Book Reviews

Seven Disciplines of a Leader: A book review Bob Morris

February 17, 2015

Seven Disciplines of a Leader: How to Help Your People, Team, and Organization Achieve Maximum Effectiveness Jeff Wolf with Ken Shelton John Wiley & Sons (2015) How and why some leaders have high-impact and so many others don’t Another book…

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Between Two Worlds: A book review by Bob Morris

February 15, 2015

Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans Malcolm Gaskill Basic Books/A Member of the Perseus Book Group (2014) A unique process of natural selection in the New World that led to independence from the Old World It is probably…

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Fail Fast or Win Big: A book review by Bob Morris

February 14, 2015

Fail Fast or Win Big: The Start-Up Plan for Starting Now Bernhard Schroeder AMACOM (2015) How and why the LeanModel Framework can be “a rocket ship for entrepreneurs” As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of…

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Dialogue: A book review by Bob Morris

February 13, 2015

Dialogue: The Art of Thinking Together Hardcover William Isaacs Crown Business (September 1999) The Power of Interactive Humanity Note: I posted the review that follows 14 years ago and recently re-read the book while preparing to review Critical Knowledge Transfer:…

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If Only We Knew What We Know: A book review by Bob Morris

February 12, 2015

If Only We Knew What We Know: The Transfer of Internal Knowledge and Best Practice Carla O’Dell and C. Jackson Grayson Free Press (2012, Paperbound Edition) The Invisibility of the Obvious Note: I posted the review that follows 14 years…

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Design to Grow: A book review by Bob Morris

February 11, 2015

Design to Grow: How Coca-Cola Learned to Combine Scale and Agility (and How You Can Too) David Butler and Linda Tischler Simon & Schuster (2015) How the design by purpose process can create value while driving both scale and agility…

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HBR Guide to Project Management: A book review by Bob Morris

February 9, 2015

HBR Guide to Project Management Various (23) Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2012) “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead This is one…

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BOLD: A book review by Bob Morris

February 7, 2015

BOLD: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler Simon & Schuster (2015) Here are exponential tools and techniques as well as key modes of thinking to solve large-scale (insoluble?) global problems There…

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New Rules of the Game: A book review by Bob Morris

February 5, 2015

New Rules of the Game: 10 Strategies for Women in the Workplace Susan Packard Prentice Hall Press (2015) Results-driven strategies and tactics that can help women to accelerate their personal growth and professional development Whatever their size and nature may…

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Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader: A book review by Bob Morris

February 1, 2015

Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader Herminia Ibarra Harvard Business Review Press (2015) What outsight is, how to develop it, and why leaders who possess it have much greater impact Herminia Ibarra notes that research on how adults…

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