Jack Welch

Pat Lencioni’s Latest Point of View: The Lost Art of Simplicity

October 26, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from Pat Lencioni‘s latest Point of View. To read the complete article and check out other resources, please click here. * * * This is going to be a difficult POV to write, because making…

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What? More terrific quotations? You betcha!

September 26, 2013

I am an incurable collector of quotations and now share another group, most of which are new to me. o “I can’t recall a time that was as volatile, complex, ambiguous, and tumultuous. As one successful executive put it, ‘If…

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Bruce DelMonico: An Interview of the MBA Gatekeeper To Yale’s School of Management

September 10, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an interview of Bruce DelMonico, director of admissions at Yale’s School of Management featured in an article by John A, Byrne for Poets & Quants, a social network. Its goal is to create a helpful…

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The UnStoppables: A book review by Bob Morris

May 23, 2013

The UnStoppables: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial Power Bill Schley John Wiley & Sons (2013) “We take good care of our people, they take good care of our customers, and our customers take good care of our shareholders.” Former chairman and CEO…

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Win-Win Partnerships: A book review by Bob Morris

March 28, 2013

Win-Win Partnerships: Be on the Cutting Edge with Synergistic Coaching Steven J. Stowell and Matt M. Starcevich CMOE Press (1996) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison Do not be deterred by the fact that this book was first published…

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Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: A book review by Bob Morris

February 27, 2013

Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus Michael A. Roberto Pearson Prentice Hall (2006) Note: I recently read this book while preparing for an interview and found its insights even more relevant and…

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The Architecture of Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

February 5, 2013

The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations Josh Lerner Harvard Business Review Press (2012) How to combine two traditional models for innovation “within a powerful system that consistently and efficiently produces new ideas” By nature, books about innovation…

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The Rebel Entrepreneur: A book review by Bob Morris

August 22, 2012

The Rebel Entrepreneur: Rewriting the Business Rule Book Jonathan Moules Kogan-Page (2012) How and why rebel entrepreneurs “create the real growth drivers of an economy” Rebels are iconoclasts, mavericks, outliers, etc. By nature, their thinking and initiatives are unconventional, unorthodox, and quite often disruptive…

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Donald N. Thompson: An interview by Bob Morris

July 10, 2012

Don Thompson is an economist and professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. He has taught at Harvard Business School and the London School of Economics. He is author of nine books, including The $12 Million Stuffed Shark:…

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The Productivity Impact of Engaging Your Workforce

May 31, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Mike Marker and featured at the Organizational Excellence Journal‘s website. In it, he suggests “nine simple ways to positively affect engagement.” To read the complete article, check out others, learn more about…

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