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Get Out of Your Comfort Zone: A Guide for the Terrified

January 28, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Andy Molinsky for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR…

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Roger Martin on “Five Initiatives Needed in a Designer-Unfriendly Environment”

December 13, 2013

In 1969, Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon noted: “Engineering, medicine, business, architecture, and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent — not with how things are, but with they might be — in short, with design. Every…

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Tilt: A book review by Bob Morris

November 14, 2013

Tilt: Shifting Your Strategy from Products to Customers Niraj Dawar Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How and why downstream, customer-led activities and preferences will dominate the competitive landscape in the future Niraj Dawar offers an exceptionally thoughtful and thought-provoking examination…

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Joseph L. Badaracco: An interview by Bob Morris

October 28, 2013

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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The Good Struggle: A book review by Bob Morris

October 16, 2013

The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World Joseph L. Badaracco Harvard Business Review Press (2013) A brilliant response to the “enduring questions of responsible leadership” in the market-driven world in which we live and work Many years ago,…

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The CIO Paradox: A book review by Bob Morris

October 3, 2013

The CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictions of IT Leadership Martha Heller bibliomotion (2013) The CIO “for all seasons” Rather than one paradox, as this book’s title suggests, Martha Heller rigorously and eloquently examines several separate but related paradoxes: Cost versus…

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The Solution Revolution: A book review by Bob Morris

September 5, 2013

The Solution Revolution: How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society’s Toughest Problems William D. Eggers and Paul Macmillan Harvard Business Review Press (2013) Here’s how to tap “trillions of dollars in potential value at the…

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(Forget a Mentor) Find a Sponsor: A book review by Bob Morris

September 1, 2013

(Forget a Mentor) Find a Sponsor: The New Way to Fast-Track Your Career Sylvia Ann Hewlett Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How and why mentors help prepare for opportunities but sponsors create privileged access to them; both are invaluable. The…

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