Book Reviews

Stop Decorating the Fish: A book review by Bob Morris

February 5, 2021

Stop Decorating the Fish: Which solutions to ignore and which problems really matter, Second Edition Kristen Cox and Yishai Ashlag The North River Press Publishing Corporation (January 2021) How and why to focus on solving core problems while you can…

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The Vision Code: A book review by Bob Morris

February 4, 2021

The Vision Code: How to Create and Execute a Compelling Vision for Your Business Oleg Konovalov Wiley (January 2021) “Vision without execution is hallucination.”  Thomas Edison Even if a company retained Oleg Konovalov to help its C-level executives to formulate…

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Stop Decorating the Fish: A book review by Bob Morris

February 3, 2021

Stop Decorating the Fish: Which solutions to ignore and which problems really matter Kristen Cox and Yishai Ashlag The North River Press Publishing Company (December 2020) How and why to focus on solving core problems…while you can This book has…

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Digital Business Transformation: A book review by Bob Morris

January 30, 2021

Digital Business Transformation: How Established Companies Sustain Competitive Advantage From Now to Next Nigel Vaz Wiley (January 2021) How companies thrive by defending, differentiating, or disrupting themselves and their markets Drawing upon wide and deep experience with all manner of…

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Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook: A book review by Bob Morris

January 29, 2021

Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook: How to Build and Sustain a Successful, Enduring Enterprise Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer Harvard Business Review Press (January 2021) “Vision without execution is hallucination.”  Thomas Edison There are 5.5 million family-owned businesses in…

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25 Great Writers and Thinkers Weigh In on Books That Matter

January 28, 2021

Here is an excerpt from an especially important article written by Tina Jordan, Noor Qasim, and John Williams that appeared in The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain information about deep-discount subscriptions, please…

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The Live Enterprise: A book review by Bob Morris

January 27, 2021

The Live Enterprise: Creating a Continuously Evolving and Learning Organization Jeff Kavanaugh and Mohammed Rafee Tarafdar McGraw-Hill (January 2021) How resilience and regeneration enable companies to adapt and evolve Note the gerund “creating” in this book’s subtitle. It correctly suggests…

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The Business of We: A book review by Bob Morris

January 25, 2021

The Business of We: The Proven Three-Step Process for Closing the Gap Between Us and Them in Your Workplace Laura Kriska HarperCollins Leadership (January 2021) How and why all healthy organizations think and behave in terms of first-person PLURAL pronouns…

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Shakespeare Conquers America! Starring Ulysses S. Grant as Desdemona

January 24, 2021

Here is a brief excerpt from a review of James Shapiro‘s Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future by David Ives for The New York Times. To read the complete review, check…

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Getting It All Done: A book review by Bob Morris

January 24, 2021

Getting It All Done: The HBR Working Parents Series Daisy Dowling, Series Editor Harvard Business School Press (December 2020) “Until we can manage time and effort, we can manage nothing else.” Peter Drucker This is one of the volumes in…

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