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Foxes And Hedgehogs: Which One Are You?

Lead Change Blog

In 2001, I accepted my first official leadership position as a human resources director with one audacious goal – to be and do all the things to serve all the people. Leadership development became my one big thing. It didn’t take long to figure out that I wasn’t good at trying to be and do all the things to serve all the people.

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Judgment Calls

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Books like Built to Last (Collins and Porras, 1997) and Good to Great (Collins, 2001) have laid a foundation. Judgment Calls shows what it looks like in organizations that have developed the ability to make better decisions through a broad-based, data-intensive approach.

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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm on…Performance Excellence

The Practical Leader

Good to Great , Jim Collins, Harper Business, New York, 2001, pages 12-14. ” - Jim Collins and Morten Hansen, Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck — Why Some Thrive Despite Them All. They are more like Lincoln and Socrates than Patton or Caesar. “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm on…Performance Excellence

The Practical Leader

Good to Great , Jim Collins, Harper Business, New York, 2001, pages 12-14. ” - Jim Collins and Morten Hansen, Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck — Why Some Thrive Despite Them All. They are more like Lincoln and Socrates than Patton or Caesar. “Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

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Six Principles for Developing Humility as a Leader

Harvard Business Review

Yes, we have scores of books, articles, and studies that warn us of the perils of hubris. Jim Collins had a lot to say about CEOs he saw demonstrating modesty and leading quietly, not charismatically , in his 2001 bestseller Good to Great. Yet the attribute of humility seems to be neglected in leadership development programs.

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

His new book, co-authored with Karen Anderson is a fascinating look at Amazon’s record growth. For those who haven’t read your book yet, would you share one of them and its importance to business success? It is based on chapter 8 of Jim Collins book Good to Great. Jeff Bezos. 14 Principles that Made Amazon.

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Big Bets vs. Little Bets and the future of HP

Harvard Business Review

The innovation research identifies the tyranny of large numbers as a common (and vexing) problem for leaders as companies grow, well documented by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen in The Innovators Solution , Jim Collins in How the Mighty Fall , and by Scott Anthony on this blog. Are you currently making small bets?

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