Month: July 2013

Wanted: Gurus With Actual Experience

July 17, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Melissa Korn for The Wall Street Journal. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Photo Credit: Brett Gundlock for The Wall…

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True Story: A book review by Bob Morris

July 17, 2013

True Story: How to Combine Story and Action to Transform Your Business Ty Montague Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How to avoid organizational metastasis, especially during the Age of Connected Consumers If you wish to create or increase demand for…

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How to Deliver Negative Feedback with Care

July 16, 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. * * * It’s a manager’s job to occasionally make an employee aware…

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To Follow Checklists, or, To Create Cultures: How Should We lead Creative Talent?

July 16, 2013

Here is a guest article by Lina Echeverría who spent twenty-five years inspiring creativity and accelerating innovation at Corning Incorporated, one of America’s leading technology companies. She led teams of scientists and researchers at Corning that developed everything from the…

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Chip R. Bell: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

July 16, 2013

The author of nineteen books, Chip Bell‘s newest book (written with Marshall Goldsmith) is Managers As Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning. He is also the author of Wired and Dangerous (with John Patterson) and Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service…

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The Importance of Scheduling Nothing

July 15, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Jeff Weiner and featured by LinkedIn. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. If you were to see my calendar, you’d probably notice a host…

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Drucker on Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

July 15, 2013

Drucker on Leadership: New Lessons from the Father of Modern Management William A. Cohen Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2009) Invaluable reminiscences as well as revelations Those who have read William Cohen’s previously published memoir, A Class with Drucker, already know that…

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Thinking in Network Terms: A Conversation with Albert-lászló Barabási

July 15, 2013

Here is a portion of the transcript of Albert-lászló Barabási‘s conversation with John Brockman, founder and editor-in-chief of Edge.org. To watch the video and/or read the entire transcript, please click here. * * * One question that fascinated me in…

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Thunderbird: A Case Study In Organizational Decline

July 14, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article by Taylor Ellis for Poets & Quants, an online social network that provides a wealth of information about business education programs. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and sign up…

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 7/8/13)

July 14, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Marketing to Millennials: Reach the Largest and Most Influential Generation of Consumers Ever Jeff Fromm and Christie Garton The Buoyant Leader:…

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