Robert Morris

What non-quants need to understand in order to take full advantage of the results that quantitative analysis can produce, June 18, 2013

Almost everything most business leaders know about analytics they have learned from Tom Davenport and the material he provides in his books, notably in Competing in Analytics and Analytics at Work. In his a recent book, Judgment Calls, he and co-author Brooke Manville offer "an antidote for the Great Man theory of decision making and organizational performance": [begin italics] organizational judgment [end italics]. That is, "the collective capacity to make good calls and wise moves when the need for them exceeds the scope of any single leader's direct control." The more non-quants there are in a given organization, the better prepared they will be to take full advantage of the results that… Read more

A collaborative consideration of the meaning and significance of the Digital Age, June 12, 2013

In the Introduction, Simon Pont observes, "I think the Digital Age is opening doors, creating new vistas, new lands to explore and worlds to conquer, on all kinds of levels, real, augmented, virtual, intrinsic, extrinsic. I think it's double-handing in a number of ways too, accelerating opposites, allowing new collectives to rally and shape, but allowing micro-cliques and atomization to spark and run riot. I think it's empowering all kinds of genuine self-expression, and fueling some borderline-unhealthy levels of self-delusion. It's bringing people together; it's pushing people apart. It's creating new feelings of belonging; it's driving new kinds of estrangement. It's making things happen… Read more

Stiletto Networks "are about trying to make your own personal dent in the world.", June 11, 2013

I could easily do without the juvenile nomenclature that includes "stiletto network" as well as the "Harpies," "Babes in Boyland," "Chicks in Charge," the "Broad Squad," and "SLUTS" (Successful Ladies Under Tremendous Stress) but am grateful to Pamela Ryckman for all that I have learned about the nature, extent, power, and value of business women's networks. I selected her remarks for the title of this review and presume to add that the networks can help those who become members -- not only those who found them -- to make a "personal dent in the world."

Ryckman provides a wealth of information, insights, and counsel while focusing on a number of highly successful and motivated… Read more