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Ten Years to Midnight: A book review by Bob Morris

August 24, 2020

Ten Years to Midnight: Four Urgent Global Crises and Their Strategic Solutions Blair H. Sheppard with Susannah Anfield, Ceri-Ann Droog, Alexis Jenkins, Thomas Minet, Jeffrey Rothfeder, and Daria Zarubina Berrett-Koehler Publishers (August 2020) What would William Butler Yeats make of…

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Risk, resilience, and rebalancing in global value chains

August 24, 2020

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Susan Lund, James Manyika, Jonathan Woetzel, Edward Barriball, Mekala Krishnan, Knut Alicke, Michael Birshan, Katy George, Sven Smit, Daniel Swan, and Kyle Hutzler for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey &…

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The purpose of business

August 23, 2020

  Here is an excerpt from an article featured in the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up for email alerts, please click here.…

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Maggie Craddock on self-empowerment: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

August 23, 2020

Maggie Craddock is an executive coach who has worked with clients at all levels on the professional spectrum – from people entering the workforce to Fortune 500 CEOs.  She has been featured on CNBC, National Public Radio and quoted in…

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Too soon, much too soon….

August 23, 2020
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Humanocracy: A book review by Bob Morris

August 22, 2020

Humanocracy: Creatiing Organizatuions as Amazing as the People Inside Them Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini Harvard Business Review Press (August 2020) How to build an organization “that’s fit for human beings, and fit for the future” In recent years, several…

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Derisking AI by design: How to build risk management into AI development

August 22, 2020

The compliance and reputational risks of artificial intelligence pose a challenge to traditional risk-management functions. Derisking by design can help. Here is an excerpt from an article written by Juan Aristi Baquero, Roger Burkhardt, Arvind Govindarajan, and Thomas Wallace for…

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The under-appreciated, immense potential power of metacognition

August 21, 2020

J. H. Flavell was probably the first to use the term metacognition when suggesting that it “refers to one’s knowledge concerning one’s own cognitive processes or anything related to them (e.g., the learning-relevant properties of information or data). For example,…

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Doing vs. being: Practical lessons on building an agile culture

August 21, 2020

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Nikola Jurisic, Michael Lurie, Philippine Risch, and Olli Salo for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the…

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Operations-driven sustainability

August 20, 2020

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Curt Mueller, Steve Seber, Jeff Shulman, and Kimberly Stover for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm,…

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