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Gamify: A book review by Bob Morris

May 17, 2014

Gamify: How Gamification Motivates People to Do Extraordinary Things Brian Burke Bibliomotion (2014) How and why focusing on gamification can help organizations to motivate their people to achieve shared goals I was introduced to game theory when I enrolled in…

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Christine Bader’s “Manifesto for the Corporate Idealist”

May 6, 2014

Christine Bader is a nonresident senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke. She recently completed a term as Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative for business and human rights. From 1999-2008, Bader worked for BP…

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The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: A book review by Bob Morris

March 14, 2014

The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil Christine Bader Bibliomotion (2014) “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”: A tale of two companies and more, much more First of all, many people…

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Relevance: A book review by Bob Morris

March 3, 2014

Relevance: The Power to Change Minds and Behavior and Stay Ahead of the Competition Andrea Coville with Paul B. Brown Bibliomotion (2014) How to forge a lasting bond with the people you need to influence to create and sustain a…

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How to Build Trust Through Conversational Intelligence

February 6, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article by Judith E. Glaser for the Vistage blog. To read the complete article, check out other resources, and learn more about Vistage, please click here. * * * Fear somehow touches almost every…

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The CIO Paradox: A book review by Bob Morris

October 3, 2013

The CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictions of IT Leadership Martha Heller bibliomotion (2013) The CIO “for all seasons” Rather than one paradox, as this book’s title suggests, Martha Heller rigorously and eloquently examines several separate but related paradoxes: Cost versus…

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Lisa Bodell: An interview by Bob Morris

September 27, 2013

A globally recognized innovation leader and futurist, Lisa Bodell founded futurethink in 2003 to provide a simple approach to the otherwise complicated topic of innovation. Working with leading brands such as Starwood, Merck, and Sprint, futurethink has become the largest…

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Lisa Bodell on “The Most Lethal Culture Killers”

September 17, 2013

In her recently published book, Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start an Innovation Revolution (Bibliomotion 2013), Lisa Bodell suggests there are three kinds of culture: robust (“zombie-free”), negative, and complacent. She also identifies five especially lethal “culture killers”:…

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Kevin Allen: Second interview, by Bob Morris

August 27, 2013

Kevin Allen is Founder & Chairman of business transformation company, [re:kap], that counts Burberry, M&C Saatchi, Nokia, Omnicom, Rolls-Royce, Smythson and Swedbank among its global clients. He spent over two decades on the front lines of business development at the…

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The Chocolate Conversation: A book review by Bob Morris

August 15, 2013

The Chocolate Conversation: Lead Bittersweet Change, Transform Your Business Rose Fass Bibliomotion (2013) Unless and until you communicate clearly and honestly with yourself, you probably won’t be able to do so with others. As I began to read this book,…

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