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Why “Reply All” Is a Risk Worth Taking

August 9, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Tim Brown for LinkedIn. To read the completer article and check out others, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * * When was the last time you…

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Lewis Schiff: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

June 5, 2013

Lewis Schiff is the executive director of Inc. Business Owners Council, a membership organization for Inc. Magazine’s top entrepreneurs and owners of closely-held family businesses and maintains a blog about behavioral entrepreneurship on Inc.com. His new book, Business Brilliant: Surprising…

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Lewis Schiff: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

May 31, 2013

Lewis Schiff is the executive director of Inc. Business Owners Council, a membership organization for Inc. Magazine’s top entrepreneurs and owners of closely-held family businesses and maintains a blog about behavioral entrepreneurship on Inc.com. His new book, Business Brilliant: Surprising…

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Clayton Christensen on “The Discipline of Managing Disruption”

May 1, 2013

To Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?, a primary task of leadership is asking questions that anticipate great challenges. Here is a brief excerpt from an interview conducted by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine,…

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Creative Intelligence: A book review by Bob Morris

April 27, 2013

Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire Bruce Nussbaum HarperBusiness (2013) How we can “increase our creative ability by learning from others, collaborating, sharing.” I selected one of Bruce Nussbaum’s observations to serve as the title of…

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Google’s Greatest Innovation May Be Its Management Practice

April 23, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Bruce Nussbaum for Fast Company magazine. To read the complete article, check out others, obtain subscription information, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * * The announcement…

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Business Brilliant: A book review by Bob Morris

April 22, 2013

Business Brilliant: Surprising Lessons from the Greatest Self-Made Business Icons Lewis Schiff HarperBusiness (2013) Seven counterintuitive principles that can help you to achieve great success, however you define it According to Lewis Schiff, this book tells “the story of how…

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Change by Design: A book review by Bob Morris

February 8, 2013

Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation Tim Brown HarperBusiness (2009) How to use design thinking to convert a need into a demand I recently read two books (this one written with Barry Katz and Roger…

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Cynthia A. Montgomery: An interview by Bob Morris

December 14, 2012

Cynthia A. Montgomery is the Timken Professor of Business Administration and immediate past chair of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, where she’s been on the faculty for 20 years. 
One of her recent assignments has been working with…

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Donald Sull responds to an especially important question: “How can I recognize a golden opportunity from fools gold?”

November 19, 2012

Here is a brief portion from material on Donald Sull‘s website. To check out a wealth of resources, please click here. * * * In terms of knowing whether an opportunity is as golden as it seems, below are some…

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