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Still Surprised: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership Warren Bennis Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2010) Four score and counting, while his insatiable curiosity explores and his sense of wonder delights I have read and reviewed most (if not all) of Warren Bennis’ books and most of his articles.

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Think Like a Freak: A book review by Bob Morris

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Dubner Steven D. Levitt The Book The conventional wisdom is often wrong The Gambler Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Van Halen group William Morrow/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Zappos'

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Secrets of Special Ops Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

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Cohen AMACOM (2005) Note: Given the recent and dramatic increase of public interest in “special ops&# initiatives, I decided to re-read a book I reviewed when it was first published more than six years ago. Secrets of Special Ops Leadership: Dare the Impossible — Achieve the Extraordinary William A.

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To Teach Effectively, Show and Tell

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Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. How many times have you trained a colleague in a task, only to have that person come knocking on your door every five minutes with a question? To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. People [.].

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Lisa Bodell: An interview by Bob Morris

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Working with leading brands such as Starwood, Merck, and Sprint, futurethink has become the largest source of innovation research, tools, and training curricula in the world. She is also the author […].

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 1/28/13)

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I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK/CD REVIEWS Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance Jason Selk The Art of Doing: How Superachievers Do What They Do and How They Do It So Well Camille Sweeney and Josh Gosfield Leadership: [.].

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On Intelligence: A book review by Bob Morris

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On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines Jeff Hawkins with Sandra Blakeslee Owl Books/Henry Holt and Company (2004) I read this book when it was first published (in 2004) and recently re-read it while preparing for an interview of one of countless thought leaders [.].

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