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Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model: A book review by Bob Morris

December 7, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model Various Authors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How to use innovative thinking to create or revise a business model that drives growth and profits This is one of the volumes in a…

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Relax the Axe

November 17, 2011

Here’s an excerpt from a recent article from the Drucker Exchange (the Dx), an online resource that hosts an ongoing conversation about bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership. It is produced by the Drucker Institute, a think tank…

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Four Ways to Leverage Weak Connections

October 24, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an excellent article eritten by Stuart E. Jackson and featured online by Bloomberg Businessweek. To read the complete article, check out other resources, sign up for free email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. *    …

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The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan: A book review by Bob Morris

September 20, 2011

The New Leader’s 100-Day Action Plan: How to Take Charge, Build Your Team, and Get Immediate Results George B. Bradt, Jayme A. Check, and Jorge E. Pedraza John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2009) “Finis origine pendet” (The end depends on…

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Launch: A book review by Bob Morris

August 19, 2011

Launch: How to Quickly Propel Your Business Beyond the Competition Michael A. Stelzner John Wiley & Sons (2011) If your product, service, project, or business were a rocket…. Where to begin?  Unlike Michael Stelzner’s previous book, Writing White Papers, this…

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Beyond Performance: A book review by Bob Morris

August 15, 2011

Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage Scott Keller and Colin Price John Wiley & Sons (2011) How to achieve and then sustain both outstanding leadership and management throughout the given enterprise Scott Keller and Colin Price acknowledge…

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Richard Brandt: An interview by Bob Morris

July 17, 2011

Brandt is an award-winning journalist who has been writing about science and technology for 25 years. He was a correspondent for BusinessWeek magazine for 14 years and editor-in-chief at Upside magazine for five years. He writes about entrepreneurs, Silicon Valley,…

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Surviving the Serengeti: A book review by Bob Morris

July 16, 2011

Surviving the Serengeti: 7 Skills To Master Business and Life Stefan Swanepoel John Wiley & Sons (2011) A parable for success that sometimes requires a perilous journey of self-discovery Fables may well be among the earliest forms of storytelling and…

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The Bully-Free Workplace: A book review by Bob Morris

July 5, 2011

The Bully-Free Workplace: Stop Jerks, Weasels, and Snakes From Killing Your Organization Gary Namie and Ruth F. Namie John Wiley & Sons (2011) Tolerance of inappropriate behavior condones it. Over more years than I wish to specify, I have been…

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