Book Reviews

Dynamic Drive: A Book Review by Bob Morris

September 20, 2024

Dynamic Drive: The Purpose-Fueled Formula for Sustainable Success   Molly Fletcher Hatchette (September 2024) How to accelerate your personal growth and professional development  According to Molly Fletcher, “Dynamic Drive is the spark that ignites the joyful pursuit of a better life…It’s…

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Coaching for Performance: A Book Review by Bob Morris

September 19, 2024

Coaching for Performance: The principles and practice of coaching and leadership John Whitmore and Tiffany Gaskell John Murray Press (September 2024) How to collaborate on your and others’ personal growth and professional development This is the Sixth fully-updated edition of…

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The Upside of Disruption: A Book Review by Bob Morris

September 19, 2024

The Upside to Disruption: The Path to Leading and Thriving in the Unknown Terence Mauri Wiley (September 2024)   How to juggle hand grenades while crossing a minefield, blindfolded, during an electrical storm In 1942, Joseph Schumpeter published his classic work,…

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Hitler’s People: A Book Review by Bob Morris

September 18, 2024

Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich Richard J. Evans Penguin Press (August 2024) A thorough analysis of what was “morally wrong about Nazism and the Third Reich” Richard J. Evans devotes Part I to an analysis of Adolph…

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The Hive Mind at Work: A Book Review by Bob Morris

September 17, 2024

The Hive Mind at Work: Harnessing the Power of Group Intelligence to Create Meaningful and Lasting Change Siobhán McHale HarperCollins Leadership (September 2024) “That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.”  Marcus Aurelius In…

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Habits of a Peace Maker: A Book Review by Bob Morris

September 16, 2024

Habits of a Peace Maker: 10 Habits to Change Our Potentially Toxic Conversations into Healthy Dialogues Steven T. Collis Shadow Mountain Publishing (September 2024) How to find workable solutions through dialogue and conversation In the Epilogue, Steven Collis recalls Abraham…

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Fierce Resilience: A Book Review by Bob Morris

September 13, 2024

Fierce Resilience: Combatting Workplace Stress Once Conversation at a Time Edward Beltran Berrett-Koehler Publishers (August 2024) How to establish and then sustain a stress-free workplace culture one conversation at a time In the introduction, Edward Beltran notes that the material…

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The Energy Advantage: A Book Review by Bob Morris

September 10, 2024

The Energy Advantage: How to Go from Managing Your Time to Managing Your Energy Ricardo Sunderland HarperCollinsLeadership (June 2024) How and why your life energy flows out of an internal source As Ricardo Sunderland explains in the first chapter, “The…

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Cyber Smart: Revisiting a Business Classic

September 9, 2024

Cyber Smart: Five Habits to Protect Your Family, Money, and Identity from Cyber Criminals Bart R. McDonough John Wiley & Sons (2019) “When it comes to our cyber lives, we all live in a bad neighborhood.” Bart R. McDonough’s comment…

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: Revisiting a Business Classic

September 7, 2024

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Shoshana Zuboff PublicAffairs (January 2019) How to contest and interrupt, then contain and vanquish an unprecedented threat to the human race As Shoshana…

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