Month: October 2020

Bias Busters: Lifting your head from the sand

October 14, 2020

Here is a brief article written by Eileen Kelly Rinaudo for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up for email alerts, please click…

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Beyond Great: A book review by Bob Morris

October 13, 2020

Beyond Great: Nine Strategies for Thriving in an Era of Social Tension, Economic Nationalism, and Technological Revolution Arindam Bhattacharya, Nikolaus Lang, and Jim Hemerling PublicAffairs (October 2020) To paraohrase Marshall Goldsmith, “What got you great won’t keep you great” For…

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Charles Koch’s Big Bet on Barrett

October 13, 2020

  Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Christopher Leonard for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain information about deep-discount subscriptions, please click here. Credit: David Zalubowski/Associated Press * *…

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Ten “antipatterns” that are derailing technology transformations

October 12, 2020

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Sven Blumberg, Thomas Delaet, and Kartikeya Swami 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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Time Smart: A book review by Bob Morris

October 12, 2020

Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time & Live a Happier Life Ashley Williams Harvard Business Review Press (October 2020) “Happiness is not the subject of this book. It’s the product.” Do you value time more than money or money…

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Overcoming the core-technology transformation stalemate

October 11, 2020

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brant Carson, Alexey Goldov, Laurent Kinet, Warren Oakes, Giulio Romanelli, and Anand Swaminathan for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others,…

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What you may not know about Matt Damon

October 11, 2020

Thank you, IMDb, for providing a wealth of information about  the entertainment world. For example, the life and work of Matt Damon: He was born Matthew Paige Damon on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker,…

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Preventing Burnout Is About Empathetic Leadership

October 10, 2020

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jennifer Moss 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…

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Lead. Care. Win.: A book review by Bob Morris

October 10, 2020

Lead Care Win: How to Become a Leader Who Matters Dan Pontefract Figure 1 Publishing (September 2020) “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Eppie Lederer (Ann Landers) I have read and reviewed each of Dan Pontefract’s three previously…

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The Entrepreneur’s Faces: A book review by Bob Morris

October 9, 2020

The Entrepreneur’s Faces: How Makers, Visionaries, and Outsiders Succeed Jonathan Littman and Susanna Camp Snowball Narrative Press How a seven-stage process using multidimensional perspectives can achieve high impact results Jonathan Littman and Susanna Camp would be among the first to…

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