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When Everyone Leads: A book review by Bob Morris

February 6, 2023

  When Everyone Leads: How The Toughest Challenges Get Seen and Solved Ed O’Malley and Julia Fabris McBride Bard Press (January 2023) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”  African Proverb…

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Culture Is the Way: A book review by Bob Morris

February 3, 2023

Culture Is the Way: How Leaders at Every Level Build an Organization for Speed, Impact, and ExcellenceMatt Mayberry Wiley (February 2023) “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”  Peter Drucker My take is that prevailing values in a workplace will always be…

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Jack Welch’s Approach to Leadership

January 16, 2023

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Claudio Fernandez Araoz 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 email…

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Fit to Compete: A book review by Bob Morris

January 24, 2020

Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s Capabilities Are the Key to a Winning Strategy Michael Beer Harvard Business Review Press (January 2020) How healthy are your organization’s vital signs? Unless there is effective communication between and among…

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The Amazon Management System: A book review by Bob Morris

December 11, 2019

The Amazon Management System: The Ultimate Digital Business Engine That Creates Extraordinary Value for Both Customers and Shareholders Ram Charan and Julia Yang Ideapress Publishing (December 2019) The “sercret sauce” of one of the most successful organizations thoughout the history…

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An executive’s guide to machine learning

February 6, 2017

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Dorian Pyle and Cristina San Jose for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. They explain why machine learning is no longer the preserve of artificial-intelligence researchers and born-digital…

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People Analytics in the Era of Big Data: A book review by Bob Morris

June 4, 2016

People Analytics in the Era of Big Data: Changing the Way You Attract, Acquire, Develop, and Retain Talent Jean Paul Isson and Jesse Harriott John Wiley & Sons (2016) Just about everything you need to know to attract, hire, develop,…

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Great Innovators Create the Future , Manage the Present, and Selectively Forget the Past

April 29, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Vijay Govindarajan for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. The material is adapted from The Three-Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation (Harvard Business Review Press April 2016). To…

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George E.L. Barbee: Part 2 0f an interview by Bob Morris

February 12, 2016

George E. L. Barbee is one of the original Batten Fellow faculty members (along with Jim Collins, Malcolm Gladwell and Jim Gilmore) at top-ranked University of Virginia Darden School of Business, and has been teaching innovation for the past 15…

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George E.L. Barbee: Part 2 0f an interview by Bob Morris

February 6, 2016

George E. L. Barbee is one of the original Batten Fellow faculty members (along with Jim Collins, Malcolm Gladwell and Jim Gilmore) at top-ranked University of Virginia Darden School of Business, and has been teaching innovation for the past 15…

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