Judgment Calls

Leigh Branham: An interview by Bob Morris

November 1, 2012

Leigh Branham is Principal and Founder of Keeping the People, Inc., Overland Park, Kansas. Leigh has been researching and speaking about best practices in employee engagement and retention since 1995. He helps companies analyze the root causes of employee disengagement…

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Paid to Think: A book review by Bob Morris

October 23, 2012

Paid to Think: A Leader’s Toolkit for Redefining Your Future David Goldsmith with Lorrie Goldsmith BenBella Books (2012) A one-volume library of business information, insights, and wisdom Note: The title is somewhat misleading because the scope and depth of the material that…

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Max Mckeown: An interview by Bob Morris

October 5, 2012

Max Mckeown is a new breed of management guru. Brilliant, original and entertaining, he could become the most listened-to British business thinker of the new era. From CEO round-tables to conferences with thousands of people, Max Mckeown makes an impact…

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Kevin Allen: The first interview, by Bob Morris

October 1, 2012

Previously, Kevin Allen spent two decades at the top of advertising giants McCann-Erickson, the Interpublic Group, and Lowe Worldwide. He is now CEO and founder of a London-based business transformation company, re:kap, and globally recognised as one of the advertising industry’s most accomplished growth professionals. The…

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Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century

September 29, 2012

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Thomas H. Davenport and D.J. Patil for the Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. Artwork:…

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Ken Segall : An interview by Bob Morris

September 25, 2012

Ken Segall worked closely with Steve Jobs as his ad agency creative director for over 12 years spanning NeXT and Apple. He led the advertising team behind the “Think different” campaign that helped revitalize the Apple brand when Steve returned from exile…

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Business Analytics for Managers: A book review by Bob Morris

August 15, 2012

Business Analytics for Managers: Taking Business Intelligence Beyond Reporting Gert H.N. Laursen and Jesper Thorlund John Wiley & Sons (2010) How and why making decisions based on “huge, noisy, messy data” requires business analytics Although business analytics can probably be traced back at least to Frederick Winslow Taylor’s…

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Donald N. Thompson: An interview by Bob Morris

July 10, 2012

Don Thompson is an economist and professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. He has taught at Harvard Business School and the London School of Economics. He is author of nine books, including The $12 Million Stuffed Shark:…

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The Innovative Team: A book review by Bob Morris

June 20, 2012

The Innovative Team: Unleashing Creative Potential for Breakthrough Results Chris Grivas and Gerard J. Puccio Jossey-Bass /A Wiley Imprint (2012) How and why an innovative team can leverage its organization’s creative resources to achieve and sustain breakthrough results By nature, an innovative team is one…

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Oracles: A book review by Bob Morris

June 20, 2012

Oracles: How Prediction Markets Turn Employees into Visionaries Donald N. Thompson Harvard Business Review Press (2012) Why and how “prediction market democracy” tends to make better decisions that, eventually, produce better results Donald Thompson is an advocate of “prediction market democracy” because a prediction market can “revolutionize the…

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