James O’Toole

Never Be Closing: A book review by Bob Morris

August 22, 2014

Never Be Closing: How to Sell Better Without Screwing Your Clients, Your Colleagues, or Yourself Tim Hurson and Tim Dunne Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2014) How and why “Productive Thinking” can accelerate personal growth and professional development In the film version…

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Michael Nanfito: An interview by Bob Morris

August 19, 2014

Michael Nanfito is the executive director at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE). Mr. Nanfito sets the vision and strategic direction for NITLE, working closely the member community. He has a background in networked information resources and…

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Linda Henman: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

August 12, 2014

Linda Henman is one of those rare experts who can say she’s a coach, consultant, speaker, and author. For more than 30 years, she has worked with Fortune 500 Companies and small businesses that want to think strategically, grow dramatically,…

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Linda D. Henman: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

August 5, 2014

Linda D. Henman is one of those rare experts who can say she’s a coach, consultant, speaker, and author. For more than 30 years, she has worked with Fortune 500 Companies and small businesses that want to think strategically, grow…

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James Kerr: An interview by Bob Morris

August 3, 2014

James M. Kerr is a management consultant and organizational behaviorist. He specializes in strategic planning, corporate transformation and project & program development. For over 20 years, Jim has forged a different type of consulting practice – one that does its…

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Sam Ford: An interview by Bob Morris

July 20, 2014

Sam Ford is Director of Audience Engagement for Peppercomm. His 2013 New York University Press book, Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture, was co-authored by Henry Jenkins and Joshua Green. The book was named one of…

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Challenge the Ordinary: A book review by Bob Morris

July 16, 2014

Challenge the Ordinary: Why Revolutionary Companies Abandon Conventional Mindsets, Question Long-Held Assumptions, and Kill Their Sacred Cows Linda D. Henman Career Press (2014) “Yesterday’s dangerous idea is today’s orthodoxy and tomorrow’s cliché.” — Richard Dawkins I agree with Linda Henman…

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Hunting in a Farmer’s World: A book review by Bob Morris

July 15, 2014

Hunting in a Farmer’s World: Celebrating the Mind of an Entrepreneur John F. Dini Gardendale Press (2013) How and why all “farms” need both hunters and farmers During his remarks at an annual meeting of GE shareholders, then chairman and…

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Joseph McCormack, author of BRIEF: An Interview by Bob Morris

July 3, 2014

Joe McCormack is on a mission to help organizations master the art of the short story. In an age of shrinking attention spans, non-stop interruptions, and a flood of information, the messages business leaders send out are getting lost in…

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SHIFT: A book review by Bob Morris

June 27, 2014

SHIFT: Indigenous Principles for Corporate Change Glenn Geffcken Open Book Editions/A Berrett-Koehler Partner (2014) How and why “now is the time for being, feeling, and living with meaning and purpose” As Glenn Geffcken carefully explains in this volume, there are…

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