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Delegation & Supervision: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Delegation & Supervision Brian Tracy AMACOM (2013) Absolutely essential core competencies for those who aspire to become great supervisors This is the latest volume added to The Brian Tracy Success Library. The others are Motivation and Negotiation, also published by AMACOM.

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Scaling Up – Verne Harnish is Back with Rockefeller Habits 2.0 – (If Only We Practiced what we Already Know to Do…)

First Friday Book Synopsis

This is the role and power of Core Values… Leadership: the ability to staff/grow enough leaders throughout the organization who have the capabilities to delegate and predict. In leading People, take a page from parenting: Establish a handful of rules, repeat yourself a lot, and act consistently with those rules.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 8/12/13)

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Robertson Delegation & Supervision Deloitte/MIT School of Management Report Frank Kalman HBR How to Master Joseph Schumpeter''s Concept of "Creative Destruction" Inc. Small Giants Community Jac Fitz-enz Jeffrey M.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 8/5/13)

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Robertson with Bill Breen The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products That Win (Fifth Edition) […]. Williams (chairman and CEO of the Williams Capital Group) in “The Corner Office” Creating the Right Recipe for Transformation Daniel Isenberg: An interview by Bob Morris David C.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 1/14/13)

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I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS A Technique for Producing Ideas: The Simple, Five-Step Formula Anyone Can Use to Be More Creative in Business and in Life! James Webb Young HBR Guide to Better Business Writing Bryan A. Garner Know What You [.].

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Is your company’s executive education program any good?

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In fact, does your company even have an executive education program? Long ago in response to parents’ protests about a recent tuition increase at Harvard, then president Derek Bok suggested, “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Here are other questions: 1.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 9/23/13)

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Bob''s blog entries "Bullish on digital: McKinsey Global Survey results" "The Corner Office" "The Top Workplace Movies of All Time: Part 2" A Life in Leadership Adam Bryant “10 Practical Innovation Lessons from Great Explorers” “Delegate your work “Doing well by doing good: A leader’s guide” “Malcolm Gladwell: Guru of the Underdogs” “The Five Rules (..)