Lockheed’s “Skunk Works

Inside Real Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

July 28, 2011

Inside Real Innovation: How the Right Approach Can Move Ideas from R&D to Market – And Get the Economy Going Eugene Fitzgerald, Andreas Wankerl, and Carl Schramm World Scientific Publishing Co. (2011) How and why emerging innovation paradigms can generate…

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Common Purpose: A book review by Bob Morris

July 7, 2011

Common Purpose: How Great Leaders Get Organizations to Achieve the Extraordinary Joel Kurtzman Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Sons (2010) “Organizations themselves are mindless, so if people don’t repair them, no one will.” Regrettably, the old rules of employment have created in…

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The Orange Revolution: A book review by Bob Morris

June 28, 2011

The Orange Revolution: HowOne Great Team Can Transform an Entire Organization Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton Free Press/Simon & Schuster (2010) Those who have read any of Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton’s previous collaborations, notably Managing with Carrots: Using Recognition…

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Secrets of Special Ops Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

June 11, 2011

Secrets of Special Ops Leadership: Dare the Impossible — Achieve the Extraordinary William A. Cohen AMACOM (2005) Note: Given the recent and dramatic increase of public interest in “special ops” initiatives, I decided to re-read a book I reviewed when…

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