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Shine [3/26/24] : A Book Review by Bob Morris

March 14, 2024

Shine: How Looking Inward Is the Key to Unlocking True Entrepreneurial Freedom Gino Wickman and Rob Dube BenBella Books, Inc. (March 2024)         He Why the pursuit of happiness should be a quest for being good, not feeling…

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The Communication Code: A Book Review by Bob Morris

November 12, 2023

The Communication Code: Unlock Every Relationship One Conversation at a Time Jeremie Kubicek and Steve Cockram Wiley (November 2023) Clear two-way communication is essential to healthy relationship According to Jeremie Kubicek and Steve Cockram,  unlocking a relationship “refers to making…

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Dorothy Arnold on Why Resolutions Fail

July 16, 2022

Long ago, Aristotle observed, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” After spending another January helping to pave the road to hell, I realize that my habits have again defeated my New…

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Is the next Age of Enlightenment already here or imminent?

May 9, 2022

In recent years, two of the most intellectually stimulating books I have read were written by Anthony Gottlieb: The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance (2000; Second Edition, 2016) and The Dream…

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How to Communicate Effectively with Anyone, Anywhere: A book review by Bob Morris

May 1, 2021

How to Communicate Effectively with Anyone, Anywhere: Your Passport to Connecting Globally Raúl Sánchez and Dan Bullock Career Press (3/1/21) You cannot succeed globally unless and until you communicate globally with high-impact I often read 2-3 books at the same…

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Mastering Comunication at Work: A book review by Bob Morris

April 28, 2021

Mastering Comunication at Work: How to Lead, Manage, and Influence (Second Edition) Ethan F. Becker and Jon Wortman McGraw Hill (2/10/21) How to gain a competitive advantage that very few others have I often read 2-3 books at the same…

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The under-appreciated, immense potential power of metacognition

August 21, 2020

J. H. Flavell was probably the first to use the term metacognition when suggesting that it “refers to one’s knowledge concerning one’s own cognitive processes or anything related to them (e.g., the learning-relevant properties of information or data). For example,…

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The four most common forms of really dumb thinking

March 18, 2020

Opinions vary about which forms of really dumb thinking are the most common and many of those opinions offer excellent examples of dumb thinking. The opinions I now share are those of several thinkers whom I personally admire. They include…

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HBR Guide to Your Professional Growth: A book review by Bob Morris

May 6, 2019

HBR Guide to Your Professional Growth Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2019) If you don’t care about your personal and professional growth, why should anyone else? As you probably know already, most of the volumes in the “HBR…

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The under-appreciated, immense potential power of metacognition

September 10, 2018

J. H. Flavell was probably the first to use the term metacognition when suggesting that it “refers to one’s knowledge concerning one’s own cognitive processes or anything related to them (e.g., the learning-relevant properties of information or data). For example,…

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