James O’Toole

Leon M. Hielkema: An interview by Bob Morris

June 11, 2013

Leon M. Hielkema has more than 15 years of international experience in developing, executing, and evaluating strategic change projects. He has successfully coached many internal professionals over the years and is a featured speaker and trainer. His book Strategic Management…

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Ray Attiyah: An interview by Bob Morris

June 8, 2013

Ray Attiyah is an entrepreneur, innovator, and author as well as founder & CIO of Definity Partners (a training, process and leadership improvement firm who works primarily with mid-sized manufacturing companies). As the son of a math teacher Ray was…

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Lewis Schiff: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

June 5, 2013

Lewis Schiff is the executive director of Inc. Business Owners Council, a membership organization for Inc. Magazine’s top entrepreneurs and owners of closely-held family businesses and maintains a blog about behavioral entrepreneurship on Inc.com. His new book, Business Brilliant: Surprising…

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Lewis Schiff: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

May 31, 2013

Lewis Schiff is the executive director of Inc. Business Owners Council, a membership organization for Inc. Magazine’s top entrepreneurs and owners of closely-held family businesses and maintains a blog about behavioral entrepreneurship on Inc.com. His new book, Business Brilliant: Surprising…

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David Wethey: An interview by Bob Morris

May 30, 2013

After graduating in PPE from Jesus College, Oxford, David Wethey joined AC Nielsen in 1965, where he presented Marketing Research to leading marketing companies. However, the London agency world beckoned and in 1968 David joined Pritchard Wood (the birthplace of…

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What You’re Really Meant to Do: A book review by Bob Morris

May 24, 2013

What You’re Really Meant to Do: A Roadmap for Reaching Your Unique Potential Robert Steven Kaplan Harvard Business Review Press (2013) To paraphrase Walt Whitman, “We are large, we contain multitudes.” Self-improvement initiatives or, if you prefer, self-fulfillment or self-actualization…

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Fear Your Strengths: A book review by Bob Morris

May 10, 2013

Fear Your Strengths: What You Are Best at Could Be Your Biggest Problem Robert Kaplan and Robert Kaiser Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2013) Actually, what we should fear are complacency and self-satisfaction as well as the assumption that “just good enough” really…

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Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams: A book review by Bob Morris

May 9, 2013

Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams: How You and Your Team Get Unstuck to Get Results Roger Schwarz Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.” Kenyan Proverb The last time I checked, Amazon offers 52,820 books for sale in…

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Keith Sawyer: An interview by Bob Morris

May 2, 2013

Keith Sawyer is one of the world’s leading scientific experts on creativity and innovation. In his first job after graduating from MIT, he designed videogames for Atari. He then worked for six years as a management consultant in Boston and…

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To Save Everything, Click Here: A book review by Bob Morris

April 18, 2013

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism Evgeny Morozov PublicAffairs/Perseus Books Group (2013) How and why the inefficiency of “solutionism” is compromising advanced technology I agree with Evgeny Morozov that a never-ending quest to ameliorate, what Tania…

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