Book Reviews

Building Your Business the Right-Brain Way: A book review by Bob Morris

April 29, 2014

Building Your Business the Right-Brain Way: Sustainable Success for the Creative Entrepreneur Jennifer Lee New World Library (2014) This is a WORK book for those who are willing and able to nourish and make effective use of their right brain.…

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Innovation the NASA Way: A book review by Bob Morris

April 29, 2014

Innovation the NASA Way: Harnessing the Power of Your Organization for Breakthrough Success Rod Pyle McGraw-Hill (2014) Valuable business lessons to be learned from a truly unique “engine of innovation” Until reading and then re-reading this book, almost everything I…

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Reinventing Organizations: A book re view by Bob Morris

April 28, 2014

Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness Frederic Laloux Nelson Parker (2014) How and why to create, develop, and sustain “a more soulful, purposeful, and productive workplace” Recent and extensive research on…

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Step Up: A book review by Bob Morris

April 27, 2014

Step Up: Lead in Six Moments that Matter Henry Evans and Colm Foster Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2014) How to “step up and demonstrate leadership in important moments, with or without the official title and authority to do so. What Henry…

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Power Cues: A book review by Bob Morris

April 22, 2014

Power Cues: The Subtle Science of Leading Groups, Persuading Others, and Maximizing Your Personal Impact Nick Morgan Harvard Business Review Press (2014) A rigorous and comprehensive exploration of where and what determine the value of interactions [comma] for better or…

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MOOCs: A book review by Bob Morris

April 21, 2014

MOOCs: Opportunities, Impacts, and Challenges: Massive Open Online Courses in Colleges and Universities Michael Nanfito CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2013) How and why MOOCs offer learning opportunities that, for millions of people, would otherwise be unavailable Early in his narrative,…

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The Age of the Moguls: A book review by Bob Morris

April 18, 2014

The Age of the Moguls Stewart Hall Holbrook Transaction Publishers (2010) “Lords of capital” in “a savage and gaudy age” First, some brief background information about Stewart Hall Holbrook (1893-1964). Throughout his adult years, he was at first a lumberjack…

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Essentialism: A book review by Bob Morris

April 17, 2014

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less Greg Mckeown Crown Business/Imprint of Crown Publishing Group “Make everything as simple as possible but not simpler.” Albert Einstein As I began to read this book for the first time, I was again reminded…

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Resource Revolution: A book review by Bob Morris

April 17, 2014

Resource Revolution: How to Capture the Biggest Business Opportunity in a Century Stefan Heck and Matt Rogers with Paul Carroll Melcher Media/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014) How to take full advantage of the abundance of unprecedented business opportunities during the new…

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