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The Skills-Powered Organization: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 15, 2024

The Skills-Powered Organization: The Journey to the Next Generation Enterprise Ravin Jesuthasan and Tanuj Kapilshrami The MIT Press (October 2024)  Work frameworks that organizations now need…but most do not have According to Ravin Jesuthasan and Tanuj Kapilshrami, “This book will…

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“Just how high can a dead cat bounce?”

October 14, 2024

I recently read James Geary’s new book, I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World, published by Harper/An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (2011). He observes: “Finance and economics are…

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Tribal: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 14, 2024

Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together Michael Morris Thesis Penguin/An Imprint of Penguin Random House (October 2024) They’re not one of us  and thus a potential threat, if not an enemy Long ago,…

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The Mac & Cheese Millionaire: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 12, 2024

The Mac & Cheese Millionaire: Building a Better  Business by Thinking Outside the Box Erin Wade Wiley (September 2024) “Whether  you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford Why did Erin Wade write The Mac…

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The Net and the Butterfly: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 11, 2024

The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack Portfolio/Penguin Random House (February 2017) How breakthrough thinking can accelerate personal growth and professional development Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack make…

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A Fine Line: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 11, 2024

A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business Hartmut Esslinger Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2009) “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Steve Jobs Throughout the years since…

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THE NORMAL WELL-TEMPERED MIND: A Conversation with Daniel C. Dennett

October 10, 2024

His uncompromising computationalism has been opposed by philosophers such as John Searle and Jerry Fodor who maintain that the most important aspects of consciousness — intentionality and subjective quality — can never be computed. He is the philosopher of choice…

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10 Creative Block Breakers That Actually Work

October 10, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Susan K. Perry for Psychology Today in which she insists, “You CAN overcome the frustration of feeling blocked.” To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. *…

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Andrew St. George on “Leadership lessons from the Royal Navy”

October 10, 2024

Here is a classic article written by Andrew St. George for The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company (January 31, 2013). As he explains, “This branch of the British armed services consciously fosters cheerfulness and nourishes its collective memory. Business executives…

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Where Data-Driven Decision-Making Can Go Wrong

October 10, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michael Luca and Amy C. Edmondson for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: *…

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