N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I tend to agree with most of Michael’s positions (except when he left my book off his list) and find his business logic to be solidly grounded. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] You can follow Michael on Twitter @LeadershipNow.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year? Contrast this with the fact that CEOs of Fortune 500 companies read an average of four to five books a month. Even more impressive is that some of the most successful leaders throughout history were known to read one book every single day.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

In our CEO ranking, we used three metrics to score a CEO ( see the January 2010 article for the methodology ). In all the tributes to Steve Jobs, what people recall is not these numbers, of course, but the innovations, the man himself, and what he stood for. Steve Jobs combined creativity with discipline, and innovation with scale.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 8, 2017

In a future article I will present a detailed description of the Cubs’ Connection Culture based on Verducci’s observations in The Cubs Way. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, recently wrote about research that showed social media was making us lonelier. For now I’d like to focus on a pattern I’m seeing.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

As Chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the largest Christian publishing company in the world, and the seventh largest trade book publishing company in the U.S., Michael Hyatt : I am working on a couple of books, one on leadership and one on productivity, but they are still a ways off.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

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. Don''t kid yourself that they and their innovations aren''t a serious threat.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

For those interested in engaging classic literature, Wikipedia has a list of "The 100 Best Books of All Time," and Modern Library has picks for novels and nonfiction. I've only included books I've actually read, and I tried to compile a list that includes history, literature, psychology, and how-to. That's a tough question.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

For those interested in engaging classic literature, Wikipedia has a list of "The 100 Best Books of All Time," and Modern Library has picks for novels and nonfiction. I've only included books I've actually read, and I tried to compile a list that includes history, literature, psychology, and how-to. That's a tough question.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse. In fact, advanced payments may be just the kind of proof that banks or equity investors need to open their pocket books.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 10, 2010

During the Leadercast program and prior to my meeting with Goodnight, author Jim Collins interviewed him on stage. Collins seemed to be looking for something similar in Goodnight to explain SAS’s benevolent corporate culture where the average work week is 35 hours and the bucolic SAS campus has nearly every employee perk imaginable.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

When Jim Collins and I studied who won big in highly uncertain industries, we found that those leaders — including Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Herb Kelleher — had much in common with Amundsen, while their peers shared traits with Scott (see our book Great by Choice ). He even titled his book Only the Paranoid Survive.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Our finding is data-based evidence that the Level 5 CEOs described in Jim Collins’s book Good to Great — leaders who are “a study in duality: modest and willful, shy and fearless” — can be related to desirable organizational results.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

I realize you normally do not link blogs and often do not write a series of articles. link] Dan Collins Thanks Mike. We must always show respect and it is important to fully understand the "enemy," Mike, Mike your article reflect a tremendous amount of life wisdom. Your insight is needed and respected.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

While reading one of Mike Myatt’s articles called Is Your Intellect an Asset or a Liability, I suddenly stopped dead in my tracks and said, “My God! M [link] Dan Collins Mike, I have really enjoyed your posts for some time but I must say this has got to be one of the best. How's the book coming?

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