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Daniel Isenberg: An interview by Bob Morris

August 8, 2013

Daniel Isenberg was raised in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and graduated from the University of Oregon and then Harvard University in Social Psychology (Ph.D.), after living and working in Israel from 1972-1976. He taught organizational behavior at Harvard Business School, and…

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Andy Molinsky: An interview by Bob Morris

August 6, 2013

Andy Molinsky is an associate professor at Brandeis University’s International Business School, with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology. He is also the author of Global Dexterity: How to Adapt Behavior Across Cultures Without Losing Yourself in the…

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True Story: A book review by Bob Morris

July 17, 2013

True Story: How to Combine Story and Action to Transform Your Business Ty Montague Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How to avoid organizational metastasis, especially during the Age of Connected Consumers If you wish to create or increase demand for…

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Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid: A book review by Bob Morris

July 7, 2013

Worthless, Impossible, and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value Daniel Isenberg Harvard Business Review Press (2013) A brilliant analysis of entrepreneurship as “the contrarian perception, creation, and capture of extraordinary value” Let’s say that a Mount Rushmore…

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Dorie Clark: An interview by Bob Morris

July 2, 2013

Dorie Clark is a marketing strategy consultant and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and Forbes. Recognized as a “branding expert” by the Associated Press, she is the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future (Harvard…

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Keeping Up with the Quants: A book review by Bob Morris

June 22, 2013

Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim Harvard Business Review Press (2013) Almost everything most business leaders know about analytics they have learned from Tom Davenport and the material…

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Keeping Up with the Quants: A book review by Bob Morris

June 20, 2013

Keeping Up with the Quants: Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim Harvard Business Review Press (2013) What non-quants need to understand in order to take full advantage of the results that quantitative analysis…

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HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across: A book review by Bob Morris

June 5, 2013

HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across HBR Editors and Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How and why to manage up to nourish and manage across to connect extensively within and beyond the given enterprise This is one…

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Reinventing You: A book review by Bob Morris

May 28, 2013

Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future Dorie Clark Harvard Business Review Press (2013) “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” Oscar Wilde Don’t be deterred by the title. I wasn’t only because I hold Dorie Clark in such regard…

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Breaking Out: A book review by Bob Morris

May 25, 2013

Breaking Out: How to Build Influence in a World of Competing Ideas John Butman Harvard Business Review Press (2013) How the idea entrepreneur goes public, breaks out, and achieves influence (and how you can, too) is the subject of this…

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