Book Reviews

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strengthening Your Soft Skills: A Book Review by Bob Morris

May 9, 2024

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strengthening Your Soft Skills Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2024) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care” Theodore Roosevelt This volume is among the best sources…

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The Problem with Change: A Book Review by Bob Morris

May 8, 2024

The Problem with Change: And the Essential Nature of Human Performance Ashley Goodall Little, Brown Spark (May 2024) “If you’ve always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.”  Charles Kettering In his classic book, Leading Change, James O’Toole suggests that…

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What Can Business Learn from Art?

May 6, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Scott Berinato 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:  Tang Yau Hoong …

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From Invisible to Icon: A Book Review by Bob Morris

May 3, 2024

From Invisible to Icon: How to Become a Known Expert in Your Industry (Revised and Expanded Edition) John Fareed with Sean Hunter Post Hill Press (April 2024) Street Smarts for accelerating your personal growth and professional development    This is…

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Bare Knuckle: A Book Review by Bob Morris

May 2, 2024

Bare Knuckle: Bobby Gunn, 73-0 Undefeated. A Dad. A Dream. A Fight Like You’ve Never Seen Stayton Bonner Blackstone Publishing (April 2024) “Champions get up when they can’t.” Jack Dempsey My take: For some people, Bare Knuckle is a compelling…

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LIT: A Book Review by Bob Morris

April 30, 2024

LIT [Life Ignition Tools]: Use Nature’s Playbook to Energize Your Brain, Spark Ixeas, and Ignite Action Jeff Karp with Teresa Barker William Morrow/An Imprint of HarperCollins (April 2024) How life ignition skills identify the right questions that can help to…

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Leaders Leap: A Book Review by Bob Morris

April 26, 2024

Leaders Leap: Transforming Your Company at the Speed of Disruption Steve Dennis Wiley (April 2024) New realities have created an ever-widening transformation gap: How to close it Steve Dennis carefully organizes the material within three Parts. In Chapters 1 and…

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Love + Work: A Book Review by Bob Morris

April 22, 2024

Love + Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life Marcus Buckingham Harvard Business Review Press (April 2022) How to create “a more powerful, more authentic, and more…

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The Illusion of Innovation: A Book Review by Bob Morris

April 20, 2024

The Illusion of Innovation: Escape “Efficiency” and Unleash Radical Progress Elliott Parker Ideapress Publishing (April 2024) How and why the best innovations lead to more and even better innovations George Bernard Shaw once observed, “The single biggest problem in communication…

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A Refresher on Marketing Myopia

April 18, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Amy Gallo for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR email alerts,…

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