Month: March 2022

The Chief of CVS Health Wants to Be Part of People’s ‘Everyday Life’

March 8, 2022

Here is another superb article from David Gelles for The New York Times in which he shares his conversation with Karen S. Lynch. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain information about deep-discount subscriptions, please click here.…

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Low-Hanging Fruit: A book review by Bob Morris

March 7, 2022

Low-Hanging Fruit: 77 Eye-Opening Ways to Improve Productivity and Profits Jeremy Eden and Terri Long Wiley (2014) How to “get a good cash crop yield from business innovation” Years ago, I helped a Fortune 50 company establish an electronic suggestion…

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What you may not know about Martin Scorcese

March 7, 2022

I am again deeply grateful to IMDb for providing an abundance of information about Martin Scorcese‘s life and work. He was born on November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York City, to Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, who both worked…

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Connectable: A book review by Bob Morris

March 6, 2022

Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams from Isolated to All In Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen McGraw Hill (March 2022) The power and impact of thinking in terms of first-person PLURAL pronouns Why did Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van…

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The Neutrality Trap: A book review by Bob Morris

March 5, 2022

The Neutrality Trap: Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change Bernard Mayer and Jacqueline N. Font-Guzmán Wiley (January 2022) “What got you here won’t get you there.”  Marshall Goldsmith My own opinion is that what got you here won’t even allow…

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Bridge the Gap: A book review by Bob Morris

March 4, 2022

Bridge the Gap: Breakthrough Communication Tools to Transform Work Relationships From Challenging to Collaborative Jennifer Edwards and Katie McCleary McGraw Hill (February 2022) ‘The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” George Bernard Shaw…

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Are You Aware of Your Biases?

March 4, 2022

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Carmen Acto 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, please…

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Opinion: Supreme Court confirmations are a farce. Blame the Supreme Court.

March 3, 2022

Here is a brief excerpt from an article in The Washington Post by Dana Milbank. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain information about deep-discount subscriptions, please click here. * * * It’s a case of the…

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Twelve Years a Slave: A book review by Bob Morris

March 3, 2022

Twelve Years a Slave: The Black History Classic Solomon Northrup, with an Introduction by David Fiske and Edited by Tom Butler-Bowdon Capstone/A Wiley Brand (October 2021) After his enslavement ended, here’s the rest of his story. A few months ago,…

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Daniel Kahneman on “The riddle of experience vs. memory”

March 2, 2022

As you probably know already, TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today…

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