Posts

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…

Read More

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…

Read More

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…

Read More

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…

Read More

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…

Read More

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…

Read More

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…

Read More

HBR 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking A Book Review by Bob Morris

August 5, 2024

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2020) “Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.”  Tim Brown This book is one of the most recent volumes in…

Read More

“Lives of the Philosophers” Revisited

August 5, 2024

Here is a classic article written by Amanda Vaill for The American Scholar in which she focuses on the postwar thinkers who stripped the world of preconceptions To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. *     *    …

Read More

The Surprising Power of Questions

August 4, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Alison Wood Brooks and Leslie K. John for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here.…

Read More