Month: May 2023

How to Build a Strengths-Based Culture

May 21, 2023

In Chapter 26 of their latest book, Culture Shock, Jim Clifton and Jim Harter observe, “Very few organizations in the world can say their culture is strengths-based. This is a missed opportunity. Organizations with strengths-based cultures greatly outperform their competition…

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Moving Beyond Islands of Experimentation to AI Everywhere

May 19, 2023

Here is an excerpt from an article by Amit Joshi, Ivy Buche, and Miguel Paredes Sadler for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustratbion Credit:  Leo…

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“In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities; in the expert’s there are few.”  Shunryū Suzuki

May 18, 2023

How to create employees and customers who are what Jackie Huba and Ben McConnell characterize as “evangelists”? In The Experience Mindset, Tiffani Bova provides a thorough explanation. She prepares leaders in almost any organization — whatever its size and nature…

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The Best Small Towns Across America

May 17, 2023

Here is a brief excerpt from an especially interesting article by Erika Burch that I came upon at the Lifestyle-A2Z website. To read the complete article, please click here. Credit: Shutterstock * * * When you think of the different…

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How Incredibly Creative People Come Up with Breakthrough Ideas

May 17, 2023

The material in some articles becomes even more valuable than when it was first published. For example…. Here’s a brief excerpt from an article by Leigh Buchanan for Inc. magazine. I agree that anyone can come up with a lot…

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Power Barometer: A book review by Bob Morris

May 16, 2023

Power Barometer: Manage Personal Energy — Not Just Time and Money Josefine Campbell Pine Publishing (May 2023) How and why energy-efficiency is essential to achieving high-impact results Allocation of resources is among the most valuable of skills that an executive…

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Kurt Vonnegut: How To Write With Style

May 15, 2023

Kurt Vonnegut was a writer, lecturer and painter. He was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During WWII, as a prisoner of war in Germany, he witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an…

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Decision Sprint: A book review by Bob Morris

May 14, 2023

Decision Sprint: The New Way to Innovate into the Unknown and Move from Strategy to Action Atif Rafiq McGraw Hill (April 2023) “If you have always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.” Charles Kettering To what does the title…

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Beyond Disruption: A book review by Bob Morris

May 13, 2023

Beyond Disruption: Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs W. Chan Kim and Renée A. Mauborgne Harvard Business Review Press (May 2023) The Unique Power and Substantial Benefits of Nondisruptive Creation In their latest book, W. Chan…

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The Well-Lived Life: A book review by Bob Morris

May 12, 2023

The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor’s Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age Gladys McGarey,  M.D. Atria Books/An Imprint of Simon & Schuster (May 2023) What you see in a mirror can reveal possibilities to increase your health…

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