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Kristi Hedges: An Interview by Bob Morris

June 25, 2023

Kristi Hedges is a leadership coach, speaker and author. In her 20-year career working with leaders to help them communicate more effectively she’s encountered every personality type imaginable, yet remains more than a little passionate that anyone can learn presence. Her…

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Monopolies & Tech Giants: Insights from HBR: A book review by Bob Morris

November 27, 2021

Monopolies & Tech Giants: Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2020) How those threatened by tech “giants” can compete with them in a VUCA marketplace This is one of the first volumes…

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Recommendation Engines: A book review by Bob Morris

December 12, 2020

Recommendation Engines (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Michael Schrage The MIT Press (September 2020) How and why recommendation engines can help to create more valuable people I have not read in recent years a more entertaining or a more…

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The “secret sauce” of Google’s idea generation

September 11, 2019

In Reinventing the Organization, Arthur Yeung and Dave Ulrich explain “how companies can deliver radically greater value in fast-changing markets.” They focus on several companies, including Amazon, Facebook, and Google, in the U.S.; Alibaba, Huawei, and Tencent in China; and…

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How Amazon Comes Up with Its Best Ideas

September 6, 2019

In Reinventing the Organization, Arthur Heung and Dave Ulrich explain “how companies can deliver radically greater value in fast-changing markets.” They focus on several companies, including Amazoin, Facebook, and Google, in the U.S.; Alibaba, Huawei, and Tencent in China; and…

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The Big Nine: A book review by Bob Morris

March 10, 2019

The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity Amy Webb Public Affairs (March 2019) So many questions: Great peril or great opportunity? Both? Neither? Who decides? As author Shoshana Zuboff explains, The Age of…

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Cal Newport on the power of decluttering

February 15, 2019

In Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Mostly Noisy World,  Cal Newport explains how and why the impact of technological tools on most people’s personal lives “is complicated by the fact that these tools mix harm with benefits.…

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Fair Shot: A book review by Bob Morris (2/20)

February 26, 2018

Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn Chris Hughes St. Martin’s Press (February 20, 2018) Why, “dollar for dollar, the most effective intervention for economic justice is the simplest”: guaranteed income Opinions are divided — sometimes sharply divided —…

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Smart Leaders Focus on Execution First and Strategy Second

December 5, 2017

  Here is an excerpt from an article written by Rosabeth Moss Kanter for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, obtain subscription information, and receive HBR…

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What it takes to become a trillion-dollar company

August 10, 2017

In The Four, published by Portfolio/Penguin Random House (October 2017), Scott Galloway examines “four technology giants [that] have inspired more joy, connections, prosperity, and discovery than any [other] entity in history. Along the way, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google have…

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