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Build for Tomorrow: A book review by Bob Morris

September 16, 2022

Build for Tomorrow: An Action Plan for Embracing Change, Adapting Fast, and Future-Proofing Your Career Jason Feifer Harmony Books (September 2022) Today is yesterday’s tomorrow…for better or worse. As I began to read the Introduction to this book, I was…

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An insight of incalculable value

May 9, 2021

Here is an insight of incalculable value, suggested by T.S. Eliot in his Four Quartets, Chapter 2 (“Little Gidding”): “We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all of our exploring Will be to arrive at where we…

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Uncharted: A book review by Bob Morris

September 15, 2020

Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future Margaret Hefferman Avid Reader Press (September 2020) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison I selected the Edison assertion to serve as the title of this brief commentary because it helps us to understand…

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The Messy Middle: A book review by Bob Morris

October 6, 2018

The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture Scott Belsky Portfolio/Penguin (October 2018) “It’s not about the start or finish, it’s about the journey in between.” Scott Belsky The “it” may…

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Leading Matters: A book review by Bob Morris

September 11, 2018

Leading Matters: Lessons from My Journey John L. Hennessy Stanford University Press (September 2018) Valuable lessons to be learned and shared from a 25-year leadership journey…thus far As I began to read this thoughtful and thought-provoking book, I was again…

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A Brief Interview of Garrison Keillor

August 18, 2014

Here is a brief interview of Garrison Keillor that was featured in The New York Times. The host of A Prairie Home Companion and the author, most recently, of The Keillor Reader collects hymnals, phrase books and tales of heroic collies.…

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The Sugary Secret of Self-Control: A book review of Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

September 22, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article that appeared in The New York Times (September 2, 2011). It is Steven Pinker’s review of Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney’s Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, recently published by Penguin Press.…

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Enrique Salem (Symantec) in “The Corner Office”

September 4, 2011

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of This interview with Enrique Salem,…

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Remembering Challenger….

January 29, 2011

  Just before noon, eastern time, on January 28, 1986, on a subfreezing day on Merritt Island, Florida, the space shuttle Challenger exploded in a cloudless sky 73 seconds after take-off. None of the seven crew members survived. That night,…

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