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Creating a Breakthrough Strategy: Suggested Readings

September 4, 2019

In a brilliant article for Harvard Business Review, “Strategy Needs Creativity,” Adam Brandenburger explains how and why creativity and strategy are not only related, they are interdependent. He focuses on four specific ways to created a high-impact strategy. Brandenburger includes…

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It’s Not You, It’s the Workplace: A book review by Bob Morris

September 4, 2019

It’s Not You, It’s the Workplace: Women’s Conflict at Work and the Bias that Built It Andrea S. Kramer and Alton B. Harris Nicholas Brealey (August 2019) How gender biases have impact on personal and professional development…for better or worse…

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How to Lose Your Best Employees

September 3, 2019

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Whitney Johnson 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 HBR email alerts, please click here.…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

September 3, 2019

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Business Model Innovation HBR Editors and Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (July 2019) Business models determine how well components of an organization work together, for better or worse This is one in a series…

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How ‘Sesame Street’ Started a Musical Revolution

September 2, 2019

Fifty years ago, one television show united children’s education, puppetry and songs. Pop stars have been singing the Muppets’ tunes (and vice versa) ever since. Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Melena Ryzik for The New York…

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Getting personal about change

September 1, 2019

  Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Scott Keller and Bill Schaninger for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain…

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Strengths-Based Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

September 1, 2019

Strengths-Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow Tom Rath and Barry Conchie Gallup Press  (2009) If you don’t care about your skills and their development, why would anyone else? Note: This book was first published a decade ago…

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Learning to Work with Intelligent Machines

August 31, 2019

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Matt Beane 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 HBR email alerts, please…

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The first Labor Day

August 31, 2019

Before I began some research on the subject, I did not know that, until Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894, laborers who chose to participate in parades to celebrate anything had to forfeit a day’s wages. I am…

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Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey: A book review by Bob Morris

August 30, 2019

The Odyssey Homer; Emily Wilson, Translator W.W. Norton & Company (November 2017) A brilliant exploration of “both the origins of Western literature, and our infinitely complex contemporary world” The last time I checked, Amazon offers 221 English translations of Homer’s…

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