Book Reviews

The Art of Authenticity: A book review by Bob Morris

April 16, 2016

The Art of Authenticity: Tools to Become an Authentic Leader and Your Best Self Karissa Thacker John Wiley & Sons (March 2016) “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is more Youer…

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The Mentor Myth: A book review by Bob Morris

April 15, 2016

The Mentor Myth: How to Take Control of Your Own Success Debby Carreau Bibliomotion Media (April 2016) Who’s your best mentor? That would be you IF you are determined to become the best you that you can be Oscar Wilde…

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Concrete Economics: A book review by Bob Morris

April 13, 2016

Concrete Economics: The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy Stephen Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong Harvard Business Review Press (March 2016) How and why getting economic policy right “is and has been of overwhelming importance in generating prosperity” Opinions…

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Strategic Analytics: A book review by Bob Morris

April 12, 2016

Strategic Analytics: Advancing Strategy Execution and Organizational Effectiveness Alec Levenson Berrett-Koehler Publishers (November 2015) Here is “a comprehensive road map for starting and completing a cultural transformation.” C-level executives face a number of challenges and one of the most important…

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The Essays of Warren Buffett (Fourth Edition): A book review by Bob Morris

April 9, 2016

The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Fourth Edition Warren Buffett and Lawrence A. Cunningham (Editor) Carolina Academic Press (2015) The best of four anthologies of wit and wisdom from “the world’s greatest investor” There are several people…

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Small Data: A book review by Bob Morris

April 7, 2016

Small Data: The Tiny Clues That Uncover Huge Trends Martin Lindstrom St. Martin’s Press (February 2016) How to mine for and then integrate Small Data with Big Data to create Rich Data Frankly, I am dismayed by the widespread and…

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Be Bad First: A book review by Bob Morris

April 6, 2016

Be Bad First: Get Good at Things Fast to Stay Ready for the Future Erika Andersen Bibliomotion Media (March 2016) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle Frankly, I dislike terms…

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The Tides of Mind: A book review by Bob Morris

April 4, 2016

The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness David Gelernter Liveright Publishing Corporation/A Division of W.W. Norton & Company (February 2016) How and why “a brain becomes a kind of organic computer; and the mind is like the software”…

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Key Career Question: A mini-commentary

April 4, 2016

I am constantly asked for advice on various business or business-related issues and I am happy to comply, either with my own opinion or – more often — with a reference to a much better source. For example, here is…

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