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Lead from the Future: A book review by Bob Morris

April 21, 2020

Lead from the Future: How to Turn Visionary Thinking into Breakthrough Growth Mark W. Johnson and Josh Suskewicz Harvard Business Review Press (April 2010) “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”  Søren Kierkegaard After several…

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Sound advice on making especially difficult decisions

April 21, 2020

Every day, we must make decisions. Some are routine. Jim O’Toole says they indicate “the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom.” Warren Buffett warns against habits that are “too light to notice until they are too heavy to…

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Galileo: A Profile

April 20, 2020

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica have written a series of mini-biographies. Here is an excerpt from Albert van Helden’s profile of Galileo Galilei. To learn more about him and others, please click here. * * * Galileo, in full Galileo…

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Ray Dalio: Entrepreneurial leader

April 20, 2020

In Entrepreneurial Leadership, Joel Peterson offers several examples of people who “are able to launch something new, turn around a failing enterprise, and anticipate and make changes before they have to. In an age of disruption, fickle consumers, fast-moving markets,…

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The Feedback Fallacy

April 19, 2020

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall for Harvard Business Review and the HBR  Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive…

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Robbie Kellman Baxter on Building a Subscription Model: An interview by Bob Morris

April 19, 2020

Robbie Kellman Baxter is a bestselling author of The Forever Transaction and The Membership Economy, named a top 10 marketing book of all time by BookAuthority. Sheis a speaker, and consultant with more than twenty years of experience providing strategic…

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Connect with Your Audience When You’re Presenting Remotely

April 18, 2020

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. *     *     * Good presenters know how to connect with their audience…

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Althea Gibson: A Profile

April 18, 2020

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica have written a series of mini-biographies, many of those about whom I previously knew little, if anything.Here is an excerpt from their profile of Althea Gibson. To learn more about her and others, please click…

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4 Behaviors That Help Leaders Manage a Crisis

April 17, 2020

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Chris Nichols, Shoma Chatterjee Hayden, and Chris Trendler for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain…

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Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, Fürst (prince) von Wahlstatt: A Profile

April 17, 2020

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica have written a series of mini-biographies. Here is an excerpt from Albert van Selden’s profile of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. Those who have seen Mel Brooks’s film Young Frankenstein should recognize the name and already…

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