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The Net and the Butterfly: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 11, 2024

The Net and the Butterfly: The Art and Practice of Breakthrough Thinking Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack Portfolio/Penguin Random House (February 2017) How breakthrough thinking can accelerate personal growth and professional development Olivia Fox Cabane and Judah Pollack make…

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A Fine Line: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 11, 2024

A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business Hartmut Esslinger Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2009) “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Steve Jobs Throughout the years since…

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THE NORMAL WELL-TEMPERED MIND: A Conversation with Daniel C. Dennett

October 10, 2024

His uncompromising computationalism has been opposed by philosophers such as John Searle and Jerry Fodor who maintain that the most important aspects of consciousness — intentionality and subjective quality — can never be computed. He is the philosopher of choice…

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10 Creative Block Breakers That Actually Work

October 10, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Susan K. Perry for Psychology Today in which she insists, “You CAN overcome the frustration of feeling blocked.” To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. *…

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

October 10, 2024

Here is a classic article written by Andrew St. George for The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company (January 31, 2013). As he explains, “This branch of the British armed services consciously fosters cheerfulness and nourishes its collective memory. Business executives…

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Where Data-Driven Decision-Making Can Go Wrong

October 10, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Michael Luca and Amy C. Edmondson for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: *…

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Leadership — The Inside Story: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 10, 2024

Leadership — The Inside Story: Time-Tested Prescriptions for Those Who Seek to Lead Willie Pietersen Rivertowns Books (September 2024) Bon appétit! By the time I was ten years old, I realized that — with all due respect to adult family…

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Capote’s Long Ride

October 9, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by George Plimpton for The New Yorker (October 5, 1997). To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information please click here. *…

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Restoring Our Sanity Online: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 9, 2024

Restoring Our Sanity Online: A Revolutionary Social Framework Mark Weinstein Wiley (September 2024) How and why “Big Tech is driving us, our kids, and society mad.” Mark Weinstein asserts that “the current genre of social media is a far cry…

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The Silent Rebellion: A Book Review by Bob Morris

September 30, 2024

The Silent Rebellion: Becoming a Modern Leader     Chris Lewis and Inez Robinson-Odom Kogan Page (September 2024) “People may not get all they work for, but they must work for all they get.” Frederick Douglass In 1970 (in his classic…

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