The Inferno

Andy Molinsky on Reaching Beyond the Comfort Zone: An interview by Bob Morris

February 12, 2017

Andy Molinsky is a Professor of International Management and Organizational Behavior at Brandeis University’s International Business School, with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology. He is the author of the new book Reach: A New Strategy to Help…

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Managing in the Gray: A book review by Bob Morris

September 12, 2016

Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work Joseph L. Badaracco Harvard Business School Press (September 2016) Here’s what you need when making the most difficult decisions Friedrich Hegel once suggested that many of…

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Here are the questions you need to answer when solving an especially serious problem

September 3, 2016

In his latest book, Managing in the Gray: Five Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work, Joseph Badaracco observes, “The soundest guidance for grappling with hard, complex, uncertain practical problems is a set of five questions that men…

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Theodore Roosevelt on the power of engagement

July 12, 2015

On April 23, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt delivered to an audience at the Sorbonne in Paris what is widely considered his most important speech, “Citizenship in a Republic.” Here is a brief excerpt: “It is not the critic who counts; not…

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50 Politics Classics: A book review by Bob Morris

May 27, 2015

50 Politics Classics: Freedom Equality Power: Mind-Changing, World-Changing Ideas from Fifty Landmark Books Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2015) “The world is a dangerous place to live…because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” Albert Einstein Actually, the…

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The Responsible Leader: A book review by Bob Morris

March 1, 2015

The Responsible Leader: Developing a Culture of Responsibility in an Uncertain World Tim Richardson KoganPage (2015) Without individual as well as shared accountability, little (if anything) of enduring value can be accomplished. As I began to read Tim Richardson’s book,…

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