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The Most Popular — and Impactful — HBR Articles of All Time

May 17, 2025

Kelsey Gripenstraw shares highlights from a century of management insights in HBR articles. Her article is part of The Big Idea Series / 100 Years of Harvard Business Review. Credit: Israel G. Vargas HBR’s 100th anniversary marks a century of publishing ideas that improve the practice of management.…

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Are You Really a Good Listener?

May 16, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Jeffrey Yip and Colin M. Fisher for Harvard Business Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration…

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Gratitude Tiger: A Book Review by Bob Morris

May 15, 2025

Gratitude Tiger: Creating Joy Through the Art of Impactful Letters Joel Zuckerman Greenleaf Book Group Press (April 2025) “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” William Arthur Ward As Ward’s observation correctly…

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The Power of Mattering: A Book Review by Bob Morris

May 14, 2025

The Power of Mattering: How Leaders Can Create a Culture of  Significance Zach Mercurio Harvard Business Review Press (May 2025) “Always assume that people around you feel unseen, undervalued, and lonely — and act accordingly.” According to Zach Mercurio, “If…

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Today’s Essential Power Skill for Leaders: Cooperation

May 13, 2025

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Lynda Gratton  for the MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others,  sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. * * *…

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Another Way: A Book Review by Bob Morris

May 12, 2025

Another Way: Building Companies That Last…and Last…and Last Dave Whorton with Bo Burlington Harvard Business Review Press (May 2025) A brilliant analysis of “underappreciated and undersupported” values-driven companies In a book written with the invaluable assistance of Bo Burlingham (author…

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Charles Spinosa on Developing High-Impact Leadership: Part IV of an Interview by Bob Morris

May 12, 2025

Charles Spinosa has been a management consultant for the last 27 years. He draws on thinking from philosophy and literature to develop leaders, change organizational cultures, and develop new customer propositions. He has worked with clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups…

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Wicked Problems: A Book Review by Bob Morris

May 10, 2025

Wicked Problems: What Can We Do In This Time of Collapse? Christian Sarkar and Philip Kotler Idea Bite Press (March 2025) If the world’s worst problems are interconnected, then their solutions must also be interconnected. According to Phil Kotler, “This…

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The Stoic Capitalist: A Book Review by Bob Morris

May 9, 2025

The Stoic Capitalist: Advice for the Exceptionally Ambitious, Robert Rosenkrantz Bloomsbury (May 2025) How to free yourself for yourself As you may already know, Epictetus (c .75-135 AD),  Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD), and Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) were all…

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The World Is Your Office: A Book Review by Bob Morris

May 8, 2025

The World Is Your Office: How Work from Anywhere Boosts Talent, Productivity, and Innovation Prithwiraj Choudhury Harvard Business Review Press (April 2025) “The sure way to increase productivity is to better administrate man and machine.” W. Edwards Deming Wherever you…

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