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Does Your Boss Practice Toxic Positivity?

July 9, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Mita Mallick 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: HBR Staff; the_burtons/Getty…

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The beginning of system dynamics

July 8, 2024

Here is a brief excerpt from a classic article written by Jay W. Forrester for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company (December 13, 2016). To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain…

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Deep Work: A Review by Bob Morris of a Classic Business Book

July 8, 2024

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World Cal Newport Grand Central Publishing (2016) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle Note: I recently re-read this book prior to reading…

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Auditing Algorithmic Risk

July 6, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Cathy O’Neil, Jake Appel, and Sam Tyner-Monroe for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others,  sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please…

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“Leadership That Gets Results”: A Classic Article from HBR

July 6, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Daniel Goleman and published in Harvard Business Review (March 2000). To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here.…

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“Transcient Advantage”: A Classic Article from HBR

July 5, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Rita Gunther McGrath and published in Harvard Business Review (June 2013). To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click…

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The wit and wisdom of Daniel Kahneman

July 5, 2024

Daniel Kahneman is an Israeli psychologist and economist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Here is a selection…

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What you may not already know about July 4th

July 3, 2024

Here is a brief excerpt from Jason Serafino‘s superb article published by Dental Floss (June 12, 2024). To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. * * * The Fourth of July is packed with backyard…

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The Singularity Is Nearer: A Book Review by Bob Morris

July 3, 2024

The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI Ray Kurzweil Viking/An Imprint of Penguin Random House (June 2024) We are “on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.” I recently re-read Vernon Vinge’s…

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Billiant Mistakes, a business classic reviewed by Bob Morris

July 3, 2024

Brilliant Mistakes: Finding Success On the Far Side of Failure Paul J.F. Schoemaker Wharton Digital Press (2012) How and why mistakes “enlarge our range of experience, shrink our ego, and thereby increase the chance of discovery.” The title of this…

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