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AI and the Octopus Organization: A Book Review by Bob Morris

November 9, 2025

AI and the Octopus Organization: Builingthe Intelligent Firm Jonathan Brill and Stephen Wunker Menlo Park Books (September (2025) BANG! Everything changed! I recently re-read Vernon Vinge’s essay, “The Coming of Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era” (1993),…

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Beyond Chaos: A Book Review by Bob Morris

November 8, 2025

Beyond Chaos: How to Create Clarity When Everything Falls Apart Oleg Konovalov Independently Published (September 2025) Chaos is a bully. How to minimize (if not eliminate) it with clarity If W.B.Yeats were looking at the world today, I think his…

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The Strange and Twisted Life of “Frankenstein”

November 7, 2025

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Jill Lepore for The New Yorker. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit:  Henning Wagenbreth…

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How LLMs Work: Top 10 Executive-Level Questions

November 6, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Rama Ramakrishnan for MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit:      Carolyn…

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Respect: A Book Review by Bob Morris

November 6, 2025

Respect: How to Change the World One Interaction at a Time Robert L. Dilenschneider Wiley (October 2025) Why respect needs and deserves more respect, especially now. I think the world today is much more volatile, more uncertain, more complex, and…

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Delighting in the Possible

November 5, 2025

Here is an excerpt from a “classic” article from the McKinsey Quarterly, written by Zafer Achi and Jennifer Garvey Berger and published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up for…

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Steve Brown on Disruptive Technologies: Part 2 of a Classic Interview by Bob Morris

November 4, 2025

Here is Part 2 of one of the most popular of 600+ interviews of thought leaders that I have conducted thus far. .     .     . As the former Futurist and Chief Evangelist at Intel Corporation, Steve Brown has…

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Protecting Your Team in a Toxic Organizational Cultrure

November 4, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Rebecca Knight 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:    dchopsticks/Getty Images…

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Unbreakable: A Book Review by Bob Morris

November 3, 2025

Unbreakable: How to Thrive Under Fear-Based Leaders Kate Lowry Scaleheart Press (October 2025) Ignorance may sometimes be bliss. But knowledge almost always offers safety   Fear-driven people are not always recognized… at least not initially. They have mastered skills that…

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Become an Octopus Organization

November 3, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jana Werner and Phil Le-Brun 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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