Book Reviews

Thinkers50 Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

June 1, 2015

Thinkers 50 Strategy: The Art and Science of Strategy Creation and Execution Stuant Crainer and Des Dearlove McGraw-Hill Education What are the most valuable insights with regard to the art and science of strategy formulation and execution? This is one…

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Thinkers50 Management: A book review by Morris

May 31, 2015

Thinkers50 Management: Cutting-Edge Thinking to Engage and Motivate Your Employees for Success Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove McGraw-Hill Education (2014) Which concepts are the central focus of today’s cutting age thinking about management? This is one of the volumes in…

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Thinkers50 Future Thinkers: A book review by Bob Morris

May 29, 2015

Thinkers50 Future Thinkers: New Thinking on Leadership, Strategy and Innovation for the 21st Century Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove McGraw-Hill Education (2014) What will probably be the greatest challenges for business leaders in years to come? This is one of…

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Thinkers 50 Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

May 28, 2015

Thinkers 50 Leadership: Organizational Success through Leadership Stuant Crainer and Des Dearlove McGraw-Hill Education What is the cutting-edge thinking about how leadership can achieve and then sustain organizational success? This is one of the volumes in a series published by…

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50 Politics Classics: A book review by Bob Morris

May 27, 2015

50 Politics Classics: Freedom Equality Power: Mind-Changing, World-Changing Ideas from Fifty Landmark Books Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishing (2015) “The world is a dangerous place to live…because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” Albert Einstein Actually, the…

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Thinkers 50 Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

May 26, 2015

Thinkers 50 Innovation: Breakthrough Thinking to Take Your Business to the Next Level Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove McGraw-Hill Education (2014) How does an organization establish and/or strengthen a capability for discontinuous innovation? This is one of the volumes in…

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Light a Fire under Your Business: A book review by Bob Morris

May 23, 2015

Light a Fire under Your Business: How to Build a Class 1 Corporate Culture through Inspirational Leadership Tom Pandola and James W. Bird Praeger™/An Imprint of ABC-CLO (2015) “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Benjamin Franklin…

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The Quartet: A book review by Bob Morris

May 22, 2015

The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 Joseph J. Ellis Knopf (2015) A brilliant analysis of “arguably the most creative and consequential act of political leadership in American history” Many people still do not as yet know that that…

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The Open Organization: A book review by Bob Morris

May 20, 2015

The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance Jim Whitehurst Harvard Business Review Press (2015) How and why to focus everyone’s attention on what is most important, doing so with passion to achieve breakthrough results Almost everything I know about the…

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Bill of Rights: A book review by Bob Morris

May 19, 2015

The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America’s Liberties Carol Serkin Simon & Schuster (2015) How and why the Bill of Rights “is the most important element in the Constitution” Once the war for independence from Britain had been…

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