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Why Effective Leaders Get Branded as Problems

August 18, 2026

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Luis Velasquez 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 Credit:    Matt Harrison…

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Global by Design: A Book Review by Bob Morris

August 17, 2026

Global by Design: How to Create Innovations That Scale, Travel, and Transform Amos Winter and Vijay Govindarajan Harvard Business Review Press (August 2026) Here is what you need to create innovative solutions that are global by design To what does…

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The Elusiveness of Merit-Based Hiring

August 16, 2026

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Kyle Brink for MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit:    Patrick…

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Distance Still Matters: The Hard Reality of Global Expansion

August 16, 2026

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Pankaj Ghemawat for Harvard Business Review (September 2001). To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: …

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The World of Christopher Marlowe: Revisiting a Book Review by Bob Morris

August 15, 2026

  The World of Christopher Marlowe David Riggs Henry Holt and Company (2004) “Our first great poetic dramatist and a defiant rebel against all social norms.” Stanley Wells Over the years, I have read or re-read several biographies of William Shakespeare…

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The Best Customers to Study When Scaling Into a New Market

August 14, 2026

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Nataliya Langburd Wright for MIT Sloan Management Review. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit:   …

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The Growth Advantage: Revisiting a Book Review by Bob Morris

August 13, 2026

The Growth Advantage: A Business Blueprint for the Ultimate Competitive Advantage Bob Lisser Rowan & Littlefield (May 2022) Here’s the basic blueprint from an architect of organizational competitive advantages “To develop a Strategy Advantage, you need to maximize the following…

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Three Journeys: Anton Chekhov on the road.

August 12, 2026

Here is an excerpt from a classic article written by Janet Malcolm for The New Yorker in 2001. To read the complete article, check out others, sign up for email alerts, and obtain subscription information, please click here. Illustration Credit: …

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The Office Amenity That Actually Improves Teamwork

August 11, 2026

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Ron Friedman 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 Credit:     Dominika Lipniewska…

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Be the Unicorn: Revisiting a Book Review by Bob Morris

August 10, 2026

Be the Unicorn: 12 Data-Driven Habits That Separate the Best Leaders from the Rest William Vanderbloemen HarperCollins Leadership/An Imprint of HarperCollins (November 2023) How determined are you tgo to work hard AND smart? Otherwise…. What are the defining characteristics of…

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