Book Reviews

The New Rules of Influence: A Book Review by Bob Morris

February 5, 2025

The New Rules of Influence: How to Authentically Build Trust, Drive Change, and Make an Impact Lida Citroën Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2024) How to become a success in the VUCA world? Maximize your positive infuence. Because you are reading this review,…

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The Undoing Project: A Book Review by Bob Morris

February 3, 2025

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds Michael Lewis W.W. Norton & Company (2016) A brilliant analysis of how two world-famous psychologists could – and did — “undo” so many misconceptions about human error I have read and…

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HBR Guide for Women at Work

February 1, 2025

HBR Guide for Women at Work HBR Editors with Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (November 2018) How to overcome unconscious biases that oppose women’s personal growth and professional development This is one of the volumes in a series of…

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Decision Sprint: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 30, 2025

Decision Sprint: The New Way to Innovate into the Unknown and Move from Strategy to Action Atif Rafiq McGraw Hill (April 2023) “If you have always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.” Charles Kettering To what does the title of…

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Building a Data-Driven Culture: Four Key Elements

January 28, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ganes Kesari for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others,  sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Carolyn…

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Essential: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 26, 2025

Essential: How Distributed Teams, Generative AI, and Global Shifts Are Creating a New Human-Powered Leadership Christie Smith and Kelly Monahan Wiley (January 2025) Providing high-impact leadership in a world that is increasingly tense, uncertain, and polarized Long ago in Future…

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Think Faster, Talk Smarter: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 21, 2025

Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You Are Put on the Spot Matt Abrahams Simon Element/An Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. (September 2023) How to have high-impact in both formal presentations and informal conversations Most people…

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The Flexibility Paradigm: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 17, 2025

CONTACT: Tess Woods   The Flexibility Paradigm: Humanizing the Workplace for Productivity, Profitability, and Possibility Manar Sweillam Morales Georgetown University Press (January 2025) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”  Theodore Roosevelt As…

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The Power of Enough: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 15, 2025

The Power of  Enough: Finding Joy in Your Relationship with Money Elizabeth Husserl New World Library (January 2025) How to embrace wealth as an experience of joy Elizabeth Husserl describes this book as “an invitation to explore a new possibility…

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Mindmasters: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 14, 2025

  Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior Sandra Matz Harvard Business Review Press (January 2025) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.”  Henry Ford How does Sandra Matz organize the information,…

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