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Leap: A book review by Bob Morris

September 12, 2018

Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied Howard Yu Publich Affairs/Hachette Book Group (June 2018) How to “move across knowledge disciplines to leverage or create new knowledge in how a product is made or service…

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Leading Matters: A book review by Bob Morris

September 11, 2018

Leading Matters: Lessons from My Journey John L. Hennessy Stanford University Press (September 2018) Valuable lessons to be learned and shared from a 25-year leadership journey…thus far As I began to read this thoughtful and thought-provoking book, I was again…

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Amelia Earhart’s perspective on equality in the workplace

September 11, 2018

  One of my favorite quotations on this subject: “More women will gain admittance as a greater number knock at the door. It might be well to bring an ax along; you may have to chop your way through the…

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If Your Boss Doesn’t Advocate for You, Find a Sponsor Who Will

September 11, 2018

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. *     *     * A boss who doesn’t advocate for you can…

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Straight Talk for Startups: A book review by Bob Morris

September 10, 2018

Straight Talk for Startups: 100 Insider Rules for Beating the Odds–From Mastering the Fundamentals to Selecting Investors, Fundraising, Managing Boards, and Achieving Liquidity Randy Komisar and Jantoon Riegersman HarperBusiness/An imprint of HarperCollins (2018) Probably the best single source for the…

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The under-appreciated, immense potential power of metacognition

September 10, 2018

J. H. Flavell was probably the first to use the term metacognition when suggesting that it “refers to one’s knowledge concerning one’s own cognitive processes or anything related to them (e.g., the learning-relevant properties of information or data). For example,…

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The wit and wisdom of Michel de Montaigne

September 9, 2018

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly. These are among…

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Costovation: A book review by Bob Morris

September 9, 2018

Costovation: Innovation That Gives Your Customers Exactly What They Want–And Nothing More Stephen Wunker and Jennifer Luo Law HarperCollins Leadership/An imprint of HarperCollins (August 2018) How and why “innovation and cost-cutting can be a powerful duo, capable of shaping markets…

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A perspective in 1910 on Thomas Edison

September 8, 2018

The Story of Great Inventions, published by Harper & Brothers (1910), is a seminal work that deserves much more attention and appreciation than it has received. Elmer Ellsworth Burns has this to say about a contemporary, Thomas Edison: “He sat one night…

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Wisdom for all seasons

September 8, 2018

Here are additional observations from my collection of quotations. If you have any to share, please do so. “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” Martin Luther King, Jr. “The two most important…

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