Month: April 2021

It’s time for a new approach to racial equity

April 20, 2021

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Earl Fitzhugh, JP Julien, Nick Noel, and Shelley Stewart for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the…

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Glass Half-Broken: A book review by Bob Morris

April 18, 2021

Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg Harvard Business Review Press (April 2021) How to eliminate structures and mindsets that preclude gender parity for professional women With this book, Colleen…

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Playing to Win: A book review by Bob Morris

April 17, 2021

Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works A.G. Lafley and Roger Martin Harvard Business Review Press (2013) “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” Michael Porter Note: I reviewed this book when it was first published and…

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The organizational cost of insufficient sleep

April 16, 2021

Here is an excerpt from another “classic” article, one written by Nick van Dam and Els van der Helm for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the…

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Rethinking Competitive Advantage: A book review by Bob Morris

April 15, 2021

Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age Ram Charan and Geri Willigan Currency (April 2021) “Insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein With substantial assistance from Geri Willigan, Ram Charan…

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Don’t Let Self-Doubt Hold You Back

April 14, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Alisa Cohn 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 Lost Art of Connecting: A book review by Bob Morris

April 13, 2021

The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Business Relationships Susan McPherson with Jackie Ashton McGraw-Hill (March 2021) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford Having already read…

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Soo Bong Peer on developing a more inclusive workplace culture: An interview by Bob Morris

April 11, 2021

Soo Bong Peer, a strategy consultant and executive coach to Fortune 500 multinational corporations, comes from a multicultural upbringing with more than 30 years of experience in strategic marketing, global branding, business development, international joint ventures, and leadership development. Raised…

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Zag: A book review revisited by Bob Morris

April 10, 2021

ZAG: The Number One Strategy of High-Performance Brands Marty Neumeier New Riders (September 2006) Note: Although some books seem certain to become “business classics” when published, few earn that designation. All of Marty Neumeier’s works thus far have and, if…

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The Mosaic That Is Information

April 9, 2021

One of the greatest challenges that organizations will continue to face in months and years to come is this: How to achieve and then retain a decisive advantage in a competitive marketplace that is increasingly more volatile, more uncertain, more…

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