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Your Leadership Operating System: Ego Or Eco?

Lead Change Blog

In his best-selling classic business book, “Good to Great,” author Jim Collins explains that it’s natural for ambitious leaders to have a healthy ego. Collins advises leaders to “channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company.”. appeared first on Lead Change.

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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. Capitalism is under scrutiny today as to whether it’s the right system for the country to operate under.

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Collin Powell's 13 Rules of Leadership

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RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. Here is Collin Powell’s 13 Rules of Leadership. His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009).

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Fear Your Strengths: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

As I began to read this book, I was reminded of the title of […]. Fear Your Strengths: What You Are Best at Could Be Your Biggest Problem Robert Kaplan and Robert Kaiser Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2013) Actually, what we should fear are complacency and self-satisfaction as well as the assumption that “just good enough” really is.

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Training Still Matters

Joseph Lalonde

First, let me say that we’ve got a long way to go – Execution is one of three strategic priorities in our 2020 Plan for Operations. As Jim Collins would say, we’ve been “pushing on the flywheel for over 40 years.”. For us, virtually everything rises and falls on the point leader in each restaurant – we call them the Operator.

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Rethinking Good To Great

N2Growth Blog

I’ve had issues with some of the concepts contained in Jim Collins book Good To Great since it was first released. The first thing that readers need to keep in mind is that there is very often a huge difference between a commercial best seller, and a book that provides real value.

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Loosening the Reins: Why It’s Important To Pass the Leadership Torch

Terry Starbucker

Stay tuned for more news and tidbits about this book project. We had worked hard to get our operations in order and build a great team. The fact was, I was getting more comfortable with being more detached from the day-to-day operating decisions. The source of going “Jim Collins” (and a great book).

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