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Thrive with a Hybrid Workplace: A Book Review by Bob Morris

July 3, 2023

Thrive with a Hybrid Workplace: Step-by-Step Guidance From the Experts Felice B. Ekelman and Julie B.Kantor Rowman & Littlefield (March 2023) How and why workers with multiple talents are most likely to thrive in a hybrid workplace culture In 1970,…

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Ideaflow: A book review by Bob Morris

April 5, 2023

Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters Jeremy Utley and Perry Klebahn Portfolio/Penguin ( “If you’ve always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.”  Charles Kettering There are several metrics that matter but the one to which this book’s subtitle…

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Unstuck: A book review by Bob Morris

June 27, 2022

Unstuck: Reframe your thinking to free yourself from the patterns and people that hold you back Lia Garvin Topix Media Lab (April 2022) “The real superpower is not the ability itself — it’s knowing when to use it.” Lia Garvin…

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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Building a Great Culture

May 31, 2022

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Building a Great Culture Various Contributors in Collaboration with HBR Editors Harvard Business Review Press (November 2019) Begin at the end: First determine WHAT and WHY, then WHO and HOW. After centuries of war between…

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The AI Marketing Canvas: A book review by Bob Modrris

August 30, 2021

The AI Marketing Canvas: A Five-Stage Road Map to Implementing Artificial Intelligence in Marketing Raj Venkatesan and Jim Lecinski Stanford Business Books (May 2021) How to “supercharge your brand’s consumer journey” with high-impact personalization that consumers now expect In The…

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How Innovation Works: A book review by Bob Morris

May 31, 2020

How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom Matt Ridley Harper (May 2020) “Innovation offers the carrot of spectacular reward or the stick of destitution.”  Joseph Schumpeter In the Introduction to his brilliant book, Matt Ridley cites a concept…

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The four most common forms of really dumb thinking

March 18, 2020

Opinions vary about which forms of really dumb thinking are the most common and many of those opinions offer excellent examples of dumb thinking. The opinions I now share are those of several thinkers whom I personally admire. They include…

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Keith Sawyer: An interview by Bob Morris

December 6, 2019

Keith Sawyer is one of the world’s leading scientific experts on creativity and innovation. In his first job after graduating from MIT, he designed videogames for Atari. He then worked for six years as a management consultant in Boston and…

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Andrea Kramer and Alton Harris on Gender Biases and Conflicts at Work: An interview by Bob Morris

September 27, 2019

Andrea S. Kramer and Alton B. Harris are co-authors of It’s Not You, It’s the Workplace: Women’s Conflict At Work and the Bias That Built It (Nicholas Brealey/Hachette 2019). Andie and Al have both served in senior management positions and…

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Loonshots: A book review by Bob Morris

March 31, 2019

Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries Safi Bahcall St. Martin’s Press (March 2019) If an idea doesn’t sound loony, it probably needs much more development…and protection. In this compellingly entertaining as…

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