Charles Darwin

Neuroscience for Leaders: A book review by Bob Morris

July 27, 2016

Neuroscience for Leaders: A Brain-Adaptive Leadership Approach Nikolaos Dimitriadis and Alexandros Psychogios KoganPage (2016) “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable.” Charles Darwin…

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OutManeuver: A book review by Bob Morris

March 28, 2016

OutManeuver: OutThink—Don’t OutSpend Jeffrey Phillips and Alex Verjovsky Xlibris (January 2016) How leveraging maneuver strategies and tactics can establi As Jeffrey Phillips and Alex Verjovsky observe, “When speed and agility are important, maneuver is far more attractive than attrition, especially…

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Inflection Point: A book review by Bob Morris

November 14, 2015

Inflection Point: How the Convergence of Cloud, Mobility, Apps, and Data Will Shape the Future of Business Scott Stawski Pearson (2015) Strategic inflection point: “When a company’s fundamentals are about to change significantly, for better or worse.” Andy Grove It…

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Mind Change: A book review by Bob Morris

March 11, 2015

Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains Susan A. Greenfield Random House (2015) A brilliant examination of “what is surely the most far reaching and exciting challenge of our time.” If the mind is what…

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The Future of Work: A book review by Bob Morris

December 10, 2014

The Future of Work: Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization Jacob Morgan John Wiley & Sons (2014) The future workplace environment: one within which personal growth and professional development are most likely to flourish Years…

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: A book review by Bob Morris

March 30, 2014

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers Ben Horowitz HarperBusiness (2014) One man’s thoughts and feelings about making especially difficult decisions and resolving especially difficult situations Up front: I think the word…

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Ready to Be a Thought Leader? A book review by Bob Morris

January 29, 2014

Ready to Be a Thought Leader? How to Increase Your Influence, Impact, and Success Denise Brosseau Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Brand (2013) If you have ideas that are of value to others, you are a thought leader. Throughout history, there have been…

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Big Bang Disruption: A book review by Bob Morris

January 13, 2014

Big Bang Disruption: Business Survival in the Age of Constant Innovation Larry Downes and Paul Nunes Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2014) About these highly disruptive innovations: There’s some really great news and there’s also some really terrible news…. Those who have…

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Making Habits, Breaking Habits

January 7, 2014

Making Habits, Breaking Habits: How To Make Changes That Stick Jeremy Dean DeCapo Press/Member of Perseus Books Group (2013) How to avoid or eliminate self-defeating habits while developing others that accelerate personal growth and professional development The material provided is…

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Tim Brown on “The Need for More Darwin and Less Newton in Our Approach to Design”

December 18, 2013

In 1969, Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon noted: “Engineering, medicine, business, architecture, and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent — not with how things are, but with they might be — in short, with design. Every…

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