Roger Martin

Henry Chesbrough: A second interview by Bob Morris

July 12, 2011

  Chesbrough is Adjunct Professor, Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and Executive Director of its Center for Open Innovation. His landmark book Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology (2003) articulated a new paradigm for industrial research and development. His more recent…

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Doing Both: A book review by Bob Morris

July 6, 2011

Doing Both: Capturing Today’s Profit and Driving Tomorrow’s Growth Inder Sidhu FT Press/Pearson (2010) Organizational transformation is not — repeat not – a zero-sum game One of the most self-defeating mindsets is suggested by the admonition, “You can’t have your…

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The Design of Business: A book review by Bob Morris

July 4, 2011

The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Edge Roger Martin Harvard Business Press (2009) I just re-read this book and value it even more now than I did when it was first published. One point I…

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William C. Taylor: An interview by Bob Morris

July 4, 2011

Bill Taylor is a writer, a speaker, and entrepreneur who has shaped the global conversation about the best ways to compete, innovate, and succeed. As a cofounder and founding editor of Fast Company, he launched a magazine that won countless…

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The Opposable Mind: A book review by Bob Morris

July 2, 2011

The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking Roger L. Martin Harvard Business School Press (2007) As I began to read this brilliant book, I was reminded of what Doris Kearns reveals about Abraham Lincoln in Team of…

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Collaboration: A book review by Bob Morris

June 29, 2011

Collaboration: How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results Morten T. Hansen Harvard Business School Press (2009) Hansen provides a brilliant explanation of how “disciplined collaboration” can help to enable leaders to avoid or free themselves from…

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Jay Greene: An interview by Bob Morris

June 28, 2011

For more than two decades, Jay Greene has written about some of the most important companies, business trends, and top executives in the world. From 2000 to 2009, he served as BusinessWeek’s Seattle bureau chief, overseeing the magazine’s coverage in…

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Nancy Duarte: An interview by Bob Morris

June 7, 2011

Nancy Duarte has driven the vision and growth of Duarte for 20 years, building an internationally respected design firm, which has created over a quarter of a million presentations. She has helped shape the perceptions of many of the world’s leading brands and thought leaders. Nancy is the…

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CEOs Should Be More Like NFL Quarterbacks

May 4, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Roger Martin for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please…

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Five Basic Tenets of Knowledge Management

April 8, 2011

I have just read and will soon review The New Edge in Knowledge: How Knowledge Management Is Changing the Way We Do Business, co-authored by Carla O’Dell and Cindy Hubert. In Chapter 3, they identify and discuss “Five Basic Tenets of…

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