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Applied Minds: A book review by Bob Morris

December 4, 2016

Applied Minds: How Engineers Think Guru Madhavan W.W. Norton & Company (August 2016) How almost anyone can develop an engineer’s mind-set, one that could create a significant competitive advantage Few people complete a formal education in engineering (B.S. degree through…

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Austin McChord (chief executive of the data protection company Datto) in “The Corner Office”

November 7, 2016

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Austin McChord, chief executive of…

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The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap: A book review by Bob Morris

October 31, 2016

The Strategic Leader’s Roadmap: 6 Steps for Integrating Leadership and Strategy Harbor Singh and Michael Useem, Wharton Digital Press (October 2016) How to master the elements of strategy and leadership both separately and as an integrated whole This is one…

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Andrew St. George on “Leadership lessons from the Royal Navy”

October 12, 2016

Here is an article written by Andrew St. George for The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. As he explains, “This branch of the British armed services consciously fosters cheerfulness and nourishes its collective memory. Business executives should take…

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A Better Way to Assess Employee Personalities

October 11, 2016

Here is an article by David Gee for Human Capitalist, a new blog covering the (busy) intersection of people and technology in the 21st-century workplace. Founded originally by Jason Corsello and sponsored by Cornerstone OnDemand, Human Capitalist features the insights…

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Alex Schlepper: Designing the Perfect In-House Partnerships

September 30, 2016

Here is a brief excerpt from Matt McCue’s interview of Alex Schlepper for 99u within the website network of Bēhance. Airbnb’s VP of Design explains how to establish creative partnerships inside of a large company. To read the complete interview,…

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Million Dollar Maverick: A book review by Bob Morris

July 16, 2016

Million Dollar Maverick: Forge Your Own Path to Think Differently, Act Decisively, and Succeed Quickly Alan Weiss Bibliomotion (May 2016) How and why “simply taking a contrarian or one-off view” – and acting on it – can be the secret…

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Fix It: A book review by Bob Morris

July 15, 2016

Fix It: Getting Accountability Right Roger Connors, Tom Smith, Craig Hickman, Tracey Skousen, and Marcus Nicolls Portfolio/Penguin — An Imprint if Penguin Random House (2016) Channeling Hillel the Elder: “If not now, when? If not you, who?” Organizations are human…

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Five Tips to Help Lead Your Team to Greatness

July 10, 2016

In Team Genius: The New Science of High-Performing Organizations, one of Rich Karlgaard and Michael Malone’s key insights is that work really gets done by informal teams rather than by standing committees or groups assigned to formal projects of finite…

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Earning an M.B.A. degree: A mini-commentary

April 1, 2016

I am constantly asked for advice on various business or business-related issues and I am happy to comply, either with my own opinion or – more often — with a reference to a much better source. For example, a woman…

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