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Serious Play: A book review by Bob Morris

October 13, 2014

Serious Play: How the World’s Best Companies Simulate to Innovate Michael Schrage Harvard Business Review Press (1999) Note: I read and reviewed this book when it was first published (1999) and recently re-read it before reading Michael Schrage’s latest, The…

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Leading in the 21st century: An interview with Shell’s Ann Pickard

June 23, 2014

Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of Ann Picard by Rik Kirkland for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain subscription information,…

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And the winner of the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012 is…

November 9, 2012

Steve Coll’s Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, published by Penguin Press and Allen Lane. The book is a hard-hitting investigation of the notoriously secretive ExxonMobil Corporation, beginning with the Exxon Valdez accident in 1989 and closing with the Deepwater…

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