Harvard Business Review Press

Bring Your Brain to Work: A book review by Bob Morris

June 19, 2019

Bring Your Brain to Work: Using Cognitive Science to Get a Job, Do It Well, and Advance Your Career Art  Markham Harvard Business Review Press (June 2019) How cognitive science can help accelerate personal growth and professional development Briefly, cognitive…

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Innovation Capital: A book review by Bob Morris

June 8, 2019

Innovation Capital: How to Compete–and Win–Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders Jeff Dyer, Nathan Furr, and Curtis Lefrandt Harvard Business Review Press (June 2019) How to secure the necessary resources to turn novel and risky ideas into reality As Jeff…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Diversity: A book review by Bob Morris

May 26, 2019

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Diversity Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (May 2019) “Diversity: The art of thinking independently in collaboration.” Malcolm Forbes This is one in a series of volumes that anthologizes what the editors of the Harvard Business…

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Everyday Chaos: A book review by Bob Morris

May 17, 2019

Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility David Weinberger Harvard Business Review Press (May 2019) Welcome to VUCA on steroids As David Weinberger suggests, “The aim of this book is to reveal a…

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HBR Guide to Your Professional Growth: A book review by Bob Morris

May 6, 2019

HBR Guide to Your Professional Growth Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2019) If you don’t care about your personal and professional growth, why should anyone else? As you probably know already, most of the volumes in the “HBR…

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HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically: A book review by Bob Morris

April 29, 2019

HBR Guide to Thinking Strategically Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (January 2019) “We did what all wise men do. We began at the end.”  Menachem Begin Prime Minister Begin’s comment was his response when asked how he and President…

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Master Your Next Move: A book review by Bob Morris

April 18, 2019

Master Your Next Move: The Essential Companion to The First 90 Days Michael D. Watkins Harvard Business Review Press (April 2019) In business, not every “journey” follows only one course. Here’s a map and compass for eight. Many of those…

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Nine Lies About Work: A book review by Bob Morris

April 11, 2019

Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall Harvard Business Review Press (April 2019) Why making the world a better place requires the courage and wit to see it as it…

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The defining characteristics of a “best team”

April 1, 2019

In an appendix to Nine Lies About Work, Roanne Bisby Davis and Ashley Goodall explain, “Four years ago, the human resources team at Cisco set out to measure the world of work as carefully and reliably as possible. Since then,…

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Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic on six data-driven lessons in leadership

March 24, 2019

Last year, U.S. companies spent about $20-BILLION on leadership development programs that involve earning business degrees, onsite classrooms and workshops, and self-directed instruction. The meager ROI is in large measure explained by what James O’Toole so aptly characterizes as “the…

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