Susan Cain

Smart , Not Loud: A Book Review by Bob Morris

July 18, 2024

Smart, Not Loud: How to Get Noticed at Work for All the Right Reasons Jessica Chen Portfolio/Penguin (July 2024) How to reframe Quiet Culture values in order to get noticed for the right reasons According to Jessica Chen, we are…

Read More

Sensitive: A book review by Bob Morris

March 8, 2023

Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World Jenn Granneman & Andre Sólo Harmony (February 2023) How and why highly sensitive people are so valuable…and under-appreciated Here’s a paradox: emotions tend to have…

Read More

TED’s giant summer reading list: Books to read right now

July 2, 2020

  Here is a valuable article from TED that provides excellent suggestions for summer reading.  Those who co-created the list are among the most thoughtful people who continue to generate “ideas worth spreading.” Here’s an excerpt. * * * We…

Read More

The Introvert’s Complete Career Guide: A book review by Bob Morris

February 18, 2019

The Introvert’s Complete Career Guide: From Landing a Job, to Surviving, Thriving, and Moving on Up Jane Finkle Career Press (February 2019) People never underestimate you without your permission. In Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t…

Read More

Quiet: A book review by Bob Morris

February 1, 2019

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking Susan Cain Broadway Books (2013) How and why our location on “the introvert-extrovert spectrum” influences most (if not all) of our decisions and opinions I recently re-read this…

Read More

The Introvert’s Edge: A book review by Bob Morris

March 31, 2018

The Introvert’s Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone Matthew Pollard AMACOM (2018) “Why should I care?” Years ago during dinner with a very prominent venture capitalist in San Francisco, I asked him how he and his colleagues…

Read More

Taking the Stage: A book review by Bob Morris

March 20, 2015

Taking the Stage: How Women Can Speak Up, Stand Out, and Succeed Judith Humphrey Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2015)   How almost anyone “can find their own strong voice, seize new opportunities to lead, and advance their career”   The title…

Read More

Rise to the Top: A book review by Bob Morris

January 13, 2015

Rise To The Top: How Women Leverage Their Professional Persona to Earn More Stacey Hawley Career Press (2015) How to manage the power of others’ perceptions to achieve the given career objectives Authors of books such as this one often…

Read More

Invisibles: A book review by Bob Morris

July 3, 2014

Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion David Zweig Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2014) “There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn’t matter who gets the credit.” Ralph Waldo Emerson In an…

Read More

Ryan Babineaux and John Krumboltz offer “Tips for Introverts”

April 3, 2014

According to Ryan Babineaux and John Krumboltz, “Both being introverts, we understand that it is not always easy to approach new people. But we have found that the rewards that come from our relationships far outweigh the discomfort we might…

Read More