Month: January 2018

The Last 100 Days: A book review by Bob Morris

January 21, 2018

The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and at Peace David Woolner Basic Books (December 2017) At long last, a much more complete “intimate view of FDR’s last months” Consider what was accomplished under Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s leadership during the…

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Show Your Employees You Trust Them by Sharing Information

January 21, 2018

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. *     *     * If you want your employees to perform at…

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The Quantum Labyrinth: A book review by Bob Morris

January 20, 2018

The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality Paul Halpern Basic Books (October 2017) A brilliant analysis of two “explorers of the extraordinary possibilities in physics” This book was written so that non-scientists such as…

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Make Learning a Lifelong Habit

January 20, 2018

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Coleman for Harvard Business Review and the  HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts, please click here. *     *   …

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5 Ways to Design Products Customers Love

January 19, 2018

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Dorothy Leonard for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…

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Anne Bahr Thompson on the power of “brand citizenship”: An interview by Bob Morris

January 19, 2018

Anne Bahr Thompson has been inspiring business leaders to use their brands as a motivating force for change for many years. At the start of the Millennium, she began to identify how people’s connections to companies were turning upside down, before…

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The Signal and the Noise: A book review by Bob Morris

January 18, 2018

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don’t Nate Silver The Penguin Group (2015) How and why, more often than not, “human judgment is intrinsically fallible” Note: The review that follows is of the…

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What to Do When You Don’t Feel Valued at Work

January 18, 2018

At one time or anorther during a career, most of us have felt that we and our work are not appreciated…or at least underappreciated. What to do? Here is an excerpt from an article written by Rebecca Knight forHarvard Business…

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Brave Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

January 17, 2018

Brave Leadership: Unleash Yout Most Confident, Powerful, and Authentic Self to Get the Results You Need Kimberly Davis Greenleaf Book Group Press (January 2018) “Do the best you can until you know better. When you know better, do better.” Maya…

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Advanced analytics in hospitality

January 17, 2018

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Dilip Bhattacharjee, Jules Seeley, and Nathan Seitzman the McKinsey Quarterly‘s editors, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign…

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