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Life moves on with us or without us. The choice is ours.

August 11, 2024

In one of his most thoughtful blog posts, Josh Linkner shares this anecdote: Two Zen monks were on a journey when they came to a riverbed. At the edge of the river was an elderly woman who was unable to cross…

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The Essential John le Carré: An Overview

August 10, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Sam Adler-Bell for The New Times (Published July 12, 2023. Updated July 13, 2023). To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information…

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All-In on AI: A Book Review by Bob Morris

August 9, 2024

All-In on AI: How Smart Companies Win Big with Artificial Intelligence Tom Davenport and Nitin Mittal Harvard Business Review Press (January 2023) “By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”  Richard Dawkins In…

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Return-to-Office Mandates: How to Lose Your Best Performers

August 9, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brian Elliott for the 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 Geason-Beissel/MIT…

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HBR 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness: A Book Review by Bob Morris

August 8, 2024

HBR 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2017) “Champions get up when they can’t.” Jack Dempsey This is one in a series of volumes that anthologizes what the editors of the Harvard Business Review…

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Entropy: The silent assassin of organizational health

August 8, 2024

In 1865, a German physicist, Rudolph Clausius (1822-1888), coined the term entropy during his research on heat. The word’s meaning: “a turning towards” (in Greek, en+tropein), “content transformative” or “transformative content.” Clausius used the concept to establish a mathematical foundation for the second law…

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Tickling Sharks: A Book Review by Bob Morris

August 7, 2024

Tickling Sharks: How We Sold Businesses on Sustainability John Elkington Fast Company Press (June 2024) “You’re going to need a larger perspective.” As I began to read Tickling Sharks, I was again reminded of Vernon Vinge’s essay, “The Coming of…

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Banish the Harmful Creatures of COVID-Era Work

August 7, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Melissa Swift for the 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 Geason-Beissel/MIT…

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The AI Savvy Leader: A Book Review by Bob Morris

August 6, 2024

The AI-Savvy Leader: 9 Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work David De Cremer Harvard Business Review Press (January 2023) How and why AI is best viewed as an invaluable coworker I recently re-read Vernon Vinge’s essay, “The…

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As Your Team Gets Bigger, Your Leadership Style Has to Adapt

August 6, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Julie Zhuo 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: Alexander Nicholson/Getty Images…

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