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The Power of Closure: A Book Review by Bob Morris

July 23, 2024

The Power of Closure: Why We Want It, How to Get It, nd When to Walk Away  Gary McClain TarcherPerigee/An Imprint of Penguin Random House (July 2024) How to seek closure while treating both yourself and others with kindness and…

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The MIT Sloan Management Review: The Six Most Popular Stories of 2024 — So Far

July 23, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Laurianne McLaughlin 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. * * * Catch…

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The Florentine, Niccolò Machiavelli

July 22, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Claudia Roth Pierpont for The New Yorker (September 8, 2008). To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information please click here.…

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A Chance Meeting: A Book Review by Bob Morris

July 22, 2024

A Chance Meeting: American Encounters Rachel Carson NYRB Classics (March 2024) What if?   At some point, Rachel Cohen must have asked herself, “What if I were a fly on the wall” when two or three American writers or artists were…

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Loonshots: Encore Review of a Business Classic

July 21, 2024

Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries Safi Bahcall St. Martin’s Press (March 2019) If an idea doesn’t sound loony, it probably needs much more development…and protection. In this compellingly entertaining as…

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Will AI Help or Hurt Sustainability? Yes

July 21, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Andrew Winston 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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Talent: Encore Review of a Business Classic

July 20, 2024

Talent: The Market Cap Multiplier Anish Batlaw and Ram Charan Ideapress Publishing (January 2022) How and why strategic talent management drives exceptional value creation  Here’s this book’s basic concept: Ram Charan and Anish Batlaw examine “a methodology and practice that…

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Gems from Young Frankenstein

July 19, 2024

Young Frankenstein is my favorite Mel Brooks film. Other favorites include (in alpha order) The Ladykillers, A Night at the Opera, Monty Python and the Holy Grail,and Some Like It Hot as well as Brooks’s The Producers and Blazing Saddles.…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on High Performance: A Book Review by Bob Morris

July 19, 2024

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on High Performance Various Contributors and HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (May 2022) “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle’s insight refers to organizations as well…

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Smart , Not Loud: A Book Review by Bob Morris

July 18, 2024

Smart, Not Loud: How to Get Noticed at Work for All the Right Reasons Jessica Chen Portfolio/Penguin (July 2024) How to reframe Quiet Culture values in order to get noticed for the right reasons According to Jessica Chen, we are…

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