“Vision without execution is hallucination”

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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HBR Guide to Executing Your Strategy: A Book Review by Bob Morris

September 14, 2023

HBR Guide to Executing Your Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (January 2019) How to communicate the plan, maintain momentum, and achieve your vision I agree with Thomas Edison who once observed, “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Even the…

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HBR’s 10 MUST Reads, 2023: A book review by Bob Morris

November 14, 2022

HBR’s 10 Must Reads: 2023 Various Contributors, including HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (October 2021) Definitive management ideas that can have the greatest value and impact in 2023 This is the latest volume in a series introduced in 2015.…

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Rise of the Rest: A book review by Bob Morris

October 20, 2022

Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places Are Building the New American Dream Steve Case Avid Reader Press/An Imprint of Simon & Schuster (September 2022) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison To what does the title of…

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Enterprise architecture as strategy

December 12, 2021

In Open Strategy, Christian Stadler, Julia Hautz, Kurt Matzler, and Stephen Friedrich von den Eichen explain how to master disruption by formulating an open strategy, one exemplified by Nokia. Consider these points made by Gary Hamel in the Foreword: “Nokia’s…

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Leadership System 2.0: A book review by Bob Morris

December 19, 2020

Leadership System: Implementing Integrated Enterprise Excellence Forrest W. Breyfogle III Citius Publishing, Inc. (August 2020) Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison Thomas Edison’s observation offers a valuable reminder to executives who become wholly preoccupied with WHERE,  while neglecting HOW.…

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Goal-Setting Boot Camp: A book review by Bob Morris

November 12, 2020

Goal-Setting Boot Camp: Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be Kevin Shulman Sandler Training (September 2020) How and why effective goal setting starts in the personal realm and moves outward from there The title of one…

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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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Edison: A book review by Bob Morris

April 27, 2020

Edison Edmund Morris Random House (October 2019) “Vision without execution is hallucination.”  Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison is generally considered among the greatest inventors/innovators in modern history. He was awarded 1,073 patents. The list of what he created or improved…

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Influencers & Revolutionaries: A book review by Bob Morris

April 7, 2020

Influencers and Revolutionaries: How Innovative Trailblazers, Trends and Catalysts Are Transforming Business Sean Pillot de Chenecey KoganPage (February 2020) How relevance, personalization, and sustainability are the keys to high-impact innovation According to Sean Pillot de Chenecey, there is a “simple…

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