Book Reviews

Connectable: A book review by Bob Morris

March 6, 2022

Connectable: How Leaders Can Move Teams from Isolated to All In Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen McGraw Hill (March 2022) The power and impact of thinking in terms of first-person PLURAL pronouns Why did Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van…

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The Neutrality Trap: A book review by Bob Morris

March 5, 2022

The Neutrality Trap: Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change Bernard Mayer and Jacqueline N. Font-Guzmán Wiley (January 2022) “What got you here won’t get you there.”  Marshall Goldsmith My own opinion is that what got you here won’t even allow…

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Bridge the Gap: A book review by Bob Morris

March 4, 2022

Bridge the Gap: Breakthrough Communication Tools to Transform Work Relationships From Challenging to Collaborative Jennifer Edwards and Katie McCleary McGraw Hill (February 2022) ‘The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” George Bernard Shaw…

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Twelve Years a Slave: A book review by Bob Morris

March 3, 2022

Twelve Years a Slave: The Black History Classic Solomon Northrup, with an Introduction by David Fiske and Edited by Tom Butler-Bowdon Capstone/A Wiley Brand (October 2021) After his enslavement ended, here’s the rest of his story. A few months ago,…

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Converted: A book review by Bob Morris

March 2, 2022

Converted: The Data-Driven Way to Win Customers’ Hearts Neil Hoyne Portfolio/Penguin (2022) How and why strategic interactions with customers can build and strengthen relationships with them Jackie Huba and Ben McConnell wrote a book in which they explain how to…

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Why Design Matters: A book review by Bob Morris

February 27, 2022

Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People Debbie Millman Harper Design/An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers (February 2022) “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Steve Jobs In Song of…

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The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa: A book review by Bob Morris

February 25, 2022

The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano: The Black History Classic Olaudah Equiano, with an Introduction by Michael Taylor and Edited by Tom Butler-Bowdon Capstone/A Wiley Brand (October 2021) Here’s “a painful and often shocking” but nonetheless riveting account of a…

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The Genesis Machine: A book review by Bob Morris

February 24, 2022

The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel PublicAffairs (February 2022) How global leaders can resolve the most serious economic, geopolitical, and social challenges My undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate…

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Simple Truths of Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

February 22, 2022

Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust Ken Blanchard and Randy Conley Berrett-Koehler Publishers (February 2022) How and why “simple truths” are the secret sauce to achieve superior achievements with a values-driven life…

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Sprint: A book review by Bob Morris

February 18, 2022

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days Jake Knapp with John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz Simon & Schuster (March 2016) Here is a unique methodology “to solve big problems, test new ideas, get…

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