Month: September 2024

Habits of a Peace Maker: A Book Review by Bob Morris

September 16, 2024

Habits of a Peace Maker: 10 Habits to Change Our Potentially Toxic Conversations into Healthy Dialogues Steven T. Collis Shadow Mountain Publishing (September 2024) How to find workable solutions through dialogue and conversation In the Epilogue, Steven Collis recalls Abraham…

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Hybrid Work: How Leaders Build In-Person Moments That Matter

September 16, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brian Elliott 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 SMR…

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Levels of the Game—I: Who has a bigger serve than Arthur Ashe?

September 15, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John McPhee for The New Yorker (May 31, 1969). 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 Inner Lives of the Nazis

September 15, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Isaac Chotiner for The New Yorker. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information please click here. Illustration Credit: Photograph from ullstein…

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Are Your Presentations Too Emotional — or Too Analytical?

September 13, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Nancy Duarte 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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Fierce Resilience: A Book Review by Bob Morris

September 13, 2024

Fierce Resilience: Combatting Workplace Stress Once Conversation at a Time Edward Beltran Berrett-Koehler Publishers (August 2024) How to establish and then sustain a stress-free workplace culture one conversation at a time In the introduction, Edward Beltran notes that the material…

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The Energy Advantage: A Book Review by Bob Morris

September 10, 2024

The Energy Advantage: How to Go from Managing Your Time to Managing Your Energy Ricardo Sunderland HarperCollinsLeadership (June 2024) How and why your life energy flows out of an internal source As Ricardo Sunderland explains in the first chapter, “The…

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The Three Traps That Stymie Reinvention

September 10, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ryan Raffaelli 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: Nash Weerasekera…

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Cyber Smart: Revisiting a Business Classic

September 9, 2024

Cyber Smart: Five Habits to Protect Your Family, Money, and Identity from Cyber Criminals Bart R. McDonough John Wiley & Sons (2019) “When it comes to our cyber lives, we all live in a bad neighborhood.” Bart R. McDonough’s comment…

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Three Ways to Improve Your Decision-Making

September 9, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Walter Frick for Harvard Business Review (January 22, 2018). 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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