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Fit to Compete: A book review by Bob Morris

January 24, 2020

Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s Capabilities Are the Key to a Winning Strategy Michael Beer Harvard Business Review Press (January 2020) How healthy are your organization’s vital signs? Unless there is effective communication between and among…

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Alan Weiss on “How to forge your own path to success”: An interview by Bob Morris

July 31, 2016

Alan Weiss is one of those rare people who can say he is a consultant, speaker, and author and mean it. His consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc., has attracted clients such as Merck, Hewlett-Packard, GE, Mercedes-Benz, State Street Corporation,…

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Matthew E. May on “winning the brain game”: An interview by Bob Morris

May 29, 2016

Matt May is author of Winning the Brain Game: Fixing the 7 Fatal Flaws of Thinking (May 2016), as well as four previous award-winning books: The Laws of Subtraction (2012), The Shibumi Strategy (2010), In Pursuit of Elegance (2009), and…

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Primed to Perform: A book review by Bob Morris

January 11, 2016

Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins (2015) How to make every single person in your organization solve problems 10% better, 10%…

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Michael J. Silverstein: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

December 4, 2015

Michael J. Silverstein is a leader of The Boston Consulting Group’s global consumer practice. He specializes in helping the senior team at large multinationals transform their companies through superior consumer insight, accelerated organic growth, and M&A. His clients include some…

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Michael J. Silverstein: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

November 28, 2015

Michael J. Silverstein is a leader of The Boston Consulting Group’s global consumer practice. He specializes in helping the senior team at large multinationals transform their companies through superior consumer insight, accelerated organic growth, and M&A. His clients include some…

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The Innovator’s Hypothesis: A book review by Bob Morris

November 10, 2014

The Innovator’s Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More than Good Ideas Michael Schrage The MIT Press (2014) How and why “simple, fast, cheap, smart, lean, and important experiments can supercharge any serious innovation process” As I began to read…

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Niraj Dawar: An interview by Bob Morris

December 4, 2013

Niraj Dawar is a Professor in marketing at the Ivey Business School, Canada of. He earned his PhD from Pennsylvania State University. His research currently focuses on marketing strategy, brand equity and brand management issues. His published papers on brand…

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Solving Problems with Design Thinking: A book review by Bob Morris

October 13, 2013

Solving Problems with Design Thinking: Ten Stories of What Works Jeanne Liedtka, Andrew King, and Kevin Bennett Columbia Business School Publishing (2013) Here’s a blueprint “for deploying design thinking across levels and functions in order to embed a more creative…

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Rajat Paharia on “The Three Faces of Loyalty”

July 30, 2013

In the first chapter of his recently published book, Loyalty 3.0: How to Revolutionize Customer and Employee Engagement with Big Data and Gamification, Rajat Paharia shares what he characterizes as “The Three Faces of Loyalty.” Here is a briefing on…

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