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Can Brain Science Help Us Break Bad Habits?

January 8, 2024

Years ago, Warren Buffett suggested that bad habits tend to be too light to notice until they are too heavy to break. I agree. Here is a brief excerpt from a classic New Yorker article by Jerome Groopman that appeared…

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Work Different: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 8, 2024

Work Different: 10 Truths for Winning in the People Age Kate Bravery, Ilya Bonic, and Kai Anderson Wiley (November 2023) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Theodore Roosevelt More than fifty years…

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The Year in Tech 2024: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 5, 2024

The Year in Tech 2024: Thoughts You Need from Harvard Business Review Various Contributors in Collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (January 2024) How and why integrative technologies will determine performance results, for better or worse.   As I…

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Creativity’s bottom line: How winning companies turn creativity into business value and growth

January 4, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article written by  Marc Brodherson, Jason Heller, Jesko Perrey, and David Remley for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about the firm, and sign…

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Imagine Tech for Good: A Book Review by Bob Morris

January 3, 2024

Imagine Tech for Good: Solving the World’s Greatest Challenges Marga Hoek Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group (November 2023) “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”    Albert Einstein Why did Marga Hoek write this book?…

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The Top MIT SMR Articles of 2023

January 2, 2024

Here is an excerpt from an article that introduces — and provides links to – the top articles published by the MIT Sloan Management Review in 2023. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please…

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Special Edition: The Top Twenty-five New Yorker Stories of 2023

December 15, 2023

Thanks to Michael Luo, here is a direct link to the articles in The New Yorker in 2023 that sustained the longest hold on readers during a year when many avoided the news. Illustration Credit: Bryce Wymer * * *…

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The Hidden Toll of Microstress

December 14, 2023

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Rob Cross and Karen Dillon for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive…

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Use Strategic Thinking to Create the Life You Want

December 13, 2023

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Rainer Strack, Susanne Dyrchs, and Allison Bailey for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and…

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Overcoming a bias against risk

December 11, 2023

Here is an excerpt from an article by Tim Koller, Dan Lovallo, and  Zane Williams for the McKinsey Quarterly. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * Risk-averse midlevel managers making…

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