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Great at Work: A Book Review by Bob Morris

May 11, 2024

Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More Morten Hansen Simon & Schuster (January 2018) How and why “seven practices upend conventional thinking about how you should work” Note: Every so often, I recycle a…

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Building Culture From the Middle Out

May 11, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Spencer Harrison and Kristie Rogers for the . To read the complete article, check out others,  sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit:  Melinda…

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How to Make Better Friends at Work

May 10, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Gianpiero Petriglieri 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: Anna…

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Ask: A Book Review by Bob Morris

May 10, 2024

Ask: Tap Into the Wisdom of People Around You for Unexpected Breakthroughs in Leadership and Life Jeff Wetzler Hatchette Go/An Imprint of Hatchette Books (May 2024) How to unlock personal growth and professional development in all areas of your life…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strengthening Your Soft Skills: A Book Review by Bob Morris

May 9, 2024

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strengthening Your Soft Skills Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2024) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care” Theodore Roosevelt This volume is among the best sources…

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The Problem with Change: A Book Review by Bob Morris

May 8, 2024

The Problem with Change: And the Essential Nature of Human Performance Ashley Goodall Little, Brown Spark (May 2024) “If you’ve always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.”  Charles Kettering In his classic book, Leading Change, James O’Toole suggests that…

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Cultivating the Four Kinds of Creativity

May 8, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Gabriella Rosen Kellerman and Martin E.P. Seligman for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here.…

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The Benefits of Innovation That Isn’t Disruptive

May 7, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne , and Mi Ji  for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click…

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What Can Business Learn from Art?

May 6, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Scott Berinato 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:  Tang Yau Hoong …

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The Unexpected Upsides of Letting Employees Define Their Jobs

May 6, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Benjamin Laker and  Stefania Mariano 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.…

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