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One Second Ahead: A book review by Bob Morris

November 4, 2015

One Second Ahead: Enhance Your Performance at Work with Mindfulness Rasmus Hougaard with Jacqueline Carter and Gillian Coutts Palgrave Macmillan (2015) How and why being constantly mindful can help accelerate personal growth and professional development With Jacqueline Carter and Gillian…

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How to eliminate waste or at least reduce it substantially in the workplace

July 9, 2015

In Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, Jeff Sutherland shares his thoughts about how to eliminate waste or at least reduce it substantially in the workplace. I agree with him that waste is at…

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Thinkers 50 Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

May 26, 2015

Thinkers 50 Innovation: Breakthrough Thinking to Take Your Business to the Next Level Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove McGraw-Hill Education (2014) How does an organization establish and/or strengthen a capability for discontinuous innovation? This is one of the volumes in…

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Connection Culture: A book review by Bob Morris

May 3, 2015

Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage of Shared Identity, Empathy, and Understanding at Work Michael Lee Stallard with Jason Pankau and Katharine Stallard Association for Talent Development (April 2015) Here are “the elements of workplace cultures that help people and organizations…

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Edward (Ned) Hallowell, MD, on Stress in the Workplace: A second interview by Bob Morris

March 8, 2015

Edward (Ned) Hallowell, MD, a child and adult psychiatrist, is a New York Times bestselling author, world-renowned speaker and leading authority in the field of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). He is a graduate of Harvard College and Tulane Medical…

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David Zinger on Employee Engagement: A second interview by Bob Morris

September 21, 2014

David Zinger connects the strength of one with the power of many as an engagement speaker, coach, and consultant. He founded and hosts the global Employee Engagement Network, with more than 6,400 members and counting. He fuses a down-to-earth prairie…

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Why We Make Things and Why it Matters: A book review by Bob Morris

August 25, 2014

Why We Make Things and Why it Matters: The Education of a Craftsman Peter Korn David R. Godine, Publisher (2014) How and why the creative effort “is a process of challenging embedded narratives in order to….” Peter Korn poses an…

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What it means to be a human being

August 19, 2014

Opinions are divided as to what it means to be a human being. Here are several perspectives that are of special interest and value to me: “The satisfactions of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through manual competence have been…

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The Art of Learning: A book review by Bob Morris

August 14, 2014

The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance Josh Waitzkin Free Press/Simon & Schuster (2007) One man’s “inner journey” to achieve his own optimal performance It is important to keep in mind that the material in this book…

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A Playful Path: A book review by Bob Morris

March 18, 2014

A Playful Path Bernard De Koven Lulu.com (2014) “Games are clues to the future. And their serious cultivation now is perhaps our only salvation.” Bernard Suits This is the latest in a series of books and articles that Bernie De…

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