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Forget the Bus! Develop Talent to Create a Fast, Nimble Fleet

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

This approach was first popularized in the 1980′s by Jack Welch at GE and further reinforced in 2001 by Jim Collins who told us to “get the right people on the bus and the wrong people off.” Develop Talent to Create a Fast, Nimble Fleet. Leadership Jack Welch Jim Collins stack ranking talent development'

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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

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. How would that goal take shape in the context of a formal leadership development program?

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

It is based on chapter 8 of Jim Collins book Good to Great. Bezos invited Collins to Amazon a few months before Collin’s book was published in 2001 to teach the senior leadership team the flywheel concept. The S-Team (senior leadership team) developed Amazon’s flywheel. It is still a core tool used at Amazon today.

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