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Escape Velocity: A book review by Bob Morris

November 4, 2011

Escape Velocity: Free Your Company’s Future from the Pull of the Past Geoffrey A. Moore Harper Business/A HarperCollins Imprint (2011) How to free your organization from “the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom” One especially significant result of…

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The Global Innovation 1000 2011: Why Culture is Key

November 3, 2011

Tom Stewart is Booz & Company’s Chief Marketing & Knowledge Officer. In a recent email update, he asks several intriguing questions: Are there CEOs anywhere in the world who want their companies to become less innovative? Is anyone calling on…

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Amazon, the Company That Ate the World

November 3, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article featured by Bloomberg Businessweek online (October 3, 2011) in which Brad Stone points out that Jeff Bezos’ new tablet, the Kindle Fire, is cheap, pretty, and puts Amazon in perfect position to take…

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When Not to Insist on a Decision

November 3, 2011

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. Conventional wisdom holds that a flawed decision is better than no decision. After…

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Blah Blah Blah: A book review by Bob Morris

November 2, 2011

Blah Blah Blah: What to Do When Words Won’t Work Dan Roam Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2011) Visual and verbal literacy “on the other side of complexity” Those who have already read one or both of Dan Roam’s previous books, The Back…

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The Decision to Trust: A book review by Bob Morris

October 31, 2011

The Decision to Trust: How LEADERS Create High-Trust Organizations Robert F. Hurley Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) How and why in most (if not all) workplaces, everything of value starts with trust and stops without it. Obviously, a decision to trust…

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Lynn Blodgett (ACS, a Xerox company) in “The Corner Office”

October 30, 2011

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 Lynn Blodgett, president and chief executive…

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Jeffrey J. Fox: An interview by Bob Morris

October 28, 2011

There are over 150 international editions of Fox’s ten books that have been published in 35 languages in more than 100 countries. They include Secrets of Great Rainmakers, The Dollarization Discipline, How To Become a Rainmaker, How to Become a Marketing Superstar, How to Become…

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How to Be a Fierce Competitor: A book review by Bob Morris

October 28, 2011

How to Be a Fierce Competitor: What Winning Companies and Great Managers Do in Tough Times Jeffrey J. Fox Jossey-Bass/a Wiley Imprint (2010) According to Fox, fierce organizations are defined by key people – at all levels and in all…

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Jeffrey Fox on “What Rainmakers Do in Tough Economic Times”

October 28, 2011

Here is the featured article in an issue of Jeffrey Fox’s online newsletter. To check out all the resources he provides at his website and sign up for a free newsletter subscription, please click here. In my opinion, no one…

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