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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 9/16/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Yeh Reply All Richie Frieman Rita Hayworth is still “Staying Alive” Rod Crawford Simon Anderson (chief executive of DreamHost) in “The Corner Office" Stephanie H. Yeh The Art of Business: In the Footsteps of Giants The New York Times What the Plus!'

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The Best Leadership Books of 2014

Leading Blog

Leaders Eat Last : Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don''t by Simon Sinek The title of the book— Leaders Eat Last —comes from a conversation with a Marine Corps general. Wiseman says, “We do our best work when we are new to something, striving up that steep ascent.” We need to be a perpetual rookie. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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What’s the Purpose of Companies in the Age of AI?

Harvard Business Review

This notion that a firm has a social quality — a purpose or identity — that goes beyond its economic raison d’etre is well established in the literature, from March and Simon through to Kogut and Zander. Firms create value by nurturing “unreasonable” behavior.

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India's Decade of Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

The vision and purpose of Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw , chairman and managing director of Biocon, is to deliver affordable drugs to the masses in both India and other markets. Dr. Simone Ahuja is the founder of Blood Orange Media. Jaideep Prabhu is the Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise.

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