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Clayton Christensen on what disruptive innovation is…and isn’t

June 2, 2017

In Thinkers 50 Innovation: Breakthrough Thinking to Take Your Business to the Next Level, Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove examine the key insights of several of the world’s most influential thought leaders with regard to perhaps the most challenging business…

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The Four Lenses of Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

May 29, 2017

The Four Lenses of Innovation: A Power Tool for Creative Thinking Rowan Gibson John Wiley & Sons (2o15) How to establish a culture within which everyone’s abilities are free to enrich high-impact innovation throughout the enterprise First of all, I…

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HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: A book review by Bob Morris

February 18, 2017

HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff Harvard Business Review Press (2017) “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” Steve Jobs Most of…

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Spark: A book review by Bob Morris

January 18, 2017

Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success Angie Morgan, Courtney Lynch, and Sean Lynch Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (January 2017) Without ignition, nothing happens and nothing gets done To what does the title of this book refer? Its…

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Bernhard Schroder’s Simply Briliant: A book review by Bob Morris

November 3, 2016

Simply Brilliant: Powerful Techniques to Unlock Your Creativity and Spark New Ideas Bernhard Schroeder AMACOM (October 2016) “Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler.” Albert Einstein In Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All, Tom Kelley…

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Here’s an organizational self-assessment of potentially great value

October 23, 2016

In Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley, Antonio García Martinéz introduces what is — at least for me — a new metaphor: the chaos monkey. He explains it as a mechanism by which to “test a…

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A crash course on creative thinking

October 18, 2016

After introducing eight “powerful, surprisingly simple” steps to creativity, Keith Sawyer observes in Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity: “Exceptional creators often zig zag through all eight steps, in varying order, every day. That’s part of the secret.…

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Stan Beecham on “Elite Minds”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

October 11, 2016

Stan Beecham is a sport psychologist and director and founding member of the Leadership Resource Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Since 1998, he has been helping organizations maximize performance and realize the full potential of their human resources. Senior executives utilize…

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Elite Minds: A book review by Bob Morris

September 20, 2016

Elite Minds: How Winners Think Differently to Create a Competitive Edge and Maximize Success Stan Beecham McGraw-Hill (September 2016) If the mind is what the brain does, this is how and why it controls the body In the title of…

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The Big Thing: A book review by Bob Morris

September 4, 2016

The Big Thing: How to Complete Your Creative Project Even if You’re a Lazy, Self-Doubting Procrastinator Like Me Phyllis Korkki HarperCollins (August 2016) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford To what does…

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