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What Jim Collins learned from Peter Drucker

August 6, 2025

Jim Collins provided the Foreword to the 50th anniversary edition of Peter Drucker’s classic, The Effective Executive, a book first published in 1967. Consider this passage: “Here are ten lessons I learned from Peter Drucker and this book, and that…

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Revisiting an Interview of Martin Reeves and Jack Fuller on high-impact creative thinking

August 5, 2025

Martin Reeves is Chairman of The BCG Henderson Institute, BCG’s think tank on strategy and management. He researches, publishes and pilots new thinking on business challenges, drawing upon both innovations in business and fields such as biology, computer science and…

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How We Learn: Revisiting a Review by Bob Morris

August 4, 2025

How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where and Why it Happens Benedict Carey Random House (2014) How to take full advantage of a host of techniques that deepen learning that remain largely unknown outside scientific circles As Benedict…

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Delegate to Build Stronger Teams

August 2, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Benjamin Laker for 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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Now Is the Time for Courage

August 1, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ranjay Gulati 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:  Mariola Grobelska/Unsplash *…

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SPRINT: Revisiting a Review by Bob Morris

July 31, 2025

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days Jake Knapp with John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz Simon & Schuster (March 2016) Here is a unique methodology “to solve big problems, test new ideas, get…

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The innovation challenge: Good ideas are harder to find

July 30, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Alex Singla, Alexander Sukharevsky, Elia Berteletti, Lareina Yee, and Michael Chui, for McKinsey Quarterly. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration…

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Seven steps to better brainstorming

July 29, 2025

Here is a brief excerpt from a classic article written by Kevin P. Coyne and Shawn T. Coyne for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company (2011). To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about…

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Fifteen Years of the Salto Mortale: The world of Johnny Carson.

July 28, 2025

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Kenneth Tynan for The New Yorker (February 20, 1978). To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration…

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The Decisive Company: A Book Review by Bob Morris

July 28, 2025

The Decisive Company: How High-Performance Organizations Connect Strategy to Execution Steven Elliott Houndstooth Press (February 2025) “Vision without execution is hallucination.”  Thomas Edison I agree with Edison and so does Steven Elliott. Organizations today face challenges that are more volatile,…

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