Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 9/9/13)

BOB Banner

 

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

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Word of Mouse: 101+ Trends in How We Buy, Sell, Live, Learn, Work, and Play
Marc Ostrofsky

The Necessity of Strangers: The Intriguing Truth About Insight, Innovation, and Success
Alan S. Gregerman

What Is Your Dangerous Idea?
Edited by John Brockman

 

INTERVIEWS

Ramon Nunez (chief executive of LiveHive) in “The Corner Office”
Adam Bryant
The New York Times

Bruce DelMonico: An Interview of the MBA Gatekeeper to Yale’s School of Management
John A. Byrne
Poets & Quants

Dan Pontefract: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris
BOB

 

COMMENTARIES

“Measuring the full impact of digital capital”
Jacques Bughin and James Manyika
The McKinsey Quarterly

“The New Workplace and Its New Rules”
Dan Schawbel
from his book, Promote Yourself: The New Rules for Career Success

“How to make a city great”
McKinsey & Company

“Innovation Execution: Fundamental Core Principles”
Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble
from Beyond the Idea: How to Execute Innovation in Any Organization

“Complexity and the Ten-Thousand-Hour Rule”
Malcolm Gladwell
The New Yorker

“More Great Quotations”
BOB

“What Is a Tool?”
Phil Stutz and Barry Michels
from The Tools: Transform Your Problems into Courage, Confidence, and Creativity

“The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome: No Harm Intended — A Relationship Spirals from Bad to Worse”
Jean-François Manzoni and Jean-Louis Barsoux
HBR

“A very special acknowledgment of 9/11”
BOB

“Michael Lewis on how and why he writes what he writes”
Maria Popova
Brain Pickings

“Pioneer women who ‘leaned in’ throughout U.S. history”
BOB

“Rethinking Employee Engagement”
Alan Gregerman
From The Necessity of Strangers: The Intriguing Truth About Insight, Innovation, and Success

“What I Learned from Steve Ballmer”
Rajat Taneja
LinkedIn

A Worse You Could Be Better Off: Robert Trivers’ The Folly of Fools
Jennifer Jacquet
Scientific American

* * *

To check out these resources and other content, please click here.

To subscribe via RSS Reader, please click here.

 

Posted in

Leave a Comment





This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.