Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 12/2/13)

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I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you:

BOOK REVIEWS

Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind
Jocelyn Glei, Editor

Innovating Analytics: Word of Mouth Index- Use the Next Generation of Net Promoter to Increase Sales and Drive Results
Larry Freed

The Star Factor: Discover What Your Top Performers Do Differently–and Inspire a New Level of Greatness in All
William Seidman and Richard Grbavac

The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business
Duff McDonald

 

INTERVIEWS

Jennifer Dulski (president and chief operating officer of Change.org) in “The Corner Office”
Adam Bryant
The New York Times

Tom Eisenmann, What Can’t Be Taught: The Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field
Taylor Ellis
Poets&Quants

Niraj Dawar: An interview by Bob Morris
BOB

Leading in the 21st century: An interview with HCA CEO Richard Bracken
dam Bryant
The New York Times

Malcolm Gladwell: An interview by Gaby Wood
The Telegraph

 

COMMENTARIES

“The Brain’s Crowdsourcing Software”
Alison Gopnik
The Wall Street Journal

“My Meetings With Mandela”
Juan Williams
The Wall Street Journal

“The Psychology of Self-Control”
Maria Popova
Brain Pickings

“‘Tis the Season to Focus on the Business Basics”
Angie Hicks
LinkedIn

“The ‘secret sauce’ that Jeff Bezos learned about from Jim Collins”
Brad Stone
from The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

“The MOOC Market Takes Off”
Josh Bersin
Forbes

“Don’t dumb down — brain up!”
Margaret Heffernan
CBS MoneyWatch

“Surprise and Creativity: Notes toward a new economics”
George Gilder
from Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It Is Revolutionizing Our World

“Thinking Mistakes Our Brains Make Every Day and How to Prevent Them”
Belle Beth Cooper
Buffer Networks

“For all the Christmas shoppers out there….”
BOB
from Love Actually

“How I Hire: In Search of the Sir Ernest Shackleton Gene”
Peter Gruber
LinkedIn

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