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Create the Future: A Book Review by Bob Morris

September 25, 2024

Create the Future: Powerful Decision-Making Tools for Your Company and Yourself Rick Williams Amplify Publishing (September 2024) “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Peter Drucker is usually credited with this observation but it was probably…

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Persuading the Unpersuadable

August 29, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Adam Grant for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit:  Eleni Kalorkoti *…

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Kristi Hedges: An Interview by Bob Morris

June 25, 2023

Kristi Hedges is a leadership coach, speaker and author. In her 20-year career working with leaders to help them communicate more effectively she’s encountered every personality type imaginable, yet remains more than a little passionate that anyone can learn presence. Her…

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Ram Charan’s The Attacker’s Advantage: A book review by Bob Morris

January 11, 2023

The Attacker’s Advantage: Turning Uncertainty into Breakthrough Opportunities Ram Charan PublicAffairs (2015) This is the most valuable contribution to business thought leadership that Ram Charan has made…thus far. I have read and reviewed all of the books that Ram Charan…

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Why Design Matters: A book review by Bob Morris

February 27, 2022

Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People Debbie Millman Harper Design/An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers (February 2022) “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Steve Jobs In Song of…

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Martin Reeves and Jack Fuller on high-impact creative thinking: An interview by Bob Morris

July 18, 2021

Martin Reeves is Chairman of The BCG Henderson Institute, BCG’s think tank on strategy and management. He researches, publishes and pilots new thinking on business challenges, drawing upon both innovations in business and fields such as biology, computer science and…

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Recommendation Engines: A book review by Bob Morris

December 12, 2020

Recommendation Engines (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Michael Schrage The MIT Press (September 2020) How and why recommendation engines can help to create more valuable people I have not read in recent years a more entertaining or a more…

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Michael Schrage on how recommendation engines transform self-awareness, self-discovery, and self-knowledge

December 4, 2020

In the latest of his several brilliant books, Recommendation Engines, Michael Schrage examines what is perhaps the single most influential form of mass communication. “The right recommendation at the right time is exactly what an Amazon, a Netflix, a Facebook,…

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Walter Isaacson on creativity and imagination

November 21, 2020

As you may already know, Walter Isaacson has written about Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Ada Lovelace, Steve Jobs, and Albert Einstein. “All were very smart. But that’s not what made them special. Smart people are a dime a dozen…

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Scott Dinsmore on how to find work you love

May 16, 2020

  Teresa Amabile and Steve Jobs are among those who urge people to do what they love because what they love most is probably what they do best. Scott Dinsmore agrees. He quit a job that made him miserable, and…

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