Harvard Business Review Press

Change by Design: A book review by Bob Morris

June 17, 2020

Change by Design, Revised and Updated: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation Tim Brown Harvard Business Review Press (2019) Even the best books about change also need to be revised and updated, and by design In A Fiery…

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Unleashed: A Book Review by Bob Morris

June 15, 2020

Unleashed: The Unapologetic Leader’s Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You Frances Frei and Anne Morriss Harvard Business Review Press (June 2020) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Theodore Roosevelt Robert K. Greenleaf…

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Doing Agile Right: A book review by Bob Morris

June 8, 2020

Doing Agile Right: Transformation Without Chaos  Darrell K. Rigby, Sarah Elk, and Steven H. Berez Harvard Business Review Press (May 2020) “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change.”  Mohandas Gandhi Gandhi achieved change of…

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How Finance Works: A book review by Bob Morris

June 1, 2020

How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart About the Numbers Mihir Desai Harvard Business Review Press (April 2019) An offering of essential financial information on the other side of complexity Long ago, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. said he…

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Strategic Analytics: A book review by Bob Morris

May 28, 2020

Strategic Analytics: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2020) What makes a company’s strategy or business model possible? This is one of the first volumes in a new series published by Harvard…

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The Three Box Solution Playbook: A book review by Bob Morris

May 18, 2020

Alexandra The Three Box Solution Playbook: Tools and Tactics for Creating Your Company’s Strategy Vijay Govindarajan and Manish Tangri Harvard Business Review Press (May 2020) “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”  Leonardo da Vinci This is a companion to The Three-Box…

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HBR Guide to Performance Management: A book review by Bob Morris

May 15, 2020

HBR Guide to Performance Management HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (July 2017) Here is a brilliant introduction to the essential elements of performance management As you probably know already, most of the volumes in the “HBR Guide to” series…

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Harvard Business Review Leader’s Handbook: A book review by Bob Morris

May 7, 2020

The Harvard Business Review Leader’s Handbook: Make an Impact, Inspire Your Organization, and Get to the Next Level Ron Ashkenas and Brook Manville Harvard Business Review Press (October 2018) “Act as if what you do makes a difference. Because it…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Managing People (Vol. 2): A book review by Bob Morris

April 24, 2020

HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Managing People (Vol. 2) Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (March 2010) “If you put fences around people, you get sheep. GIve people the room they need.” William L. McKnight I selected a Dale Carnegie…

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Lead from the Future: A book review by Bob Morris

April 21, 2020

Lead from the Future: How to Turn Visionary Thinking into Breakthrough Growth Mark W. Johnson and Josh Suskewicz Harvard Business Review Press (April 2010) “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”  Søren Kierkegaard After several…

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