Book Reviews

Unlearning Silence: A Book Review by Bob Morris

March 24, 2024

Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully Elaine Lin Hering Viking/An Imprint of Penguin Random House (March 2024) The Pervasive Influence of Silence…for Better or Worse In Future Shock (1970), Alvin Toffler offers this…

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Digital Transformation Success: A Book Review by Bob Morris

March 23, 2024

Digital Transformation Success: Achieving Alignment and Delivering Results with the Process Inventory Framework Michael Schank Apress Media (December 2023) A brilliant combination of macro perspectives with micro analysis Soon after I began to read this book, I was again reminded…

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Irreplaceable : A Book Review by Bob Morris

March 15, 2024

Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places That Bring People Together Kevin Ervin Kelley Matt Holt Books/An Imprint of BenBella Books (March 2024) How and why environment affects behavior…and vice versa According to Kevin Ervin Kelley, “This book is for those…

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Shine: A Book Review by Bob Morris

March 14, 2024

Shine: How Looking Inward Is the Key to Unlocking True Entrepreneurial Freedom Gino Wickman and Rob Dube BenBella Books, Inc. (March 2024)         He Why the pursuit of happiness should be a quest for being good, not feeling…

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The Fisherman’s Path to Leadership: A Book Review by Bob Morris

March 12, 2024

The Fisherman’s Path to Leadership: 24 Lessons from the Wisdom of Nature Oleg Konovalov Kindle Direct Publishing (February 2024) Practical advice to accelerate personal growth and professional development  No brief commentary such as mine could possibly do full justice to…

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The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book Review by Bob Morris

March 10, 2024

The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America Jeffrey Rosen Simon & Schuster (February 2024) How and why happiness is the result of what you do, not what you feel…

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Hits, Flops, and Other IIllusions: A Book Review by Bob Morris

March 9, 2024

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Forty Something Years in Hollywood Ed Zwick Gallery Books/An Imprint of Simon & Schuster  (February (2024) Four decades of swimming laps in the Hollywood blender Here’s an IMDb mini biography provided by Humanitas Official…

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The AI Advantage: A Book Review by Bob Morris

March 7, 2024

The AI Advantage: How to Put the Artificial Intelligence Revolution to Work Thomas H. Davenport MIT Press (October 2018) Charting “the path of artificial intelligence and cognitive technologies in mainstream businesses” [If anything, the insights in this book are even…

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Why We Remember: A Book Review by Bob Morris

March 6, 2024

Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold On to What Matters Charan Ranganath Doubleday (February 2024) Why do we remember?  Charan Ranganath explains how and why “the story of why we remember is the story of humanity.” Various choices…

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Survive, Reset, Thrive: A Review by Bob Morris

March 2, 2024

Survive, Reset, Thrive: Leading Breakthrough Growth Strategy in Volatile Times Rebecca Homkes KoganPage (February 2024) “Culture isn’t just one aspect of the game. It is the game.” Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. To what does the title of this book refer?…

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