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The Peter F. Drucker Reader: A book review by Bob Morris

January 20, 2017

The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking Harvard Business Review Editors Harvard Business Review Press (January 2017) Here’s the most important question that every executive must ask: “What must be done?” In my…

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Use Design Thinking to Build Commitment to a New Idea

January 19, 2017

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Roger L. Martin 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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What Jim Collins learned from Peter Drucker

January 16, 2017

Jim Collins provides the Foreword to the 50th anniversary edition of Peter Drucker’s classic, The Effective Executive, a book first published in 1967. Consider this passage: “Here are ten lessons I learned from Peter Drucker and this book, and that…

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Smart Collaboration: A book review by Bob Morris

January 14, 2017

Smart Collaboration: How Professionals and Their Firms Succeed by Breaking Down Silos Heidi K. Gardner Harvard Business Review Press (January 2017) How to establish or strengthen a workplace culture within which smart collaboration is most likely to thrive As I…

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Four Ways to Build Inspiration and Engagement in a Workplace Culture

January 6, 2017

In Time, Talent, Energy, Michael Mankins and Eric Garton point out that the more employees in a company can be effectively engaged and inspired, the higher the organization’s productive power becomes. “People who devote more of their individual discretionary energy…

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Stephen Heidari-Robinson and Suzanne Heywood on How to Get a Reorganization Right: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

January 4, 2017

Stephen Heidari-Robinson was a leader in McKinsey & Company’s organization practice, heading the firm’s work on energy-sector reorganizations and on the practicalities of implementing reorganizations across all sectors. Stephen was UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s energy and environment adviser. He…

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Stephen Heidari-Robinson and Suzanne Heywood on How to Get a Reorganization Right: Part 1 of a n interview by Bob Morris

December 18, 2016

Stephen Heidari-Robinson was a leader in McKinsey & Company’s organization practice, heading the firm’s work on energy-sector reorganizations and on the practicalities of implementing reorganizations across all sectors. Stephen was UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s energy and environment adviser. He…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads 2017: A book review by Bob Morris

November 25, 2016

HBR’s 10 Must Reads: 2017 Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (November 2016) Here’s another year’s worth of management wisdom, all in one place. This is the latest volume in a series of anthologies of articles selected by the editors…

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The Good Struggle: A book review by Bob Morris

November 23, 2016

The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World Joseph L. Badaracco Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How to “raise the odds of working successfully and responsibly in the exciting, uncertain, recombiant, market-driven world around us” I read this book…

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Defining Moments: A book review by Bob Morris

November 18, 2016

Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right Joseph L. Badaracco Harvard Business Review Press (1997) How to make decisions that could – and probably will — reveal a manager’s basic values and, in some cases, those of…

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