Tom Rath

Strengths-Based Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

September 1, 2019

Strengths-Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow Tom Rath and Barry Conchie Gallup Press  (2009) If you don’t care about your skills and their development, why would anyone else? Note: This book was first published a decade ago…

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LeaderSHOP: A book review by Bob Morris

January 4, 2019

LeaderSHOP Volume 1: Workplace, Career, and Life Advice From Today’s Top Thought Leaders Rodger Dean Duncan Maxwell Stone Publishing (October 2018) Many different parts…one body of business wisdom Organizations — including those that are corporate, governmental, religious, and non-profit — need…

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Jeffrey Pfeffer on BS Leadership: An interview by Tom Rath

September 30, 2015

Thanks to Amazon, here is Tom Rath’s interview of Jeffrey Pfeffer whose latest book, Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time, was published by HarperBusiness (September 2015). Tom Rath: How would you characterize the current relationship…

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Are You Fully Charged?: A book review by Bob Morris

May 6, 2015

Are You Fully Charged? The 3 Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life Tom Rath Silicon Guild/An imprint of Missionday (2015) How and why being “fully charged” can help to eliminate all limits that are self-imposed Humans need to be…

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Promote Yourself: A book review by Bob Morris

September 4, 2014

Promote Yourself: The New Rules for Career Success Dan Schawbel St. Martin’s Griffin (2014) “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” Oscar Wilde This is an expanded and updated edition of a book first published a year ago. I agree with…

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 10/7/13)

October 13, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, and Kevin Bennett The Multiplier Effect: Tapping…

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Eat Move Sleep: A book review by Bob Morris

October 10, 2013

Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes Tom Rath Missionday (2013) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle In a previous book, Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements, co-authored…

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Talent Can’t Be Managed

October 11, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a thought-provoking article written by Dan Bowling for Talent Management magazine. To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and/or Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MedfiaTec, please…

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StrengthsFinder 2.0: A book review by Bob Morris

July 7, 2011

StrengthsFinder 2.0 Tom Rath Gallup Press (2007) Note: One of my passions in life is to help promote and (yes) celebrate business books that are “classics,” those deserving far more attention than they currently receive. That is certainly true of…

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Joe’s Journal: On Managing Oneself

July 3, 2011

Here is the latest post by Joseph A. Maciariello featured in the Joe’s Journal series at the Drucker Exchange (Dx) sponsored by the Drucker Institute. The Drucker Exchange (the Dx) is a platform for bettering society through effective management and…

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