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Eight Ways to End Meeting Misery

April 18, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by William Reed  for MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit:    Carolyn…

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Every Purchase Matters: A Book Review by Bob Morris

April 12, 2025

Every Purchase Matters: How Fair Trade Farmers, Companies, and Consumers Are Changing the World Paul Rice Public Affairs (April 2025) How innovative thinking about ethical sourcing can help maximize shared value’s social impact In the Introduction to this book, Paul…

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Want Your Company to Get Better at Experimentation?

April 11, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Iavor Bojinov, David Holtz, Ramesh Johari, Sven Schmit  and Martin Tingley for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click…

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There’s Nothing Like This: A Book Review by Bob Morris

April 9, 2025

There’s Nothing Like This: The Strategic Genius of Taylor Swift Kevin Evers Harvard Business Review Press (April 2025) Here’s a “chronological romp” through Taylor Swift’s incomparable career thus far To what does “this” refer in the title of Kevin Evers’s…

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How da Vinci-Like Thinking Helps You Imagine Future Success: A Brilliant Commentary Revisited

April 7, 2025

In a classic article published by FastCompany magazine in 2013, Faisul Hogue explains how and why da Vinci’s belief that “everything connects” helped make him the 15th-century Italian Renaissance man we all admire today. And it was another legendary thinker…

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Master Your Mindset: A Book Review by Bob Morris

April 5, 2025

Master Your Mindset: Live a Meaningful Life Michael Pilarczyk Wiley (April 2025) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.”  Henry Ford Think of mastering your mindset as a never-ending process during which you accelerate your…

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Why Workplace Wellbeing Matters: A Book Review by Bob Morris

April 4, 2025

Why Workplace Wellbeing Matters: The Science Behind Employee Happiness and Organizational Performance Jean-Emmanuel De Neve and George Ward Harvard Business Review Press (March 2025) “How to establish and then sustain a shared sense of wellbeing in our workplace culture?”  That’s…

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Become a Better Problem Solver by Telling Better Stories

April 3, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Arnaud Chevallier, lbrecht Enders, and Jean-Louis Barsoux for MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click…

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Everything Connects: A Revisited Review by Bob Morris

April 3, 2025

Everything Connects: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation, and Sustainability Faisal Hogue with Drake Baer McGraw-Hill (2014) How and why having more and better connections creates more and better opportunities Faisal Hoque wrote this book…

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Revisiting an Interview of Chris Zook

April 2, 2025

A partner at Bain & Company,  Chris Zook is co-leader of the firm’s Global Strategy Practice. Zook’s work has focused on companies searching for new sources of profitable growth, in a wide range of industries. His published works include Profit…

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