Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2011

I've just finished reading Jim Collins' latest book, Great By Choice (which he co-authored with Morten Hansen). Collins is a smart observer and a gifted writer. It's hard to put down a Collins book feeling anything but.well, inspired. Collins has a knack for asking good questions. You can do it, he says.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 26, 2012

You should be able to pick up a Mayan calendar at half price now! Harvard Business School professor, James Heskett, poses the right question in his blog Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions? He ends with, “given our inability to predict, should managers bother to base plans on predictions?”

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 8, 2012

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. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.”

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Emotional Intelligence Collins Learning-by-Doing Download 68

N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Or, if you are responsible for managing Solopreneur projects, how can you be sure that the work will increase impact and productivity? Extraordinary greatness today requires us to adopt the story of the fox and the Hedgehog in Jim Collins’ outstanding book Good to Great. Isn’t that what productivity should be doing?

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 8, 2012

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. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.”

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Emotional Intelligence Collins Learning-by-Doing Download 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

At the end of each visit, I do ask myself whether or not this is an organization I "admire" in the sense that I went to tell other people — readers of my books , visitors to this blog — about what I saw and learned at the company. Strategy is culture, culture is strategy. The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.".

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

In our new book Great by Choice , Jim Collins and I pondered that question. Over the years, the CEOs of these companies faced massive technology disruptions, deep industry recessions, sudden collapses in demand, price wars, oil shocks — you name it.

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Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

In his book How the Mighty Fall , Jim Collins explored this phenomenon and found that one of the key reasons for these failures was that companies fell into "the undisciplined pursuit of more." The price of his dream job was saying no to the many good, parallel paths he encountered.

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Kahneman Objective Collins Career 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

HP had grown so large, to about $30 billion in sales, that Barnholt and other senior managers felt pinched to reach their double-digit growth goals. To launch HP's big new businesses, the company's managers took rigorously logical steps. But the price tag was hefty, especially at a time when the alternative was inexpensive slide rules.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2011

In the late 1990s, I took part in sessions at Suits University, the internal training provided by off-price men's clothing retailer The Men's Wearhouse to its wardrobe consultants. His new book from HarperBusiness is Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don't. Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 28, 2011

At the job fair-they showed us videos of different jobs, one of which was for the price change team. One week later, I was helping set up our Target store and changing prices all over the places. They key in the price change world is to find every single item that needed to be marked down. Her name was Carol. You HAVE TO?

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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. Their stock price has dropped off a cliff this year. See Wise Managers Treat Layoffs as a Last Resort for some of this earlier research.

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Leadership Airlines Collins Price 51

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

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Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Any number of franchised coaching offerings can be purchased at affordable prices, numerous affliliations with the hot coaching brand de-jure are available for the asking, or if all else fails coaches can just go it alone as a solo practitioner – the more the merrier right?

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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? Winning an argument isn’t particularly difficult, but it may come at a very expensive price.

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