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The Unfair Advantage: A book review by Bob Morris

June 23, 2022

The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba St. Martin’s Press (June 2022) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right. “ Henry Ford The title and…

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HBR’S 10 Must Reads on Change Management Vol. 2: A book review by Bob Morris

December 8, 2021

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Change Management, Vol.2 Various Contributors in Collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (2021) “If that’s way you’ve always done it, it’s probably wrong.” Charles Kettering This volume is one of several in a…

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Martin Reeves and Jack Fuller on high-impact creative thinking: An interview by Bob Morris

July 18, 2021

Martin Reeves is Chairman of The BCG Henderson Institute, BCG’s think tank on strategy and management. He researches, publishes and pilots new thinking on business challenges, drawing upon both innovations in business and fields such as biology, computer science and…

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Redefining Possible: A book review by Bob Morris

January 20, 2021

Redefining Possible: Proven Strategies to Break Belief Barriers and Create Your New Normal Ron Alford and Dustin Hillis SouthwesternBooks (January 2021) “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” Mark…

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Recommendation Engines: A book review by Bob Morris

December 12, 2020

Recommendation Engines (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) Michael Schrage The MIT Press (September 2020) How and why recommendation engines can help to create more valuable people I have not read in recent years a more entertaining or a more…

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Michael Schrage on how recommendation engines transform self-awareness, self-discovery, and self-knowledge

December 4, 2020

In the latest of his several brilliant books, Recommendation Engines, Michael Schrage examines what is perhaps the single most influential form of mass communication. “The right recommendation at the right time is exactly what an Amazon, a Netflix, a Facebook,…

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The Infinite Leader: A book review by Bob Morris

October 31, 2020

The Infinite Leader: Balancing the Demands of Modern Business Leadership Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren Kogan Page INSPIRE (October 2020) How to answer these key questions: How much of WHAT is needed WHERE? WHEN? Also, WHY? Long ago I realized…

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Lead. Care. Win.: A book review by Bob Morris

October 10, 2020

Lead Care Win: How to Become a Leader Who Matters Dan Pontefract Figure 1 Publishing (September 2020) “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Eppie Lederer (Ann Landers) I have read and reviewed each of Dan Pontefract’s three previously…

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It’s All Possible: A book review by Bob Morris

August 5, 2020

It’s All Possible: How to lead an epic life and unleash the high performance hero within you Rob Hartnett Major Street Publishing (October 2019) Street smarts on steroids Years ago during an interview by Richard Brown, Rod Steiger was asked…

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Here are thought-provoking observations

April 9, 2020

Here are some quotations from a wide variety of sources. They have nothing in common in terms of subject matter but all help us to understand human nature, even if only a little bit better. “A man may do an…

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