Month: February 2020

Inspire Your Team During a Crunch Time

February 9, 2020

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. *     *     * Sometimes work gets intense. Whether it’s a seasonal rush…

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Think Outside the Building: A book review by Bob Morris

February 9, 2020

Kanter, Rosabeth Moss

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Manager and machine: The new leadership equation

February 8, 2020

Here is an excerpt from another “classic” article (2014) written by Martin Dewhurst and Paul Willmott for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign…

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The seven attributes of an experimentation culture

February 8, 2020

In Experimentation Works, Stefan Thomke examines “the surprising power of business experiments.” Consider this excerpt from  Chapter 4: “To build a true experimentation culture — including the shared behaviors, beliefs, and values for large-scale and broad-scope testing — leaders need…

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The Dark Side of Self-Control

February 7, 2020

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michail D. Kokkoris and Olga Stavrova for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information,…

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The Future Is Faster Than You Think: A book review by Bob Morris

February 7, 2020

The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler Simon & Schuster (January 2020) Why and how the only constant is change, and the pace of…

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Quotations worthy of careful consideration

February 7, 2020

  Although by now I probably should not be, I continue to be amazed by the practical implications of observations by advocates of non-violence, notably Henry David Thoreau, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Yes, they were passivists but…

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Disney’s Land: A book review by Bob Morris

February 6, 2020

Disney’s Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World Richard Snow Scribner (December 2019) After 65 years, still a  magic kingdom that is an “oasis for happiness” I visited Disneyland soon after Disneyland’s doors…

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Hymns of the Republic: A book review by Bob Morris

February 6, 2020

Hymns of the Republic: The Story of the Final Year of the American Civil War S.C Gwynne Scribner (October 2019) The year in which a war was finally won while making “a terrible mess of things” What we have here…

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Rethinking the boundaries of your organizational (eco)system

February 6, 2020

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Wouter Aghina, Steven Aronowitz, and Caitlin Hewes for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and…

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