Month: April 2013

The Creative Brain: A book review by Bob Morris

April 26, 2013

The Creative Brain: The Science of Genius Nancy C. Andreasen Plume/Penguin Group (2006) How at least some humans “have managed to wrestle [themselves] out of dark caves and into a world ablaze with creative genius” As Nancy Andreasen explains in…

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How to Expand Your Company’s Innovation Network

April 26, 2013

  Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * Organizations get it wrong when they rely on only…

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McKinsey & Company: Leading in the 21st century

April 25, 2013

In the statement that follows, Dominic Barton, Global managing director, McKinsey & Company, introduces one of the most valuable issues of The McKinsey Quarterly published thus far. To read the issue and check out other resources, please click here. *…

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How IDEO brings design to corporate America

April 25, 2013

Here is the introduction to a “must read” article written by Dinah Eng for FORTUNE Magazine (April 11, 2013). In it, David Kelley explains how the company he founded, IDEO, brings design to corporate America. Today, David serves as chair…

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Crisis Communications: A book review by Bob Morris

April 25, 2013

Crisis Communications: The Definitive Guide to Managing the Message Steven Fink McGraw-Hill (2013) Why you should never “pick a fight with anyone who buys bandwidth by the geobyte” I read and reviewed Steven Fink’s previous book, Crisis Management: Planning for…

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To Increase Innovation, Take the Sting Out of Failure

April 25, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Doug Sundheim for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR…

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Decide: A book review by Bob Morris

April 24, 2013

Decide: Better Ways of Making Better Decisions David Wethey KoganPage Limited (2013) For better or worse, our lives are the consequences of our decisions According to David Wethey, “Decision science is a complex and rich academic area, quite apart from…

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Tim Berners-Lee on “Linked Data: Web Science and the Semantic Web”

April 24, 2013

A graduate of Oxford University, Sir Timothy John (“Tim”) Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June 1955), also known as “TimBL,” invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the…

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Google’s Greatest Innovation May Be Its Management Practice

April 23, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Bruce Nussbaum for Fast Company magazine. To read the complete article, check out others, obtain subscription information, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * * The announcement…

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Crisis Management: A book review by Bob Morris

April 23, 2013

Crisis Management: Planning for the Inevitable Steven Fink Backinprint.com After So Many Years, Still Relevant and Invaluable I read this book when it was first published in 1989 and decided to re-read its paperbound edition (2000), curious to learn to…

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