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The Creator’s Code: A book review by Bob Morris

June 14, 2016

The Creator’s Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs Amy Wilkinson Simon & Schuster (2015) Here are timeless and timely insights that illuminate “fundamental approaches to the act of creation” The term “code” with regard to individuals is comparable…

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Myths and Misconceptions about Innovation

June 13, 2016

In Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price , Madhavan Ramanujam and Georg Tacke assert: “The most successful product innovators we know start by determining what the customer values [verb] and what they are willing to…

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Delivering on Digital: A book review by Bob Morris

June 13, 2016

Delivering on Digital: The Innovators and Technologies That Are Transforming Government William D. Eggers RosettaBooks (June 2016) How to attract, hire, train, and then retain the talent for digital thinking that can transform any organization This book’s title refers to…

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Bill Capodagli on “The Disney Way”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

June 12, 2016

Bill Capodagli (pronounced Cap o die) co-authored one of Fortune magazine’s “Best Business Books of 1999,”The Disney Way: Harnessing the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company. Prior to co-founding Capodagli Jackson Consulting in 1993, Bill held managerial positions at…

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The Founder’s Mentality: A book review by Bob Morris

June 12, 2016

The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth Chris Zook and James Allen Harvard Business Review Press (June 2016) How to avoid or resolve three organizational crises that can occur after start-up and early-growth phases In 1865,…

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Jane Rosenthal (a founder of the Tribeca Film Festival and executive chairwoman of Tribeca Enterprises) in “The Corner Office”

June 11, 2016

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Jane Rosenthal, a founder of…

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Beyond Cybersecurity: A book review by Bob Morris

June 11, 2016

Beyond Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Digital Business James Kaplan, Tucker Bailey, Derek O’Halloran, Alan Marcus, and Chris Rezek John Wiley & Sons (2015) How and why all organizations must develop digital resilience to establish and then sustain cybersecurity First of all,…

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A Baker’s Dozen of Transportation Myths: Which Are True?

June 10, 2016

In Door to Door, Edward Humes explores “the magnificent, maddening, mysterious world of transportation.” Many of those who read the book will be surprised by what he has to say about various myths and whether or not each is true.…

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Magic and Loss: A book review by Bob Morris

June 10, 2016

Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art Virginia Heffernan Simon & Schuster (June 2016) How and why the Internet is “the most powerful expansion and expression of the project of being human” Virginia Heffernan observes, “These are exciting times, filled…

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Jimmy Dunne III (senior managing principal of the investment banking firm Sandler O’Neill & Partners) in “The Corner Office”

June 9, 2016

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Jimmy Dunne III, . To…

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