Voltaire

The Upside of Uncertainty: A Book Review by Bob Morris

November 4, 2023

The Upside of Uncertainty: A Guide for Finding Possibility in the Unknown Nathan Furr and Susannah Harmon Furr Harvard Business Review Press (July 2022) “The single biggest predictor of executive success is how you deal with uncertainty.” Sam Yagan Nathan…

Read More

The One Truth: A book review by Bob Morris

August 9, 2023

The One Truth: Elevate Your Mind, Unlock Your Power, Heal Your Soul Jon Gordon Wiley (June 2023) A truth? Reasonable. THE truth? Presumptuous. I agree with Jon Gordon that valuable dimensions of truth can be revealed during earnest efforts to…

Read More

Michael Lenox on Mastering Digital Transformation: An Interview by Bob Morris

June 19, 2023

Michael Lenox‘s latest book is Strategy in the Digital World, published by Stanford Business Books. He is also the co-author of The Decarbonization Imperative and Can Business Save the Earth?. He is the Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business Administration and…

Read More

Communicate with Courage: A book review by Bob Morris

February 16, 2023

Communicate with Courage: Taking Risks to Overcome the Four Hidden Challenges Michelle D. Gladieux Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. (2022) Nothing ventured, nothing gained…and usually a great deal of value is lost These are the four risks (“hidden challenges”) on which Michelle…

Read More

Life Is Hard: A book review by Bob Morris

December 17, 2022

Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way Kieran Setiya Riverhead Books (October 2022) “Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”  Voltaire Nowhere in this volume does Kieran Setiya claim or…

Read More

Mark Goulston: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

September 28, 2022

In his career as an organizational consultant, relationship counselor, and hostage-negotiation trainer, Mark Goulston has found what works, consistently, to reach all kinds of people in any type of situation. In his book Real Influence: Persuade Without Pushing and Gain…

Read More

The Upside of Uncertainty: A book review by Bob Morris

July 21, 2022

The Upside of Uncertainty: A Guide for Finding Possibility in the Unknown Nathan Furr and Susannah Harmon Furr Harvard Business Review Press (July 2022) “The single biggest predictor of executive success is how you deal with uncertainty.” Sam Yagan Nathan…

Read More

Martin Reeves and Jack Fuller on high-impact creative thinking: An interview by Bob Morris

July 18, 2021

Martin Reeves is Chairman of The BCG Henderson Institute, BCG’s think tank on strategy and management. He researches, publishes and pilots new thinking on business challenges, drawing upon both innovations in business and fields such as biology, computer science and…

Read More

Andrew Temte on Balancing Volatile Priorities: An interview by Bob Morris

May 16, 2021

Dr. Andrew Temte, CFA, is President and Global Head of Corporate Learning at Kaplan North America and former CEO of Kaplan Professional. A thought leader on issues related to workforce reskilling and upskilling, he is the author of Balancing Act:…

Read More

Soo Bong Peer on developing a more inclusive workplace culture: An interview by Bob Morris

April 11, 2021

Soo Bong Peer, a strategy consultant and executive coach to Fortune 500 multinational corporations, comes from a multicultural upbringing with more than 30 years of experience in strategic marketing, global branding, business development, international joint ventures, and leadership development. Raised…

Read More