Month: August 2024

Banish the Harmful Creatures of COVID-Era Work

August 7, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Melissa Swift 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 Credit:  Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT…

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The AI Savvy Leader: A Book Review by Bob Morris

August 6, 2024

The AI-Savvy Leader: 9 Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work David De Cremer Harvard Business Review Press (January 2023) How and why AI is best viewed as an invaluable coworker I recently re-read Vernon Vinge’s essay, “The…

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As Your Team Gets Bigger, Your Leadership Style Has to Adapt

August 6, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Julie Zhuo for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Alexander Nicholson/Getty Images…

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HBR 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking A Book Review by Bob Morris

August 5, 2024

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2020) “Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.”  Tim Brown This book is one of the most recent volumes in…

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“Lives of the Philosophers” Revisited

August 5, 2024

Here is a classic article written by Amanda Vaill for The American Scholar in which she focuses on the postwar thinkers who stripped the world of preconceptions To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. *     *    …

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The Surprising Power of Questions

August 4, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Alison Wood Brooks and Leslie K. John for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here.…

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The Synergy Solution: A Book Review by Bob Morris

August 3, 2024

The Synergy Solution: How Companies Win the Mergers & Acquisitions Game Mark L. Sirower and Jeffery M. Weirens Harvard Business Review Press (January 2023) “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company…

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Decoding Greatness: Revisiting a Review by Bob Morris

August 2, 2024

Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success Ron Friedman Simon & Schuster (June 2021) How to reverse engineer success, however you define it As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of how…

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Renaissance Man

August 2, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Joan Acocella for The New Yorker (November 3, 2013). To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information please click here. *…

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HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work: A Book Review by Bob Morris

August 1, 2024

HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2014) In fact, this material can help almost anyone manage stress almost anywhere. This is one of my most popular reviews, perhaps because of pressures and stresses…

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