Simon Sinek

The Empathy Advantage: A book review by Bob Morris

March 10, 2023

  The Empathy Advantage: Leading the Empowered Workforce Heather E. McGowan and Chris Shipley Wiley (March 2023) “People won’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”  Theodore Roosevelt Empathy is the ability to recognize, understand,…

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Build: A book review by Bob Morris

November 16, 2022

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making Tony Fadell HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins (May 2022) “Everything begins with asking ‘Why?’” Simon Sinek It is also true that “Building anything begins with asking ‘Why?’” Sinek agrees with Peter Drucker:…

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Build: A book review by Bob Morris

May 6, 2022

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making Tony Fadell HarperBusiness/An Imprint of HarperCollins (May 2022) “Everything begins with asking ‘Why?’” Simon Sinek Sinek agrees with Peter Drucker: “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great…

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HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose

January 22, 2022

HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose John Coleman Harvard Business Review Press (January 2022) How to craft a life and a career guided, informed, and enriched by purpose This one of very few single-author volumes in HBR Guide to…. series,…

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The Long Game: A book review by Bob Morris

September 29, 2021

The Long Game: How to be a long-term thinker in a short-term world Dorie Clark Harvard Business Review Press (September 2021) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African proverb I…

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Leadership System 2.0: A book review by Bob Morris

December 19, 2020

Leadership System: Implementing Integrated Enterprise Excellence Forrest W. Breyfogle III Citius Publishing, Inc. (August 2020) Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison Thomas Edison’s observation offers a valuable reminder to executives who become wholly preoccupied with WHERE,  while neglecting HOW.…

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The Infinite Game: A book review by Bob Morris

October 30, 2019

The Infinite Game Simon Sinek Portfolio/Penguin (October 2019) “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”  African proverb I have read all of Simon Sinek’s previous books and reviewed most of them.…

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Mindful Listening (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series): A book review by Bob Morris

July 6, 2019

“There is a huge difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.”  Simon Sinek HBR Press offers a series of anthologies (thirteen volumes thus far) of articles in which contributors share proven research that explains how our emotions…

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Reflections On Two Decades of Business Interviews & Book Reviews

September 16, 2018

  A 12th century French monk, Bernard of Chartres, once observed that he “stood on the shoulders of giants.” Since 1999, I have reviewed about 3,400 business books (for Amazon US, UK, and Canada) and interviewed about 600 thought leaders.…

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Daniel Cable on being “alive at work”: An interview by Bob Morris

April 11, 2018

Dan Cable is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Busness School. Dan’s research and teaching focus on employee engagement, change, organizational culture, leadership mindset, and the linkage between brands and employee behaviors. Dan was selected for the 2018 Thinkers50 Radar…

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