Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 6/10/13)

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you:

 

BOOK REVIEWS

Stiletto Network: Inside the Women’s Power Circles That Are Changing the Face of Business
Pamela Ryckman

Leadership Sustainability: Seven Disciplines to Achieve the Changes Great Leaders Know They Must Make
Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood

The Three Rules: How Exceptional Companies Think
Michael E. Raynor and Mumtaz Ahmed

 

INTERVIEWS

Mario Livio: An interview by Bob Morris
BOB

Michael E. Raynor and Mumtaz Ahmed: An interview by Bob Morris
BOB

Leon M. Hielkema: An interview by Bob Morris
BOB

Paulett Eberhart (CDI) in “The Corner Office”
Adam Bryant
The New York Times

 

COMMENTARIES

“How to Give a Killer Presentation”
Chris Anderson
HBR

“Three Things I’ve Learned From Warren Buffett”
Bill Gates
LinkedIn

“The do-or-die questions boards should ask about technology”
Paul Willmott
The McKinsey Quarterly

“Seven Strategies for Simplifying Your Organization”
Ron Ashkenas with Lisa Bodell
HBR

“What’s Ahead: Is Involvement the New Engagement?”
Dwaine Maltais
Talent Management

“Progress At Work, But Mothers Still Pay a Price”
Stephanie Coontz
The New York Times

“The huge impact that a small liberal arts college can have”
Michael Dirda
The American Scholar

“What great coaches do — and leaders should, too”
Laura Vanderkam
CBS Moneywatch

“The Tyranny of the Micromanager”
Amanda Foreman
The Wall Street Journal

“Toward a Self Employed Nation?”
Wendell Cox
NewGeography.com

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 6/3/13)

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you:

BOOK REVIEWS

The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
Neil Shubin

Finerman’s Rules: Secrets I’d Only Tell My Daughters About Business and Life
Karen Finerman

Converge: Transforming Business at the Intersection of Marketing and Technology
Bob Lord and Ray Velez

The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Third Edition
Warren E. Buffett (Author) and Lawrence A. Cunningham (Editor)

12 Disciplines of Leadership Excellence: How Leaders Achieve Sustainable High Performance
Brian Tracy and Peter Chee

HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across
HBR Editors and Various Contributors

Results-Based Leadership: How Leaders Build the Business and Improve the Bottom Line
Dave Ulrich, Jack Zenger, and Norman Smallwood

Mind Code: How the Language We Use Influences the Way We Think
Charles E. Bailey

INTERVIEWS

Ray Attiyah: An interview by Bob Morris
BOB

Lewis Schiff: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris
BOB

Jenna Fagnan (Tequila Avión) in “The Corner Office”
Adam Bryant
The New York Times

COMMENTARIES

“Suburbs and Sacred Space”
Aaron M. Renn,
NewGeography.com

“Do You Know Your Worth?”
Emily Bennington

“Great leaders manage expectations”
Laura Vanderkam
CBS MoneyWatch

“’Leaning In’ to a New Career”
Elizabeth Bowling
Talent Management

“Queen Victoria and the Pains of Women”
Amanda Foreman
The Wall Street Journal

“How to lead like Phil Jackson”
Dave Logan
CBS MoneyWatch

“The Graduation Advice We Wish We’d Been Given”
Gretchen Gavett
HBR

“Inside Google’s Secret Lab”
Brad Stone
Bloomberg Businessweek

“When You Can’t Get No Respect”
Charles H. Green
Trusted Adviser Associates LLC

“The defining characteristics of a healthy organization”
BOB

“Motivating people: Getting beyond money”
Martin Dewhurst, Matthew Guthridge, and Elizabeth Mohr
The McKinsey Quarterly

“How to Write an Email That People Will Read”
Management Tip of the Day
HBR

“Why You Should Embrace the Business Model That Threatens You”
Leonard Fuld
HBR

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 5/27/13)

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you:

BOOK REVIEWS

Organizational Culture and Leadership (Fourth Edition)
Edgar H. Schein

Leadership Brand: Developing Customer-Focused Leaders to Drive Performance and Build Lasting Value
Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood

Leading Firms: How Great Professional Service Firms Succeed & How Your Firm Can Too
David Kuhlman

Culturematic: How Reality TV, John Cheever, a Pie Lab, Julia Child, Fantasy Football…Will Help You Create and Execute Breakthrough Ideas
Grant McCracken

Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future
Dorie Clark

Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America
Charles H. Ferguson

INTERVIEWS

Lewis Schiff: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris
BOB

David Wethey: An interview by Bob Morris
BOB

J.W. Marriott Jr. (former C.E.O. of Marriott International) in “The Corner Office”
Adam Bryant
The New York Times

COMMENTARIES

“Ten Important Things I’ve Learned About Blogging”
Ree Drummond

“Google Is Winning the Innovation War Against Apple”
Larry Popelka
Bloomberg Businessweek

“That Old ‘Design by Committee’ Chestnut”
Gina Trapani
Lifehacker

“Riding the Waves of Change: How to manage change for smoother sailing”
Mark Hordes
Organizational Excellence Journal

“The Creative Twist”
Josh Linker

“IBM — Shades of Yogi Berra”
Aubrey Daniels
Talent Management

“Why Basketball Won’t Leave Phil Jackson Alone”
Sam Anderson
The New York Times

“How to Keep Innovation Jams Small and Focused”
Management Tip of the Day
HBR

“C.K. Prahalad and Strategy as Boundaryless Aspiration”
Walter Kiechel III
HBR

“Most Likely to Succeed”
Malcolm Gladwell
The New Yorker

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 5/20/13)

 

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you:

BOOK REVIEWS

Breaking Out: How to Build Influence in a World of Competing Ideas
John Butman

What You’re Really Meant to Do: A Roadmap for Reaching Your Unique Potential
Robert Steven Kaplan

The UnStoppables: Tapping Your Entrepreneurial Power
Bill Schley

Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life
Ken Robinson

The Commitment Engine: Making Work Worth It
John Jantsch

The Lean Practitioner’s Handbook
Mark Eaton

INTERVIEWS

Leaders Everywhere: A conversation with Gary Hamel
Simon London
McKinsey & Company

Connecting everything: A conversation with Cisco’s Padmasree Warrior
Rik Kirkland
McKinsey & Company

Ashok Subramanian (Liazon) in “The Corner Office”
Adam Bryant
The New York Times

COMMENTARIES

“Gettysburg and Memorial Day”
BOB

Malcolm Gladwell on “Most Likely to Succeed”
The New Yorker

“Six Numbers Reveal the Booming Business of Auto-Analytics”
H. James Wilson
HBR

“Lest we forget this Memorial Day….”
BOB

“4 Essentials Every Team Needs”
Management Tip of the Day
HBR

“The Recruitment Challenges for Small Businesses”
Cindy Lubitz
Talent Management

“What Starts with F and ends with K?”
Source Unknown
BOB

“Apple’s Trojan Horse”
Grant McCracken
HBR

“Seven Rules for Managing Creative-But-Difficult People”
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
HBR

“Lego’s Core Principles for Successful Interaction With Users”
Yun Mi Antorini, Albert M. Muñiz, Jr. and Tormod Askildsen
MIT Sloan Management Review

“How to Aim for Smart Failure”
Management Tip of the Day
HBR

“The Five New Faces of Leadership”
Josh Linkner

William Zinsser: “A Writing Coach Becomes a Listener”
Dan Barry
The New York Times

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 5/13/13)

 

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you:

BOOK REVIEWS

The Lean Practitioner’s Handbook
Mark Eaton

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Strategic Marketing
HBR Editors and various contributors

Weaving the Web: the Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee

Untapped Talent: Unleashing the Power of the Hidden Workforce
Dani Monroe

The Inclusion Dividend: Why Investing in Diversity & Inclusion Pays Off
Mark Kaplan and Mason Donovan

The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels
Michael D. Watkins

The Reality-Based Rules of the Workplace: Know What Boosts Your Value, Kills Your Chances, and Will Make You Happier
Cy Wakeman

INTERVIEWS

Charting technology’s new directions: A conversation with MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson
Rik Kirkland
McKinsey Publishing

Eric Schmidt on “Disruptive technologies”
Richard Dobbs
The McKinsey Global Institute

Brooke Denihan Barrett (Denihan Hospitality Group) in “The Corner Office”
Adam Bryant
The New York Times

COMMENTARIES

“If you think top executives have to have charisma, think again.”
Christian Stadler and Davis Dyer
MIT Sloan Management Review

“How to Listen When Someone Is Venting”
Mark Goulston
HBR

“How to Stop Going to So Many Meetings”
Management Tip of the Day
HBR

“How to stop the mediocrity pandemic”
Dave Logan
CBS MoneyWatch

“How the Internet of Things Changes Everything”
Stefan Ferber
HBR

“Several expert perspectives on data analytics”
McKinsey & Company

“Does it matter where you went to school?”
Margaret Heffernan
CBS MoneyWatch

“The coming era of “on-demand” marketing”
Peter Dahlström and David Edelman
The McKinsey Quarterly

“How to Influence People with Your Ideas”
John Butman
HBR

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/29/13)

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you:

BOOK REVIEWS

Customer CEO: How to Profit from the Power of Your Customers
Chuck Wall

The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself
John Jantsch

Disney U : How Disney University Develops the World’s Most Engaged, Loyal, and Customer-Centric Employees
Doug Lipp

Zig Zag: The Surprising Path to Greater Creativity
Keith Sawyer

INTERVIEWS

Peter Gray: Part 2
BOB

Keith Sawyer
BOB

“The Discipline of Managing Disruption”: Clayton Christensen
Art Kleiner and Rutger von Post
strategy+business

“A Corporate Climate of Mutual Help”: Edward Schein
Art Kleiner and Rutger von Post
strategy+business

COMMENTARIES

“These Soft Skills Can Go a Long Way”
Paul H. Eccher and Dave Ross
Talent Management

“Five Factors for Winning”
Brian Tracy
from Motivation

“How to Use Your Online Network to Test Ideas”
Management Tip of the Day
HBR

“What successful organizational transformations share: McKinsey Global Survey results”
The McKinsey Quarterly

“Creating the Best Workplace on Earth”
Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones
HBR

“The Agility Factor”
Thomas Williams,Christopher G. Worley, and Edward E. Lawler III
strategy+business

“The Role of a Manager”
Brian Tracy
from Motivation

“Make Your Next Innovation Jam Work”
Alessandro Di Fiore
HBR

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/22/13)

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you:

BOOK REVIEWS

The Power of Why: Breaking Out in a Competitive Marketplace
Richard Weylman

Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire
Bruce Nussbaum

The Creative Brain: The Science of Genius
Nancy C. Andreasen

Crisis Communications: The Definitive Guide to Managing the Message
Steven Fink

Decide: Better Ways of Making Better Decisions
David Wethey

Crisis Management: Planning for the Inevitable
Steven Fink

Business Brilliant: Surprising Lessons from the Greatest Self-Made Business Icons
Lewis Schiff

INTERVIEWS

Jen Guzman (Stella & Chewy’s) in “The Corner Office”
Adam Bryant
The New York Times

Peter Gray (Part 1)
BOB

Thought Leader Conversation: Edgar Schein
Art Kleiner and Rutger von Post
strategy+business

Dennis Perkins (Part 1)
BOB

COMMENTARIES

“How to Expand Your Company’s Innovation Network”
Management Tip of the Day
HBR

“McKinsey & Company: Leading in the 21st century”
The McKinsey Quarterly

“How IDEO brings design to corporate America”
David Kelley
FORTUNE

“To Increase Innovation, Take the Sting Out of Failure”
Doug Sundheim
HBR

“Linked Data: Web Science and the Semantic Web”
Tim Berners-Lee

“Google’s Greatest Innovation May Be Its Management Practice”
Bruce Nussbaum
Fast Company

“The Five Stages of Disruption Denial”
Grant McCracken
HBR

“How to Create an Innovation Ecosystem”
Art Markman
HBR

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/15/13)

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you:

BOOK REVIEWS

Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization
Dan Pontefract

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Jon Gertner

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
Evgeny Morozov

Make Your Brain Smarter: Increase Your Brain’s Creativity, Energy, and Focus
Sandra Bond Chapman with Shelly Kirkland

50 Philosophy Classics: THINKING, BEING, ACTING, SEEING – Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books
Tom Butler-Bowdon

The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructed World
Marina Gorbis

Sparks of Genius: The 13 Thinking Tools
Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein

INTERVIEWS

George Hu (Salesforce) in “The Corner Office”
The New York Times

Chip Heath and Olivier Sibony on “Making great decisions”
The McKinsey Quarterly

COMMENTARIES

How to Find Your Own “Element”
BOB

“How to Create an Innovation Ecosystem”
Art Markman
HBR

“Givers take all: The hidden dimension of corporate culture”
Adam Grant
The McKinsey Quarterly

“How to Strike the Right Tone in Your Writing”
Management Tip of the Day
HBR

Jonathan Winters: “A Madman, but Angelic”
Robin Williams
The New York Times

“Why Big Companies Can’t Innovate”
Maxwell Wessel
HBR

“Evolution of the networked enterprise: McKinsey Global Survey results”
McKinsey and Company
The McKinsey Quarterly

“To Innovate, Find What’s Hiding in Plain Sight”
Vijay Govindarajan and Srikanth Srinivas
HBR

“Employee Engagement: Key Insights”
BOB

“The Physics of Talent”
John Boudreau
Talent Management

“Why Ron Johnson Was Ousted As JCPenney CEO”
Robert Passakoff
CustomerThink

“The Physics of Talent”
John Boudreau
HBR

“The Creative Mindset: Classic Insights”
BOB

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/8/13)

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you:

BOOK REVIEWS

The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet
Ramez Naam

World Changers: 25 Entrepreneurs Who Changed Business as We Knew It
John A. Byrne

HBR’s 10 Must Reads On Communication
Editors of Harvard Business Review

StoryBranding: Creating Stand-Out Brands Through The Power of Story
Jim Signorelli

Talent Leadership: A Proven Method for Identifying and Developing High-Potential Employees
John Mattone with Luiz Xavier

Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Hire, Keep and Nurture Creative Talent
Nolan Bushnell with Gene Stone

Rain: What a Paperboy Learned About Business
Jeffrey J. Fox

Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence
Amy Jen Su and Muriel Maignan Wilkins

INTERVIEWS

Marcus Ryu (Guidewire Software) in “The Corner Office”
Adam Bryant
The New York Times

Chip Heath and Olivier Sibony on “Making great decisions”
The McKinsey Quarterly

Karen Wright
BOB

George Kohlhieser
BOB

COMMENTARIES

“The Art and Science of Delivery: In honor of the 10th anniversary of the Skoll World Forum”
Volume 5 , Voices on Society series
The McKinsey Quarterly

“Evolution of the networked enterprise: McKinsey Global Survey results”
Contributors include Jacques Bughin and Michael Chui
The McKinsey Quarterly

“The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete”
Chris Anderson
Inc.

“The Hidden Biases in Big Data”
Kate Crawford
HBR

“The Rise of Executive Feminism”
Joan C. Williams andRachel W. Dempsey
HBR

“4 Ways to Be a Leader Who Matters”
Les McKeown
Inc.

“The Psychology of the Creative Class: Not as Creative as You Think”
Richey Piiparinen

“How to ‘dance in the rain’”
BOB

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/1/13)

 

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you:

BOOK REVIEWS

The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
Steven Gary Blank

Your Survival Instinct Is Killing You: Retrain Your Brain to Conquer Fear, Make Better Decisions, and Thrive in the 21st Century
Marc Schoen with Kristin Loberg

Intelligent Leadership: What You Need to Know to Unlock Your Full Potential
John Mattone

INTERVIEWS

Francesca Zambello in “The Corner Office”
Adam Bryant
The New York Times

Lawrence Cunningham
BOB

Gerard J. Tellis
BOB

Emily Bennington
BOB

Vijay Govindarajan
BOB

COMMENTARIES

“Remembering Roger Ebert “
Linda Holmes
NPR

“The Psychology of the Creative Class: Not as Creative as You Think”
Richey Piiparinen

“Five routes to more innovative problem solving”
Olivier Leclerc and Mihnea Moldoveanu
The McKinsey Quarterly

“The Originality Scale”
Marty Neumeier
Liquid Agency

“The Most Popular Articles (First Q 2013)”
The McKinsey Quarterly

“How to Tell Your Company’s Story”
Nadia Goodman
Entrepreneur

“Don’t Sandwich Negative Feedback”
Management Tip of the Day
HBR

“5 Insanely Simple Work-Life Balance Shortcuts From People Who ‘Have it all’”
Cali Williams Yost
Fast Company

“Lessons From Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg On How To Succeed In Business By Really Trying”
Sharon Poczter
Forbes

“Yes, women make better leaders.”
Margaret Heffernan
CBS MoneyWatch

“How Innovative Is Your Company’s Culture?”
Jay Rao and Joseph Weintraub
MIT Sloan Management Review

“What Losing My Job Taught Me About Leading”
Doug Conant
HBR

“How to Know the Difference Between Your Data and Your Metrics”
Jeff Bladt and Bob Filbin
HBR

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