Month: May 2013

Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 5/13/13)

May 19, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Lean Practitioner’s Handbook Mark Eaton HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategic Marketing HBR Editors and various contributors Weaving the Web:…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategic Marketing: A book review by Bob Morris

May 18, 2013

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategic Marketing HBR Editors and various contributors Harvard Busxiness Review Press (2013) How the right strategy can help create or increase demand for whatever is offered This is one in a series of volumes that…

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How to Listen When Someone Is Venting

May 18, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Mark Goulston 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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Brilliant Blunders: A book review by Bob Morris

May 18, 2013

Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein – Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe Mario Livio Simon & Schuster (2013) How and why the blunders described in this book “have all, some way…

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How to Stop Going to So Many Meetings

May 17, 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. * * * How can you get any work done when you’re in…

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Charting technology’s new directions: A conversation with MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson

May 17, 2013

Erik Brynjolfsson is a leading expert on the new relationship between man and machine and the challenges that emerge when innovation is decoupled from growth in jobs and incomes. He discusses that relationship during this conversation with McKinsey Publishing’s Rik…

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Weaving the Web: A book review by Bob Morris

May 17, 2013

Weaving the Web: the Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee HarperSanFrancisco (1999) How and why, “if we have the individual will, we can collectively make of our world what we want.” I read this…

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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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How the Internet of Things Changes Everything

May 16, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Stefan Ferber 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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Untapped Talent: A book review by Bob Morris

May 16, 2013

Untapped Talent: Unleashing the Power of the Hidden Workforce Dani Monroe Palgrace MacMillan/Division of St. Martin’s Press (2013) How to “grow” talent, whatever the size and nature of the “garden” may be The title of this book is sufficiently vague…

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