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The Synergy Solution: A Book Review by Bob Morris

August 3, 2024

The Synergy Solution: How Companies Win the Mergers & Acquisitions Game Mark L. Sirower and Jeffery M. Weirens Harvard Business Review Press (January 2023) “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company…

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Decoding Greatness: Revisiting a Review by Bob Morris

August 2, 2024

Decoding Greatness: How the Best in the World Reverse Engineer Success Ron Friedman Simon & Schuster (June 2021) How to reverse engineer success, however you define it As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of how…

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Renaissance Man

August 2, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Joan Acocella for The New Yorker (November 3, 2013). To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information please click here. *…

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HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work: A Book Review by Bob Morris

August 1, 2024

HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2014) In fact, this material can help almost anyone manage stress almost anywhere. This is one of my most popular reviews, perhaps because of pressures and stresses…

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Donato Tramuto on the Power and Impact of Compassionate Leadership: Revisiting an interview

August 1, 2024

Donato J. Tramuto is widely recognized for his commitment to social change and transformational leadership in healthcare innovation that led The New York Times to deem him “a global health activist.” He is the former CEO of Tivity Health®, Inc.…

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Intuition at Work: A Book Review by Bob Morris

July 31, 2024

Intuition at Work: Using Your Gut Feelings to Get Ahead Jessica Pryce-Jones Sequoia Books (July 2024) How and why intuition can help produce better answers and solutions and do so much faster  Whatever their size and nature may be, all…

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Revisiting an Interview of Kristi Hedges

July 31, 2024

Kristi Hedges is a leadership coach, speaker and author. In her 20-year career working with leaders to help them communicate more effectively she’s encountered every personality type imaginable, yet remains more than a little passionate that anyone can learn presence.…

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The Future of Management: Revisiting a Business Classic

July 30, 2024

The Future of Management Gary Hamel with Bill Breen Harvard Business School Press (2007) With all due respect to today’s business bestsellers, most of the best books have already been written on the most important subjects. Case in point: This…

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Finding the courage to shrink

July 30, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article featured online by The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. Bill Huyett and Tim Koller acknowledge that spinning off businesses can have real advantages in creating value—if  executives understand how. To…

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Strengthen Your Change Muscle for Competitive Advantage

July 29, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Gaurav Gupta, John Kotter, Vanessa Akhtar, and Nick Petschek for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others,  sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription…

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