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JULY 30, 2014

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FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Jim Collins evokes a much-discussed metaphor in Good to Great when he suggests that business leaders get the wrong people off their (presumably built-to-last) “bus” and get the right people on it. Because I share Collins’ [.]. He also expects the leaders to chart a proper itinerary and keep the “bus” headed in the right direction.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Karl''s blog entries Blackstone Library Ecco first friday book synopsis Harper Collins Lee Silber Michael S. .” And, you likely remember the book published in 1998, Time Management for the Creative […].

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

The new Jim Collins and Morten Hansen book, Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All, and the significant “how is the internet affecting our brains” book, The Shallows, will be our two selections of the November 4 First Friday Book Synopsis. I will present the synopsis of the new [.].

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NOVEMBER 19, 2011

Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Companies Thrive Despite Them All Jim Collins and Morten T.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Companies Thrive Despite Them All Jim Collins and Morten T.

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JUNE 25, 2015

For example, Jim Collins described Circuit City as one of the exemplar, “great” companies in his book Good to Great, not very long before Circuit City disappeared from our landscape. There are plenty of books dealing with exemplar, successful, “great,” “excellent” companies. Some of those companies have already fallen from the list.

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MARCH 15, 2014

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Bob''s blog entries America''s Women: 400 Years of Dolls [comma] Drudges [comma] Helpmates [comma] and Heroines Daisy Bates (1914-1999) Dr. Mae Jemison (1955- ) Gail Collins Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) Ida B. . […]. history Toni Morrison (1931- ) William Morrow (2007) Zora Neale Hurston (1891 – 1960)'

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DECEMBER 11, 2015

And Jim Collins wrote about our “ROL – Return on Luck” in his book Great by Choice. Time for a new “Return on…” consideration. The traditional one, of course, is “ROI – Return on Investment.” From the book: Luck happens, a lot, both good luck and bad luck.

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MARCH 18, 2015

Bob''s blog entries (MD) A Walk in the Rain with a Brain (Regan Books/Harper Collins) Answers to Distraction (Pantheon 1995) attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Delivered From Distraction (Ballantine) Delivered From Distraction (Pantheon) Dr. John Ratey (Pantheon) Dr.

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AUGUST 11, 2015

It’s interesting… Just after I presented my synopsis of Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal, (with Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell) at our monthly First Friday Book Synopsis, Google announced it’s reorganization into a “Company of Companies.”

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NOVEMBER 14, 2013

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MAY 18, 2015

What is your focus? What is your organization’s focus? What is your personal focus – in your job, in your life? It seems like such an easy question to answer: “What are you focusing on?” But, if you are like me, there is always the next pull from the next demand – the next time […].

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MAY 15, 2015

As James MacGregor Burns taught in his classic 1978 text, Leadership, the practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power. If I put a loaded gun to your head, I can get you to do things you might not otherwise do, but I’ve not practiced leadership; I’ve exercised power. True leadership […].

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

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OCTOBER 9, 2013

Bill") Marriott Jim Collins John Robbins Julia Stewart Noel Watson Paul L. Bob''s blog entries "Vision without execution is hallucination" bibliomotion books + media entrepreneurs who became titans good to great business leaders good to great companies Herb Kelleher J.W. Diaz Richard ("Rick") Federico Robert L.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2011

Karl Krayer presented his synopsis of The Shallows, and I presented my synopsis of the new book by Jim Collins, Great by Choice. We had a terrific session yesterday at the November, 2011 First Friday Book Synopsis. It was a valuable session. Both books were terrific, and I view Great by Choice as an important [.].

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

For Jim Collins, the word “good” [.]. Good Company: Business Success in the Worthiness Era Laurie Bassi, Ed Frauenheim, Dan McMurrer, with Larry Costello Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2011) How and why companies must prove worthy of consumers’ business, employees’ best efforts, and investors’ dollars What’s in a word?

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MAY 22, 2011

Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business from Ordinary to Extraordinary Frank Luntz Hyperion/Harper Collins (2011) A brilliant recycling of valuable business material Frank Luntz identifies what he characterizes as “The 15 Universal Attributes of Winners” (on Page 2) and then “The Nine P’s of Winning: What It Takes to Get to the Top” [.].

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JUNE 27, 2013

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MARCH 29, 2013

{On April 5, 2013, we will celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the First Friday Book Synopsis, and begin our 16th year. During March, I will post a blog post per day remembering key insights from some of the books I have presented over the 15 years of the First Friday Book Synopsis. We have met [.].

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JANUARY 26, 2012

In Built to Last, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras urge business leaders to set what they characterize as BHAGs: Big Hairy Audacious Goals. That is, an “audacious 10-to-30-year goal to progress toward an envisioned future.”

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JULY 22, 2015

“A lot of the work that we did early starts bearing fruit, late,” the president told Stewart, before joking that you get better as “you get experience.” President Barack Obama, on his last appearance on The Daily Show ——————– This is worth pondering.

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DECEMBER 8, 2013

"My Meetings With Mandela" "Thinking Mistakes Our Brains Make Every Day and How to Prevent Them" ''Tis the Season to Focus on the Business Basics Adam Bryant Alison Gopnik Angie Hicks “How I Hire: In Search of the Sir Ernest Shackleton Gene” “The Psychology of Self-Control” Belle Beth Cooper Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 12/2/13) (..)

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MARCH 6, 2016

Bob Nease received his doctorate from Stanford University, where he studied methods to improve medical decisions made by doctors and patients. Before joining Express Scripts in 2001, he was an associate professor of internal medicine at Washington University in St. Louis and an assistant professor at the Dartmouth Medical School.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Bob Nease received his doctorate from Stanford University, where he studied methods to improve medical decisions made by doctors and patients. Before joining Express Scripts in 2001, he was an associate professor of internal medicine at Washington University in St. Louis and an assistant professor at the Dartmouth Medical School.

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MAY 24, 2012

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling Free Press/A Division of Simon & Schuster (2012) “Vision without execution is hallucination.” ” That is perhaps what [.].

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FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2011) A 21st century version of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave In his comments in the “Editor’s Note” section that precedes the Introduction, Warren Bennis acknowledges that he was fascinated (..)

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APRIL 29, 2015

Clive Wilson is a writer, speaker, facilitator and business coach. He is a director of Primeast, a learning and development company based in the beautiful town of Harrogate in the county of North Yorkshire in the United Kingdom, some 220 miles north of London. Primeast works primarily in the oil and gas, power, pharmaceutical and […].

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Who can we trust? Who can we trust to tell us the truth? Especially, when the truth really matters? This is not a new concern. And, the sense that more and more people seem to be so untrustworthy may be a false sense. I suspect that if we picked any decade, from any century, thoughtful [.].

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JANUARY 28, 2012

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Eric Ries Crown Business (2011) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

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JANUARY 19, 2013

In Multipliers, written with Greg McKeown, Liz Wiseman juxtaposes two quite different types of persons whom she characterizes as the “Multiplier” and the “Diminisher.”

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MAY 28, 2011

Peter Sims is an author, speaker, and entrepreneur. He is the author of is Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries, from Simon & Schuster: Free Press.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Today, I picked my newspaper up off the lawn and brought it in to my house to read with my coffee. I didn’t have to take my daughter to school because of President’s Day, so I came back inside my house. From all indications, this ritual is on the road to extinction. Many reports predict that all newspapers will [.].

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APRIL 30, 2011

Webber is an award-winning, nationally-recognized editor, author, and columnist. In 1995, he launched Fast Company magazine, a fresh, dynamic entry in the business magazine category. Headquartered in Boston, MA, the magazine became the fastest growing, most successful business magazine in history.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Brian Robertson is an experienced entrepreneur, CEO, and organizational pioneer.

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