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The Missing Discipline Behind Failure to Scale

June 22, 2023

Here is an excerpt from an article by Andy Binns  and Christine Griffin for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: Dan Page/theispot.com * *…

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Grow: A book review by Bob Morris

June 21, 2023

Grow: Take Your Business from Chaos to Calm Michael J. McFall An Inc. Original (June 2023) How well leaders grow their people will determine how well they will grow their company Why did Michael McFall write this book? It is…

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The Business Case for Quantum Computing

June 21, 2023

Here is an excerpt from an article by Francesco Bova, Avi Goldfarb, and Roger Melko for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Credit: Andy Potts *…

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The Lion and Me

June 20, 2023

Here is a brief excerpt from a “classic” article by John Lahr, for The New Yorker (November 8, 1998). To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Credit: Getty Images  * * *…

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The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling: A book review by Bob Morris

June 20, 2023

The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative, Revised and Updated Steven Denning Jossey-Bass (2011) How and Why Storytelling Skills Give So Many Leaders a Decisive Competitive Advantage Those who have read Denning’s The Springboard and/or…

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Tom Butler-Bowdon on Viktor Frankl

June 20, 2023

In one of his several “classic” blog posts, Tom Butler Bowdon says this: One of the books that had the biggest impact on me was Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search For Meaning – which I wrote about in 50 Self-Help Classics.…

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Own Your Work Journey! A book review by Bob Morris

June 20, 2023

Own Your Work Journey!: The Path to Meaningful Work and Happiness in the Age of Smart Technology and Radical Change Edward D. Hess Self-Published (March 2023) A well-written primer on business basics FYI: My For Star rating for Amazon is…

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Michael Lenox on Mastering Digital Transformation: An Interview by Bob Morris

June 19, 2023

Michael Lenox‘s latest book is Strategy in the Digital World, published by Stanford Business Books. He is also the co-author of The Decarbonization Imperative and Can Business Save the Earth?. He is the Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business Administration and…

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The Value of Value Creation

June 18, 2023

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Marc Goedhart and Tim Koller for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign up for…

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HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically: A book review by Bob Morris

June 17, 2023

HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (January 2019) “We did what all wise men do. We began at the end.”  Menachem Begin Prime Minister Begin’s comment was his response when asked how he and President…

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