason Jennings with Laurence Haughton Portfolio/Penguin Group (March 2015) How to accelerate personal growth and professional development in almost any organization, whatever its size or nature In one of…

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The Power and Value of a “Mind Opening Team”

March 20, 2015

In the final chapter of his latest book, The High-Speed Company, written with Larry Haughton, Jason Jennings cites a conversation in one of Kurt Vonnegut’s novels, Bluebeard, when the painter Rabo Kazrabekian listens to his neighbor, Paul Slazinger, who tells…

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