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“In Search of Excellence” Revisited

Leading Blog

The book was a huge business bestseller and served as a guide for managers for many years to come. Yet, 40 years later, few now speak of the book. When the book project started in 1978, the U.S. However, treating the customer with love is the best way to boost the bottom line in the long run.

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Do You Speak the Language of Performance Driven Execution?

N2Growth Blog

Extraordinary greatness today requires us to adopt the story of the fox and the Hedgehog in Jim Collins’ outstanding book Good to Great. And, they must constantly reevaluate critical decisions to meet long-term, strategic objectives. Design the campaign plan with compressed timeframes (Parallel Operations).

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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement. If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic.

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Who's In Charge?

N2Growth Blog

He then proceeded to communicate in no uncertain terms that he wasn’t nearly as concerned about the faults he would find, as he was about how our leader (guess who?) No one remains a leader long without being competent. People will not long support someone who's going nowhere. 2 Tweets Who’s In Charge?

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Love and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If a leader’s primary obligation is for the care and well being of those under their charge, then I would suggest that you cannot be an effective leader over the long-term without love, compassion and empathy. link] Dan Collins Mike, This is a very, very important post. Thanks for the astute observations Mark.

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While there were clearly a few moments last week that I found instructionally valuable in terms of creating a game changer ( Nando Parrado ), there weren’t nearly enough of them. A lesson that I learned long ago is that you simply cannot experience sustainable improvement without transformation. link] Wally Bock Fine post, Mike.

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Jim Hunter – Servant Leadership Interview Series

Modern Servant Leader

He is the author of two best-selling books on the topic: “ The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership ” and “ The World’s Most Powerful Leadership Principle “ We met in front of a group of students from Hope College’s Center for Faithful Leadership. . $16 So why is it not more common?