Leading Blog
AUGUST 25, 2011
In a October 2002 Fast Company article— The Secret Life of the CEO: Is the Economy Just Built to Flip? Jim Collins, explains how character erodes: These were the people who, in the presence of an opportunity to behave differently, got drawn into it, one step after another.
Modern Servant Leader
NOVEMBER 17, 2014
These include the following from Spears and others, Frick & Sipe as well as Russell & Stone (2002). Spears, Larry: Power of Servant Leaders (Greenleaf, Spears, 1998); Servant Leadership: A Journey into… (Greenleaf, Spears, 2002); and more. Invites Feedback (Frick & Sipe). Shares Power and Control (Frick & Sipe).
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Eric Jacobson
OCTOBER 12, 2014
Jim Collins,'' Built To Last , addresses the question, "Why are some companies able to achieve and sustain success through multiple generations of leaders, across decades, and even centuries?" Here are some comments from Jim Collins about the book.
The Practical Leader
NOVEMBER 23, 2011
As with Collins’ first book, Built to Last , and with Good to Great (read my review of both books on LinkedIn or The Leader Letter archive ), they compared the outstanding companies to a control group of comparison companies in the very same industries and extreme environments that failed to thrive. Sounding familiar?
The Practical Leader
DECEMBER 6, 2012
Then there are those destined to become classics of new knowledge , the way Jim Collin’s 2002 title Good to Great did … Zenger and Folkman published an excellent book the same year as Good to Great called The Extraordinary Leader (click on title for my 2003 review) I have routinely recommended to audiences.
The Practical Leader
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
In their new book, Great by Choice , Jim Collins and Morten Hansen, feature Southwest in their extensive research on “10X companies.” For example, love and respect is a key ingredient in the company’s early decision to invite unions in as partners from the beginning. So what are the hard results of all this soft love stuff?
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
Gardner, who died in 2002 at the age of 89, was a legendary public intellectual and civic reformer — a celebrated Stanford professor, an architect of the Great Society under Lyndon Johnson, founder of Common Cause and Independent Sector. What did Spence learn from Collins?
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