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The Reconnected Leader: A book review by Bob Morris

March 3, 2015

The Reconnected Leader: An Executive’s Guide to Creating Responsible, Purposeful and Valuable Organizations Norman Pickavance KoganPage (2015) “Get real or you’re toast.” Lancelot Fahrquart Thinking about reconnection presupposes a previous connection. That is the approach by which Norman Pickavance frames…

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James Kerr: An interview by Bob Morris

August 3, 2014

James M. Kerr is a management consultant and organizational behaviorist. He specializes in strategic planning, corporate transformation and project & program development. For over 20 years, Jim has forged a different type of consulting practice – one that does its…

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Flash Foresight: A book review by Bob Morris

July 25, 2014

Flash Foresight: How to See the Invisible and Do the Impossible Daniel Burrus with John David Mann HarperBusiness (2011) Note: I recently re-read this book and am even more impressed now by the quality of its insights than I was…

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How I Did It: A book review by Bob Morris

June 15, 2014

How I Did It: Lessons from the Front Lines of Business Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2014) Cutting-edge perspectives on the unique leadership challenges at the CEO-level There were 14 editors involved with these essays, written by 34 CEOs,…

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3 Priorities for Leaders Who Want to Go Beyond Command-and-Control

June 5, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Coleman and Jim Whitehurst for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive…

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Think Like a Freak: A book review by Bob Morris

May 16, 2014

Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner William Morrow/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (2014) How and why mastering the economic approach will produce better answers to questions…

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Innovating Analytics: A book review by Bob Morris

December 4, 2013

Innovating Analytics: Word of Mouth Index- Use the Next Generation of Net Promoter to Increase Sales and Drive Results Larry Freed John Wiley & Sons (2013) How and why the best innovations in customer experience analytics can create a decisive…

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Dan Pontefract: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

September 9, 2013

Dan Pontefractis the author of Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization. He also holds the role of Head of Learning & Collaboration at TELUS where he is responsible for the overarching leadership development, learning and collaboration strategy for…

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Dan Pontefract: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

September 2, 2013

Dan Pontefract is the author of Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization. He also holds the role of Head of Learning & Collaboration at TELUS where he is responsible for the overarching leadership development, learning and collaboration strategy…

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Dave Logan on “How to stop the mediocrity pandemic”

May 16, 2013

Here is an article written by Dave Logan for CBS MoneyWatch, the CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the website’s newsletters, please click here.…

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