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Jonathan Littman and Susanna Camp on high-impact entrepreneurship: An interview by Bob Morris

October 25, 2020

Jonathan Littman collaborated with IDEO on the bestsellers The Art of Innovation and The Ten Faces of Innovation (more than 650,000 copies sold worldwide in 12 languages). The author of ten books, five of his works have been optioned for…

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Ruthless Consistency: A book review by Bob Morris

September 21, 2020

Ruthless Consistency: How Committed Leaders Execute Strategy, Implement Change, and Build Organizations That Win Michael Canic McGraw-Hill (September 2020) How to avoid “the unintended, unrecognized, and unforgivable consequences of failure” I agree with Michael Canic: “The tragedy of repeated failures…

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Uncharted: A book review by Bob Morris

September 15, 2020

Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future Margaret Hefferman Avid Reader Press (September 2020) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison I selected the Edison assertion to serve as the title of this brief commentary because it helps us to understand…

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Alain Hunkins on the “secret sauce” of leadership development: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

July 12, 2020

A sought-after keynote speaker, facilitator and coach, Alain Hunkins is a leadership expert who connects the science of high performance with the performing art of leadership. Leaders trust him to help unlock their potential and expand their influence, leading to…

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The Business of Getting Business: A book review by Bob Morris

July 11, 2020

The Business of Getting Business: The Digital Marketing Guide for Small Businesses Joe Manausa LID Publishing (May 2020) “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”  Peter Drucker Presumably Joe Manausa agrees with Drucker. Business success requires…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking: A book review by Bob Morris

June 26, 2020

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (April 2020) “Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.”  Tim Brown This book is one of the most recent volumes in…

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Ten Valuable Business Lessons

May 22, 2020

  The other day, someone asked me which business lessons I have found to be the most valuable. Here are ten, in no particular order:   o “If you can’t explain your great idea to a six year-old, you really…

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Influencers & Revolutionaries: A book review by Bob Morris

April 7, 2020

Influencers and Revolutionaries: How Innovative Trailblazers, Trends and Catalysts Are Transforming Business Sean Pillot de Chenecey KoganPage (February 2020) How relevance, personalization, and sustainability are the keys to high-impact innovation According to Sean Pillot de Chenecey, there is a “simple…

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Cracking the Leadership Code: A book review by Bob Morris

April 5, 2020

Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders Alain Hunkins Wiley (March 2020) “Your title identies you as a manager; your people make you a leader.” Donna Dubinsky Although Amazon now offers more than 100,000 books on leadership,…

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Steve Brown on six high-impact technologies: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

March 8, 2020

As the former Futurist and Chief Evangelist at Intel Corporation, Steve Brown has more than 30 years of experience in high tech, half of that time spent in strategic planning roles where he imagined and built plans for a world…

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