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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 2/18/13)

February 24, 2013

  I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Success Under Stress: Powerful Tools for Staying Calm, Confident, and Productive When the Pressure’s On Sharon Melnick The Score Takes…

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7 Tips for Handling Criticism

February 23, 2013

Here’s a brief excerpt from an article written by Gretchen Rubin and featured at her website. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and subscribe to her newsletter, please click here. * * * I have a very…

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The Score Takes Care of Itself: A book review by Bob Morris

February 23, 2013

The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership  Bill Walsh with Steve Jamison and Craig Walsh Portfolio/Penguin Group (2009) “But here’s the lesson I learned….” Note: I remembered this book when I recently began work on material for a workshop on accelerated development of middle managers…

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Lina Echeverría: An interview by Bob Morris

February 22, 2013

Lina Echeverría spent twenty-five years inspiring creativity and accelerating innovation at Corning Incorporated, one of America’s leading technology companies, that provided the world with everything from the optical fiber that enabled the Internet to the tough glass used for iPhones.…

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How Companies of All Sizes Are Moving Beyond Command and Control Cultures

February 22, 2013

Stressing values, earning trust, and connecting with others are some of the ways leaders can inspire their organizations to achieve greater success. Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by David C. Forman and Friso van der Oord in…

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Tim Ferriss: How to develop “reality distortion field” charisma

February 22, 2013

Here is an article written by Jessica Stillman about Tim Ferris for CBS MoneyWatch, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the website’s newsletters, please click here. *    …

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Achim Nowak: An interview by Bob Morris

February 21, 2013

Achim Nowak is an internationally recognized authority on executive presence and interpersonal connections. His just-published book Infectious: How to Connect Deeply and Unleash the Energetic Leader Within (Allworth Press) has already received acclaim in Fast Company, Entrepreneur, Leadership Excellence, and…

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Why the Best Managers Ask the Most Questions

February 21, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Nadia Goodman for Entrepreneur magazine. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. image credit: Shutterstock *     *     * When your employees…

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Top 10 Famous Stutterers

February 21, 2013

Here’s an excerpt from an article written by El the erf for Listverse,  “a place for explorers. Together we seek out the most fascinating and rare gems of human knowledge. We write, we read, we learn—and in the process, we have fun.…

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Who Says It’s a Man’s World: A book review by Bob Morris

February 21, 2013

Who Says It’s a Man’s World: The Girls’ Guide to Corporate Domination Emily Bennington AMACOM (2013) A brilliant response to this question: “What does it take for women to win at the highest level?” As I began to read this book, I was again…

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