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Keeping Up with the Quants: A book review by Bob Morris

June 22, 2013

Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim Harvard Business Review Press (2013) Almost everything most business leaders know about analytics they have learned from Tom Davenport and the material…

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Dave Ulrich: A third interview by Bob Morris

June 21, 2013

Dave Ulrich is a Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and a partner at the RBL Group, a consulting firm focused on helping organizations and leaders deliver value. He studies how organizations build capabilities of leadership,…

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Keeping Up with the Quants: A book review by Bob Morris

June 20, 2013

Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim Harvard Business Review Press (2013) What non-quants need to understand in order to take full advantage of the results that quantitative analysis…

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Mario Livio: An interview by Bob Morris

June 15, 2013

Mario Livio is an internationally known astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), the institute which conducts the scientific program of the Hubble Space Telescope, and will conduct the scientific program of the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope. He…

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Leon M. Hielkema: An interview by Bob Morris

June 11, 2013

Leon M. Hielkema has more than 15 years of international experience in developing, executing, and evaluating strategic change projects. He has successfully coached many internal professionals over the years and is a featured speaker and trainer. His book Strategic Management…

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Ray Attiyah: An interview by Bob Morris

June 8, 2013

Ray Attiyah is an entrepreneur, innovator, and author as well as founder & CIO of Definity Partners (a training, process and leadership improvement firm who works primarily with mid-sized manufacturing companies). As the son of a math teacher Ray was…

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Lewis Schiff: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

June 5, 2013

Lewis Schiff is the executive director of Inc. Business Owners Council, a membership organization for Inc. Magazine’s top entrepreneurs and owners of closely-held family businesses and maintains a blog about behavioral entrepreneurship on Inc.com. His new book, Business Brilliant: Surprising…

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Lewis Schiff: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

May 31, 2013

Lewis Schiff is the executive director of Inc. Business Owners Council, a membership organization for Inc. Magazine’s top entrepreneurs and owners of closely-held family businesses and maintains a blog about behavioral entrepreneurship on Inc.com. His new book, Business Brilliant: Surprising…

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David Wethey: An interview by Bob Morris

May 30, 2013

After graduating in PPE from Jesus College, Oxford, David Wethey joined AC Nielsen in 1965, where he presented Marketing Research to leading marketing companies. However, the London agency world beckoned and in 1968 David joined Pritchard Wood (the birthplace of…

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Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams: A book review by Bob Morris

May 9, 2013

Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams: How You and Your Team Get Unstuck to Get Results Roger Schwarz Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.” Kenyan Proverb The last time I checked, Amazon offers 52,820 books for sale in…

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