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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 6/24/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure Tim Harford Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and BetterAdam Pash and Gina Trapani Negotiation Brian Tracy What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures Malcolm Gladwell Managers as […].

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 4/1/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win Steven Gary Blank Your Survival Instinct Is Killing You: Retrain Your Brain to Conquer Fear, Make Better Decisions, and Thrive in the 21st [.].

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‘Managers as Mentors’ Celebrates Publication Anniversary

Marshall Goldsmith

In both 2011 and 2013, I was recognized as one of the top ten Most Influential Business Thinkers in the World – and the top-ranked executive coach – at the biennial Thinkers50 Award ceremony in London. Combining compassion with wisdom is still very relevant today. ” Published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc.,

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Don’t Coach Integrity Violations – Fire Them!

Marshall Goldsmith

A very wise leader, Alan Mulally, the former CEO of Ford and Fortune’s #3 greatest leader in the world 2013, once told me, “The key to your success is having great customers. You probably won’t be surprised to learn that not all executive coaching engagements are successful.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

Deep Work : Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport To thrive in the new economy—the current information economy—you need to master these two core abilities: 1. The Three-Box Solution : A Strategy for Leading Innovation by Vijay Govindarajan Ultimately our future is not in linear—incremental—improvements.

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Running a Permanent Campaign for Innovation

Mills Scofield

This Spring 2013 we’ve begun by focusing on how books that can be used as tools to inspire and motivate people to act, to change, and to drive innovation where they are.

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Unrelenting Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Tellis Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2013) How to avoid or overcome “the incumbent’s curse” to achieve market dominance By nature, books about innovation should contribute something new and/or something better to our understanding of what innovation is and isn’t as well as how to [.].