Posts

When smart people are bad employees

September 5, 2011

Here is an except from a post featured at Ben’s Blog where Ben Horowitz shares his wit and wisdom about the most important business issues. To read the complete article, check out others, and sign up for a free subscription,…

Read More

The Communicators: A Book review by Bob Morris

September 5, 2011

The Communicators: Leadership in an Age if Crisis Richard S. Levick with Charles Slack Watershed Press (2010) Effective leadership as demonstrated by mindset-guided and values-driven behavior Written by Richard Levick with Charles Slack, this is definitely not an “easy read”…

Read More

Why Small Interactions Matter

September 4, 2011

An experienced chief executive tells leaders how to make every workplace encounter more productive and engaging. Here is an excerpt from an especially interesting and informative Gallup Management Journal Q&A with Douglas Conant, former CEO of the Campbell Soup Company…

Read More

Hacking Work: A book review by Bob Morris

September 4, 2011

Hacking Work: Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results Bill Jensen and Josh Klein Portfolio/Penguin Group (2010) To what does the title of this book refer? According to the co-authors, Bill Jensen and Josh Klein, “Today’s top performers are taking matters…

Read More

Enrique Salem (Symantec) in “The Corner Office”

September 4, 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 This interview with Enrique Salem,…

Read More

Questions you should never ask of a prospective client

September 4, 2011

Andrew Sobel Here is an excerpt from an article (“Client Loyalty, No. 76) by Andrew Sobel that is featured at his website. To read the complete article and sign up for his free online newsletter, please click here. *  …

Read More

Gary and Ruth Namie: An interview by Bob Morris

September 3, 2011

  Gary Namie (Ph.D., Social Psychology) and Ruth Namie (Ph.D., Clinical Psychology) started the U.S. workplace bullying movement in mid-1997 after Ruth’s personal experience at the hands of a tyrannical woman supervisor in a psychiatry clinic. The Drs. Namie began the first and only U.S.…

Read More

Expect the Unexpected (or You Won’t Find It): A book review by Bob Morris

September 3, 2011

Expect the Unexpected (or You Won’t Find It): A Creativity Tool Based on the Ancient Wisdom of Heraclitus
 Roger von Oech Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2002) The fact that von Oech draws heavily upon the “ancient wisdom of Heraclitus” in this book…

Read More

Are you up a tree? Here’s the best career strategy ever

September 3, 2011

Here is an article written by Steve Tobak for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. *     *    …

Read More

The One Thing Your Employees Need Most

September 3, 2011

Here is an article written by Jeff Haden for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. Note: I…

Read More