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Triple Fit Strategy: A Book Review by Bob Morris

November 24, 2024

Triple Fit Strategy: How to Build Lasting Customer Relationships and Boost Growth Christopher Senn and Mehak Gandhi Harvard Business Review Press (November 2024) Customers want partners: Problem solvers and creative thinkers who help them thrive I cannot recall a prior…

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Building Your Company’s Vision

November 24, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras for Harvard Business Review (September-October 1996). To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please…

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Big Data @ Work: A Book Review by Bob Morris

November 22, 2024

Big Data @ Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities Thomas H. Davenport Harvard Business Review Press (2014) How to make much better decisions about and then with big data systems and capabilities Over the years, I have read and…

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Celebrating the Centennial of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”

November 21, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by John Updike for The New Yorker (September 17, 2000). To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information please click here. Illustration…

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Encouraging your people to take the long view

November 21, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Toby Gibbs, Suzanne Heywood, and Matthew Pettigrew for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company (September 1, 2012). To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm,…

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ChatGPT and the Future of AI: A Book Review by Bob Morris

November 20, 2024

ChatGPT and the Future of AI: The Deep Language Revolution Terrence J. Sejnowski MIT Press (October 29, 2024) Perspectives on what to expect from AI in years to come This is a uniquely challenging book to discuss because Terrence J.…

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The Myth of the Sustainable Consumer

November 20, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Andreas von der Gathen, Nicolai Broby Eckert, and Caroline Kastbjerg for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others,  sign up for email alerts, and obtain…

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Henri Matisse’s Revolutionary Colors

November 19, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Janet Flanner for The New Yorker. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. (This is the first part…

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Michael Schrage on “How to Craft Great Business Experiments”

November 19, 2024

I have read and reviewed Michael Schrage‘s latest book, The Innovator’s Hypothesis: How Cheap Experiments Are Worth More than Good Ideas, published by The MIT Press (September 2014). Schrage develops in much greater depth in this, his latest book [as of…

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The M&A Failure Trap: A Book Review by Bob Morris

November 18, 2024

The M&A Failure Trap: Why Most Mergers and Acquisitions Fail and How the Few Succeed Baruch Lev and Fen Gu Wiley (November 2024) How can companies get much better at mergers and acquisitions? So far, most haven’t. Why is that?…

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