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The 12-Week MBA: A Book Review by Bob Morris

February 14, 2024

The 12-Week MBA: Learn the Skills You Need to Lead in Business Today   Bjorn Billhardt and Nathan Kracklauer Hatchette Books (February 2024) How to accelerate your personal growth and professional development  Whatever their size and nature may be, all organizations…

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A Leader’s Guide to Navigating Employee Activism

February 13, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Megan Reitz and John Higgins 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…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking: A Book Review by Bob Morris

February 12, 2024

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2020) “Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.”  Tim Brown This book is one of the more recent volumes in…

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Innovative growers: A view from the top

February 11, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Matt Banholzer, Rebecca Doherty, Alex Morris, and Scott Schwaitzberg for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and…

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Listening to the N.F.L.: A plots and B plots in the best podcasts for the playoffs

February 10, 2024

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Adam Gopnik for The New Yorker. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Credit: Photograph by Cindy Ord / SiriusXM / Getty *…

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Unstuck: A Book Review by Bob Morris

February 10, 2024

Unstuck: Reframe your thinking to free yourself from the patterns and people that hold you back Lia Garvin Topix Media Lab (April 2022) “The real superpower is not the ability itself — it’s knowing when to use it.” Lia Garvin…

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Five Key Trends in AI and Data Science for 2024

February 9, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article by Thomas H. Davenport and Randy Bean for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR…

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Never Not Working: A Book Review by Bob Morris

February 8, 2024

Never Not Working: Why the Always-On Culture Is Bad for Business — and How to Fix It Malissa Clark Harvard Business Review Press (February 2024) How and why overworking usually results in underperforming   Why did Malissa Clark write this…

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What you may not already know about Taylor Swift

February 7, 2024

The International Movie Database (IMDb) remains the best single source for information about the entertainment world. For example, Taylor Swift. o She was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on December 13, 1989. o For songs that she owns and for which…

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The Friction Project: A Book Review by Bob Morris

February 6, 2024

The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao St. Martin’s Press (January 2024) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what…

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