Harvard University

NUMBERSENSE: A book review by Bob Morris

July 30, 2013

Numbersense: How to Use Big Data to Your Advantage Kaiser Fung McGraw-Hill (2013) How to cope with an information blizzard that has become a data tsunami I agree with an observation by Mark Twain: “Figures often beguile me, particularly when…

Read More

Bill Schley: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

June 27, 2013

Bill Schley is an award-winning branding expert, author, speaker and a life-long entrepreneur. He is President and Co-Founder of the firm BrandTeamSix and is known for creating the Dominant Selling Idea at some of the world’s most successful companies. He…

Read More

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…

Read More

Dennis Perkins: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

April 23, 2013

Dennis Perkins is Chief Executive Officer of The Syncretics Group, a consulting firm devoted to effective leadership in demanding environments—especially those characterized by uncertainty, ambiguity, and rapid change. Perkins has worked for over twenty-five years as an advisor to senior…

Read More

Mark Goulston and John Ullmen: An interview by Bob Morris

March 18, 2013

Mark Goulston, M.D., is a prominent psychiatrist, business advisor, and executive coach. He is co-founder of Heartfelt Leadership whose mission is: “Daring to Care.” He is the author of the bestselling Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to…

Read More

Maria Konnikova: An interview by Bob Morris

February 26, 2013

Maria Konnikova is the author of the New York Times bestseller, MASTERMIND: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. She writes the weekly “Literally Psyched” column for Scientific American, where she explores the intersection of literature and psychology, and formerly wrote the…

Read More

How To Make Your Employees Happier

February 4, 2013

Here is an abbreviated version of an article written by Anne Kreamer and featured in Fast Company magazine. As she explains, workplace happiness increases productivity, stimulates creativity, and makes employees more willing to take risks. She examines how some executives…

Read More

The power of allophilia

January 2, 2013

In the Introduction to Crossing the Divide, published by Harvard University Press (2009), Todd L. Pittinsky explains that allophilia is “a term for positive feelings of kinship, comfort, affection, engagement, and enthusiasm concerning members of a group different from one’s…

Read More

Peter B. Vaill on coping with “permanent white water” within a competitive environment

November 8, 2012

An interview of Peter B. Vaill conducted by Kerry A. Bunker and Laura Curnutt Santana is included in Extraordinary Leadership: Addressing the Gaps in Senior Executive Development published by Jossey-Bass (2010). Here is a brief excerpt: “By ‘permanent white water,’…

Read More

Why Rooster Cogburn would probably get into Harvard

October 27, 2012

In one of his novels, True Grit (1968), Charles Portis focuses on a U.S. Marshal named Reuben J. (“Rooster) Cogburn who is described as fearless and tenacious when overcoming all manner of dangers while pursuing criminals such as Tom Chaney. There…

Read More