Month: April 2020

Leading Beyond the Ego: A book review by Bob Morris

April 4, 2020

Leading Beyond the Ego: How to Become a Transpersonal Leader John Knights, Danielle Grant, and Greg Young Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group (2018) A healthy ego combines pride, reason, passion, humility, and empathy in proper balance Sigmund Freud is generally credited…

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Every Leader Needs to Navigate These 7 Tensions

April 3, 2020

  Here is an excerpt from an article written byJennifer Jordan, Michael Wade,and Elizabeth Teracino 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…

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Author in Chief: A book review by Bob Morris

April 3, 2020

Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote Craig Fehrman Avid Reader Press/An imprint of Simon & Schuster (February 2020) What most people don’t know about the authors and readers among U.S. Presidents I…

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Until the End of Time: A book review by Bob Morris

April 2, 2020

Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe Brian Greene Knopf (February 2020) Here’s “a story that, at its core, stirs the soul” and the mind. What motivated Brian Greene to create…

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Every Drop of Blood: A book review by Bob Morris

April 2, 2020

Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln Edward Achorn Atlantic Monthly Press (March 2010) “Now he belongs to the ages.” Edward M. Stanton Here is the context of the title of this book, from Abraham Lincoln’s…

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Strategy under uncertainty

April 1, 2020

Here is an excerpt from another “classic” article written by Hugh G. Courtney, Jane Kirkland, and S. Patrick Viguerie for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company [2000]. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about…

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A Revolution of the MInd: A book review by Bob Morris

April 1, 2020

A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy Jonathan Israel Princeton University Press (2011) On Radical Enlightenment’s ongoing, multidimensional “opposition to mainstream thinking”   Having read two of Jonathan Israel’s recent works, The Enlightenment…

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