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The High-Speed Company: A book review by Bob Morris

March 26, 2015

The High-Speed Company: Creating Urgency and Growth in a Nanosecond Culture Jason Jennings with Laurence Haughton Portfolio/Penguin Group (March 2015) How to accelerate personal growth and professional development in almost any organization, whatever its size or nature In one of…

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An unlikely role model for those who aspire to be an engaged supervisor in business

August 31, 2014

In The Explorer Gene, Tom Cheshire explains how three generations of the Piccard family went higher, deeper, and further than anyone else had ever done before. Auguste Piccard was the patriarch. At one point, he accepted a position at the…

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Leaders Eat Last: A book review by Bob Morris

March 10, 2014

Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t Simon Sinek Portfolio/The Penguin Group (2014) Why our society now has a chemical imbalance and what we must do about it I agree with Simon Sinek: “Too many of…

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Fear Your Strengths: A book review by Bob Morris

May 10, 2013

Fear Your Strengths: What You Are Best at Could Be Your Biggest Problem Robert Kaplan and Robert Kaiser Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2013) Actually, what we should fear are complacency and self-satisfaction as well as the assumption that “just good enough” really…

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Why do only long-term, high-impact books become business “classics”

January 21, 2013

  We seem to live in an age of instant gratification during which the average attention span resembles a strobe light blink and most people are only interested in (often obsessed with) the latest, “the best,” what’s new, the biggest, the…

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Empathetic Marketing: A book review by Bob Morris

June 2, 2012

Empathetic Marketing: How to Satisfy the 6 Core Emotional Needs of Your Customers  Mark Ingwer Palgrave Macmillan (2012) How and why emotions and resulting behaviors are the foundation for satisfying complex psychological needs  I was curious to know when someone would combine insights from several quite different concepts…

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Joe’s Journal: Where the Brotherhood of Intellectuals Meets Money-Grubbing Reality

February 25, 2012

Here is the latest post by Joseph A. Maciariello featured in the Joe’s Journal series at the Drucker Exchange (Dx) sponsored by the Drucker Institute. The Drucker Exchange (the Dx) is a platform for bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership. It is produced by the Drucker…

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Joe’s Journal: Where the Brotherhood of Intellectuals Meets Money-Grubbing Reality

February 21, 2012

Here is the latest post by Joseph A. Maciariello featured in the Joe’s Journal series at the Drucker Exchange (Dx) sponsored by the Drucker Institute. The Drucker Exchange (the Dx) is a platform for bettering society through effective management and responsible leadership. It is produced by the Drucker…

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From Values to Action: A book review by Bob Morris

January 13, 2012

From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership Harry M. Jansen Kraemer Jr. Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2011) How and why leadership is about the growth and positive change that almost anyone can bring about while working with others…

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