Month: May 2021

Charlie Munger on the power of consistently not being stupid

May 21, 2021

Charlie Munger remains a stranger to most people and that’s a shame because he has much of great value to share, especially when explaining the “secrets” to his success in the business world but, of even greater interest, his success…

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How to Lead in the Stakeholder Era

May 20, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Hubert Joly 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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How to Ask for Help at Work

May 19, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Gorick Ng 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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Better, Simpler Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

May 18, 2021

Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance Felix Oberholzer-Gee Harvard Business Review Press (April 2021) How to think more strategically about your business and the role of strategic management I agree with Albert Einstein: “Make everything as simple…

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How to Do Hybrid Right

May 17, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Lynda Gratton 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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Andrew Temte on Balancing Volatile Priorities: An interview by Bob Morris

May 16, 2021

Dr. Andrew Temte, CFA, is President and Global Head of Corporate Learning at Kaplan North America and former CEO of Kaplan Professional. A thought leader on issues related to workforce reskilling and upskilling, he is the author of Balancing Act:…

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“Organisms need to turn obstacles into fuel just as fire does.” Marcus Aurelius

May 15, 2021

Long ago, in Origin of the Species (1859),  Charles Darwin suggests “it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able…

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Lady Bird Johnson: A book review by Bob Morris

May 14, 2021

Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight Julia Sweig Random House (March 2021) One of the most talented and influential, yet underappreciated First Ladies Prior to reading this book, I already knew that Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson (1912-2007) was one…

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The strategy-analytics revolution

May 13, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Chris Mulligan, Nicholas Northcote, Tido Röder, and Sasha Vesuvala for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm,…

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Sun Tzu’s strategies for success in competition, wherever the “battlefield” may be

May 12, 2021

Sun Tzu (544-496 B.C) was a Chinese general, military strategist, writer, and philosopher who lived in the Eastern Zhou period of ancient China. Sun Tzu is traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War, an influential work of…

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