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Harvard Business Review Sales Management Handbook: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 25, 2024

The Harvard Business Review Sales Management Handbook: How to Lead High-Performing Sales Teams Prabhakant Sinha, Arun Shastri, and Sally E. Lorimer Harvard Business Review Press (October 2022) How effective sales management consistently achieves extraordinary results What makes this book so…

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How to Use Distraction to Your Advantage

October 24, 2024

Your scatterbrain is great when it is time to think of new ideas. But when it comes to executing those ideas? Not so much. Here is an excerpt from an article by Christian Jarrett for 99U. To read, the complete article, check…

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How to Move Up When the Only Way is Down: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 24, 2024

How to Move Up When the Only Way is Down: Lessons from Artificial Intelligence for Overcoming Your Local Maximum Judah Taub Wiley (October 2024) The essence of decision-making and problem-solving in the Age of AI I agree with Jonathan Rosenfeld:…

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HBR 10 Must Reads on Change Management

October 23, 2024

HBR 10 Must-Reads on Change Management Various Contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to overcome “the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom” This volume is one of several in a series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared…

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Why Employees Quit

October 23, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ethan Bernstein, Michael B. Horn, and Bob Moesta for Harvard Business 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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Mindshift: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 22, 2024

Mindshift: Transform Leadership, Drive Innovation, and Shape the Future Brian Solis Wiley (October 2024) “If you’ve always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.” Charles Kettering James O’Toole has suggested that the strongest resistance to change tends to be cultural…

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The Most Overlooked Leadership Skill

October 22, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an especially valuable article written by Peter Bregman for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. *…

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FAIK: A Book Review by Bob Morris

October 21, 2024

FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions Perry Carpenter Wiley (October 2024)   How human and artificial intelligence — working together– can produce transformative results In the Foreword,  Rachel Tobac helps to”set the…

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Face It, Your Brain Is a Computer

October 21, 2024

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Gary Marcus for The New York Times. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Credit: Gérard DuBois * * * Science has a poor track record…

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What’s the “secret sauce” for accelerating personal growth and professional development?

October 19, 2024

In their latest collaboration, Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner articulate what I characterize as the “secret sauce” for accelerating personal growth and professional development: “You have to aspire to excel. You need a set of values…

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