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Louis Patler on “Making Your Own Waves”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

October 14, 2016

Award-winning author/speaker/consultant Louis Patler is President of The B.I.T. Group, (www.louispatler.com) a strategic business consulting & training company. Two of his books were on Steve Jobs’ recommended reading list. The J. Walter Thompson Agency named him one of “The 20…

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Ken Marlin on “The Marine Corps Way”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

October 10, 2016

Ken Marlin is Managing Partner and Founder of Marlin & Associates. For more than 30 years, He has advised scores of U.S. and international middle-market technology enabled firms on the best ways to buy, sell, grow and thrive. Between 1970…

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Dan Negroni on “Chasing Relevance”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

October 2, 2016

Dan Negroni founded launchbox to help businesses unleash the creativity and potential of today’s new Gen Y workforce. He is a CEO coach, consultant, keynote speaker, and chief launch officer for today’s critical cross-generational issues, bridging the gap between managers…

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Johnny Covey on “Five Habits to Lead from the Heart”: An interview by Bob Morris

August 23, 2016

If you visit Johnny Covey’s website, you will learn that he ” is capable of bringing energy to a room where there is none, he can transform the way an event is constructed by his methods and engagement with the…

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Jim Dewald on “Entrepreneurial Thinking”: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris

August 14, 2016

Jim Dewald is the dean of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary and an associate professor in the strategy and entrepreneurship. A business leader who can provide an effective bridge between strategy theory and on-the-ground practice,…

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Alan Weiss on “How to forge your own path to success”: An interview by Bob Morris

July 31, 2016

Alan Weiss is one of those rare people who can say he is a consultant, speaker, and author and mean it. His consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc., has attracted clients such as Merck, Hewlett-Packard, GE, Mercedes-Benz, State Street Corporation,…

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Execution Excellence: A book review by Bob Morris

June 16, 2016

Execution Excellence: Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard Sanjiv Anand John Wiley & Sons (2016) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison David P. Norton and Robert S. Kaplan co-authored an article, “The Balanced Scorecard: Measures That Drive Performance,”…

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The Creator’s Code: A book review by Bob Morris

June 14, 2016

The Creator’s Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs Amy Wilkinson Simon & Schuster (2015) Here are timeless and timely insights that illuminate “fundamental approaches to the act of creation” The term “code” with regard to individuals is comparable…

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OutManeuver: A book review by Bob Morris

March 28, 2016

OutManeuver: OutThink—Don’t OutSpend Jeffrey Phillips and Alex Verjovsky Xlibris (January 2016) How leveraging maneuver strategies and tactics can establi As Jeffrey Phillips and Alex Verjovsky observe, “When speed and agility are important, maneuver is far more attractive than attrition, especially…

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Ten of Josh Linkner’s favorite creativity quotations

March 7, 2016

In recent post at his website, Josh Linkner shares 21 of his favorite creativity quotations. Here are the first ten: 1. “Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called ‘All the Things That Could Go…

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