Posts

The Power of Enough: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 15, 2025

The Power of  Enough: Finding Joy in Your Relationship with Money Elizabeth Husserl New World Library (January 2025) How to embrace wealth as an experience of joy Elizabeth Husserl describes this book as “an invitation to explore a new possibility…

Read More

Mindmasters: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 14, 2025

  Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior Sandra Matz Harvard Business Review Press (January 2025) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.”  Henry Ford How does Sandra Matz organize the information,…

Read More

Leadership as Masterpiece Creation: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 13, 2025

Leadership as Masterpiece Creation: What Business Leaders Can Learn About Moral-Risk Taking Charles Spinosa, Matthew Hancocks, and Haridimos Tsoukas MIT Press (March 2024) How leaders can decide which moral personality they want their organization to have In the Inferno section…

Read More

Five Trends in AI and Data Science for 2025

January 13, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Thomas H. Davenport and Randy Beanfor the 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…

Read More

Three Ways to Lead Learning

January 11, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Gianpiero Petriglieri 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:  Franck Bohbot   *…

Read More

The Purpose Code: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 11, 2025

The Purpose Code: How to Unlock Meaning, Maximize Happiness, and Leave a Lasting Legacy Jordan Grumet Harriman House (January 2025) Here is a  series of self-helpful prescriptions Long ago, I concluded that it is very difficult — if not impossible…

Read More

Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 9, 2025

Your  Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age: Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload Richard C. Cytowic MIT Press (October 2024) The story of how and why we became “helplessly distracted” began long ago. Richard Cytowic is convinced that…

Read More

MIT SMR’s 10 AI Must-Reads for 2024

January 8, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by William Reed for the 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…

Read More

Smart Rivals: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 8, 2025

Smart Rivals: How Innovative Companies Play Games That Tech Giants Can’t Win Feng Zhu and Bonnie Yining Cao Harvard Business Review Press (August 2024) The smart rival company’s road to success is paved with smart innovation Most of the counsel…

Read More

Psychological Safety: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 7, 2025

Psychological Safety (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) Multiple Contributors in collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (September 2024) “It is difficult to free fools from the chains they cherish.”  Voltaire This is one of the volumes in the HBR…

Read More