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Supercharging the Customer Experience: A Book Review by Bob Morris

November 2, 2024

Supercharging the Customer Experience: How Organizational Alignment Drives Performance Alan Williams & Dave Stubberfield LID Limited (November 2024) The unique power and enduring value of organizational alignment and coordinated execution throughout the given enterprise As I began to read this…

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Be the Unicorn, The Workbook: A Book Review by Bob Morris

November 1, 2024

Be the Unicorn, Workbook: 12 Data-Driven Habits that Separate the Best Leaders from the Rest William Vanderbloemen Fedd Books (October 2024) An invaluable companion to a business classic  Now available for the first time, this is the essential companion volume…

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COMPLETE Billy Wilder Revisits “Sunset Boulevard”

October 31, 2024

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by David Freeman for The New Yorker (June 13, 1993). To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. *…

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Top 10 Inventions that Changed the World

October 31, 2024

Here is a portion of an article by Natalie Wolchover for the LiveScience website (July 30, 2015). To read the complete article, check out other resources, and learn more about LiveScience, please click here. * * * Here are the…

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Superintelligence: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 30, 2024

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies Nick Bostrom Oxford University Press (September 2014) This is what could be “the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced” Note: Ten years after publication, the insights in this book are even more…

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How to Develop Continuous Learners

October 30, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Wendy Tan and Joo-Seng Tan for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others,  sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here.…

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Want Collaboration? Accept — and Actively Manage — Conflict

October 29, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jeff Weiss and Jonathan Hughes 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. * * * Companies…

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Collective Genius: Becoming a More Humane Leader

October 28, 2024

Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation Linda Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent Lineback Harvard Business Review Press (2014) Valuable perspectives on the role of the leader in creating and then sustaining a culture within which…

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The 3 Things That Keep Companies Growing

October 27, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Chris Zook and James Allen 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. * * * Growth creates…

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Open Strategy: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 26, 2024

Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-Suite Christian Stadler, Julia Hautz, Kurt Matzler, and Stephen Friedrich von den Eichen The MIT Press (October 2021) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go…

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