“Vision without execution is hallucination”

Negotiation : A book review by Bob Morris

June 26, 2013

Negotiation Brian Tracy AMACOM (2013) “Every battle is won or lost before it is fought.” Sun Tzu I selected one of the insights in The Art if War because I was again reminded of it while sharing Brian Tracy’s thoughts…

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Win-Win Partnerships: A book review by Bob Morris

March 28, 2013

Win-Win Partnerships: Be on the Cutting Edge with Synergistic Coaching Steven J. Stowell and Matt M. Starcevich CMOE Press (1996) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison Do not be deterred by the fact that this book was first published…

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Change-Friendly Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

September 19, 2012

Change-Friendly Leadership: How to Transform Good Intentions Into Great Performance Rodger Dean Duncan Maxwell Stone Publishing (2012) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison Frankly, I did not know quite what to expect as I began to read this book.…

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The Rebel Entrepreneur: A book review by Bob Morris

August 22, 2012

The Rebel Entrepreneur: Rewriting the Business Rule Book Jonathan Moules Kogan-Page (2012) How and why rebel entrepreneurs “create the real growth drivers of an economy” Rebels are iconoclasts, mavericks, outliers, etc. By nature, their thinking and initiatives are unconventional, unorthodox, and quite often disruptive…

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Boundless Potential: A book review by Bob Morris

July 1, 2012

Boundless Potential: Transform Your Brain, Unleash Your Talents, Reinvent Your Wortk in Midlife and Beyond Mark S. Walton McGraw-Hill (2012) “Potential” means “you ain’t done it yet.”  Darrell Royal Few of us of us ever fully develop the potentialities that…

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Think and Grow Rich: A book review by Bob Morris

June 18, 2012

Think and Grow Rich: The Original Classic Napoleon Hill, with an Introduction by Tom Butler-Bowdon Capstone Publishing Ltd. (2009) The “Supreme Secret” of success: “Anything the human mind can believe, the human mind can achieve.” Those who have read one…

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The 4 Disciplines of Execution: A book review by Bob Morris

May 24, 2012

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling Free Press/A Division of Simon & Schuster (2012) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison For whatever reasons, many decision-makers are victims of…

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100 Great Businesses and the Minds Behind Them: A book review by Bob Morris

April 29, 2012

100 Great Businesses and the Minds Behind Them Emily Ross and Angus Holland Sourcebooks (2005) Note: I recently re-read this book and found the information and insights more valuable now than they were when I first read it seven years…

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Digital Leader: A book review by Bob Morris

March 18, 2012

Digital Leader: 5 Simple Keys to Success and Influence Erik Qualman McGraw-Hill (2012) How and why our digital footprints and shadows “constitute our permanent imprint on the world” As I began to read this book, I was again reminded of…

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