First Friday Book Synopsis

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Executive Level Book Synopsis Presentations – Maybe just what your Leadership Team(s) could use

First Friday Book Synopsis

How can this be—all this failure—after the thousands of leadership books, talks, blogs, classes, and leadership-development programs seeking to make leaders more effective? How can this be, after more than a century of research seeking to figure out how to select better leaders? 


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The Executive Checklist: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Executive Checklist: A Guide for Setting Direction and Managing Change James M. Spitzer Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution Harvard School of Public Health James M. Kerr Jørgen Vig Knudstorp and his leadership team Jeanne W. Bob''s blog entries Atul Gwande David Robertson Dean R.

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Would You Like to Read 24 Business Books Next Year?

First Friday Book Synopsis

Would You Like to Read 24 Business Books Next Year? Books to help you think about: time management, personal productivity, leadership, communication, strategy, organizational effectiveness, working well as a team – collaboration, execution, constant improvement, innovation… The list of challenges is kind of overwhelming, isn’t it?

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Ten Types of Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

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Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs Larry Keeley with Ryan Pikkel, Brian Quinn, and Helen Walters John Wiley & Sons (2013) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison With regard to the Edison quotation, I agree while presuming to add, “Execution without discipline is merely activity.”

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Read Books; Read the Right Book at the Right Time — One Lesson from Isaacson’s The Innovators

First Friday Book Synopsis

Andy Grove read Peter Drucker’s The Practice of Management, which described the ideal chief executive as an outside person, an inside person, and a person of action. Grove realized that instead of being embodied in one person, such traits could exist in a leadership team. (At Randy''s blog entries'

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Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership: Executive Lessons from the Bully Pulpit James M. Strock Three Rivers Press (2001) “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt I selected the quotation for the title of my review because it expresses so well Theodore Roosevelt’s core values throughout his life.

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Reagan on Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

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Reagan on Leadership: Executive Lessons from the Great Communicator James M. Strock Serve to Lead Press (2011) Up front, I need to acknowledge that I do not share James Strock’s high regard for Ronald Reagan’s performance as governor of California and then as president of the United States.

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