Seth Godin

Tribal Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

March 21, 2012

Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization Dave Logan, John King & Halee Fischer-Wright HarperBusiness (2008) How and why “workplace tribes” in almost any organization can develop the leaders needed at all levels and in all areas…

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Robyn Waters: An interview by Bob Morris

June 21, 2011

Waters has more than thirty years experience tracking and translating trends into sales and profit. As Target’s former Vice President of Trend, Design, and Product Development, she helped a small regional discount chain become a national fashion destination. Seth Godin calls…

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Josh Linkner: An interview by Bob Morris

June 13, 2011

Josh Linkner is the New York Times bestselling author of Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity, named one of the top 30 business books of 2011. He is the CEO and Managing Partner of Detroit Venture Partners, a…

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Dreams, not fantasies….

April 30, 2011

In a recent blog post, Seth Godin observes: “Like a dream come true” Choose your dreams carefully. Everyone is entitled to a dream. It gives us hope, focuses our energy, makes us human. Sometimes, though, we get sold a dream…

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“The dog ate my yada yada….”

April 11, 2011

I subscribe to Seth Godin’s blog and welcome each new post. Here is one I think is especially valuable because it addresses issues that are directly relevant to almost everyone…in a school, college, or university or embarked on a career.…

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Most Valuable Business Insights: 11-15

March 2, 2011

After having read and reviewed so many business books, I now share brief comments about what I consider to be the 25 most valuable business insights and the books in which they are either introduced or (one man’s opinion) best…

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“Initiative is taken, it’s not given.”

March 1, 2011

Seth Godin said it and I agree with him. Over a two-year period (1908-1910), on an assignment for Andrew Carnegie, Napoleon Hill interviewed the most successful people in the world to learn what they shared in common. What was it?…

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Gutless Interaction

January 16, 2011

Seth Godin has another brilliant blog post, “Self-destructive instructions,” in which he identifies several such as librarians yelling at kids to be quiet. Here’s my own list of what I call gutless interactions: “I mean it” when you don’t. “That’s…

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