Month: July 2024

Intuition at Work: A Book Review by Bob Morris

July 31, 2024

Intuition at Work: Using Your Gut Feelings to Get Ahead Jessica Pryce-Jones Sequoia Books (July 2024) How and why intuition can help produce better answers and solutions and do so much faster  Whatever their size and nature may be, all…

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Revisiting an Interview of Kristi Hedges

July 31, 2024

Kristi Hedges is a leadership coach, speaker and author. In her 20-year career working with leaders to help them communicate more effectively she’s encountered every personality type imaginable, yet remains more than a little passionate that anyone can learn presence.…

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The Future of Management: Revisiting a Business Classic

July 30, 2024

The Future of Management Gary Hamel with Bill Breen Harvard Business School Press (2007) With all due respect to today’s business bestsellers, most of the best books have already been written on the most important subjects. Case in point: This…

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Finding the courage to shrink

July 30, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. Bill Huyett and Tim Koller acknowledge that spinning off businesses can have real advantages in creating value—if  executives understand how. To…

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Strengthen Your Change Muscle for Competitive Advantage

July 29, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Gaurav Gupta, John Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar, and Nick Petschek for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others,  sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription…

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The Invention of Air: Revisiting a Business Classic

July 29, 2024

The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America Steven Johnson Riverhead Books/Penguin Group (2008) It would be an exaggeration to suggest that Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) is the focal point of this book. He…

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The Change Leader’s Road Map: Revisiting a Business Classic

July 28, 2024

The Change Leader’s Road Map: How to Navigate Your Organization’s Transformation Linda Ackerman Anderson and Dean Anderson Pfeiffer/A Wiley Imprint (2010) “If you’ve always done it this way, it’s probably wrong.” Charles Kettering I recently read the Second Edition of…

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Equity: A Book Review Revisited by Bob Morris

July 27, 2024

Equity How to Design Organizations Where Everyone Thrives: Minal Bopaiah Berrett-Koehler Publishers (September 2021) How to design an organization for equity in a business world in which inequity continues to thrive In his classic work, Power: Why Some People Have It and…

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Jane’s World: How Jane Austen has remained a phenomenon for more than two centuries

July 27, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Martin Amis for The New Yorker (December 31, 1995). 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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A Conversation with Nathaniel Philbrick: Revisiting a Delightful Interview

July 26, 2024

  Nathaniel Philbrick is a leading authority on the history of Nantucket Island. His In the Heart of the Sea won the 2000 National Book Award. Sea of Glory (2003), is about the epic U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842. Mayflower: A Story of Community, Courage, and…

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