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Friend & Foe: A book review by Bob Morris

October 6, 2015

Friend & Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both Adam Galinsky and Maurice Schweitzer Crown Business (2015) How to decide when to cooperate and when to compete…and how to become better at both I…

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Grit to Great: A book review by Bob Morris

September 14, 2015

Grit to Great: How Perseverance, Passion, and Pluck Take You from Ordinary to Extraordinary Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval Crown Business (2015) “Champions get up when they can’t.” Jack Dempsey Angela Lee Duckworth is among the sources that Linda…

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Creative Strategy Generation: A book review by Bob Morris

August 17, 2015

Creative Strategy Generation: Using Passion and Creativity to Compose Business Strategies That Inspire Action and Growth Bob Caporale McGraw-Hill (2015) “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” Michael Porter Throughout the last several decades, I have been…

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Marshall Goldsmith on “10 Belief Triggers that Sabotage Your Success”

July 26, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from a blog post by Marshall Goldsmith in which he explains how and why some of our inner beliefs can trigger failure before it happens. They sabotage change by cancelling its possibility! Discover how to…

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A mini-interview of Bernie Roth, author of The Achievement Habit

July 2, 2015

I have just read Bernard Roth‘s The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life and will soon review it. Meanwhile, here is a mini-interview of Roth by his friend and colleague, David Kelley. Thank you,…

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Zero to One: A book review by Bob Morris

June 2, 2015

Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future Peter Thiel Crown Business (2014) How and why, “Only by seeing our world anew…can we both re-create it and preserve it for the future.” In the first…

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Better and Faster: A book review by Bob Morris

April 16, 2015

Better and Faster: The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas Jeremy Gutsche Crown Business (2015) How to convert almost any workplace into a “hunting ground” for breakthrough ideas In his latest book, Hunting in a Farmer’s World: Celebrating the Mind of…

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Becoming Steve Jobs: A book review by Bob Morris

April 12, 2015

Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli Crown Business (2015) The Steve Jobs most people did not know…until now In Becoming Steve Jobs, Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli attempt…

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Perspectives on Steve Jobs from those who knew him best

April 9, 2015

With all due respect to Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Steve Jobs, Brent Schlender developed a professional and personal relationship with Jobs over a period of about 25 years and co-authored a book with Rick Tetzeli, Becoming Steve Jobs: The…

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The Steve Jobs most people did not know…until now

April 3, 2015

I have just read and am now in the process of re-reading Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader, co-authored by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli and published by Crown Business (March 2015). Although…

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