Month: October 2022

Kick Up Some Dust: A book review by Bob Morris

October 23, 2022

Kick Up Some Dust: Lessons on Thinking Big, Giving Back, and Doing It Yourself Bernie Marcus with Catherine Lewis William Morrow/An imprint of HarperCollins (October 2022) How and why, when you do it yourself, “you can make a difference and…

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How HBR Has Covered Women and Business

October 21, 2022

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Colleen Ammerma and Boris Groysberg 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…

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Brian Bourque on Amazon’s 7 guiding principles that power this trillion-dollar company’s pursuit of new ideas

October 21, 2022

Brian Bourque tweeted some especially valuable information that I am grateful for sharing now. * * * Amazon is 25 years old.  But their innovation at scale remains unparalleled. Amazon’s 2021 shareholder letter reveals the 7 principles that power this…

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Rise of the Rest: A book review by Bob Morris

October 20, 2022

Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places Are Building the New American Dream Steve Case Avid Reader Press/An Imprint of Simon & Schuster (September 2022) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison To what does the title of…

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RAI Enables the Kind of Innovation That Really Matters

October 20, 2022

Here is an excerpt from an article by Elizabeth M. Renieris, David Kiron, and Steven D. Mills for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * *…

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What Is Game Theory? How Does It Apply to Business?

October 20, 2022

Here is a brief article from the MasterClass website. I think MasterClass is one of the most valuable online resources and highly recommend it. * * * Game theory is a field of behavioral economics that attempts to predict the…

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When AI Rules the World: A book review by Bob Morris

October 19, 2022

When AI Rules the World: China, the U.S. and the Race to Control a Smart Planet Handel Jones Bombardier Books (October 2022) How innovation and support of AI in the U.S. “will maximize benefits for America and elsewhere” Handel Jones…

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More than a hobby but not a career….

October 18, 2022

I was born in Chicago in 1936 and raised by a single-parent mother. During grades 5-12, I was able to attend the Art Institute of Chicago with scholarships from the Dudley Crafts Watson Foundation. Later, I continued to take art…

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What Defines a Successful Organization?

October 17, 2022

Here is an excerpt from another brilliant article written by Ram Charan 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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What you may not already know about James Dean

October 17, 2022

The International Movie Database (IMDb) remains the best single source for information about filmmaking and those who create them. I urge you to check it out. For example, here is a portion of the information IMDb provides about James Dean…

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