Book Reviews

Connected: A book review by Bob Morris

November 30, 2013

Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives — How Your Friends’ Friends’ Friends Affect Everything You Feel, Think, and Do Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company (2011) How…

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The New Corporate Facts of Life: A book review by Bob Morris

November 29, 2013

The New Corporate Facts of Life: Rethink Your Business and Transform Today’s Challenges into Tomorrow’s Profits Diana Rivenburgh AMACOM (2013) “What got you here won’t get you there.” Marshall Goldsmith The Goldsmith assertion that serves as the title of this…

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Winning from Within: A book review by Bob Morris

November 27, 2013

Winning from Within: A Breakthough Method for Leading, Living, and Lasting Change Erica Ariel Fox HarperBusiness/Imprint of HarperCollins (2013) Here is “a practical and accessible set of tools that explains how…to broker deals with others [and] make peace with ourselves”…

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Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

November 26, 2013

Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation: What They Can’t Teach You at Business or Design School Idris Mootee John Wiley & Sons (2013) How cutting-edge design thinking can help business leaders respond to challenges that transcend specialized disciplines, First of all,…

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The Leader’s Guide to Speaking with Presence: A book review by Bob Morris

November 23, 2013

The Leader’s Guide to Speaking with Presence: How to Project Confidence, Conviction, and Authority John Baldoni AMACOM (2013)A primer that offers basic, invaluable advice Many of John Baldoni’s key points provided in this booklet were discussed in his previously published…

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Surrounded by Geniuses: A book review by Bob Morris

November 22, 2013

Surrounded by Geniuses: Unlocking the Brilliance in Yourself, Your Colleagues, and Your Organization Alan S. Gregermnan Sourcebooks (2010) How and why winning in today’s competitive markets requires unlocking genius within us and in the world around us I deeply appreciated…

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What It Takes: A book review by Bob Morris

November 20, 2013

What It Takes: Seven Secrets of Success from the World’s Greatest Professional Firms Charles D. Ellis John S. Wiley & Sons (2013) What sets the world’s greatest professional service firms apart from all the others Although Charles Ellis’ focus is…

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Subliminal: A book review by Bob Morris

November 18, 2013

Subliminal: How the Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior Leonard Mlodinow Vintage Books/Random House (2012) How and why “the work done by the unconscious is a critical part of our evolutionary mechanism” Some of the best introductions to a work of…

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Out-Executing the Competition: A book review by Bob Morris

November 16, 2013

Out-Executing the Competition: Building and Growing a Financial Services Company in Any Economy Irv Rothman John S. Wiley & Sons (2012) How and why most (if not all) organizations get the results they are designed to produce, 12 Nov 2013…

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The Birkman Method: A book review by Bob Morris

November 15, 2013

The Birkman Method: Your Personality at Work Sharon Birkman Fink and Stephanie Capparell Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) How and why the more you help others to fulfill their potentialities, the more they will do to help you fulfill yours The…

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