Month: January 2021

The Live Enterprise: A book review by Bob Morris

January 27, 2021

The Live Enterprise: Creating a Continuously Evolving and Learning Organization Jeff Kavanaugh and Mohammed Rafee Tarafdar McGraw-Hill (January 2021) How resilience and regeneration enable companies to adapt and evolve Note the gerund “creating” in this book’s subtitle. It correctly suggests…

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Revealing Jack Whitten’s Secret Self

January 26, 2021

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Yinka Elujoba for The New York Times. I very much admire Jack Whitten‘s work and have learned a great deal from him as I continue with my own exploration of how…

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An Agile Approach to Change Management

January 26, 2021

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Sarah Jensen Clayton 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…

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Set Better Boundaries

January 25, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Priscilla Claman 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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The Business of We: A book review by Bob Morris

January 25, 2021

The Business of We: The Proven Three-Step Process for Closing the Gap Between Us and Them in Your Workplace Laura Kriska HarperCollins Leadership (January 2021) How and why all healthy organizations think and behave in terms of first-person PLURAL pronouns…

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Shakespeare Conquers America! Starring Ulysses S. Grant as Desdemona

January 24, 2021

Here is a brief excerpt from a review of James Shapiro‘s Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future by David Ives for The New York Times. To read the complete review, check…

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Getting It All Done: A book review by Bob Morris

January 24, 2021

Getting It All Done: The HBR Working Parents Series Daisy Dowling, Series Editor Harvard Business School Press (December 2020) “Until we can manage time and effort, we can manage nothing else.” Peter Drucker This is one of the volumes in…

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9 Trends That Will Shape Work in 2021 and Beyond

January 23, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brian Kropp 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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Warren Buffett on “the economic moat”…Nigel Vaz on “the digital moat”

January 23, 2021

At one of Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meetings years ago, Warren Buffett explained his approach to identifying the longevity of a business’ competitive advantage. He always tries to find “a business with a wide and long-lasting moat around it, protecting a…

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Ask Your Developer: A book review by Bob Morris

January 22, 2021

Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century Jeff Lawson HarperBusiness (January 2021) How and why software development has become a natural law of successful business In this book, Jeff Lawson…

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