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Peter Drucker’s Recommendations for Summer Reading: Five Management Classics

June 25, 2011

I receive countless requests for summer reading suggestions and when I offer them, the frequent response is, “Haven’t heard of them. Are they bestsellers? I’m only interested in the best ever.” Well OK, but a majority of the bestsellers (whatever…

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Ahab at Starbucks

June 24, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Larry Hughes and featured by The Huffington Post. I do not remember when, where, or why I first encountered Larry but during the years since, I have posted reviews of countless…

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Leading Change: A book review by Bob Morris

June 24, 2011

Leading Change: The Argument for Values-Based Leadership James O’Toole Ballantine Books (1995) “Why aren’t they following me?” It is extremely difficult to overcome what James O’Toole calls “the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom.” In Leading Change O’Toole…

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3 Ways to Get What You Need from Design

June 24, 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. While the business world may have developed a full-blown love affair with design,…

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Jeff Thull, First Interview by Bob Morris

June 23, 2011

Thull is a leading-edge strategist and valued advisor for executive teams of major companies worldwide. As President and CEO of Prime Resource Group, he has designed and implemented business transformation and professional development programs for several dozen global corporations. He…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself: A book review by Bob Morris

June 23, 2011

HBR’s 10 Must Read on Managing Yourself Editors of Harvard Business Review Harvard Business Press (2010) This is one in a series of volumes that anthologizes what the editors of the Harvard Business Review consider to be the “must reads” in…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing People: A book review by Bob Morris

June 23, 2011

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing People Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) Why and how to manage yourself so that you can then manage others effectively This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy

June 23, 2011

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of…

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PrimeTime Women: A book review by Bob Morris

June 23, 2011

PrimeTime Women: How to Win the Hearts, Minds, and Business of Boomer Big Spenders Marti Barletta Kaplan Publishing (2006) The nature and extent of a “prime marketing opportunity” Those who have already read Marti Barletta’s Marketing to Women will welcome…

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Less Is More: A book review by Bob Morris

June 23, 2011

Less Is More: How Great Companies Use Productivity Jason Jennings Portfolio/Penguin (2002) This is the second of two books by Jennings that I have recently read, the other being It’s Not the Big That Eat the Small…It’s the Fast That…

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