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The Element: A book review by Bob Morris

December 11, 2012

The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything Ken Robinson with Lou Aronica Viking Adult (2009) What we can accomplish when “drawn effortlessly into the heart of the Element” Why did Ken Robinson write this book? He explains in his…

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Are you willing to invest about 19 minutes to nourish your brain?

December 11, 2012

I urge you to click on this link so that you can watch a TED video during which Sir Ken Robinson explains how schools today are “killing” creativity in their students. It soon becomes obvious that he is a highly…

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My favorite church marquee messages

December 10, 2012

  “The best vitamin for a Christian is B1”    “Under same management for over 2000 years”    “Soul food served here”   “Beat the Christmas rush, come to church this Sunday!”    “Don’t wait for the hearse to take you to church”    “Don’t…

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Creating the Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

December 10, 2012

Creating the Strategy: Winning and Keeping Customers in B2B Markets Rennie Gould KoganPage (2012) How to achieve the #1 objective in customer relations I wish I had a dollar for every time I have encountered someone insisting that, in customer…

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Bennett & Vivian Levin Honor America’s Heroes On Special “Liberty Limited” Train to Army Navy Game

December 10, 2012

The annual Army-Navy football game was played last Saturday. There are so many interesting stories associated with this game since it was first played in 1890 at West Point, New York. The U.S. Naval Academy prevailed then, 24-20, and did…

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Sir Richard Branson’s “Five Secrets to Business Success”

December 10, 2012

Here is a brief blog post with a link to the complete article to which Sir Richard Branson refers. If there were a Rushmorean monument for entrepreneurs, he would undoubtably be among the four selected. Frankly, the older I get,…

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Inside Apple: A book review by Bob Morris

December 9, 2012

Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired Company Really Works Adam Lashinsky BusinessPlus (2012) Why and how a “productive narcissist” created a “giant jumble of contradictions and paradoxes” If for whatever reasons you have not as yet — and will not…

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“Which business books should every executive keep near at hand?”

December 9, 2012

Soon most of us will be exchanging holiday gifts and perhaps you’ll be asked what you would like to have. Why not suggest some business books? In my opinion, whether as a gift from someone else or one you give…

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The Better Mousetrap: A book review by Bob Morris

December 9, 2012

The Better Mousetrap: Brand Invention in a Media Democracy Simon Pont Kogan Page (2012) “Reality is a collective hunch.” Lily Tomlin When I noted the subtitle of Simon Pont’s book, “Brand Invention in a Media of Democracy,” I immediately –…

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Tony Tjan (Cue Bal) in “The Corner Office”

December 9, 2012

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of Tony Tjan, chief executive of Cue Ball, a venture capital firm based…

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