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HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Performance Management: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 6, 2023

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Performance Management Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2023) “Vision without execution is hallucination.”  Thomas Edison As you no doubt know already, Harvard Business Review Press publishes several series of anthologies of articles previous published…

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Ideaflow: A book review by Bob Morris

April 5, 2023

Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn Portfolio/Penguin ( “If you’ve always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.”  Charles Kettering There are several metrics that matter but the one to which this book’s subtitle…

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Build: A book review by Bob Morris

May 6, 2022

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making Tony Fadell HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins (May 2022) “Everything begins with asking ‘Why?’” Simon Sinek Sinek agrees with Peter Drucker: “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great…

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The Double Bottom Line: A book review by Bob Morris

April 9, 2022

The Double Bottom Line: How Compassionate Leaders Captivate Hearts and Deliver Results Donato Tramuto with Tami Booth Corwin Fast Company Press (April 2022) “Your people won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Theodore Roosevelt…

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HBR 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking: A book review by Bob Morris

January 4, 2022

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2020) “Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.”  Tim Brown This book is one of the most recent volumes in…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads: 2021

September 22, 2021

HBR’s 10 Must Reads 2021: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (October 2020) How to balance “today’s existential imperatives with leadership for the long term” Although these HBR articles…

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Management 2.0: A book review by Bob Morris

January 4, 2021

Management 2.0: Discovery of Integrated Enterprise Excellence Forrest W. Breyfogle III Citius Publishing, Inc. (August 2020) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” Peter Drucker’s observation offers a…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking: A book review by Bob Morris

June 26, 2020

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2020) “Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.”  Tim Brown This book is one of the most recent volumes in…

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Bulletproof Problem Solving: A book review by Bob Morris

June 4, 2019

Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything Charles Conn and Robert McLean John Wiley & Sons (March 2019) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.” Peter…

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HBR Guide to Being More Productive: A book review by Bob Morris

August 2, 2018

HBR Guide to Being More Productive Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (July 2017) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”  Peter Drucker Most of the volumes in…

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