James O’Toole

Randy Grieser on Culture-Driven Leadership: An interview by Bob Morris

May 28, 2019

Randy Grieser is the founder and CEO of ACHIEVE Centre for Leadership & Workplace Performance and the Crisis & Trauma Resource Institute. He is a visionary leader who, together with a team of employees and trainers, has positioned these organizations…

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Nine Lies About Work: A book review by Bob Morris

April 11, 2019

Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall Harvard Business Review Press (April 2019) Why making the world a better place requires the courage and wit to see it as it…

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Fail More: A book review by Bob Morris

April 10, 2019

Fail More: Embrace, Learn, and Adapt to Failure As a Way to Success Bill Wooditch McGraw-Hill Education (March 2019) The more you fail, the more you can learn. The more you learn, the more likely that you will succeed. Thomas…

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Loonshots: A book review by Bob Morris

March 31, 2019

Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries Safi Bahcall St. Martin’s Press (March 2019) If an idea doesn’t sound loony, it probably needs much more development…and protection. In this compellingly entertaining as…

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Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?

March 18, 2019

Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (and how to fix it) Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Harvard Business Review Press (March 2019) Which qualities cause people to become incompetent leaders — and, conversely, good leaders? According to Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, “This book…

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Bart McDonough on becoming “cyber smart”  Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

March 17, 2019

Bart McDonough is the author of Cyber Smart: Five Habits to Protect Your Family, Money, and Identity from Cyber Criminals and CEO and Founder of Agio, a hybrid managed IT and cybersecurity services provider. Prior to founding Agio, Bart worked…

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Gary Shapiro on the Unique Power of the Ninja Mindset: An interview by Bob Morris

March 8, 2019

Gary Shapiro is president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)™, the U.S. trade association representing more than 2,200 consumer technology companies and which owns and produces CES® – The Global Stage for Innovation. Shapiro directs a staff of…

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Leading Transformation: A book review by Bob Morris

December 6, 2018

Leading Transformation: How to Take Charge of Your Company’s Future Nathan Furr, Kyle Nel, and Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy Harvard Business Review Press (November 2018) How to use a human-centered process to avoid or overcome key bottlenecks to organizational change In…

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“The ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom” James O’Toole

November 2, 2018

O’Toole refers to what he considers to be the strongest resistance to change initiatives. It is cultural in nature and easily understandable, given the fact that those who defend the current status quo were probably involved in replacing the previous…

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Growth IQ: A book review by Bob Morris

August 30, 2018

Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices That Will Make or Break Your Company Tiffani Bova Portfolio/Penguin (August 2018) How to achieve and then sustain “countercyclical” and profitable growth Not all growth is progress, of course, and Tiffani Bova obviously understands…

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