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Too Big to Ignore: A book review by Bob Morris

March 18, 2015

Too Big to Ignore: The Business Case for Big Data (Wiley and SAS Business Series) Phil Simon John Wiley & Sons (2015) “Before we demand more of our data, we need to demand more of ourselves.” Nate Silver First of…

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Michael Schrage: An interview by Bob Morris

March 10, 2015

Michael Schrage is a Research Fellow at the MIT Center for Digital Business and a Visiting Fellow at Imperial College’s Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He examines the various roles of models, prototypes, and simulations as collaborative media for innovation…

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A Brief History of Big Data Everyone Should Read

February 28, 2015

Here is an excerpt from an article by Bernard Marr for LinkedIn Pulse. To read the complete article, check out others, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * * The history of Big Data as a…

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A Beautiful Constraint: A book review by Bob Morris

February 19, 2015

A Beautiful Constraint: How to Transform Your Limitations into Advantages, and Why it’s Everyone’s Business Adam Morgan and Mark Barden John Wiley & Sons (2015) “Here is the central paradox of a constraint: it can be both a limitation and…

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Seven Disciplines of a Leader: A book review Bob Morris

February 17, 2015

Seven Disciplines of a Leader: How to Help Your People, Team, and Organization Achieve Maximum Effectiveness Jeff Wolf with Ken Shelton John Wiley & Sons (2015) How and why some leaders have high-impact and so many others don’t Another book…

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The Future of Work: A book review by Bob Morris

December 10, 2014

The Future of Work: Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization Jacob Morgan John Wiley & Sons (2014) The future workplace environment: one within which personal growth and professional development are most likely to flourish Years…

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Dov Seidman’s HOW: A book review by Bob Morris

November 19, 2014

HOW: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything (Expanded Edition) Dov Seidmnan John Wiley & Sons (2011) HOW to manage the relationship between success and significance, not only to survive but also to thrive I read this book when it…

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Liars & Outliers: A book review by Bob Morris

September 22, 2014

Liars & Outliers: Enabling the Trust That Society Needs to Thrive Bruce Schneier John Wiley & Sons (2012) How social coercion can help to enable compliance and trust within a group, whatever its size may be As Bruce Schneier explains,…

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You Only Live Once, Do It Warren Buffett’s Way

September 2, 2014

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Taft for LinkedIn. To read the complete article and check out others, please click here. Photo: creative commons licensed (BY-NC-ND) flickr photo by trackrecord * * * “You’d get very…

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Money & Power: Another “must read” for busy executives

August 20, 2014

Too busy to read books? Here’s a direct link to valuable advice from Tim Ferris who explains how to read 300% faster in only 20 minutes. Meanwhile, busy as you no doubt are, you also need to check out Money…

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