Book Reviews

Passionate Minds: A book review by Bob Morris

April 14, 2024

Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World Claudia Roth Pierpont Knopf (2000) “Hardly a woman here who would not be scandalized to find herself in company with most of them” Claudia Roth Pierpont I read this book when it was first published…

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Chasing Beauty: A Book Review by Bob Morris

April 10, 2024

Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner Natalie Dykstra Mariner Books/An Imprint of HarperCollins ((March 2024) “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” Pablo Picasso According to her official biography, “Mrs. Jack…

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Uptime: A Book Review by Bob Morris

April 8, 2024

Uptime: A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing Laura Mae Martin HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins (April 2024) How to achieve and then sustain high-impact productivity in all dimensions of your life Laura Mae Martin immediately captures her reader’s attention:…

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Deep Utopia: A Book Review by Bob Morris

April 6, 2024

Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World Nick Bostrom Ideapress (March 2024) “Be careful what you wish for.”  Aesop In my review of one of Nick Bostrom’s previously published books, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014), I noted that…

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The Innovative Leader: A Book Review by Bob Morris

April 5, 2024

The Innovative Leader: Step-by-Step Lessons from Top Innovators for Your Organization Stephen Wunker, Jennifer Lud Lawe, and Hari Nair Morgan James Publishing (April 2024) Creativity produces what is new. Innovation produces what is better. We need both. Here are three…

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Cultural Intelligence for Marketers: A Book Review by Bob Morris

April 2, 2024

Cultural Intelligence for Marketers: Building an Inclusive Marketing Strategy Anastasia Kārkliņa Gabriel Kogan Page (March 2024) How to understand and leverage the power of culture in brand marketing In Future Shock (1970), Alvin Toffler made this prediction: ” The illiterate of…

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Tune In: A Book Review by Bob Morris

April 1, 2024

Tune In: How to Make Smarter Decisions in a Noisy World Nuala Walsh Hanover House (March 2024) How making smarter decisions will accelerate your personal growth and professional development In Judgment Calls, Thomas Davenport and Brooke Manville explain how and…

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Unlearning Silence: A Book Review by Bob Morris

March 24, 2024

Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully Elaine Lin Hering Viking/An Imprint of Penguin Random House (March 2024) The Pervasive Influence of Silence…for Better or Worse In Future Shock (1970), Alvin Toffler offers this…

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Digital Transformation Success: A Book Review by Bob Morris

March 23, 2024

Digital Transformation Success: Achieving Alignment and Delivering Results with the Process Inventory Framework Michael Schank Apress Media (December 2023) A brilliant combination of macro perspectives with micro analysis Soon after I began to read this book, I was again reminded…

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Irreplaceable : A Book Review by Bob Morris

March 15, 2024

Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places That Bring People Together Kevin Ervin Kelley Matt Holt Books/An Imprint of BenBella Books (March 2024) How and why environment affects behavior…and vice versa According to Kevin Ervin Kelley, “This book is for those…

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