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The Four Stages of Highly Effective Crisis Management: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Four Stages of Highly Effective Crisis Management: How to Manage the Media in the Digital Age Jane Jordan-Meier CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group (2011) “Truth, well-told” and carefully managed Decades ago, one of the co-founders of the firm we now know as Hill & Knowlton, John Hill, explained that public relations should be “truth, [.]. (..)

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Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders?A book review by Bob Morris

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A Better Way to Evaluate Leadership Poitential Jeffrey Cohn and Jay Moran Jossey-Bass (2011) How and why to cope with a leadership evaluation and development crisis to produce more effective leaders As Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis suggest in Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls, leaders [.].

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Jobs and US economic recovery: A panel discussion sponsored by the Committee for Economic Development (CED)

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Once again, McKinsey & Company’s Quarterly has made available an exceptionally valuable program to the general public: Experts discuss McKinsey’s research on “jobless recoveries” and ways to solve the longer-term US employment crisis (August 2011).

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Willful Blindness: A book review by Bob Morris

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Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril Margaret Heffernan Walker Books (2011) How and why all of us should develop “fierce determination to see” whatever we need to understand Margaret Heffernan’s background in business is wide as well as deep.

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In Pursuit of Happiness: The Economics of Enough

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Hurst’s review of The Economics of Enough, written by Diane Coyle and published by Princeton University Press, 2011. ?To Here is an excerpt from David K.