Book Reviews

How to Communicate Effectively with Anyone, Anywhere: A book review by Bob Morris

May 1, 2021

How to Communicate Effectively with Anyone, Anywhere: Your Passport to Connecting Globally Raúl Sánchez and Dan Bullock Career Press (3/1/21) You cannot succeed globally unless and until you communicate globally with high-impact I often read 2-3 books at the same…

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Mastering Comunication at Work: A book review by Bob Morris

April 28, 2021

Mastering Comunication at Work: How to Lead, Manage, and Influence (Second Edition) Ethan F. Becker and Jon Wortman McGraw Hill (2/10/21) How to gain a competitive advantage that very few others have I often read 2-3 books at the same…

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Why Startups Fail: A book review by Bob Morris

April 26, 2021

Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success Tom Eisenmann Currency (March 2021) “If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.” Eric Ries Curious, I did some preliminary research before reading this book. These data caught my eye: o 51…

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Balancing Act: Teach, Coach, Mentor, Inspire

April 21, 2021

Balancing Act : Teach, Coach, Mentor, Inspire Andrew Temte Kaplan Publishing (April 2021) How to accelerate and enrich personal growth and professional development As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of Jack Welch’s response when GE’s…

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Glass Half-Broken: A book review by Bob Morris

April 18, 2021

Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg Harvard Business Review Press (April 2021) How to eliminate structures and mindsets that preclude gender parity for professional women With this book, Colleen…

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Playing to Win: A book review by Bob Morris

April 17, 2021

Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works A.G. Lafley and Roger Martin Harvard Business Review Press (2013) “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” Michael Porter Note: I reviewed this book when it was first published and…

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Rethinking Competitive Advantage: A book review by Bob Morris

April 15, 2021

Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age Ram Charan and Geri Willigan Currency (April 2021) “Insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein With substantial assistance from Geri Willigan, Ram Charan…

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The Lost Art of Connecting: A book review by Bob Morris

April 13, 2021

The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Business Relationships Susan McPherson with Jackie Ashton McGraw-Hill (March 2021) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford Having already read…

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Zag: A book review revisited by Bob Morris

April 10, 2021

ZAG: The Number One Strategy of High-Performance Brands Marty Neumeier New Riders (September 2006) Note: Although some books seem certain to become “business classics” when published, few earn that designation. All of Marty Neumeier’s works thus far have and, if…

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The Business of Belief A book review by Bob Morris

April 4, 2021

The Business of Belief: How the World’s Best Marketers, Designers, Salespeople, Coaches, Fundraisers, Educators, Entrepreneurs and Other Leaders Get Us to Believe Tom Asaker CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2013) “The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because…

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