Paul Schoemaker

Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 1, by Bob Morris

November 30, 2012

Matthew E. May is the author of The Laws of Subtraction: 6 Simple Rules for Winning in the Age of Excess Everything, as well as three previous, award-winning books: The Elegant Solution, In Pursuit of Elegance, and The Shibumi Strategy.…

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James Taylor : An interview by Bob Morris

November 16, 2012

James Taylor is the CEO and a Principal Consultant of Decision Management Solutions and a leading expert in decision management and decisioning technologies. He is passionate about using decisioning technologies like business rules and predictive analytics to help companies improve…

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Linda Sharkey: An interview by Bob Morris

November 8, 2012

Linda Sharkey is a proven leader with experience in Fortune 10 companies building teams and driving talent development initiatives that support productivity and company growth. She has specific expertise in culture transformation, developing high potential leaders and building proven talent…

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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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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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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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Soren Kaplan: An interview by Bob Morris

September 19, 2012

Soren Kaplan is the author of Leapfrogging and a Managing Principal at InnovationPoint, where he works with organizations including Visa, Colgate-Palmolive, Medtronic, Disney, Philips, PepsiCo, and numerous other global firms.  Soren previously led the internal strategy and innovation group at…

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Everything Is Obvious: A book review by Bob Morris

August 27, 2012

Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us Duncan J. Watts Crown Business (2011)  How we can “revolutionize our understanding of ourselves and how we interact” As I began to read this book, I was reminded of a passage in Paul Schoemaker’s latest book, Brilliant…

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Make No Mistake: To Err Really IS Human

August 22, 2012

Here is an excerpt from the script for a program produced for CBS Sunday Morning by CBSNews. *     *     * The humble popsicle was invented – by mistake! – when some soda pop with a stick in…

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