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Hardiness: A book review by Bob Morris

January 19, 2020

Hardiness: Making Stress Work for You to Achieve Your Life Goals Steven J. Stein and Paul T. Bartone Wiley (January 2020) How to manage pressure rather than be controlled by stress In their Harvard Business Review article, “Pressure Doesn’t Have…

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The Intelligent Leader: A book review by Bob Morris

October 26, 2019

The Intelligent Leader: Unlocking the 7 Secrets to Leading Others and Leaving Your Legacy John Mattone Wiley (October 2015) How to embrace and then complete the inner work that high-impact leadership requires This is my favorite passage in Lao-tse’s Tao…

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The #1 Reason Leadership Development Fails

March 4, 2015

Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Mike Myatt for Forbes magazine. To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * * Over the years, I’ve observed just about every…

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Agile Change Management: A book review by Bob Morris

May 27, 2014

Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation Melanie Franklin Wiley (2014) Change management is impossible without change agents who have an agile mindset The last time I checked, Amazon offers 13,473 books on one or…

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The Digital Marketer: A book review by Bob Morris

May 26, 2014

: Ten New Skills You Must Learn to Stay Relevant and Customer-Centric Larry Weber and Lisa Leslie Henderson Wiley (2014) How and why effective marketing depends on finding new and better answers to the same questions Since the ancient bazaars…

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Essential Elements of Storytelling

May 23, 2014

There are dozens of excellent sources of information, insights, and counsel concerning the art and science of storytelling. Later in this post, I will suggest a few. Meanwhile, I am pleased to share material provided by Karl Kappa, Lucas Blair,…

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Elevate: A book review by Bob Morris

April 12, 2014

Elevate: The Three Disciplines of Advanced Strategic Thinking Rich Horwath Wiley (2014) How and why to elevate your business thinking to gain more and better perspectives…and help others to do so In a previously published book, Deep Dive: The Proven…

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BRIEF: A book review by Bob Morris

April 3, 2014

BRIEF: Make a Bigger Impact by Saying Less Joseph McCormack Wiley (2014) How to unleash the power of brevity so that what you say and what you do have much greater impact I am among the staunch advocates of the…

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Low-Hanging Fruit: A book review by Bob Morris

March 31, 2014

Low-Hanging Fruit: 77 Eye-Opening Ways to Improve Productivity and Profits Jeremy Eden and Terri Long Wiley (2014) How to “get a good cash crop yield from business innovation” Years ago, I helped a Fortune 50 company establish an electronic suggestion…

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The One-Minute Change That Will Transform Your Company

December 5, 2012

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Lisa Earle McLeod for Fast Company magazine. To read the complete article, check out other online resources, subscribe to the free Fast Company newsletter, and obtain deep discount subscription information,…

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