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Reorg: A book review by Bob Morris

November 15, 2016

Reorg: How to Get It Right Stephen Heidari-Robinson and Suzanne Heywood Harvard Business Review Press (November 2016) How to unlock latent value, especially in a rapidly changing competitive environment I recall reading somewhere that the TI-class supertanker ships must travel…

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Joseph Badaracco on making smart decisions “in the gray area”: An interview by Bob Morris

October 16, 2016

Joseph L. Badaracco is the John Shad Professor of Business Ethics at Harvard Business School. He has taught courses on business ethics, strategy, and management in the School’s MBA and executive programs. Badaracco is a graduate of St. Louis University,…

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

October 8, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Chris Zook 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 alerts,…

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Stop Spending, Start Managing: A book review by Bob Morris

September 7, 2016

Stop Spending, Start Managing: Strategies to Transform Wasteful Habits Hardcover Tanya Menon and Leigh Thompson Harvard Business Review Press (August 2016) To paraphrase Aristotle, “We are what we repeatedly do. Frugality, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Tanya…

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The Best Companies Invest Aggressively in These 3 Areas

August 6, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Chris Zook 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 alerts, please…

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Get the Crowd to Weigh In on Strategic Decisions

July 12, 2016

  Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. * * * In most organizations authority for the most important strategic…

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The 3 Things That Keep Companies Growing

June 29, 2016

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Chris Zook and James Allen 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…

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Matchmakers: A book review by Bob Morris

June 20, 2016

Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee Harvard Business Review Press (June 2016) How to help those with a need for a product or service to connect with those who can provide it, The…

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Execution Excellence: A book review by Bob Morris

June 16, 2016

Execution Excellence: Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard Sanjiv Anand John Wiley & Sons (2016) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison David P. Norton and Robert S. Kaplan co-authored an article, “The Balanced Scorecard: Measures That Drive Performance,”…

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The Founder’s Mentality: A book review by Bob Morris

June 12, 2016

The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth Chris Zook and James Allen Harvard Business Review Press (June 2016) How to avoid or resolve three organizational crises that can occur after start-up and early-growth phases In 1865,…

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