Month: June 2024

Roger Martin on solving problems with a new way of thinking

June 30, 2024

The ideas in some busibess books are even more valuable now than they were when first published. For example…. In A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness, Roger Martin shares his thoughts about how to think…

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The Power of Instinct: A Book Review by Bob Morris

June 29, 2024

The Power of Instinct: The New Rules of Persuasion in Business and Life   Leslie Zane Public Affairs (June 2024) How and why 95% of decisions are made by the unconscious mind The mind is what the brain does. According to…

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What Fierce Competitors Do In Tough Times

June 28, 2024

Even in the best of economic times there are rough times. Markets go up and down. Customers come and go. Yesterday the real estate industry was in the dumps. Then it was computer chips. Today oil and gas is down…

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Great at Work: Review of a business classic by Bob Morris

June 28, 2024

Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More Morten Hansen Simon & Schuster (January 2018) How and why “seven practices upend conventional thinking about how you should work” Note: Every so often, I recycle a…

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In Ronnie’s Court: On Being Born and Other Adventures

June 28, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by David Cornwell (aka John le Carré) for The New Yorker, published in the Februart 2, 2002, issue. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts,…

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Unorthodox Perspectives

June 27, 2024

If you want to put some white caps on your gray matter, check out these observations. * * * o “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Pogo the Possum o “There is nothing so practical as a…

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Competing in the Age of AI, a business classic reviewed by Bob Morris

June 27, 2024

Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani Harvard Business Review Press (January 2020) The impact of artificial intelligence on businesses: how they will operate and…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Creating a Great Culture

June 26, 2024

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Building a Great Culture Various Contributors in Collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (November 2019) Note: With rare exception, the material in HBR anthologies offers cutting-edge thinking that is both timeless and timely.  For example….…

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How Generative AI Can Support Advanced Analytics Practice

June 26, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Pedro Amorim and João Alves for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others,  sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration…

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The overlooked essentials of employee well-being

June 25, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Jeffrey Pfeffer for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company (September 11, 2018). To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up…

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