Interviews

William N. Thorndike, Jr.: An interview by Bob Morris

December 3, 2012

William N. Thorndike, Jr. founded Housatonic Partners in Boston in 1994 and has been Managing Director since that time.  Prior to that, he worked with T. Rowe Price Associates where he did investment research in the nascent field of business services and Walker & Company where…

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Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 2, by Bob Morris

December 2, 2012

Matthew E. May is the author of The Laws of Subtraction: 6 Simple Rules for Winning in the Age of Excess Everything, as well as three previous, award-winning books: The Elegant Solution, In Pursuit of Elegance, and The Shibumi Strategy.…

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Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 1, by Bob Morris

November 30, 2012

Matthew E. May is the author of The Laws of Subtraction: 6 Simple Rules for Winning in the Age of Excess Everything, as well as three previous, award-winning books: The Elegant Solution, In Pursuit of Elegance, and The Shibumi Strategy.…

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Holly Weeks: A second interview, by Bob Morris

November 27, 2012

Holly Weeks publishes, teaches, and consults on communications issues. She is Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy teaching the Arts of Communication at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her book Failure to Communicate: How Conversations Go Wrong and What You Can Do to Right Them (Harvard Business Publishing, 2008) emphasizes handling…

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James Taylor : An interview by Bob Morris

November 16, 2012

James Taylor is the CEO and a Principal Consultant of Decision Management Solutions and a leading expert in decision management and decisioning technologies. He is passionate about using decisioning technologies like business rules and predictive analytics to help companies improve…

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Linda Sharkey: An interview by Bob Morris

November 8, 2012

Linda Sharkey is a proven leader with experience in Fortune 10 companies building teams and driving talent development initiatives that support productivity and company growth. She has specific expertise in culture transformation, developing high potential leaders and building proven talent…

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Leigh Branham: An interview by Bob Morris

November 1, 2012

Leigh Branham is Principal and Founder of Keeping the People, Inc., Overland Park, Kansas. Leigh has been researching and speaking about best practices in employee engagement and retention since 1995. He helps companies analyze the root causes of employee disengagement…

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Thomas M. Sterner, Part 2: An interview by Bob Morris

October 16, 2012

Thomas M. Sterner has studied Eastern and Western philosophy and modern sports psychology and trained as a jazz pianist. For more than twenty-five years, he served as the chief concert piano technician for a major performing arts center. He prepared and maintained the concert grand piano…

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Max Mckeown: An interview by Bob Morris

October 5, 2012

Max Mckeown is a new breed of management guru. Brilliant, original and entertaining, he could become the most listened-to British business thinker of the new era. From CEO round-tables to conferences with thousands of people, Max Mckeown makes an impact…

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