Month: May 2022

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Building a Great Culture

May 31, 2022

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Building a Great Culture Various Contributors in Collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (November 2019) Begin at the end: First determine WHAT and WHY, then WHO and HOW. After centuries of war between…

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A History of Ambiguity: A book review by Bob Morris

May 30, 2022

A History of Ambiguity Anthony Ossa-Richardson Princeton University Press (2019) Ambiguity: “the subjective state of doubt as well as its objective correlative in the world” In his instructive Introduction, Anthony Ossa-Richardson shares his thoughts about what he characterizes as the…

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How to Win Friends and Influence People: A book review by Bob Morris

May 29, 2022

How to Win Friends and Influence People: Updated for the Next Generation of Leaders Dale Carnegie Simon & Schuster (May 2022) “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and…

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Bad Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

May 28, 2022

Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, and Why It Matters Barbara Kellerman Harvard Business Review Press (2004) Webs of leadership are among the webs of significance in the given enterprise, for better or worse As Barbara Kellerman defines…

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Toxic Culture Is Driving the Great Resignation

May 27, 2022

Here is an excerpt from an article by Donald Sull, Charles Sull, and Ben Zweig for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here.. * * * Research…

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Why It’s So Hard to Scale a Great Idea

May 26, 2022

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John A. List 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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How to Stop Procrastinating 

May 25, 2022

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Alice Boyes 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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James Clear on How Better Habits Can Help to Produce Higher-Impact Results

May 25, 2022

Here is a brief excerpt from an interview of James Clear by Allison Beard for Harvard Business Review (December 2019). He shares his thoughts about how better habits can help to produce high-impact results. To read the complete article, check…

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HBR Guide to Leading Teams

May 24, 2022

HBR Guide to Leading Teams Mary Shapiro Harvard Business Review Press (2015) “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams Note: The material in this volume…

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The Origins of Creativity: A book review by Bob Morris

May 23, 2022

The Origins of Creativity Edward O. Wilson Liveright Publishing Corporation (October 2017) Will this be the third Enlightenment? In recent years, Anthony Gottlieb wrote two of the books that were for me among those most intellectually stimulating: The Dream of…

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