Michael Porter

HBR Guide to Executing Your Strategy: A Book Review by Bob Morris

September 14, 2023

HBR Guide to Executing Your Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (January 2019) How to communicate the plan, maintain momentum, and achieve your vision I agree with Thomas Edison who once observed, “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Even the…

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The Manager’s Handbook: A Book Review by Bob Morris

July 19, 2023

The Manager’s Handbook: Five Simple Steps to Build a Team, Stay Focused, Make Better Decisions, and Crush Your Competition David Dodson   Wiley (July 2023) Why and how some people are much better than others at high-impact management In his uncommonly…

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Michael Lenox on Mastering Digital Transformation: An Interview by Bob Morris

June 19, 2023

Michael Lenox‘s latest book is Strategy in the Digital World, published by Stanford Business Books. He is also the co-author of The Decarbonization Imperative and Can Business Save the Earth?. He is the Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business Administration and…

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Allen Adamson on “Seeing the How”: An interview by Bob Morris

June 11, 2023

Allen P. Adamson is a noted expert in all disciplines of branding. He has worked with a broad spectrum of consumer and B2B businesses in industries from packaged goods to hospitality, technology to healthcare. His previous books, including BrandSimple and, more recently, Shift…

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Sunnie Giles on Radical Innovation: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

August 18, 2022

Sunnie Giles is a new generation expert on radical innovation who takes the mystery out of what radical innovation is and how to consistently produce it. By combining her unique expertise in advanced neuroscience, complex systems approach, quantum mechanics and…

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Sunnie Giles on Radical Innovation: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

August 11, 2022

Sunnie Giles is a new generation expert on radical innovation who takes the mystery out of what radical innovation is and how to consistently produce it. By combining her unique expertise in advanced neuroscience, complex systems approach, quantum mechanics and…

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The Emergent Approach to Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

July 9, 2022

The Emergent Approach to Strategy Peter Compo Business Expert Press (July 2022) “The essence of strategy is choosing what NOT to do.” Michael Porter As Peter Compo explains in this book, “Strategy testing is a time-honored practice. Well-known tests include…

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Philip Kotler: A synoptic interview by Bob Morris

June 8, 2022

Philip Kotler is Professor Emeritus of Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management, where he held the S.C. Johnson & Son Professorship of International Marketing. Kellogg was consistently voted one of the top five business schools in Business Week‘s survey…

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Playing to Win: A book review by Bob Morris

March 27, 2022

Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works A.G. Lafley and Roger Martin Harvard Business Review Press (2013) “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” Michael Porter Note: I reviewed this book when it was first published and…

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HBR Guide to Setting Your Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

January 17, 2022

HBR Guide to Setting Your Strategy HBR Editors and Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (August 2020) “The essence of strategy is choosing what NOT to do.” Michael Porter This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies…

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