Book Reviews

What Matters Now: A book review by Bob Morris

February 11, 2012

What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Comoetition, and Unstoppable Innovation Gary Hamel Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) How and why knowing and doing what matters NOW will create an organization “fit for the future…

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All For One: A book review by Bob Morris

February 9, 2012

All For One: 10 Strategies for Building Trusted Client Partnerships Andrew Sobel John Wiley & Sons (2009) “Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno” Those who have read the novel, Three Musketeers, already know that its author, Alexander Dumas pere, took…

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Jumping the S-Curve: A book review by Bob Morris

February 5, 2012

Jumping the S-Curve: How to Beat the Growth Cycle, Get on Top, and Stay There Paul Nunes and Tim Breene Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How companies can reach progressively high levels of achievement The title of this book refers…

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Rapid Viz: A book review by Bob Morris

February 5, 2012

Rapid Viz: A New Method for the Rapid Visualization of Ideas Kurt Hanks and Larry Belliston Course Technology/CENGAGE Learning (2006) The power and value of highly-developed visualization The title’s meaning is self-evident but the potential value of what can be…

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Business at the Speed of Now: A book review by Bob Morris

February 3, 2012

Business at the Speed of Now: Fire Up Your People, Thrill your Customers, and Crush Your Competition John M. Bernard John Wiley & Sons (2012) Principles and practices to ensure that organizations move faster as well as be more productive…

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Human Competence: A book review by Bob Morris

February 2, 2012

Human Competence:  Engineering Worthy Performance Thomas F. Gilbert Crown Business (2007) How and why the behavior engineering model “is really an outline of a performance troubleshooting sequence” Note: The comments that follow discuss the “Tribute Edition” (2007) of a book…

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Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

February 1, 2012

Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why technology should support your organization’s strategy…not the other way around This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of…

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The Collaborative Habit: A book review by Bob Morris

January 31, 2012

[amazon_link asins=’1416576517′ template=’Lead-ProductAd-image’ store=’bobmorris1-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’cc8c4824-8f15-11e7-9899-4fe62753bc4b’] The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together Twyla Tharp Simon & Schuster (2009) “In the end, all collaborations are love stories”…at least the best of them are, and they must be. As is…

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Mass Affluence: A book review by Bob Morris

January 30, 2012

Mass Affluence: Seven New Rules of Marketing to Today’s Consumer Paul Nunes and Brian Johnson Harvard Business Review Press (2004) Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Customer’s Way Nunes and Johnson help to increase our understanding of an especially…

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Roadmap to Revenue: A book review by Bob Morris

January 29, 2012

Roadmap to Revenue: How to Sell the Way Your Customers Want to Buy Kristin Zhivago Bristol & Shipley (2011) How to determine what, when, and how prospective buyers wish to make a purchase In a sales environment in which consumers…

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