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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How to Use Your Online Network to Test Ideas

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here.

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Most managers today understand the importance of reaching out to colleagues through LinkedIn, following and being followed on Twitter, and actively participating in corporate social media initiatives — but fewer know how to effectively use these networks.

o One way is to gather information by testing proposals and strategies, inside and outside your organization.

o Float an idea and see how many “likes” or retweets it gets.

o Or direct certain groups of people to an online survey.

The feedback might help you persuade a reluctant boss or client to come around to your point of view.

Today’s Management Tip was adapted from the HBR Guide to Networking.

To check out that book and join the discussion, please click here.

Also, you may wish to check out an anthology, Management Tips from Harvard Business Review, by clicking here.

How to Strike the Right Tone in Your Writing

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here.

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Getting tone right takes work — but it’s critical to the success of your business documents.

If you sound likable and professional, people will want to work with you and respond to you. If you come off as hyperformal, condescending, or sarcastic, people won’t.

o Find the right tone by writing your message as if you were speaking to the recipient in person.

o Refer to people by name, use personal pronouns as you naturally would, and shun fancy substitutes for everyday words.

o Always use a friendly tone in composing your messages, even if the content isn’t positive.

You’ll get better responses from your recipients and keep yourself — and your company — out of trouble.

Today’s Management Tip was adapted from the HBR Guide to Better Business Writing.

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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 4/1/13)

 

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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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 3/25/13)

 

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

BOOK REVIEWS

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Making Smart Decisions
Various Contributors and Editors of Harvard Business Review

It’s All About Who You Hire, How They Lead…and Other Essential Advice from a Self-Made Leader
Morton L. Mandel with John A. Byrne

Win-Win Partnerships: Be on the Cutting Edge with Synergistic Coaching
Steven J. Stowell and Matt M. Starcevich

Ahead of the Curve: A Guide to Applied Strategic Thinking
Steven J. Stowell and Stephanie S. Mead

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sanberg

Getting Innovation Right: How Leaders Leverage Inflection Points to Drive Success
Seth Kahan

INTERVIEWS

Ivar Kroghrud (QuestBack) in “The Corner Office”
Adam Bryant
The New York Times

The Thought Leader Interview: Cynthia Montgomery
Ken Favaro and Art Kleiner
strategy+business

COMMENTARIES

“9 Initiatives Employers Must Take to Support Women’s Success”
Kathy Caprino
Forbes

A McKinsey Classic: “The granularity of growth”
Mehrdad Baghai, Sven Smit, and S. Patrick Viguerie
The McKinsey Quarterly

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

“Why Organizations Are So Afraid to Simplify””
Ron Ashkenas
HBR

“Six social-media skills every leader needs”
Margaret Heffernan
CBS MoneyWatch

“Why to Change Small Things, Not the Entire Culture”
Management Tip of the Day
HBR

“Want to Change Behavior?”
Marshall Goldsmith
Talent Management

“The Making of an Expert”
K. Anders Ericsson, Michael J. Prietula, and Edward T. Cokely
HBR

“Two Great Talks by Ken Robinson”
TED

“Beyond corporate social responsibility: Integrated external engagement”
John Browne and Robin Nuttall
The McKinsey Quarterly

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Why Persuasion Doesn’t Require Manipulation

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here.

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If you’re trying to convince people outside clear reporting lines to collaborate with you, you’ll need to use your powers of persuasion. This doesn’t involve manipulating your colleagues, but rather leading them to a shared solution. Here’s how:

o Establish credibility. If you have a history of well-informed, sound judgment, your colleagues will trust your expertise. If you’ve demonstrated that you can work in the best interest of others, your peers will have confidence in your relationships.

o Frame goals on common ground. Tangibly describe the mutual benefits.

o Vividly reinforce your position. Ordinary evidence won’t do. Make numerical data more compelling with examples, stories, and metaphors that have an emotional impact.
Today’s Management Tip was adapted from the HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 3/18/13)

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

BOOK REVIEWS

The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
Gary Keller with Jay Papasan

The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Third Edition
Warren Buffett; Edited by Lawrence A. Cunningham

Judgment On the Front Line: Why the Smartest Companies Trust their People to Make Real Decisions
Chris DeRose and Noel Tichy

INTERVIEWS

David Rock (the NeuroLeadership Institute) in “The Corner Office”
Adam Bryant
The New York Times

Capturing the Energy of Anese Cavanaugh
Glenn Burr
Inc. Small Giants Community (ISGC )

CONVERSATION AT THE EDGE with Joseph Henrich
Edge.org

Karl Weber
BOB

Exclusive Interview with Author Stan Phelps
Glenn Burr
Inc.

Mark Goulston and John Ullmen
BOB

COMMENTARIES

“Beyond corporate social responsibility: Integrated external engagement”
John Browne and Robin Nuttall
The McKinsey Quarterly

“Why Persuasion Doesn’t Require Manipulation”
Management Tip of the Day
HBR

“Stop Reinventing Disruption”
Maxwell Wessel
HBR

“Women on the home front: Debate over work-life balance continues”
Bernie D. Jones
From the Square (NYU Press Blog)

“The second step to brain mastery”
Nick Morgan

“Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling”
Emma Coats

“The New Aesthetic Resonates in Ferruccio Laviani’s Good Vibrations”
Janelle Zara
ARTINFO.com

“Some Things You Might Not Know About Sheryl Sandberg…But Lucky Us, We Got the Chance to Ask”
Sara Nelson
Amazon.com

“International Women’s Day 2013: Defining Success”
Accenture Global Research Results

“Why the Publishing Industry Isn’t Doomed: Readers’ Control In the Future of Reading”
Baratunde Thurston
Fast Company

“How to Survive Networking Events by Being Generous”
Management Tip of the Day
HBR

“Findings of Harvard Business School’s 2012 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness”
Michael E. Porter, Jan W. Rivkin, and Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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