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Love + Work: A book review by Bob Morris

April 28, 2022

Love + Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life Marcus Buckingham Harvard Business Review Press (April 2022) How to create “a more powerful, more authentic, and more…

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Anti-Racist Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

April 28, 2022

Anti-Racist Leadership: How to Transform Corporate Culture in a Race-Conscious World James D. White with Krista White Harvard Business Review Press (March 2022) “If not us, who? If not now, when?” Hillel the Elder As you may already know, the…

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How the implementation of organizational change is evolving

April 28, 2022

Here is an excerpt from another “classic” article for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. *…

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The Genius of Richard Florida: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

April 27, 2022

Richard Florida is author of the global best-sellers, The Rise of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City? A more recent book,The Great Reset, explains how new ways of living and working will drive post-crash prosperity. Other works include The Flight of the Creative…

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Roger Martin on thinking differently about how to think

April 27, 2022

In his latest book, A New Way to Think: Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness, Roger Martin shares his thoughts about how to think differently about how to think. Years ago, Albert Einstein said that the thinking that created problems cannot…

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How to implement and sustain organizational change

April 26, 2022

Here is an excerpt from another “classic” article — featuring Simon London, Nick Waugh, and Blake Lindsay for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and…

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The Dragonfly Effect: A book review by Bob Morris

April 26, 2022

The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways to Use Social Media to Drive Social Change Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith with Carlye Adler Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2010) The “secret sauce” of a high-impact narrative In this book written with…

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Richard Rumelt on three biases that can corrupt any strategy

April 25, 2022

In his latest book, The Crux, Richard P. Rumelt explains how leaders can become strategists, for better or worse. In Chapter 18 (Pages 294-296), he  examines three biases that can corrupt any strategy. Optimism bias “means that people tend to…

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The Undoing Project: A book review by Bob Morris

April 25, 2022

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds Michael Lewis W.W. Norton & Company (2016) A brilliant analysis of how two world-famous psychologists could – and did — “undo” so many misconceptions about human error I have read and…

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Dante: A book review by Bob Morris

April 24, 2022

Dante John Took Princeton University Press (December 2021) Here is an invitation to the feast that is the Commedia…and to the life of he who created it Disclaimer: I am a non-scholar in the field of Italian literature and am…

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