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Influencers & Revolutionaries: A book review by Bob Morris

April 7, 2020

Influencers and Revolutionaries: How Innovative Trailblazers, Trends and Catalysts Are Transforming Business Sean Pillot de Chenecey KoganPage (February 2020) How relevance, personalization, and sustainability are the keys to high-impact innovation According to Sean Pillot de Chenecey, there is a “simple…

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Decision making in uncertain times

April 7, 2020

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Andrea Alexander , Aaron De Smet, and Leigh Weiss  X for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about…

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The Power of Small Wins

April 6, 2020

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Teresa Amabile and Steven J. Kramer for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information,…

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The Innovation Handbook: A book review by Bob Morris

April 6, 2020

The Innovation Handbook: Tactics for Disruptive Thinking Jeremy Gutsche Fast Company Press (March 2020) “Ready to discover your big idea?” Here’s how to do that. This volume serves as Part 2 of Jeremy Gutsche’s “Create the Future” project as well…

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Cracking the Leadership Code: A book review by Bob Morris

April 5, 2020

Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders Alain Hunkins Wiley (March 2020) “Your title identies you as a manager; your people make you a leader.” Donna Dubinsky Although Amazon now offers more than 100,000 books on leadership,…

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Adapt Your Leadership Style to Your Situation

April 5, 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. *     *     * There’s not one leadership style that works for all…

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Solving the “digital and analytics scale-up challenge” in consumer goods

April 4, 2020

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ford Halbardier, Brian Henstorf, Robert Levin, and Aldo Rosales for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the…

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Leading Beyond the Ego: A book review by Bob Morris

April 4, 2020

Leading Beyond the Ego: How to Become a Transpersonal Leader John Knights, Danielle Grant, and Greg Young Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group (2018) A healthy ego combines pride, reason, passion, humility, and empathy in proper balance Sigmund Freud is generally credited…

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Every Leader Needs to Navigate These 7 Tensions

April 3, 2020

  Here is an excerpt from an article written byJennifer Jordan, Michael Wade,and Elizabeth Teracino 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…

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Author in Chief: A book review by Bob Morris

April 3, 2020

Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote Craig Fehrman Avid Reader Press/An imprint of Simon & Schuster (February 2020) What most people don’t know about the authors and readers among U.S. Presidents I…

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