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HBR Guide to Designing Your Retirement: A Book Review by Bob Morris

September 20, 2023

HBR Guide to Designing Your Retirement Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (July 2023) How to explore your options, reimagine your identity, and create a fulfilling life As you probably know already, most of the volumes in the “HBR Guide…

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The Wizard: Before there was a black American President, black America had a President.

September 20, 2023

Here is another New Yorker “classic,” written by Kelefa Sanneh and published in the January 25, 2009, issue. To read txhe complete article, check outbothers, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Credit: Waldon Fawcett / Courtesy Library of Congress…

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The Culture Turnaround: A book review by Bob Morris

September 19, 2023

The Culture Turnaround: 9 Proven Ways to Create an Undeniable Culture Jeff Hilimire and Adam Albrecht Ripples Media (2022) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”  Theodore Roosevelt This is the latest of…

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How to Recover from Work Stress, According to Science

September 15, 2023

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Alyson Meister, Bonnie Hayden Cheng, Nele Dael, and Franciska Krings for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources,…

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Unleash the Unexpected for Radical Innovation

September 14, 2023

Here is an excerpt from an article by Wenjing Lyu, Gina Colarelli O’Connor, and Neil C. Thompson for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Credit:  Patrick…

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HBR Guide to Executing Your Strategy: A Book Review by Bob Morris

September 14, 2023

HBR Guide to Executing Your Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (January 2019) How to communicate the plan, maintain momentum, and achieve your vision I agree with Thomas Edison who once observed, “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Even the…

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Identify Critical Roles to Improve Performance

September 10, 2023

Here is an excerpt from an article by Boris Groysberg, Eric Lin, Abhijit Naik, and Sascha L. Schmidt for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Credit:…

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Democratizing Transformation

September 9, 2023

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Marco Iansiti and Satya Nadella 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 HBR email alerts, please click here. Credit:  Núria Madrid  * * *…

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The Performance Paradox: A Book Review by Bob Morris

September 8, 2023

The Performance Paradox : Turning the Power of Mindset into Action Eduardo Briceño Ballantine Books (September 2023) “Vision without execution is hallucination.”  Thomas Edison Presumably Eduardo Briceño agrees with Edison but would probably add that ambitious people spend too much…

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An interview of Jony Ive

September 7, 2023

Here is an excerpt from aninterviedw of Jony Ive by Tracy Francis and Rick Tetzeli for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up…

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