Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 14, 2014

magazine’s June issue featured a compelling article about author and leadership expert Jim Collins , who has studied leadership for 25 years and penned four best-selling books. I like to periodically remind myself of that all-important article. Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Inc. Magazine Jim Collins'

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Engaging Leader

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Management Influence 2.0: In this episode, Jesse traces the development of influence through three stages: Influence 1.0: Leadership Influence 3.0:

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CEO Blog

MAY 3, 2015

May 24 is the earliest planting date for me. ++ I read a great book today - Dare to Serve - How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others by Cheryl Bachelder. CBC has a good article on " the cure parents will hate ". So I started with a negative bias but the book is awesome and perfect for any leader. I am loving this weather.

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CEO Blog

MAY 3, 2015

May 24 is the earliest planting date for me. ++ I read a great book today - Dare to Serve - How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others by Cheryl Bachelder. CBC has a good article on " the cure parents will hate ". So I started with a negative bias but the book is awesome and perfect for any leader. I am loving this weather.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Like the weather, many leaders talk about agility and innovation, but few managers do much about it. Unlike the weather, there’s a great deal managers can do about building agile and innovative cultures. Stages three and four lean heavily on disciplined management systems and processes. It’s a big competitive edge.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 24, 2013

magazine’s June 2012 issue features a compelling article about author and leadership expert Jim Collins , who has studied leadership for 25 years and penned four best-selling books. The second takeaway is the list of 12 questions that Collins says leaders much grapple with if they truly want to excel.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2012

I read thousands of books, papers, articles, and blogs on the topic. I’ve also written seven books, hundreds of articles and blogs, facilitated over a thousand retreats and workshops, and delivered hundreds of keynotes on personal, team, and organizational leadership. Leadership has been a lifelong passion for me.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 6, 2010

This brief article is meant to help you get a clearer grasp on sizing your goals – or finding the proper “Bigness Balance&# as I like to call it. These goals have been labeled by Jim Collins (and others) as a BHAG – a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal. Target B – This is a big, but potentially believable goal.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 10, 2014

Jim Collins immortal business bestseller, Good to Great , created a revolution in many businesses and an explosion in book sales. The book was adopted, adapted, taught, and implemented. Collins knew it. Good to Great isn’t just a book and a concept; it’s also a challenge. Self-improvement. So far it’s simple.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] Ultimately I see struggles on both secular and spiritual fronts regarding managers and subordinate leaders executing the vision and plans set forth by upper level leaders. What say you??? 2 Tweets Who’s In Charge?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

I have found that the most common reasons people tend to cite in support of using no are as follows: It helps to keep them from wasting time; It somehow manages risk; It builds character, and; It helps them focus by not biting off more than they can chew. Eroarea lui NU in management:[link] [.]

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 7, 2011

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You can follow Seth on Twitter @ThisIsSethsBlog Alexa Rank : 4,876 Google Page Rank : 7 PostRank Leadership Score : N/A Number of Posts in last 30 days : 35 TwitterGrader Score : 100 The Management Experts : If you’re looking for a positive spin on leadership then look no further than Phil Gerbyshak.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2012

Some of the following thinking and exercises were inspired by an article called Building Your Company’s Vision , by Collins and Porras, the authors of Built to Last. In the article, the authors describe how to write a reason for being and values. Alona Banai, CMI’s office manager, wears many hats.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2018

My manager and team practiced an egalitarian decision-making process in which we would meet, discuss everything from content marketing campaigns to social media tactics, and collectively come up with strategies to move forward with. Some years ago, at a former company, I began noticing a curious series of events.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

My new book Wind In Your Sails draws from the ideas of Jim Collins and Guy Kawasaki, among others. In the both book Good To Great and the article Aligning Action & Values , Jim Collins elaborates on purpose. Books Entrepreneurship goals Leadership Purpose Vision' Finding Purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

We’ve discovered that using a version of Jim Collins’s “hedgehog” idea , from Good to Great , helps clients think it through. Collins found that great organizations focus on three things: what will drive their economic engine, what they can be best in the world at, and what they are most passionate about.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

In his book, Your Brain at Work , David Rock explains that performance can decrease by up to 50% when a person focuses on two mental tasks at once. Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. They tempt us to click links that take us to another five-minute video or article. You and Your Team Series.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 8, 2017

Previously I’ve written about Cubs manager Joe Maddon and the Chicago Cubs’ Connection Culture. In a future article I will present a detailed description of the Cubs’ Connection Culture based on Verducci’s observations in The Cubs Way. For now I’d like to focus on a pattern I’m seeing. Consider healthcare. show empathy.

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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

MARCH 13, 2017

There are several reasons why they may be not only useless but also potentially harmful to decision makers, managers, and entrepreneurs. Unfortunately, most of the “great” companies ran into trouble after the book sold millions of copies. encourages readers to give up needing approval and fixating on their weaknesses.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

In my research into this phenomenon (which forms the basis of my book, Breaking Out ), I have been amazed at how many different kinds of people aspire to be idea entrepreneurs. They are manager, teacher, motivator, entertainer, coach, thought leader, and guru all rolled into one.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

But at least Obama did manage to make a decision to scale back. With all these psychological tendencies acting on a leader's judgment, it's a wonder anyone ever manages to pull the plug on an effort that is consuming resources but going nowhere. His latest book is Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't.

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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 ). The question on the minds of most managers around the world is, well, how did he do this (and can we learn some of those things)? That means, on average, Apple's shareholder return grew 35%, year in and year out, for 14 years.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself. Managing Yourself Book. When I started my consulting business a decade ago, I spent a little bit of time every night for roughly three years reading classic management authors like Peter Drucker and popular current writers like Jim Collins and Keith Ferrazzi.

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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. link] Dan Collins Mike, Thanks for this.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

” I’ve just finished writing a book about companies in pretty ordinary settings (banks, hospitals, even a parking garage) that have won big by doing truly extraordinary things. Too many companies lurch from one consulting firm to the next, from last year’s hot management fad to this year’s new business model.

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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. Leadership Leadership development Managing yourself'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

And yet — as I demonstrate in my latest book — leaders are not generally known for their self-awareness. Perhaps most famously, Jim Collins’ seminal analyses of effective executives suggested that the most outstanding leaders are not just relentless and driven, but also humble. Rebecca Knight. Jim Whitehurst.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 7, 2011

I am also eagerly awaiting Amazon’s release of the Kindle for PlayBook so I can use it to read the e-books that I am currently reading on my Kindle for PC and Blackberry Torch. See Wise Managers Treat Layoffs as a Last Resort for some of this earlier research. Selection of articles on Culture Change.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Manage culture by setting expectations appropriately. Manage the arduously long sales cycle. In fact, advanced payments may be just the kind of proof that banks or equity investors need to open their pocket books. This was the situation facing Collins Consulting , a Chicago area provider of contingent staffing services.

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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

Keep in mind that your credibility as a leader depends greatly on your actions: your interaction with your family, friends, and co-workers; your way of managing your personal and organizational responsibilities; and even the way you talk with a casual acquaintance in the elevator. link] Dan Collins Thanks Mike.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Posted on August 20th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Rants , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth My question is this: Is your intellect an asset or liability? 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.

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