Charles Darwin

Fish Can’t See Water: A book review by Bob Morris

October 28, 2013

Fish Can’t See Water: How National Culture Can Make or Break Your Corporate Strategy Kai Hammerich and Richard D Lewis John Wiley & Sons (2013) How and why “deep and often invisible natural programming” can affect the strategy execution of…

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Data is Worthless if You Don’t Communicate It

July 2, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tom Davenport for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR…

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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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Brilliant Blunders: A book review by Bob Morris

May 18, 2013

Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein – Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe Mario Livio Simon & Schuster (2013) How and why the blunders described in this book “have all, some way…

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The Future Arrived Yesterday: A book review by Bob Morris

March 16, 2013

The Future Arrived Yesterday: The Rise of the Protean Corporation and What It Means for You Michael Malone Crown Business (2009) The Protean Corporation: “A new business model for a new world” Once again, Charles Darwin’s explanation of the importance…

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The 3 Power Values

January 28, 2013

The 3 Power Values: How Commitment, Integrity, and Transparency Clear the Roadblocks to Performance David Gebler Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) How to meet the challenge of keeping organizational constants and variables in proper alignment In Leading Change, James O’Toole suggests…

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The Better Mousetrap: A book review by Bob Morris

December 9, 2012

The Better Mousetrap: Brand Invention in a Media Democracy Simon Pont Kogan Page (2012) “Reality is a collective hunch.” Lily Tomlin When I noted the subtitle of Simon Pont’s book, “Brand Invention in a Media of Democracy,” I immediately –…

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Resilience Quotations: Part 3

December 8, 2012

o “Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you…yet, someone survived…You can do anything you choose to do.” Maya Angelou o “It is not the…

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Adaptability: A book review by Bob Morris

October 4, 2012

Adaptability: The Art of Winning in an Age of Uncertainty Max Mckeown KoganPage (2012) “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to…

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Empathetic Marketing: A book review by Bob Morris

June 2, 2012

Empathetic Marketing: How to Satisfy the 6 Core Emotional Needs of Your Customers  Mark Ingwer Palgrave Macmillan (2012) How and why emotions and resulting behaviors are the foundation for satisfying complex psychological needs  I was curious to know when someone would combine insights from several quite different concepts…

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